Nate was a lovely person. I am happy to see you here.
Thank you, staropeace.
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Nate was a lovely person. I am happy to see you here.
Welcome, Erin. Nate was a dear, and is missed. You are family.
Nate's Mom
Hello Erin, it's really lovely to see that you've joined us. This month has probably been the hardest in a while, so I'm very glad you came along now. You're on my mind a lot.... and I'm really glad you've started on the DT journey, I need to pick them up too... work keeps getting in the way.
Sending you big hugs... lets try and get through this month, this is a wonderful community and I think they'll help you. xox ♥
Is.... and always will be.
I'm sorry for the circumstances that brought you here, but I'm glad you are here. Enjoy your journey to thr Dark Tower.
View attachment 22090 ....moments ago, over my home.....just smiled and said-"Love you too Nate".....
This place will be good for you I think, it was probably the place that he spent most of his online time at... other than his favourite brewing site, that is.Hello Flake, I'm grateful for the warm welcome I have been given by Nate's friends here on this message board. As we get closer to the one-year mark, I'm feeling this most terrible loss, it's hard to believe that I haven't seen or hugged him for nearly a year. Thank for your kindness and support, and I will keep you in my thoughts, too. You were clearly one of the people Nate cared most deeply about; I'm so glad to have gotten to know you over these past 11 months. <3
....gawdamighty that was beautiful hun....This place will be good for you I think, it was probably the place that he spent most of his online time at... other than his favourite brewing site, that is.
Naters was just such a damn fine young man. He had such respect for people and he was a real gentleman... he was somebody that would look out for you and he made you feel safe to have him in your corner. (There are stories from the very first King Kon, where he would walk the ladies back to their rooms to see them home safely, he just cared about people.)
Nate and I had gotten to know each other fairly slowly at first, just sharing a love of the same books, music and TV/movies. Then a few years ago I went through some terribly hard times with close family and friends... I was at a very low point and just struggling to keep my head up. Somehow he saw it and reached out and he just started talking to me every day. Eventually one day he talked me into trying to Skype, I was terrified and very nearly didn't do it... I had the house to myself one afternoon and thought, oh what the hell, if it freaks me out, I won't ever have to do it again.
Well, he poured himself one of his home brews and I got a DB Draught from the fridge and we toasted each other, Stephen King and the MB in general and we spent nearly an hour and a half just laughing and being idiots.
We played tic-tac-toe with pens and paper via Skype... and from that day we just chatted, sometimes for most of the day/or night, whatever time it was... we were a world away from each other and our daylight hours were strange and differing. We became great buddies and I think we just trusted in each other and supported one another whenever there was a need.
He got me through my mum's heart surgeries, he got me through a child's traumatising experiences and kept me sane while I was on suicide watch.
I think I got him to believe that one day he would find love, that there was someone out there for him... he had gotten to the point where he was thinking it wouldn't happen and that he might not be someone who could handle the responsibility of a family. I told him that I thought he was wrong about that, I wanted him to understand that he would grow right along with his children once they came along... he just had to keep being the person that he was.
Nate was so good with people, he didn't realise just how good he was... in person, it was always a lot harder for him, but people loved him so much and they valued him, I just wanted him to see that.
I think he finally believed it... we can't know if Nate found his one and only, Erin, but I fully believe that at the time he left us, with Jamie in his life, he loved and was loved in return.
This August feels like a physical thing... he is everywhere, in each song, he's at every river, in all the sunsets and rises, he's on the beach, in the woods and in the words of every book I read. And he's in our hearts. I'm really happy to have you here, Erin. ♥
Welcome - your post brought me to tears - I met your son in 2014 in Ohio - what a true gentleman he was ((((Nate's Mom))))Hello,
My name is Erin, and I am mom to three kids, actually. My two daughters are 23 and 25 years old; my son Nate would have been 30 - if he hadn't been killed in a motorcycle accident last summer. I miss him terribly, and hope that by joining Nate's SKMB family will it will help me to feel closer to him. I have only read a handful of SK's books, but am currently reading the first book in The Dark Tower series, which has taken me all year to make it through. I want to know Nate's SK "world." I believe that "there are other worlds than this" (DT) and that Nate will be waiting for me "in The Clearing at the end of the path."
I will post more later.
Erin
This place will be good for you I think, it was probably the place that he spent most of his online time at... other than his favourite brewing site, that is.
Naters was just such a damn fine young man. He had such respect for people and he was a real gentleman... he was somebody that would look out for you and he made you feel safe to have him in your corner. (There are stories from the very first King Kon, where he would walk the ladies back to their rooms to see them home safely, he just cared about people.)
Nate and I had gotten to know each other fairly slowly at first, just sharing a love of the same books, music and TV/movies. Then a few years ago I went through some terribly hard times with close family and friends... I was at a very low point and just struggling to keep my head up. Somehow he saw it and reached out and he just started talking to me every day. Eventually one day he talked me into trying to Skype, I was terrified and very nearly didn't do it... I had the house to myself one afternoon and thought, oh what the hell, if it freaks me out, I won't ever have to do it again.
Well, he poured himself one of his home brews and I got a DB Draught from the fridge and we toasted each other, Stephen King and the MB in general and we spent nearly an hour and a half just laughing and being idiots.
We played tic-tac-toe with pens and paper via Skype... and from that day we just chatted, sometimes for most of the day/or night, whatever time it was... we were a world away from each other and our daylight hours were strange and differing. We became great buddies and I think we just trusted in each other and supported one another whenever there was a need.
He got me through my mum's heart surgeries, he got me through a child's traumatising experiences and kept me sane while I was on suicide watch.
I think I got him to believe that one day he would find love, that there was someone out there for him... he had gotten to the point where he was thinking it wouldn't happen and that he might not be someone who could handle the responsibility of a family. I told him that I thought he was wrong about that, I wanted him to understand that he would grow right along with his children once they came along... he just had to keep being the person that he was.
Nate was so good with people, he didn't realise just how good he was... in person, it was always a lot harder for him, but people loved him so much and they valued him, I just wanted him to see that.
I think he finally believed it... we can't know if Nate found his one and only, Erin, but I fully believe that at the time he left us, with Jamie in his life, he loved and was loved in return.
This August feels like a physical thing... he is everywhere, in each song, he's at every river, in all the sunsets and rises, he's on the beach, in the woods and in the words of every book I read. And he's in our hearts. I'm really happy to have you here, Erin. ♥
Hello,
My name is Erin, and I am mom to three kids, actually. My two daughters are 23 and 25 years old; my son Nate would have been 30 - if he hadn't been killed in a motorcycle accident last summer. I miss him terribly, and hope that by joining Nate's SKMB family will it will help me to feel closer to him. I have only read a handful of SK's books, but am currently reading the first book in The Dark Tower series, which has taken me all year to make it through. I want to know Nate's SK "world." I believe that "there are other worlds than this" (DT) and that Nate will be waiting for me "in The Clearing at the end of the path."
I will post more later.
Erin
This place will be good for you I think, it was probably the place that he spent most of his online time at... other than his favourite brewing site, that is.
Naters was just such a damn fine young man. He had such respect for people and he was a real gentleman... he was somebody that would look out for you and he made you feel safe to have him in your corner. (There are stories from the very first King Kon, where he would walk the ladies back to their rooms to see them home safely, he just cared about people.)
Nate and I had gotten to know each other fairly slowly at first, just sharing a love of the same books, music and TV/movies. Then a few years ago I went through some terribly hard times with close family and friends... I was at a very low point and just struggling to keep my head up. Somehow he saw it and reached out and he just started talking to me every day. Eventually one day he talked me into trying to Skype, I was terrified and very nearly didn't do it... I had the house to myself one afternoon and thought, oh what the hell, if it freaks me out, I won't ever have to do it again.
Well, he poured himself one of his home brews and I got a DB Draught from the fridge and we toasted each other, Stephen King and the MB in general and we spent nearly an hour and a half just laughing and being idiots.
We played tic-tac-toe with pens and paper via Skype... and from that day we just chatted, sometimes for most of the day/or night, whatever time it was... we were a world away from each other and our daylight hours were strange and differing. We became great buddies and I think we just trusted in each other and supported one another whenever there was a need.
He got me through my mum's heart surgeries, he got me through a child's traumatising experiences and kept me sane while I was on suicide watch.
I think I got him to believe that one day he would find love, that there was someone out there for him... he had gotten to the point where he was thinking it wouldn't happen and that he might not be someone who could handle the responsibility of a family. I told him that I thought he was wrong about that, I wanted him to understand that he would grow right along with his children once they came along... he just had to keep being the person that he was.
Nate was so good with people, he didn't realise just how good he was... in person, it was always a lot harder for him, but people loved him so much and they valued him, I just wanted him to see that.
I think he finally believed it... we can't know if Nate found his one and only, Erin, but I fully believe that at the time he left us, with Jamie in his life, he loved and was loved in return.
This August feels like a physical thing... he is everywhere, in each song, he's at every river, in all the sunsets and rises, he's on the beach, in the woods and in the words of every book I read. And he's in our hearts. I'm really happy to have you here, Erin. ♥