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Karen Sharkey Flaherty remembered
Thanks for joining us on Karen Flaherty Day, 2008 and we encourage you to sign up and join the effort to keep Karen's vision alive, and keep checking with each other every day in chat at noon and 6 pm PST (2 pm and 8 pm CST). You can read the transcript of the Karen Flaherty Day Chat from Feb 10, 2003. Ellie Flaherty is " truly looking forward to keeping up on environmental, political, personal, and just fun issues." with the "blog".
I think the reminder of Karen Sharkey
Flaherty Day on Monday, February 10 is, of course, to celebrate a phenomenal woman who
gave all of her strength to helping people and the world, working with actions
and not only words to get things done.
But another reason to celebrate this day is to remember everything Karen stood for: Love, kindness, selflessness, humbleness, hard work, and that one human, one woman, CAN make a difference. I am still amazed at how many people she has affected. Growing up with her, there were always runaways or kids who had it pretty tough, living with us. And she was always there as a surrogate mother.
When she died, I remember calling many
of them and just thinking of all the people who were gonna just be devastated
for this loss was almost too much. Although, it made me feel not so
alone, knowing everyone loved my mother, just like me. She was the world
to me, and now she is part of the world, looking down upon us all, like a
purple Saint, reminding us to take deep breaths and to be good to each other
and our earth.
Last February 10th, people got together all over the world: Hawaii, Berkeley, New York, Tennessee, Baja, India, and others, to take at least 15 minutes out of their day and remember what she's shown us through her wisdom.
Everyone had their own private circles
wherever they were, but we all did it at noon no matter what time zone we were
in, and usually ended the meditation with Oms. It would be nice if we
could remember to do it again every year, for she
was truly a Saint to me. I would like to thank all of you for loving
Karen as much as she loved us all, thank you for celebrating her life, she
shall never be forgotten.
- Ellie Flaherty ellie@farmnetnews.com
February 10th is Karen Sharkey Flaherty Day. This is not a day to mourn Karen but to celebrate her life and learn from what she shown us through her actions: To be compassionate, loving, humble, selfless and giving, oh yeah, and as she always said; take deep breaths! We put out the message and you came here on KSF Day and you celebrated wherever you were.
People will be had their own ceremonies where ever they lived, and it was hard being so far apart. So the least we did, besides seeing each other, was to talk to each other and to remember my mom, Karen.
Even though KSF Day is over for this year, we can still keep meeting at the http://farmnetnews/chat room at noon and 6 pm California time, 1 pm/7 pm Mountain time, 2 pm/8 pm CST and 3 pm/9 pm EST on a daily basis. And we can keep growing this website and keep Karen's vision alive. I think it would be cool to honor her in any way each of us wants, but I know she'd want us to keep being close together. Hope to see ya'll here on a regular basis.
All my love and aloha,
Ellie
Michael Flaherty has been traveling the country and setting up memorials for Karen. You can contact him at michael@spring.net or via his website http://spring.net/michael
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