Remembering Jack Daniel
1949-2010


And yet.
I know well the graces I received early on in
My journey

A good & beauteous woman
Standing beside me for more
Decades than most pray on their rosaries nowadays

& a life that hascontemplated
More glorious than sorrowful mysteries

A brother's and his family's love
Hanging like provisions
In a smoky chamber of my heart
Ensuring that, whatever I succumb to,
it will not be from a famine of affection.

Work that will not send me to hell
Or a shrink or
A dealer

Sobriety without boredom since '79

Reading the likes of Raymond Carver
& knowing, as he said,
It has all been gravy

All the best

& yet.

Excerpt from Contemplating Cana - Considering a coming
by Jack Daniel

Jack Daniel mentored many new legal aid attorneys. To honor Jack’s memory and to encourage the pursuit of legal aid careers by new attorneys CCLS announces the Jack Daniel Summer Fellowship. Law students and recent law graduates are encouraged to apply. Applications can be found here. Contributions to the program in Jack Daniel’s memory can be sent to: Jack Daniel Summer Fellowship, Central California Legal Services, 1401 Fulton Street Suite 600, Fresno, CA. 93722.