Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: DCM4 on December 03, 2011, 12:54:09 pm
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I leave this here because although I've not lately I have posted here for over a decade and made friends, also not currently present, who will pass by and find interest.
For those unfamiliar I've fought cancer the last nearly 4 years and now I'm finally on my death bed, evidently pushing what is natural by fair measure. The drill here is you get good pain killers and drugs (to keep me crawling out my skin w/ anxiety) until you succum to dehydration. Takes 3 to 5 days. So, here I sit waiting for the wreaper.
I love all of you. Mostly because we've become familiar over the net, friends, shared some of our lives' intimacies but also because "no man is an island..." Another, the other poem I know is named "anyone lived in a little how down: by e e cummings, even if you don't "get" poetry.
There may be other posts at other sites, perhaps from me God willing, if not from my wife so you'll know when the end has come. Fear of dying I have little anxiety, to not breath I have great anxiety which I will combat with drugs. I will remain awake if I can.
David
I know I've left enemies, but not by spite or malice. All of you please accept my apology, even if from my death bed.
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May God be with you on your journey.
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God spead David! We'll see you again in our happy hunting grounds! Thank you for all you have given to our "family" of the bow and to everyone in general. You will be missed but your memory will live on. Peace to you!
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For many the end is simply a new beginning! Somewhere in the circle one day we shall meet.
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May you have comfort in this time at hand, and may the Lord be with you.
Amen
James
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Rest assured that as you proceed on your journey there will be people who love you waiting to greet and comfort you as you travel. We will miss you and appreciate your friendship.
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It's been good to walk this earth with you, and it will be good to walk on the other side with you again. Thank you for sharing all your experience with primitive archery. Rest assured all your knowledge will be passed along again and again.
I'm one of those that 'gets' poetry, brother. We'll meet some day, but "I've miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go until I sleep".
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I hardly know what to say except that I wish you peace and comfort. Ronnie
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Take you time,,,hang a tree stand for me,,,we'll all meet at the campfire,,God is with you JEFFW
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DCM,
I don't know you, I'm kind of new here. You are in my prayers. May the Lord be with you.
Kirk
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Praying for you and your family.
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Very heavy stuff, my friend. Thank you for sharing your time and insights.
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may peace and god be with you and your family... Enjoy the other side.
Jon
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David, you have touched many and your spirit will live on in our creations for years to come. Take care and safe journeys.
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David, I'll miss your knowledge and wisdom and I hope the end is comfortable for you my friend. I'm praying for you and your family and hope you find peace and rest.
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i don't really know you, but i wish i did, my prayers will be with you and your family, you'll be in a better place soon, mabey someday hopefully not for a longtime i will meet you
noel :'(
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I aspire to your level of courage and grace when my own time comes. Happy hunting brother.
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I say prayers for you and your loved ones. Peace be with you, David.
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I only hope that I can face my mortality with such strength and grace. I pray for peace and comfort for you and your loved ones and hope your journey is a smooth one. God speed, brother.
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It may not be my place to offer parting words, as we never met or corresponded.
But in reading your words and bound by the good folks in who's company we now meet I offer my prayers.
May the Great Father grant you the grace to meet your final goals.
May he lend you his strength to meet your departure from this world with your eyes open.
May he gift you with the crystal clear awareness that only he may lend.
So that you can take your final step in this world, and your first step in the next.
I wish you well Bow Brother.
-gus
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David, You have touched many, and You and your loved ones are on the hearts of many my friend. Our thoughts and prayers be with you, May the Lord grant you peace as you pass from this to the next life. Know, that we are here for loved ones as well. And we will look for you on the other side. God be with you David
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David, I never had the pleasure of meeting you, but from the replies of others on here who have met, and know you, and their statements of your helping others with this wonderful addiction, I truly wish I had. When I was a teenager a long time ago..... the Mother of my buddy next door, once said something very profound, that I have never for gotten. Somehow our conversation had gotten around to death, and dying. She said most people are not afraid of death, as we all have no choice in the matter, and it is more or less accepted, but their fear of death, is in the manner of death. I pray your end will be peaceful, with family and friends, and pets with you at your side. I pray family, and friends, and pets that have passed on before you, will be there waiting to walk with, and guide you. I pray for peace for all your surviving family, and other loved ones as well. There are some phenomenal archers on the other side. Tell them we wish them peace as well.
Wayne
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I pray for you to have the strength for a calm journey such as my buddy had when he went a week ago.
Make peace with as many as you can, mostly with yourself...
Farewell,
Frank
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David you will be greatly missed. Its a pretty good measure of a man's life with so many friends like you have. Very sad time,I have thought of you often this weekend. :( :(
Pappy
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I believe I met you once out shooting and we both were looking for our stray arrows on the same Target. I can only imagine how it feels to be in your shoes. You and your family will be in my prayers.
Thank you for sharing with us. Jesse
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DCM, I am new to this site but you have all the positive energy I can give your way. To you, and yours. Hopefully when the time comes you embrace it and move on to that great hunting ground in the sky swiftly and painlessly.
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Although I do not know you, you are in my thoughts and prayers. God bless you and may the lord welcome you with open arms.
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David, This afternoon I went to visit one of my quiet spots on the side of a hill. Lulyn calls them my "walk abouts" because it is where I am able to clear my thoughts and spend some good prayer time. I found myself thinking of you often today even though I have never met you. Yet through this site I feel as though I have. These pictures that I took today were inspired by those thoughts.
At times when words are hard to find, Often a picture will move our heart and the words well up within our soul and flow forth.
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c326/bornagainprimitve/DSC_0059.jpg)
As I gazed upon this monarch, my mind raced with all it had been through in it's time. I couldn't help but to notice, that as they had grown, they had weathered many storms of life together. Surely they had helped each other stand, as the winds blew strong. Even spending, many cold winter nights together, waiting out the snow, in exchange for the warmth of Spring time.
While they both wear the battle scars of the years, they are still here, Standing Together.
This next picture Moved my heart to tears when I first saw it on the monitor. I took the picture with the thought of capturing the "Still Waters" As The scripture Psalm 23 kept racing through my thoughts. All I saw when taking the picture was the incredible still waters. It wasn't until I downloaded them that I saw the sideways image of a tree laying on it's side, caused only by the shadows. "Laying beside still waters"
(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c326/bornagainprimitve/DSC_0009-1.jpg)
David, Know you are in our thoughts and prayers. Keenan & Lulyn
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David,
I have been thinking about you and your family a lot and lifting y'all up in prayer. We have never met, but after reading your farewell to us all I feel as I am writing to a long time friend and as I write I know this isn't a farwell.
I get poetry and it's been a long time since I have thought about John Donne.
Blessings,
Cipriano
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The reference to "still waters" is lost on our urban culture today. Sheep hate drinking from running water, they prefer to drink from still pools. Even in the desert, where water is scarce those foolish animals will suffer thirst rather than drink just anywhere. The wise shepherd knows this and in caring for his flock sees to it he leads them beside still water.
Still waters, brother, He leads you there.
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Any news on David,I haven't heard a word ? :)
Pappy
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Pappy I would imagine David has passed on by now. I really will miss that guy, we had some great conversations. Couple months ago he sent me his unfinished staves and I knew he was getting close. He showed a lot of courage throughtout his ordeal. Steve
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Thanks,I would have thought so also but figured someone would have heard,I heard on another site that he was still playing cards and checkers just a day or so back. :) Ya David was/is ? a good guy for sure.Didn't get to see him but about once a year but always enjoyed it. :)
Pappy
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This sounds kinda' morbid but I have been checking the Memphis area obits every day for news to pass on to all of David's friends, no news so far.
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I'm sorry guys. I was between a rock and a hard place. Hopice care folks reckoned my condition at the time that to the pain pump, to slow my breathing enough to keep me alive, might to also let me awaken. So I had to go all in so to speak and now I just keep waking up every day. I wouldn't trade it, but can't take it back. Have posted since wondered were it not the foolish move, egotistical.
Eric, I'll see you get notified. No need to check the obits. Byhlia, Ms is where mail comes. Old home cementary is Valley Hill Methodist, very small private interment there. Serive in Olive Branch at Brantley Funeral home. No arrangements made yet.
Sorry for the fubar guys. I am truly late to my own funeral.
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I'm really glad you are running late, David.
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David,
I am happy about the added time. Here's a poem for you.
Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Cipriano
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I am glad you are late!
We continue to pray for you !
Guy
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I admire your strength and courage in these times, it sounds like you are loved and admired by lots of good people on here and im sure all over. My family and church will keep you in our prayers, the power of prayer is a very powerfull thing so dont write your self off yet God will take you when he sees fit.
Josh
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It was wonderful to see this post David! We are all right with you in spirit. Kepp waking up as long as you can! Love you!
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What Badger said David. :) :)
Pappy
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I've always heard of it...but I can now truly say I know a man who was late for his own funeral!
You and your family have been, and will continue to be in my thoughts and prayers, Shannon
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David, a lot of people are praying for you and your family.
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David It's good to hear you'll have some more time with us, You and your family are very much in our prayers.
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Fri., Dec. 23 ,2012 asof today I am alive. Bless you all.
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This is my best Christmas present this year David! Peace be with you my friend. You are continually in my thoughts.
Pat
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Hang in David,you could just buck the odds. Merry Christmas. :) :)
Pappy
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Merry Christmas!!! Still praying!
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Thinking of you daily bro. Keep the faith, and hang in there.
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Praying for you David.
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Praying for you David.
+1
Josh
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Gd to hear from you again, David! It's got me thinking what are you going to do now? You're already late for your own funeral. How about being a no-show?!?!
I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Still praying!
What a Christmas present !
Merry Christmas!
Guy
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David here's a song for you. Click on the link and then click on the first one.
http://search.yahoo.com/mobile/s%3B_ylt=Ars2sOI7DfKZK.hvTPgRs.ex.tw4?submit=oneSearch&.intl=us&.lang=en&.tsrc=yahoo&.sep=+%7C+&.sep=+%7C+&p=Feliz+navidad+video+
Cipriano
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I have created a site on Caringbridge so I can post updates on David. You will have to enter your email address in order to see it. Below is the the link and explanation from the Caringbridge site.
DCM's wife Donna
A CaringBridge website was created to share health news and receive support. Visit to keep up to date and leave a message in the guestbook.
Visit online
Find David’s site at www.caringbridge.org/visit/davidmims.
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Find David’s site at m.caringbridge.org/visit/davidmims. Or, enter davidmims on your CaringBridge app for iPhone or Android.
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Praying for you too, Donna
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The latest update from David's Caringbridge journel:
written by Nancy Baldwin
The Energizer Bunny's batteries are wearing down, but he's still going. He is very weak, but able to blink and squeeze our hands to answer questions. He doesn't seem to be in pain. We are all truly touched by the support and care that his widespread friends and family have shown. Bowyers, when he seemed to have trouble going back to sleep this morning, I suggested that he imagine a cool fall morning in his tree stand, thermos of coffee nearby, watching the sun rise and waiting to see who would appear. Did I come close to what I imagine is his happy place?
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Yes Nancy you hit it perfectly - I am certain your words gave him comfort. My prayers to you, David, and his extended family as you near the end of this journey.
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Thanks for the update Gordon. David is just waiting for the right shot.
Pat :'(
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David is just waiting for the right shot.
Well said Pat...
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Thanks for the update Gordon. Well said Pat
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This posted this tonight:
written by Nancy Baldwin
David passed away quietly about 8:00 tonight central time, with his wife Donna by his side. Although we will forever miss him, we are thankful that he is now at peace. We'll be posting arrangements for visitation later.
Thanks to the many people who expressed their love for him. Your kind thoughts and prayers were comforting to him and our family.
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Nancy, I send You, Donna,and your family my sincerest condolences. He was a man to respect. I am glad that he was able to go peacefully. My prayers are with you, and I pray for comfort. And as the others said before, I am glad he was late, and he was able to spend a few more days with his loved ones. Again, my condolences.
Wayne
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When I hit the button to follow this thread I was half expecting to hear about how he was yet again beating the odds. We primitive archers are just that way, we buck the odds, we go against the current, and we always expect to somehow see good results.
I was not all that surprised to hear how he had finally left us. But I was not prepared for my tears or this huge emotional sinkhole that suddenly tore thru my belly. I've never met the man, never shared stories or swapped a stave for some other wonderful some-thing-or-other. None the less, a brother of mine is gone and I grieve.
So long brother, scout the long hills for the rest of us. We'll all be there soon enough and we'll need you to show us where to hunt.
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Well said JW. It hit me about the same way.
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I'm with you JW as well. I would tune each day to see how DCM was doing. From the first post it didn't seem like he would be able to make it more than a couple of days, but then each day I tuned in and thought, ok its been a week, now two, now we're on three weeks maybe things are starting to turn around right in front of us. I'm glad he's a piece now. One suggestion I would offer everyone that I am trying to work harder on myself. Great advice that I have received from my wife is that although we may be sad because of death, we should step back when we gather ourselves and look at objectively. The sadness is for our own selfish reasons, because WE no longer have this person on earth with us, and maybe a little bit of sorrow because of what that persons family is going through and what they're missing out on by not being here. But ultimately, it should be a joyous occasion because that person was called home by the Lord as was intended for all of us. Even with that in mind it's still tough, but I keep trying to see it that way whenever I can.
~Barry
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stingray, that really is a great way to put, although even if you try to think that way, i think sadness is something that is inevitable when someone dies
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RIP DCM
I wish I'd have got to know you. It's strange... I am new to the hobby and this site but I still feel a sense of loss for this. Have been worried about him for a few days as well. Human nature is a funny thing.
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So sad,David was a fine man for sure and will be greatly missed by the archery community and even more by his family. Rest in peace David. :(
Pappy