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From: jim 7/21/2005 3:42 P.M.

sacre bleu !

From: michelle 7/23/105 5:06 A.M.

my father passed away this morning . . .

From: Jim Melnik 7/22/2005 9:51 P.M.

jimmy, you is a lovely humming bean.
much much love to you.

From: The Eaton family 7/23/2005 6:59 A.M.

I'm not very good at expressing things sometimes...it's as
if everything I try to say seems trite....

I am very sorry to hear of Jim's passing, and from everyone
here we send our heartfelt condolences. Jim was a kind and
gentle spirit and we were all priviledged to be able to
have had him in our lives...
Over 30 yrs ago he befriended my brother at Sunnyridge and
despite actually getting to know us remained a very good
friend. The past few years we have all gotten to renew that
friendship thanks to Ted and this wonderful site he's
created...
I know he's in a good place, and even though we will grieve
because we lost his physical presence, we should rejoice in
the peace that I'm sure his kind soul has found. A truely
good man.
Have a wonderful trip Mr. James Frankfurt...

Peace.

From: michael and mona monshance@yahoo.com 7/23/2005 3:40 P.M.

to the family,
we have no personal philosophy,belief or knowledge which can diminish our pain at the thought that we won't be spending time with jimmy again. for years, jimmy made winter trips to arizona and stayed with us. recently he had been unable to make these trips. this summer we made an oregon trip and stayed with jimmy. we are so thankful.
our love to all,
michael and mona

From: Ted 7/23/2005 8:08 P.M.

Like all of us, jim frankfort was a visitor to this world.
Caught somewhere between the Beatnik era and the renaissance of the Hippy Movement, jim had that incredulous awe of the young at heart.
This translated into his somewhat cryptic art...that I think surprised himself sometimes as much as anyone else.
He loved the young. He loved witnessing evolvement on this planet.
He was generous in a paternal way with his worldly wealth and his friendship alike.
Like all of us, jim believed in going with the flow, sometimes treading water, sometimes swimming upstream, feeling like a fish out of water, but always full of hope.
Like all of us, pride in being "hip" no doubt guided his earthly sojourn... but jim was incredibly humble and gracious in the face of failure or confusion.
He bore the indignities of old age with a beautiful strength.
He was a gentleman and...
I will truly miss him.

On a personal note, jim loved the Sunnyridge web site.
From its inception, he devotedly participated in its growth and success just like he did in the commune proper. Sometimes, when I felt like backing out of the responsibility for the website, it was the thought of jim and his love for it that kept me going.
He was at times my only audience and my Best Critic.

jim frankfort, I am happy for you. You are free of these earthly shackles. You are in a magical place.

From: michelle 7/24/105 11:44 P.M.

we are having a gathering at jacob's house in eugene. .... wednesday at
4:00 pm ....... 1236 w 13th

From: stan 7/25/2005 11:05 A.M.

Jim, seeya later... somewhere

From: Ruby 7/25/2005 11:06 A.M.

I'd like to send my condolences to the whole family, we will all miss Jimmy so much, but I'm sure you will miss him more.
...and I always thought that I'd see you one more time again...maybe it's true.
Ted, thank you for setting up this virtual memorial, you're the best!

From: michelle 7/26/105 3:37 P.M.

compassion. .. the art of letting go. . . while embracing.....

From: michelle 7/26/105 3:39 P.M.

i'm so thankful for the way he left the world. he has always preached " no attachments" to me.. .. but, especially lately. i watched him let go of his art studio. .... i felt his detachment to all his worldly possessions.....
his passing is a huge blessing for our family, including the extended and technologically connected family.... the hippy old age home talked and dreamed about ...is happening now. . . on a new and unexpected level .... we are connected... through technology and our unconscious... it is a ripple effect .. . the love that we are all feeling is quite incredible. . . along with the huge loss i feel.... peace.... freedom...... thankyou dad!

From: michelle 7/26/105 4:04 P.M.

compassion
the art of letting go
no attachments
love without want
agape
unconditional

requires new thought
an actual opening

step on up

From: Leah Korican lbkrobar@earthlink.net 7/26/105 7:20 A.M.

My deepest sympathy to all Jimmy's children and family. Some of the treasured things I inherited from my Dad are artworks by Jimmy and I remember him painting my portrait on the inside of a bowl at Sunnyridge and all the other art he made there. He was an inspiration.

From: Nina K nkorican@yahoo.com 7/26/2005 3:53 P.M.

The elders are going on to the next level...Sending lots of love to Jimmy's family. May his memory be for a blessing.

From: llucy 7/26/2005 4:40 P.M.

change..

aand hugs and holds to the family...
and we fade away

From: Ellen Sue ellensuuu@aol.com 7/27/2005 8:34 P.M.

Hello Dear Ones who may be visiting this page. I heard some of you gathered together and spent moments remembering impressions from your first interactions with our buddy Jim on this particular sojourn. Little snapshots came into view for me that I thought I'd share. While I was a college student in New Paltz, in perhaps 1966 or 1967, I began to cross paths with Jim at Manny's bookstore and Larry & Barbara's headshop and at various people's homes. He often had very small, beautiful children with him. There was no great need to exchange many words to get to know one another. It seems like we were old friends and knew each other well. There were many smiles. Jim was teaching us how to live in community and share things from the earth. I'd sometimes come home and find a bag of corn or other vegetables at my doorstep and I knew Jim had been there. I was aware of the day he got in his truck to head across the Country to Oregon and Sunnyridge but my time to do the same was a year or two later after receiving a letter from Demetra to Ted. It was no surprise to see Jim again and to smile knowingly with a bit of a cosmic laugh behind the eyes. This friendship is forever.

From: Ted webmaster@sunnyridge.net 7/29/2005 6:49 A.M.

I can't believe I accidentally deleted the last two postings...
Larry the fluff!
Chris Lawrence!
PLEASE COME BACK AND POST AGAIN.

From: michelle 7/29/105 11:12 P.M.

you also deleted my posting, ted......

From: michelle 7/29/105 11:14 P.M.

but, it is good for me to say again how thankful i am to dad's williams family. My brother, Madrone and his wife Wednesdae, and son Cedar. ... the other family on the property... Jim and Katie and thier daughter Macy . .. and Grandpa Ted....... Dad loved to be around family and family happenings. ... Every morning Cedar would come downstairs to sit on grandpa's lap. .... in the evenings dad would go upstairs for a healthy family meal..... he was surrounded by goings on.... .. building, gardening, cooking .... children. he was very happy and getting all the love and family togetherness he needed. i'm so thankful . . . my mom said that when people we love die they become a part of us and we become more like them......

From: larry the fluff NOBONES@TAOSNET.COM 7/29/2005 9:20 A.M.

allright ted, i just happened to come back for another look, so i'll re-post...during my years as a teen-aged neophyte beatnik i was fascinated by jaf's cartoons in the village voice...i couldn't necessarily understand them, but i could tell that "jaf" whoever he was, was a very far-out guy...you can imagine the thrill i got, when, in 1966, or '67 or thereabouts i found myself on acid, at the "dumphouse" just outside of new paltz, hanging out with the man himself...the fact that he turned out to be a kind of cranky foreigner made it that much better!...jimmy was like 36 at the time, i was perhaps 18, so of course he seemed extremely aged to me, a real patriarch, with priscilla and all the kids...at any rate...there were many more encounters...sunnyridge, berkeley, portland etc. ...as i said, what a guy...so much love to the family (i remember clem so clearly) from larry the fluff

From: michelle 7/30/105 7:11 A.M.

wonderful to hear all the stories...keep them coming...at a gathering on the coast we went around the room and everyone said when and how they met jimmy. .. except for me , of course. i have a vague reccollection of the house on dumphouse road..... mostly images.......... dad had an atache... he would go to the city for work occassionally and would come back with treats in his case...... i found a beautiful photo from 1962... in washington square park...he is playing frisbee....... and looks very beatnik

From: aaron 7/31/2005 8:04 A.M.

jimmy was a very special person. in all my travels, there was no one else like him. one of a kind. his medicine was strong, his being most magical. jimmy IS my friend. jimmy IS my deepest brother. he will always live in my heart. it was my greatest honor to have had the time we shared together. it was a great blessing to have walked this earth with him.

From: Shoshana Rothenberg shorose@yahoo.com 8/7/2005 3:39 P.M.

My love to all of you. I will always remember Jimmy's unique humor and loving spirit. I am thankful for the role he played in my parents' lives - never to be forgotten - you are all an inspiration to me. I look at the photo of his beautiful family, and I believe that he is still here.

From: chris lawrence crogre61@yahoo.com 8/11/105 7:27 P.M.

impossible to go back to the moment of loss and it is indeed the stopping of a prayer wheel, a sharpened stick dipped in india ink, a line of such facility, that shoulder shaking giggle silenced; all aspects will be sorely missed.

From: Phyllis Janto pjanto@midcoast.com 8/12/2005 3:12 P.M.
www.hranajanto.com/martin

Hello from Maine....Am so sorry to read of Jim's passing. (My late husband, Marty, and I always called him Jimmy.) Our friendship was from late 1954 when we rented the NY loft in Chelsea from him and Mia. They moved to Phoenix and returned to look us up at the loft and we remained friends for years. We had hoped to visit in 1991 but had to cancel our trip because of Marty's illness, though I remember speaking to him by phone at the time. Often he would send a card or note. (I still have a watercolor of Mia that he left in the loft.) And the e-mail picture JIm sent of himself painting in the loft reminds me of that era. He was a good friend at a young time: walking up the center of 6th Avenue when snow stopped traffic in the fifties, later meeting him in Washington Square where he played frisbee, and many other memories.......

It would have been wonderful to meet you all; he did send pictures of his large and close family. Jim was a good friend with a unusual sensibility as can be read in his comments and influences on others. How lucky you were to be with him and know him for all these years!

Sending a link with pictures of Marty and myself; the earliest was at that same loft.

Much love to you all, with a profound sense of gratitude at having been some part of Jim's life, Phyllis

From: ken 7/5/2006 1:19 P.M.

i really liked his cartoons for the village voice, first seen in our school library's collection of the paper. About '61. I wonder if there is any website with some of those mysterious cartoons on it? I am particularly interested in finding out the origin of his odd buildings. Were they modeled afte a similar church i have seen photos of, i think in the Ukraine, or just north of there?
thank you,
ken

From: Rita 7/23/2006 10:59 A.M.

One year has passed since Jim left us behind.
I do feel that Jim's spirit lives on in these
pages--For almost five years, we connected
through Outhouse Chat, Secret Garden, but for almost
three years now, Ted enabled 'Live Chat'. Jim and me
didn't miss a night--8:00 on the button, we were logged
in--if we couldn't make it, we would generally post
earlier that we might not be on--
What I'm trying to say is that you really get to Know
a person--their likes, loves, political, religious
beliefs, humor, family, its endless--And what I saw
and felt from Jim, I loved--
I still miss you tremendously Jim--

From: BARBARA W. LBWNAIMA@COMCAST.NET 9/2/2007 12:57 P.M.

WHO PUT THIS TOGETHER? I THINKIT IS PROBABLY MICHELLE. NICE WORK. I AM SEEING REINA TOMORROW. I WILL SHOW THE SITE TO HER. AND JIMMY YOU ARE STILL SO MUCH WITH US. WE JUST HUNG YOUR YACHATS PAINTING IN THE WHITE FRAME OVER OUR FIREPLACE, BECAUSE OUR LIVING ROOM WALL IS NOW A GOLDEN ORANGE COLOR.. AND IT LOOKS PERFECT. LOVE TO ALL WHO MAY READ THIS ON HEAVEN AND EARTH...LOVE BARBARA

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