"Home is where the Heart is! Where Spirit, Soul are in Harmony with the Universe!"
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3 February 2001, Vol. III, Iss. 5 |
Celebration of Life...
"When you come to the edge of all the light you have known, and are about to step out into darkness, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen; There will be something to stand on, or you will be taught to fly." Richard Bach 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' That light and darkness found & surrounded many families & friends this last weekend when a plane crash took the lives of 10, east of Denver, Colorado, just hours after the Oklahoma State University's basketball team finished a game against the University of Colorado in Boulder. Sometimes grief picks us up in one place and puts us down in another. Many grieving families & friends were picked up and deposited at Oklahoma State University (OSU) the last day of January 2001 as Oklahoma & OSU family encircled and reached out with compassion as thousands came together to remember and celebrate the lives of those 10 who lost their lives last saturday. The public memorial service at 3 p.m. Wednesday (Jan 31) at Gallagher-Iba Arena, in Stillwater celebrated and remembered precious moments about each of these ten persons: Kendall Durfey - Bjorn Fahlstrom - Nate Fleming - Will Hancock - Daniel Lawson - Brian Luinstra - Denver Mills - Pat Noyes - Bill Teegins - Jared Weiberg. I have listed some links to Other Sites for more information for those who are interested... The
Profiles of the Ten lost. Celebration of Life... Gallagher-Iba Memorial Service was held Wednesday January 31st, 3:00PM, CST. The service is in Real Player format.
Oakie's Column..."A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons." Richard Bach If you have traveled over to WWWPubCo lately, you will have noticed the clouds of dust as we followed our impulse to reorganize, change and move things around. We are in the process of organizing, settling in to a new domain site that will be produced by WWWPubCo.com and connected with ParisTimes Pioneers. It's domain name is OkieLegacy.org. You are welcome to drop by and email or sign the guestbook. Where will it lead? You only have to lift your eyes high enough and open your hearts to see beyond and where our creativity leads us. Yes! We are moved into "OkieLegacy." If you have an outdated link to "OkieLegacy" on your website, you may want to update the link to the new site. I have tried to keep everything together in the move over to OkieLegacy.org. To make it easier to find what you are searching, I have updated my PicoSearch and FreeFind Search engines on my pages to include pages found at WWWPubCo , OkieLegacy and ParisTimes Pioneers. During our remodeling and reorganizing a few pages were moved to a new sub-directory. Here are the links to a few of those at WWWPubCo and "OkieLegacy ."... -- Linda - "Oakie" NW Oklahoma Cemetery....If you travel north of Kingfisher to Dover in Kingfisher County... Turn West (left) on a county road and travel another nine miles, you will come to a small community called Loyal, Oklahoma. Here is a map of Loyal and the communities that surround it. Just a few miles west of Loyal on that same road, on the northside of the county road is a small cemetery called Lorenz Cemetery . On one of my traveling jaunts between OKC and Alva... I stopped to get a few shots of some of the older grave markers that you might found in the Lorenz Family Cemetery. Lorenz Cemetery Stones... |
Rain, Snow, Ice & The Groundhog...Did the Groundhog see his shadow this week? From Colorado, across the Heartland, Minnesota and New England... Lots of us were feeling the chilly cold of mother nature's winter wrath last weekend and into the middle of the week. Some of us were even sipping our chicken soup and nursing a nasty head cold. The message from the mountains west is that over 20+ inches of snow had fallen in the Rockies causing many to hunt up missing snow removers to clear their drives. Many in Minnesota experienced ice storms while wishing for snow, but would rather have Spring. Oklahoma received some icy weather, but was mainly soaked with the chilly wind and rainfall that began last weekend and continued in to the first half of the week.
Mailbag & Links....
"Hi Linda - Not a problem on this end. I have hotmail, MSN, and @home using outlook express for my mail servers. Looks great." Sharon "Hi, I have a new e mail address so am passing it along. Hope all is well with you. We are getting an ice storm this afternoon. Ice is not good. We would rather have snow, (actually we would rather have spring), will have to wait another 8 wks. Enjoy your articles." "Really like your new site format and M.Wags contribution. I have nothing to say about the Super Bowl: don't want to jinx either side." LW As to
the Super Bowl... Looks like Baltimore Ravens ran away with the
game from the NY!
"Oakie -- New HTML format of your newsletter looks great!" Flatlander "I found a snow remover. He drove up in a big yellow machine with a bucket in front and a backhoe on the back. Because the machine was so big, he couldn't really do the great job that the other snow remover was doing with his little snow cat, but he damned sure moved some mounds of snow. Where he cut through the drive without piling up snow, I have a wall anywhere from 25-28" high. The stack of snow at the north side of the south is anywhere from 8-10' high. Because the tree limbs hang so low at the north end of the drive even with the house, he couldn't get his bucket in far enough to clear all the way to what's left of the woodpile. I managed to clear a path wide enough to run the wheelbarrow through from the wood stack to the front porch. Tomorrow, I've got to clear snow from the outside of the fireplace so I can get to the door to clean out my ash dump. I'm telling you that, though I'm getting better at it, this snow shovelling takes a LOT of strength and energy, which means that I shovelshovelshovel, gaspgaspgasp, restrestrest, drinkdrinkdrink, then shovelshovelshovel again." "Marion Matthew Farris and Laura Ellen Beach had a son, named Edward Ross Farris, born in Woods County, Oklahoma on 1/25/1898, so I am told. I would appreciate anyone's help in verifying this birth in Woods County, and possibly in the town of Alva. Thanks in advance." Marilyn gamblinbob@aol.com Oklahoma State University Federal Aviation
Administration.. National Transportation
Safety Board... Have a Tech problem with the Web or Internet? Check out TechTV.com. Need some HTML Help? Browse over to HTMLHelp.com. My Sincerest Apology!....If I may have offended one person in last week's newsletter when I lightheartedly combined my political beliefs with humor, I send my sincerest, heart-felt apologizes! I only hope that you will keep an open-mind as I will do... So we can listen, learn and live with each other peacefully in this Universe... AND.... Respect each other's differences and views even if we don't agree with them. In leaving... I leave you with a quote by Richard Bach, the writer of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull,' "You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." Linda K McGill Wagner Thanks! You can also view The OkieLegacy online. Copyrighted © 2008 by WWWPubCo & OkieLegacy.
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