Appreciating you all,
B
Date: Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Subject: Paula Craig Attacked by Rottweiler
Lynn -- this is about our own Paula. Do what you will with the information. Ann Sanchez is my daughter and is involved in RCPTA a parent group supporting Rosemont Elementary (I think). I suppose that is where Ann got her information. -- Peace, Donna
Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 5:14fa:45 AM
Subject: Ms Paula news
Dear Fellow Members,
First let me say that Ms. Paula, our neighborhood Musikgarten teacher and
Montessori mentor, is healing at home and is already seeing this event as a
blessing. Yesterday morning she was going to visit a friend from church who
is infirmed and, currently, using a cane when the woman's dog, a Rottweiler,
attacked her. The friend dropped her cane and was able to pull the dog back
before it managed to get ahold of Paula's throat. Unfortunately, on his way
to her throat, he bit her multiple times from her ankles up to her thighs
and her right forearm.
She drove herself to the E.R. and they were able to treat her and send her
home yesterday in the late afternoon.
I was blessed to be able to spend most of the day with her today (her
birthday!) and was able to get her to tell me what we can do to give her
some assistance while she heals.
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David Williams:
admirable man
excellent father
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My Mom came from Texas for my 40th Birthday! What a fabulous surprise!
Introducing
Elijah Doyle Keepin
Born at home
July 16, 2009
12:40 am
7lbs, 10 oz
21 inches long
He emerged right hand first, pressed against his head -
and grabbed the handle of the scissors that cut the cord.
Everyone is well and resting.
From Twitter on July 16th:
0040 edt I have a new nephew! Fat cheeks alert eyes already tracking, 7lbs 9oz 21" Meg is recovering and WAY tired. Everyone is deemed well. Given name forthcoming.
indirectly, by way of images ...
(some images fictionalized to show something true)
Paula Craig
Grateful, thankful, thoughtful... | posted by Brandon @ 6/19/2009 04:48:00 PM
Playing (and voicing remarkably well) the tinkertoy uilleann pipes
A belly-kisser from WAY back but no match for the scary face.
Labels: kin
| posted by Brandon @ 5/21/2009 02:01:00 PM
My Nephew, Val, turns 3 today!
The banjo solo was a bonus.
Labels: kin
| posted by Brandon @ 5/14/2009 08:21:00 AM
from: http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090425/NEWS/904250312
Resident plans gathering to counter neo-Nazis
Peaceful protest is planned for Sunday starting at 11 a.m. in central Phoenix
Shocked by the news that a state branch of a neo-Nazi group had set up headquarters in Phoenix, Medford resident Nicole Strykowski decided to act.
She's inviting the community to take a stand with her on the sidewalks in the center of Phoenix between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday to "make the presence of love felt" and peacefully counter the ideology represented by the National Socialist Movement.
"I want to show that most people in Oregon — contrary to popular belief — aren't bigots or racists," said Strykowski, a Southern Oregon University theater graduate who has appeared on stage at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Camelot Theatre and ArtAttack, as well as in San Francisco-area productions.
She wants people to gather along the sidewalks at the intersection of Fern Valley Road and Main Street, in front of Ray's Food Place, with heart signs, music, cookies, or whatever expression of love they want to share.
"We want to counter hate with love and let people know the residents here stand for love, not hatred," Strykowski said. "We are so much bigger than bigotry, hatred and fear."
Strykowski said that when she first read about the National Socialist Movement in Oregon and its members' criminal pasts and recruiting efforts, she wanted to ignore the news.
"I didn't want to give them any of my energy or even the time of day," she said of the group led by 29-year-old Andrew Lee Patterson, who was convicted of racially motivated assaults in 2003 and recently released from prison.
He and other members of the National Socialist Movement have become increasingly active in Southern Oregon, handing out white pride fliers.
As Strykowski reflected on her own family heritage — which includes Polish and Cherokee — she decided she couldn't ignore the issue.
Wanting to avoid political rallies or angry demonstrations, she decided that banding together to show an outpouring of love, peace and respect seemed like the best response.
"More hatred is counterproductive," she said. "You can't fight hate with hatred."
Strykowski's gathering is one of many expected responses.
Organizers of the annual Take Back the Night vigil Friday at Southern Oregon University's Women's Resource Center noted that the event's message of respect and safety for all was especially timely and important in light of the news about the neo-Nazis.
Jonathan Eldridge, SOU's vice president of student affairs, sent a campuswide message Thursday to reaffirm that the university is a supportive and inclusive place that rejects bias and hate.
Eldridge said that the SOU community has started brainstorming responses such as forums or panel discussions about racism and hate groups. Plans will be announced later.
The Community Response Team, a group organized last year to speak out against hate after a KKK symbol was burned into the lawn of an interracial couple, will meet Monday to plan a response to the emergence of the local National Socialist Movement.
Co-facilitator Lori Warfield said the group is a coalition of about 20 social justice and service groups that work together to prevent and respond to bias and hate crimes. She expects the group, funded in part by the McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, to plan a vigil or rally.
"That's a nice way to continue a display of action," Warfield said.
Randy Blazak, a sociologist at Portland State University who studies hate groups — especially skinheads, said a public "not-in-our-town" response in which people come together and align themselves with victims of bias can be an effective message to stop hate.
Blazak also leads the Coalition Against Hate Crimes, a Portland-based, statewide organization that supports non-violent solutions to the problem of hate and hate crimes. The group has disseminated information about the National Socialist Movement unit here and wants to reach out to Southern Oregon and serve as a resource.
Patterson said he is already feeling a response against the National Socialist Movement office he heads from his family, landlord, employers and the community.
He reported that he was evicted from his Phoenix home this week after speaking publicly about the group, and his parole and probation officer has scheduled a meeting in the coming week to talk about his activity. Even family members who disagree with his beliefs have distanced themselves from him, he said.
His most recent employer, Patricia Joyner, owner of the Phoenix 7-Eleven store, reported that she fired him weeks ago for handing out National Socialist Movement fliers while he worked the night shift.
"I tried to give someone a second chance and was just disgusted when I found him doing this," she said. "I don't want people to think that I feel that way."
She said her store and the entire Phoenix community is friendly and welcoming to all.
Reach reporter Anita Burke at 776-4485, or e-mail aburke@mailtribune.com.
Labels: kin
| posted by Brandon @ 4/25/2009 03:54:00 PM
The Dad and I had a lovely Skype call with my not-at-all-Evil Step-mother, Julie, and the grandkids - Eva and Jake Pareti. Wonderfully bright lights.
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| posted by Brandon @ 4/10/2009 05:49:00 PM
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:29 PM, I wrote:
Brandon here, requesting an assist.
My Dad has been working from Dallas as my dissertation editor, using online tech, and we have been having marvelous success working toward my Fall 2009 drop-deadline. He has volunteered to fly to Berkeley for much of April in order that we might create a writing retreat to complete as much as is possible in a month. Even though he is an amazing jazz musician with psychological savvy and good social skills, this will be even more spiffy if he doesn't have to sleep on the couch in our tiny apartment all month.
He will be arriving April 7th and leaving the 29th. Being able to put him up somewhere in the East Bay for any portion of that time would be a huge help, even if only for one or two nights. Please don't hesitate to let me know, even if the possibility of a spot is uncertain.
Come hell or high water, this dissertation will be done this year.
Many people receiving this email have been wonderfully helpful and for that I am profoundly grateful.
Warmly,
B
----------------------------------------------
Today I wrote:
Brandon here with an amazing report I thought you might want to hear.
At the end of March I sent out a request for help finding David Williams a place to stay through April (no small amount of time) while he is in Berkeley with us.
In case you ever wonder what kind of resources are available to people who intentionally
participate in building community, like yourself, my request activated positive responses by at least (and with as few overlaps as possible) two intentional communities, including Crescent Sangha House community and Berkeley Cohousing; 14 families and 10 individuals in 7 cites from Association Building Community, Aikido of Berkeley, Epworth United Methodist Church, and a fantasy gaming group; the local Green Party; individual undergraduate and graduate students at UC; local clergy unrelated to any of the groups mentioned above; denizens of the worlds first dog park; and a veterinary office, not to mention people too far away to really count but who sent supportive suggestions (via Facebook, Twitter, Skype, freenode, text messages, blog comments, etc.) nonetheless.My Dad now has a lovely bedroom in a friendly house less than three miles away, for his entire stay. And huge thanks to you all, including the 27 people who have continued to follow-up, requesting updates even after their original positive response.
And, to those critics who say building community on purpose will never become an adequate response to the alienation of an industrialized human imagination, I throw my arms wide and grin!
B
Labels: ABC, community, family, kin
| posted by Brandon @ 4/03/2009 01:41:00 PM
Ok. Fine. He might suggest, now that he is the beloved dead: I'll miss you too. Move on.
So. I'll honor Greg not by doing what he told me to do, because he never told me what to do. Instead, I'll do as he did. I'll do what I admire in him. When someone is in need I'll do my best to help them take care of themselves. When they do me a disservice I'll do my best to let it become a part of a past we can both laugh about. When someone shows me kindness I'll return it many times over. And when I die, maybe somebody else will say something they thought about for a while, feel the loss of me, and move on into tomorrow with the desire to love his people a little more.
Labels: Aidan, death, image, kin
| posted by Brandon @ 3/12/2009 09:21:00 PM
I also gotta say I dig the tech that makes this possible.My dad is coming for most of April so we can go nuts on a writing retreat. Can anybody in Berkeley help put him up? | posted by Brandon @ 2/23/2009 07:13:00 PM
Keeley Cultra, daughter of Captain Quen Cultra, called my wife, Lisa Strykowski WilliamsCraig, to let her know that the Queequeg 2 had been found capsized after major storms and that Lisa's father, Joe Strykowski, is currently lost at sea east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
http://www.cruiserlog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11531
Th 22 Jan 09About 48 hours ago, someone on my father's boat (The Queequeg II) hit "the panic button" sending a distress call. The embassy in Madagascar sent a search party and 36 hours ago they found the Queegueg II capsized. No bodies were found. The Embassy is planning to send another search party but the cyclones are making it difficult. My sister and I are hoping and praying that he could still be out there. There were three men on the boat (Quen Cultra, Joe Strykowski, and Leo Sherman) and all three are missing.
Coordinates of the capsized Queequeg2
24 Degrees 51.26 South
051 Degrees 30.86 East
Nicole believes they were en route to Durban from Mauritius.
They had a dingy and it hasn't been found yet. We are praying that they are still out there in the dingy.
"Lighthouse" the Cruiserlog forum's moderator wrote:
If you look at the chart of ocean currents in the reqion HERE you will see that it is important that you also contact the S African Searh & Rescue. I am still awaiting contact from the S A Maritime Mobile net controller for any other possible news. This net will of course broadcast the details to any other yachts that MAY be in the area - there unfortunately won't be too many at this time of the year.
Unfortunately the Net controller, not having had comms with Queequeg at all, has no additional news but that he was notified of the EPIRB activation. What information he could supply however is that the SAR has been handed over to the French island of Reunion.
Unfortunately the weather does not look good in the area. The EPIRB activation was located over 200 miles east of the southern end of madgascar.
SEE INDIAN OCEAN WEATHER (22/01/09)
Chart from 22/01/09Reduced 79%
We hope to get a family member fluent in French to call and ask for a progress report, particularly:
- have they been able to find the dingy/life-raft
- Leo's condition and report on the events that lead up to the capsize
- Their immediate plans for the next 24hrs, given the approach of midnight in their part of the world.
From : http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f106/father-missing-off-madagascar-22991-2.html
Mixed news I'm afraid.
One man rescued by a merchant ship - name unknown at this stage. The rescued man has told the rescuers that the other two men went overboard without life-jackets. The search is continuing.
Reunion MRCC is co-ordinating the search - Phone: 262 262 434343.
I will update with any further news to hand.
from: http://www.lexpressmada.com/display.php?p=display&id=24025
Tolagnaro |
Deux Américains meurent dans un naufrage |
| Un bateau a sombré à 300 kilomètres au large de Tolagnaro. Trois ressortissants américains étaient à bord. L'un a survécu mais ses deux compatriotes se sont noyés. Leurs corps demeurent introuvables. Le naufrage s'est produit mercredi. Dans la matinée d'hier vers 9h30, un autre navire a porté secours à l'unique miraculé, qui était piégé dans la cabine. Il a été conduit à l'île de la Réunion pour des examens médicaux et pour éventuellement donner plus de précisions sur les circonstances de l'accident. Les trois Américains ont quitté l'île Maurice le 16 janvier. Leur destination n'a pas été indiquée. L'embarcation a chaviré en raison du mauvais temps. L'image donnée par le satellite américain « Queequeg » montre qu'il s'agit d'un bateau de couleur blanche. La marine malgache et celles des îles voisines collaborent étroitement. Ces trois forces conjuguent leurs efforts pendant les sauvetages en haute mer et dans la surveillance des côtes. |
| Nirina Rakotoson et Seth Andriamarohasina Date : 23-01-2009 |
A boat sank in 300 kilometres off Tolagnaro. Three American nationals were aboard. The one survived but his two compatriots drowned. Their bodies remain untraceable. Shipwreck occurred on Wednesday. In the morning yesterday at about 9 h 30, another ship helped the only person on whom a miracle has been worked, who was trapped in the cabin. He was transported to the l'île de la Réunion for medical examinations and to give possibly more precision on the circumstances of the accident.This is plainly yellow journalism.
Julie Williams (my Step-mother) Skyped the French military on Réunion but the fellow who answered the phone refused to answer questions and directed us to the US Coast Guard in Miami. (305) 415-6800
After Leo's rescue from the surface, divers have not actually been up inside the craft to search for survivors due to 20 foot waves, and won't be going back until light.
Fr 23 Jan 09
The French authorities have stopped looking.
Any additional information will not be published here. If there is a need for this to continue as a news story, and I doubt that, anyone dedicated to practicing actual journalism should contact a family member directly. Representatives of media that should have higher standards than that reproduced above have published misleading, uncorroborated, and outright false information in the last few days. Needless to say, this goes beyond inappropriate and burst right through into reprehensible.
from http://www.queequegtwo.com/
| posted by Brandon @ 1/21/2009 03:44:00 PM
W H A T ! They wanted $140 for that book? I wouldn't pay $140 buckos for the guy to show-up at my house and read it to me his very own self........if you get what I mean. The really good news is that all we have to do is wait awhile and we can get the thing for $1.80 online. [Standard Linguistic textbook. good condition. May have extensive highlighting and underlining throughout. Heavy shelf ware, broken spine, pages turned down and missing. Reminder marks. Ex library book with stamping. Coffee cup stains on cover. Book was also used to support heavy aquatic plants in a solarium so there is minor water damage and fading. Good serviceable reading copy. ORDER NOW only one copy left. We have been serving customers for almost two weeks now and always offer 100% satisfaction.
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Total: 36.42 | posted by Brandon @ 4/12/2008 09:37:00 AM
Lisa and I are looking forward to seeing Isaiah and Meghan soon, so with The Mom we managed this rendition of one of the Grandparents Craig favorite love songs to sing to each other.
This is the mirror site, in case their's doesn't work for some reason.
Click on the small arrow button above to hear us sing "Always" for Meg and Isaiah's anniversary.
May their delightful days be as long and as memorable as the coolest couple anyone knows. The only rub is...that would be them anyway. It was the greatest of honors to be one of Isaiah's groomsmen.
Labels: anniversary, celebration, family, gift, Isaiah, kin, Meghan, music, song
| posted by Brandon @ 6/28/2007 09:52:00 PM
But seriously folks, I realized at a different level the necessity of setting myself up for success by paying real and careful attention to what hasn't and doesn't work for me. Hereafter I'll follow Dennis Slattery's instruction to "write like you are writing an email" so the audience can understand what the heck I'm saying. Extending the context of his comment, I'd best do what I love to do - outline clearly and write shorter pieces (one clear page or two at a time) for prompt release (requires clarity in the first draft rather than curly wandering for later revisions) towards the creation of websites and the like. Like a blog! How many people within the range of this would be willing to read stuff faithfully and tell me
- Does it make sense?
- Does it fit, given what has gone before?
- Does it support what I said I would support?
- Does it set up what I say is coming and make you want to read on?
Without, the environment has felt much like my internal weather since December.
The sky has been pouring so much liquid on Texas of late that the Trinity River in Dallas is WAY out of its banks and filling every nook and cranny from levy to levy.
And the rest of North Texas ain't much better off.
We have a history of that, you see (the `08 in this particular case refers to 100 years ago),
but many different reactions to the thunder, lightning, and roaring firmament.
I highly recommend a visit to the Meghan-Val-Isaiah blog. Val is way out beyond cute.
"He claps and dance-dances to music fists waving. He can find the moon in the sky at night and points." I love that boy. Val is absolutely The Most.
I miss Aidan so much my stomach balls up and feels like a lead weight beneath every beating of my heart. There is nothing more precious than a child, and one who can point at the moon is no longer "a child" but The Child, the one who knows where your moon is and without whom pointing becomes pointless for quite some time.
Missing the point,
B
Labels: daily, Dallas, diss, family, flood, grief, kin, travel, VK
| posted by Brandon @ 6/28/2007 10:02:00 AM
