5th of July 2023
It is incredible how easily time slips through one's fingers. 16 years have passed since Joe's departure, and they seem to have been evaporating away, flatlining from a time of excitement and hope. Joe's times were anything but boring, he was a magnet to a desperate (and often disparate) cast of unique characters that gravitated around his personality. Most of them have died or moved away, but they are inextricably linked to those times. A period when knocking at the door in the middle of the night did not mean, necessarily, a police raid, when the interconnected lives of many passed through his flats at any time, with stories, problems and joy. The memory of his time is a gift that Joe has bestowed o all that knew him and gladly so.