OBIT: Ezra Milan - One year ago, today 10 Mar 2010

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 30 Apr 09 - 12:05 AM

Here too.......

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Apr 09 - 10:44 AM

Me too

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: LilyFestre
Date: 30 Apr 09 - 11:40 AM

Thinking of you daily........

Much Love,

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Apr 09 - 01:07 PM

It's much more than a "daily" thought here, too, as I am sure it is for most of us.

But I "speak" it daily.


On This Day………
Mend a quarrel.
Search out a forgotten friend.
Dismiss suspicions, and replace them with trust.
Write a love letter. Share some treasure.
Give a soft answer. Encourage youth.
Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.
Keep a promise. Find the time.
Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy.
Listen. Apologize if you were wrong.
Try to understand. Flout envy.
Examine your demands on others.
Think first of someone else.
Appreciate, be kind, be gentle.
Laugh a little more. Deserve confidence.
Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency.
Express your gratitude.
Worship your God.
Gladden the heart of a child.
Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.
Speak your love.
Speak it again.
Speak it still again.
Speak it still once again.
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Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 01 May 09 - 07:28 AM

here I am again ... it is quite pretty outdoors blue blue sky, white fluffy clouds and song birds all vying for sound waves.

peace

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 May 09 - 07:35 AM

Happy Birthday, Meghan. May this new year bring you peace.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: LilyFestre
Date: 01 May 09 - 10:29 AM

It's your birthday? Well Happy Birthday and I'd like to add to Sinsull's wish for peace!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Janie
Date: 01 May 09 - 10:41 AM

Celebrate yourself today, Meghan, being present in each moment as it arises.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 May 09 - 10:47 AM

On yesterday's walk I passed a parked car whose license plate began EZR.

Sent a prayer into the universe.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 May 09 - 11:19 AM

Happy birthday, Meghan.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Tinker
Date: 01 May 09 - 04:21 PM

Night falls and memories creep
Laughing faces -- body's heat
Replaced by routine and empty seats
This day belongs to you alone
But love still surrounds and fills those zones
Held tight in memories love still keeps
This day is yours and precious sleep
Dreams and hope and future meet

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Celtaddict
Date: 01 May 09 - 11:35 PM

Yma o hyd.
Still here.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 May 09 - 01:57 PM

Another day.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 May 09 - 11:18 AM

Maybe he will be found today.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 May 09 - 01:29 PM

One day closer, anyway.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Janie
Date: 03 May 09 - 06:09 PM

Just checking in. Light and love.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: maeve
Date: 03 May 09 - 06:27 PM

Pears and apples are about to burst into bloom.

Goodnight,

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: LilyFestre
Date: 04 May 09 - 01:17 AM

Peeking in...........

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Tinker
Date: 04 May 09 - 07:38 AM

Monday morning... wet and gray
Monday morning sometimes it just turns out that way...

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 May 09 - 07:48 AM

Sunny here. Rain tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: GUEST,Joe and Marie
Date: 04 May 09 - 08:07 PM

Rainy Days and Mondays, always think of the Carpenters song when I wake up on Mondays and its raining. Hoping prayers are heard from Rhode Island, Joe and I are still watching the thread and pulling up the Press Herald for news... any news. Elainakins, Debba, Becca, I love you all.. and think of you often throughout the day. Love you all.. air kisses oxoxox Joe and Marie

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: open mike
Date: 04 May 09 - 09:21 PM

Please excuse me if this is not approppriate...but perhaps there could be an expanded search involving other agencies besides local ones? Perhaps some missing persons agencies could be brought in to this case, or F.B.I. or C.S.I. or maybe even one of the crime shows on T.V. would take on the task of searching...I know this is not a confirmed homicide, and i do not know how long it takes to be called a "COLD CASE" but there needs to be more effort put into this search.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_a_Trace

http://www.coldcasecenter.com/

National Center for Missing Adults..They Are Missed..
http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/index.php

http://www.blackandmissinginc.com/cdad/index.cfm (this site has a
page where you can report a missing person...needs to be filled out by a relative)

again, please pardon it this is out-of-bounds, but i know many of us are wishing and hoping that there will be news soon.

Blessings on all the friends and family members who await the news.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: open mike
Date: 04 May 09 - 10:26 PM

some other helpful info here perhaps..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_persons
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http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/content.php?webid=hope2support

http://www.myspace.com/missingpersons
(this might be just from Australia)


Ezra is listed here:
http://mainemissingadults.com/

and here:
http://www.helpfindthemissing.org/forum/showthread.php?p=558438

and should be here:
http://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/criminal_investigation/missing_persons.shtml

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Janie
Date: 04 May 09 - 11:56 PM

Like open mike, I'm not sure how appropriate or helpful this might be. Perhaps I am posting this more for the benefit of these many of us who are here holding vigil but not intimately involved.

I'm a psychotherapist, and the link which follows is from the professional literature regarding amiguous loss.   It is definitely dry and somewhat technical. It may be helpful to Meghan and family. And maybe not. If not, simply drop it into "file 13."

Ambiguous loss

I can only imagine, but do not know, what it must be like to not absolutely know what has happened when a loved one simply vanishes.

Love and peace.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 May 09 - 08:08 AM

Crossed the Casco Bay Bridge and said my morning prayer. Another day.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 May 09 - 12:12 PM

Here is something I have found emormously comforting and helpful when times have been dark:

DAILY EVENING PRAYER

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 May 09 - 12:20 PM

And lovely, with music: THREE-MINUTE RETREAT ARCHIVE

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Maryrrf
Date: 05 May 09 - 12:33 PM

Although I don't post much, I too check in every day, hoping that at least there will be closure.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 May 09 - 06:47 AM

Another morning and it could be a good one. Never lose hope.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 May 09 - 08:10 AM

Another rainy day. Good morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: maeve
Date: 06 May 09 - 08:24 AM

I see new beginnings all over the garden; all responding to the blessing of rain on parched earth. May the rain bring comfort to you.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 May 09 - 09:57 AM

Goodness is never beyond reach.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 May 09 - 01:06 PM

LOL I found that exact quote in a fortune cookie recently, Susan, along with "A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains." I stuck the "bushel of brains" one on the board over my desk.

No disrespect intended.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 May 09 - 01:58 PM

Um, I only have about a jot of either, can I swap with anyone?

:~)

(Sins, are we FINALLY getting on a good wavelength!?!?!)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 May 09 - 02:10 PM

simple hug from me

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: GUEST,E
Date: 06 May 09 - 04:46 PM

-E-

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 May 09 - 10:30 PM

Goodnight Sweet Prince...

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 May 09 - 01:06 AM

I got up this morning thinking good thoughts and I'll go to sleep tonight doing the same.......................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: georgeward
Date: 07 May 09 - 02:00 AM

Checking and hoping

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: maeve
Date: 07 May 09 - 06:33 AM

Good morning. Step by step.

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: SINSULL
Date: 07 May 09 - 08:31 AM

Rainy day, kamikazi drivers, good morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 May 09 - 09:07 AM

Mostly cloudy with shafts of bright light breaking through high-wind-scudded clouds.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Neil D
Date: 07 May 09 - 11:43 AM

Still hoping...

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: open mike
Date: 08 May 09 - 02:43 AM

i saw a road side sign about Ezra temple
and offered up a prayer on the spot.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 May 09 - 06:40 PM

Here through fog and weird columns of more fog eddying up from mountain ridges and valleys.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Janie
Date: 08 May 09 - 10:40 PM

The name Ezra is apparently derived from a hebrew word meaning "help." What you have shared about him makes clear it is a very fitting name, as he was quick to offer, and generous with his help.

Thinking of Ezra and family tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Tinker
Date: 09 May 09 - 07:48 AM

Bit of a gray morning with chances of sun -- sitting and waiting for the bright moments.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: GUEST,Becca72
Date: 09 May 09 - 12:49 PM

The Portland Police found a body in the harbor last night. We are waiting for the results of DNA testing, but they are pretty sure it's our Ezra. While we all suspected this outcome, it's still very hard to have it confirmed. Continued thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: Janie
Date: 09 May 09 - 12:53 PM

Oh Becca.   

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Subject: RE: BS: Good thoughts needed, please
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 May 09 - 12:57 PM

Becca, we are all still here and holding out for the best........And whatever comes of this latest news, we are still here and sending good thoughts to all of you................but you know that don't you?

Much Love

Spaw