Emotions: From When Our Hearts Opened

By Susie Martin Bowie

Emotions was written by a mother who was compelled to write by the unexpecded death of her son. She tried that morning to bring him back but it was too late. Joey had such a presence in the lives of all who knew him that she wanted to give back to them through the compilation of preserved memories shared with her by his family and friends. She shared these memories through poetry and short stories bringing laughter and tears, love and grief, dreams and aspirations and together these feelings - the book Emotions was born.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 12, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483658056

Susie Martin Bowie

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Copyright © 2013 by Susie Martin Bowie.

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Rev. date: 07/10/2013

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Preface

Introduction

Chapter - 1

Poems Composed From the Heart Of Joey Bowie

Some bits I found

I Will Be Here

Whatever I Must Do

My Love

I Promise

The Gift of Your Love

Your Love… I Know

The Tree

Why I Am Here

What If

Safe

Sweetest Little Crush

Another Chance

Two Different People

I’m Sorry

You and Me and God

Goodnight

Heat on High

Crazy

So I See

Where Are You

The World’s Most Beautiful Girl

Favorite Place

I’d Close My Eyes Forever

I Can’t Believe…

Remember

What Should I Say

I love you Joey Bowie

Why Did I

It’s Never a Little Game

God Told Me

So Ashamed

Chapter - 2

The Girls Remember Joey

A Mama’s Boy—Oh What a Husband

Where are My Crab Legs?

Oh She Kissed Him First

My First Crush

Alison Said He was Always There for His Friends

Joey Not Joey Thrown from the Bar

Chase Them down Girls

Tor Tor and Joey

Memories Just Keep Coming

My Profile in Memory of Joey Bowie

She Heard Him

You Have Always

Rescue Mission

All My Memories

Making Fun of Me

Her Last Memory

Singing Our Song

Across The Road

Another Memory

He Dedicated Happy Birthday to Martha

He Talked to Her

Where is my Drink

Chapter - 3

The Boys Remember Joey and The Bowie

Alex and Isaiah Remembers Joey

Protection from Heaven

Beaver Patrol

I Wonder How Many Times

No Hope for Bowie

Swamp Bogging and the Snake Handler

Memories with Bowie and Thirsty Thursday

Joey’s Half Pint

He Saved His Life

He Hit His Knees

Go On Little Deer

Detention

Let’s Just Throw it In

It had to be Him

Mozart

That Great Fishing Trip

On Highway 11

Watch This Steven

Kirsten’s Guitar

For Writing Your Name

It Was Joey’s Birthday

Matt’s Room

Chick Magnet Fishing

A Memory of Joey’s at 16

The Book

He Didn’t Have To

His Cell Phone

To Know Him

The Hoodie

Fire Fire

Free Place, Free Food, Fun Times

The Silence was Deafening

Joey Shared His Journey of Love with Them All

Mama’s Boy

A Sad Beginning with a Happy Ending for Mikie

He Decided to Sing

It Really Happened

Chapter - 4

Taken in by Their Love

My Pulitzer Prize Man

The Maiden Voyage of the USS George H.W. Bush

My Precious Isaiah

All I had to Work With

Kiki is the Man

The Universe and Everything in It

That Grandon Brandon

Chapter - 5

Yes They Cared

Susan Thorsland Remembers Joey

It’s Athletics With Sherry Haithcock

Well this is Paul West From Visual Arts

It’s Carolyn Brice from Chemistry

And This is Coach Henderson

Never Forgotten

Chapter - 6

Another Amusing Chapter—This Time it is Short Stories

Hey Trinidy, Wanna Go Fishing

Joey’s Dream at 18 Years Old

Butterfilies

That Little Man Named Brandon

The Secret is Revealed

Four Boys and a Truck

At This Table

1775 Midwest Plains

Chapter - 7

The True Feeling of Grief

Fisherman’s Prayer

Dear God

His Cry for a Sweetheart

Walking Alone

With the Lord

I Was Told

A Gift to Those He Loves

Joe You Really Knew His Heart

Scott Took Care of Joey Many Times

Many Long Talks

His Big Heart

The Sky

Memories from facebook

He Was Praying for Me

The Last Time

Our Son and Our Friend

A Memorial Message from Melissa Roper Harris

A Memorial Message from Alex O’shields

A Memorial Message from Debbie Gordon

A Memorial Message from Alison Kelley

A Memorial Message from Tanya Crisp Morrow

A Memorial Message from Betty Hamby

A Memorial Message from Debbie Ryzak

On His Way to Heaven

It was to be—One Little Book

. . . . but then our hearts opened

Dedication

I dedicate this book to my grandsons

Brandon, Isaiah, Alex, Keenan and

Braiden Bowie

Acknowledgement

Without Joey’s family and friends

This book would not have been possible.

Thanks for sharing your memories thru our laughter and tears to make this book a success.

And thank you mostly for letting your love and grief for Joey shine.

All of you know my heart and know that I love each of you.

This is a tribute from me to all of you.

Laugh with it.

Love with it.

Learn from it.

And most of all find a place in your heart for it.

Preface

This little book is a compilation of preserved memories in the form of poetry, short stories, love and grief. This little book is full of laughs and wows and ‘not reallys" and some will even experience heart felt tears. And there will be tears of laughter because some of you have shared some of the best memories that will bring Joey back to you as if he was right there while you are reading this little book.

You will find in this little book that Joey is referred to as Joey at times and Bowie at others. This comes from his age and the diverse set of friends he still has. I have preserved these memories as close to what you have shared with me from your hearts and how I thank each and every one of you. This book brings out expressions of Joey’s pain, mostly through his poetry. The thoughts he had in the light of his darkness inside—loneliness is so prevalent there. He lived to make you happy and from what I hear he filled his promise to many. But he wanted a family. But as you will see, all his attempts left him alone.

But there are sweet little stories and poems of my grandchildren, Bowie’s brothers and friends. These stories take them and the readers on a magical journey that teaches them valuable life lessons. If you know my family, I hope these magical journeys will hold your interest also. As in the first section of this book, you will find secrets revealed. You will find the actual characters are based on their own personality. You will find what my grandchildren’s dreams are or were in 2012. Some of these stories are just that-stories that include the person’s real name and that is the only truth at all. This is what I referred to as magical journeys. Keep in mind that the story of Four Boys and a Truck is fact as I know it. Trinidy Bryant told me the story and one of the other guilty boys, Chris Knecht, read it for content so I feel I am safe in saying it is the truth.

This book is also a compilation of preserved memories from me to all who does not just read it, but learns from it, laughs and cries with it, but most of all finds a place in their heart for it—this one little book.

Susie Martin Bowie

Introduction

Do you need a laugh or get your emotions stirred? Are you one who likes variety?

This little book offers this and more.

You will find some true stories of daily lives of Podunk Hillbillies and others-all friends and family of my son—Joey Bowie. He is referred to as Joey in some stories and Bowie in others. This comes from the diversity of his friends who still grieve for him today.

From Joey’s poetry you will find how to love and how to prevent mistakes in your relationships, be it family or the love of your life. Through his poetry you will feel his pain and experience feelings you may have never felt. His poetry is not for the faint of heart that is for sure. It is for the ones who do not mind getting their emotions involved in the seriousness of real life through poetry and the laughter shared by his friends.

Most of the stories will bring you laughter to help in the recovery from the poetry chapter. Then the book ends with a chapter of grief. This chapter will make you do a 180 in a hurry. So if you like to bounce around with your emotions this is the book for you.

In this book you will find something for everyone—from your grandchildren to your own heart. As I said, you will find so much laughter it will outweigh the tears.

It also offers the opportunity to jump around and not miss anything. You will pick it up time and time again to just see what ‘Swamp Bogging’ was or reread ‘Watch This Steven’ or many of the other memories that brings laughter that will cause you to have, what Southerners call, a ‘belly laugh’. Keep in mind; these are real memories from the hearts of his friends and family, male and female.

For you city slickers, you will even find out what ‘blood brothers’ really means.

Joey Bowie died June 1, 2011. This is what brought me to this point in my life that said to do something for him that I can give to his friends and family to have and to carry with them through their lives, just a little part of Joey. That is why I reserved 3 pages for their other memories of Joey and will have them all together in this little book. His friends, still today, cry when they talk about Joey. You will find the love from his friends and family that took time to help me put this little book together.

Joey was also a singer/song writer and could change his voice to sound like almost anyone. From Pearl Jam, Creed, Keith Whitley or Jamey Johnson, you just name a singer and he could imitate them. Many times there would not be a dry eye in the place or they would go wild as