Comments on: Loss from afar http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/ Hobbily blogging Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:17:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ron Nothman http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-2528 Ron Nothman Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:19:25 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/#comment-2528 Dear Joel, Just stumbled on your beautiful words, you know i'm not much with computers. Poppy had a-lot of pains in his knees for many years. He was from the old school of you don't (whinge and complain)when your in pain. I used to go to the bakehouse in the mornings before high school in the early 70's and as an apprentice to help him in '73. I think the pain just got too much for him, as he loved to create his masterpieces and be working hard. He was such a proud man, and his cheeky smile and out of left field jokes, always kept us happy to be around him.He was a man who just enjoyed piece, and to go on an adventure, even if it was just to the cliffs at Ben Buckler North Bondi. I have many fond memories of a happy man, fixing all sorts of things with his poor crushed up hand. Happy and always a smile that's what I will remember. Ron Nothman : ) Dear Joel,

Just stumbled on your beautiful words, you know i’m not much with computers. Poppy had a-lot of pains in his knees for many years. He was from the old school of you don’t (whinge and complain)when your in pain. I used to go to the bakehouse in the mornings before high school in the early 70′s and as an apprentice to help him in ’73. I think the pain just got too much for him, as he loved to create his masterpieces and be working hard. He was such a proud man, and his cheeky smile and out of left field jokes, always kept us happy to be around him.He was a man who just enjoyed piece, and to go on an adventure, even if it was just to the cliffs at Ben Buckler North Bondi. I have many fond memories of a happy man, fixing all sorts of things with his poor crushed up hand. Happy and always a smile that’s what I will remember. Ron Nothman : )

]]> By: Melody Mayes http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-2422 Melody Mayes Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:44:27 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/#comment-2422 Joel, I am your related to you as a fifth cousin. My half-sister reminded me that often Rosa Nothmann, my grandmother, would say "a closed mouth lets no flies in." Her words also were few but witty and wise, as I am told. I never met her nor my father, who lived under an assumed name illegally in the United States for over 30 years. Only now some 30 years after his death, I am able to find and learn about those, who before were a hole in my life. Thank you for writing and keeping those memories of your poppy alive. I only felt my father death and mourned in the moments that we normally would share. Joel, I am your related to you as a fifth cousin. My half-sister reminded me that often Rosa Nothmann, my grandmother, would say “a closed mouth lets no flies in.” Her words also were few but witty and wise, as I am told. I never met her nor my father, who lived under an assumed name illegally in the United States for over 30 years. Only now some 30 years after his death, I am able to find and learn about those, who before were a hole in my life. Thank you for writing and keeping those memories of your poppy alive. I only felt my father death and mourned in the moments that we normally would share.

]]> By: Joel http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-367 Joel Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:37:20 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/#comment-367 A few weeks later, I have just read the official eulogy for Poppy. It is startling how poor my memory is, if I knew these things in detail at all. It is a beautiful eulogy and a beautiful story, and maybe I will upload it some day. A few weeks later, I have just read the official eulogy for Poppy. It is startling how poor my memory is, if I knew these things in detail at all. It is a beautiful eulogy and a beautiful story, and maybe I will upload it some day.

]]> By: Joel http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Joel Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:59:26 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/#comment-317 Yes, mum, I know that was a factual error. In one version of the article I corrected it, but it seems it crept back in... Yes, mum, I know that was a factual error. In one version of the article I corrected it, but it seems it crept back in…

]]> By: mum http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-316 mum Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:44:39 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/#comment-316 Joel, and obviously others reading, I also failed to cry. Poppy didn't stop baking because he injured his hand. The most severe injury he had,produced by catching his right hand in an industrial mixing machine, happened early in his married life, I think before any kids, and despite several operations and many months of hospitalisation, he returned to work. He quit the bakehouse and shop (I think in 1977 - Daniella was 4)because he thought it was time: enough years of 4am rising to bake, opening the shop at 7 and shutting at 5pm. After a few months of retirement, he took the job at the kosher counter at the new DJ's store in Bondi Junction, a full-time position which,for him, was definitely part-time. Although mourning is always in a way a solitary thing, it is a much lonelier without the company of other mourners. Peter,Ron and Dad wrote a lovely obituary;I didn't think to bring a hard copy for you to Is, maybe you got it by email? If not ask to see it when you get home. Love mum Joel, and obviously others reading,
I also failed to cry.
Poppy didn’t stop baking because he injured his hand. The most severe injury he had,produced by catching his right hand in an industrial mixing machine, happened early in his married life, I think before any kids, and despite several operations and many months of hospitalisation, he returned to work. He quit the bakehouse and shop (I think in 1977 – Daniella was 4)because he thought it was time: enough years of 4am rising to bake, opening the shop at 7 and shutting at 5pm. After a few months of retirement, he took the job at the kosher counter at the new DJ’s store in Bondi Junction, a full-time position which,for him, was definitely part-time.
Although mourning is always in a way a solitary thing, it is a much lonelier without the company of other mourners.
Peter,Ron and Dad wrote a lovely obituary;I didn’t think to bring a hard copy for you to Is, maybe you got it by email? If not ask to see it when you get home.
Love mum

]]> By: Alicia http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Alicia Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:41:27 +0000 http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/06/12/loss-from-afar/#comment-312 :( Condolences Joel and family... *hugs* :( Condolences Joel and family… *hugs*

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