Memorial Fund for Gabriel

It is with a heavy heart that I write this today because I miss a little boy named Gabriel. Watching his brother Raven and his father Woodstock, a/k/a Loren David O'Connor, suffer through the pain of their loss while trying to make arrangements for his burial, memorial and wake is really hard. Gabriel Jaden Coates was with us for a short 3 years, 2 months and 2 days, yet he has made a profound impression on the hearts of people that will last forever. He left this earth to enter the spirit world on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at about 11 am. Gabriel fell into the water of the Antelope Creek, which was fast moving and deep. His body was recovered by very compassionate rescue workers about two hours later.

Woodstock, Raven, his friends and family are sort of moving in a state of unreal shock. Things need to get done. So we are helping in whatever way we can. Funds are urgently needed to buy the casket and to buy a plot where he will be laid to rest. Please spread the word and help in whatever way you can.

Please visit the dedication site for Gabriel at http://www.angelsforgabriel.org. News and information about his memorial, burial and wake will be posted on this blog. Lots of pictures will be loaded soon that I took of the gathering site where little Gabriel drowned. We took photos of the creek and the campsite where he laughed, played and enjoyed. There is a very spiritual picture on the site now that shows what we believe is Gabriel's spirit that appeared while Woodstock and I were standing by the stream talking about Gabriel, about what happened, about his life, about what to do now. It is then that we both felt his presence and a butterfly landed on Woodstock after that moment. I took a photo in the direction of where they found Gabriel's body in the water and that is where the column of light appeared. It was an intense, sad, happy, etherical time.

We will be assisting Woodstock with transferring of funds to the Funeral home when it is placed on the paypal in the amount we need. The general manager Chris Girdner at the Girdner Funeral Chapel is giving us until Tuesday at closing time to come up with the total for the casket. This is urgent. Other arrangements are being made and other funds are needed very much. Please email angelsforgabriel@gmail.com if you have questions or if you want to help in some way.

The Forest Service, the fire department, the Siskiyou county Sheriff's department, the Fish and Game dept. personnel, and the townspeople volunteers from Tennant were very gentle, kind, compassionate during the entire ordeal. We are all grateful to them for the way they handled this situation.

I have many things to write and memorial signs and brochures to make, and a website to update, so please help us facilitate this link being spread far and wide to get the funds together. Gabriel deserves a decent casket, memorial, burial and wake. Help us give him that much, please. Woodstock should not have to concern himself with money at a time like this. Right now we are all camping in our rigs while this is all taking place, so family please plug into this compassionate service.

Much love and blessings.
Summer Breeze on behalf of Woodstock, Raven, Gabriel & Raven and
Jazzy all his friends and family.

Miss Angela Will Share her Writing Insight

When Miss Angela lifts her glasses to inspect a writing work, she is doing more than reviewing spelling and grammar. She is looking for the keys to a document’s power.

 

Did you know that your content articles and blog posts possess a sort of literary power?

 

It is found in the message that is conveyed.

 

Now, she is not talking about the length of the article or the spelling or the linguistic finesse. You can use two dollar vocabulary words without invoking power into your article or story. Miss Angela is not all that particular about how you format your paragraphs or what type of paper you use. The ink color has no bearing. Language style does not even matter.

 

You might be a little confused now, because I just outlined all the principles you’ve been taught to use in quality writing.

 

Here is the sum of an article’s power…..if it has umph…if it invokes emotion from the reader or grabs their interest so they cannot stop reading until the end, then you have written an article with power.

 

Let us examine this technique together and discover how to be a power blogger.

 

Miss Angela will be guiding us through these lessons right here on Keep It Simple, so be sure to come back for the first lesson. If you want to receive regular updates, then sign up for the rss feed. I update about once a week currently, but that will be increasing in the near future to two or three times per week.

 

Till we return, keep on blogging. Leave a comment and tell me what your passion is in writing.

 

The Midnight Writer

Add a Little Pizzazz to your Blogs

Blogs are fickle things sometimes and finding ways to spruce up the content can be puzzling. I have found that photos do indeed speak about a thousand words. Using these in your posts can do one of two things: inspire creative content by choosing and placing the photo first then write the content according to the photo.

Another way to spruce up your blog is by using video, which I have recently begun doing. Now I’m not a professional with the video camera but I’m going to keep on trying to perfect my artistic ability with using it. I’ll try to find interesting subject matter for my films to share on my blogs.

Yesterday Cephas and I filmed one of our favorite sacred sites where we go to reflect on life and nature and spirituality. You might enjoy this video of one of our favorite places. It is located in Oregon between Burns and Ontario on Highway 20. Cephas and I discovered it a few years ago by accident just driving through Oregon. We chose to make a pit stop onto the road wanting to take a walk. This place infatuated us so much that we return year after year to enjoy the rocks, the waterfall, the plants and the pure serenity of this little oasis in the wilderness.

The Midnight Writer