I wanted to post something on Facebook about the impending explosion of a chemical tank in California that has caused the evacuation of forty thousand residents in the surrounding area.
When I opened the app the first thing that I saw was that Tim O’Malley had died! OMG!! It was last week!! I hardly ever open facebook anymore. I read everything I could and found the obituary and signed the guestbook. Nothing about arrangements was discoverable. I left my email.
Apparently he passed in his sleep. Peacefully we hope. Totally unexpected. He was 68.
He was a great friend in the early days of our sobriety. Todd and I came in a bit before him. But we had about the same amount of time, over thirty years. In the early days we were a tight group trying to stay sober.
When I had just a few years in he invited me to a meeting in a church basement near his house in Beverly. Man, that was a great meeting. I went on quite a few Saturday mornings. Afterwords he would invite me over for breakfast. He made his famous, “cheesy eggs”. They had Velveeta cheese which I thought was weird, snob that I can be. The eggs were DElicious!! I forget what else? There must have been bacon? Definitely toast. The whole meal was delicious. I remember that much.
He sponsored Mike H. whom I was “dating”. I use the word dating loosely. It was a train wreck. Mike couldn’t stay sober and I couldn’t stay away.
Tim called me the morning Mike died. He just said, “He’s dead”. I collapsed. Then Todd came and took me to Cecelia.
That was over thirty years ago. Todd and Cecelia are both gone and now Tim is with them at the big meeting beyond.
Stay strong my friends. ☮️🙏🏻
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