Thom died suddenly on April 6, 1998 while on the Claymont Farm near Charles Town, West Virginia. He was an organic gardener and environmentalist. He is survived by his parents and a brother, Larry Edgar '62 of Corvallis, Oregon.
Thom certainly deserves comment and a memory, as do so many others...... We wrote poems, he ran over me in football, we tilled the same ground in Walla Walla and I gave him my tipi there. The one poem I have recorded of his from back a long time ago but not really so far, has the last verse as:
Sunyata my gladness, emptiness my sadness;
My life stirs between them and that is my madness.
To be or not to be, there is no choice,
Its only a question I raise with my voice
That has no answer but to cry and rejoice
"For my life I must die again and again"
There was no beginning, there will be no end. (Thom Edgar..1980s?)
Scott Farrow (1970)
Thom certainly deserves comment and a memory, as do so many others...... We wrote poems, he ran over me in football, we tilled the same ground in Walla Walla and I gave him my tipi there. The one poem I have recorded of his from back a long time ago but not really so far, has the last verse as:
Sunyata my gladness, emptiness my sadness;
My life stirs between them and that is my madness.
To be or not to be, there is no choice,
Its only a question I raise with my voice
That has no answer but to cry and rejoice
"For my life I must die again and again"
There was no beginning, there will be no end. (Thom Edgar..1980s?)
Scott