Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 23 Mar 15 - 04:22 AM

Maeve, I can't thank you enough for the exquisite music & stunning images. They chime perfectly with our mood today.

It never ceases to amaze me how a solo instrument can evoke such depth of feeling. A bravura performance by a true master.

A sincere thank you to everyone who will be 'with us' today. It is a fine, sunny, spring day here in London. A little later, Ann & I will drive to the seaside to have lunch at our favourite restaurant. Top of the 'menu' will be memories of Jane...an opportunity to reflect on what was & not dwell on the 'what might have beens'.
                               With Love to You All,
                                                               Nigel & Ann
                                                               xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Mar 15 - 08:25 PM

Nigel, you and your family will be in my thoughts.

Gnu, how's your mom doing now that a few days have passed since your uncle's funeral?

Lovely music, Maeve.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 22 Mar 15 - 03:29 PM

That is really lovely, maeve. Thanks.

Nigel, have been thinking of you, Ann and the rest of your family all day.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 22 Mar 15 - 10:52 AM

Peter- Hawk makes plays a version of our Native American flute:
http://hawkhenries.com/my-workshops/my-handmade-flutes/


Wendy, how goes it?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 22 Mar 15 - 09:45 AM

Lovely piece, maeve, and picture sequence. Is that an Indian instrument ?. Two years is still a short time to come terms with a loss. Wishing you peace and comfort , Nigel and ann.   Pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 22 Mar 15 - 09:37 AM

Nigel, I will be thinking of you and Ann tomorrow and holding you both in my heart. My dad passed away suddenly in 2008 and I still miss him every day. Time eventually rounds the sharp edges off the pain, leaving us with the memories. We'll always miss them, but as long as we keep their memories in our hearts, they never really leave us.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 22 Mar 15 - 09:16 AM

Thanks, m.

Nigel... I will.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 22 Mar 15 - 09:07 AM

For all, especially gnu and Nigel and Ann - music from a friend of ours:
Hawk Henries- Earth and Sky

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 22 Mar 15 - 07:38 AM

Lest I get no chance to post tomorrow, let me promise from now, Nigel, to be close to you and Ann, in spirit, tomorrow. "I will comfort you", like Simon and Garfunkel's kindly bridge.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 22 Mar 15 - 05:52 AM

Tomorrow, 23rd March marks the second year of our Darling Jane's passing. She left her earthly body, quietly & peacefully, surrounded by her Family. Be with us tomorrow...the pain of her loss has eased a little, but an un-fillable void remains. It has been said that: "You never forget, you just learn how to live with it". I think that is largely true.
                                     With Love to You All,
                                                                     Nigel & Ann. xxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 21 Mar 15 - 12:06 PM

g- *Yes.
Thought of you today.
Maeve and TL

Janie- Thanks.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 21 Mar 15 - 10:34 AM

Ditto CL, r1.

Thanks again. Suit and tie put away. By the looks of some of my relatives (Mum's side), it won't be there all that long. Uncle Reg was a nice guy. Joined the navy before high school graduation and sailed the day after. I had a sniffle when I hugged aunt* Dora but, when the vets honour guard played taps it was tissue time. Same for others.

* Should that be an upper case "a"?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Mar 15 - 07:13 PM

Tami, I'm sorry your niece is going through this. I'm glad she has the support of an aunt like you. As a fat, pimply, bookworm with few social skills, I endured bullying. My son, who was more interested in the arts than all the seasonal youth sports his classmates participated in, was bullied, too. He told me about it. His attitude was that he could handle it better than some others that he knew, and he knew he had my love and support. I told nobody about my experiences. Both my parents had been popular kids and I feared they would think I had somehow brought it upon myself. (I was probably wrong about that.) I didn't want to be a disappointment to them. Even though I never told them, I knew they loved me. If, like my son and I, your niece will eventually (though not soon enough) go to a school that merges with another, she is likely to meet members of her own "tribe," who are also unique.

The cyber-bullying era certainly adds a new, nasty layer to all of this.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 20 Mar 15 - 05:53 PM

A couple of days ago, one of the youngest nieces turned 11. She got a spiffy new haircut, and off to school she went. Where a bunch of kids then proceeded to ridicule and bully her. I hate that. Not just because she's one of my nieces, but because no one deserves to be treated like that. I went through that crap at her age, too, but at least social media and cyber bullying didn't exist then. Sophie is an incredibly cool kid: she's smart, athletic, an excellent cook, and very creative. She designed a working mermaid tail that she can wear swimming. And one of the many things I love about her is her uniqueness. Unfortunately, that makes her a target for the other kids. I sat down and wrote her a letter last night telling her all the things I value about her and that, even though it seems an eternity away, things will get better and that I went through many of the same things she is going through. I also offered to be there if she needs to talk.

Not looking for advice or anything like that. Just needed to vent.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 20 Mar 15 - 03:40 PM

with a prayer , gnu, especially for your mum at this hard time. blessings   pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Mar 15 - 08:59 PM

Thank you for the update, Nigel. I had lost track of the girls' plan to stay in Peru for a month and that the month had not yet ended.

Gnu, I am sorry about your uncle. I'm sending comforting thoughts to you and your mum. My father also died on a St. Patrick's Day.

Tami, it must be a joy to welcome a new baby into your family! Hugs to him!

Jennie G, hugs to your grandson, also!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: JennieG
Date: 19 Mar 15 - 05:31 PM

Congratulations, Tami!

Next week we will hitch up our little caravan and make the long drive to Canberra to attend the Ozzie National Folk Festival and to visit with with our older son Stephen The Drummer, DIL Carly The French Horn Player and our grandkid Euan The Wonder Kid who live in Canberra. We haven't seen them since just after new year when Euan was only two weeks old, he'll probably be walking and talking now......children these days are very advanced, aren't they.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 19 Mar 15 - 12:51 PM

Awwwww... a baby! That's great.

Nigel... fulsome? Wellll, not quite. It has Mum and Aunt Charmaine in a tither*. Flowers or not? Specific charity or not? Mum thinks he is being cremated because the name of the place has such in it. I didn't try to tell her that this conclusion is unsupported in logic as it would simply add to the tither. I also know Mum will not be able physically be able to do the whole two hours but I shall not bring that up until Saturday morning because that can of worms will open the next onesss... is there a family gathering afterward? where might it be? who might be invited?... etcetera. I do have a backup plan. "The son" gets in town tonight so I will call him on the morrow with questions.

Thanks all for the condolences. Youse are a great crew.

BTW... I know Reg is looking down and saying, "What a bunch of bullshit. This isn't any fun for me. Funeral? Have a party or I am leaving. I have better things to do."

* Gramma Owens' Dictionary : A fit of confusion and accompanying annoyment**.

** Gramma Owens' Dictionary : You know.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Mar 15 - 10:25 AM

Condolences, gnu.

And as one life leaves, another arrives. My great-nephew Gabriel entered this world at 6:58 this morning.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 19 Mar 15 - 07:48 AM

My Dear Gnu,
                     It's times like this when the geography really does get in the way...very frustrating that I can't be with you on March 21st. Much Love & Sincere Condolences from myself & Ann. Thank you very much for posting such a fulsome obituary. We now have much more than just a name. We will be holding you & your Family in our thoughts on Saturday,
                   Love & Hugs,
                                       Nigel & Ann
                                     xxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Mar 15 - 04:14 AM

sending the same -

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 18 Mar 15 - 11:31 PM

Hugs and condolences, gnu, to you, your mum, and all who knew and loved him.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: JennieG
Date: 18 Mar 15 - 11:19 PM

Sorry to hear that, gnu......your uncle lived a long and full life.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 18 Mar 15 - 08:55 PM

Reg... always liked Uncle Reg. Nice guy. Loved to laugh. And, he could tease... I'll miss him. Mum is shaken but we all knew it was coming. In the very end, it was mercifully swift and painless due to heavy doses of morphine (a drug seldom administered hereaboutst these days even in such cases). The next few days, as have been the past days, will be hard on Mum as her health is waning but she will be the same strong woman she has always been and take it in her usual gallant stride... she is a rock.

Reginald J. LeBlanc

1924-2015

Reginald J. LeBlanc

Reginald Joseph LeBlanc, 90, of Moncton passed away on Tuesday March 17, 2015 at the Veteran's Health Centre. Born on November 13, 1924 in Moncton, he was the son of the late Edgar and Hélène (Melanson) LeBlanc.

Reginald served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and was employed for 35 years with the Department of National Defence at No. 5 Supply Depot located in Moncton.

He is survived by his wife for 69 years, Dora (née Martin); two daughters: Patricia Bernier (Paul) of Montreal, QC, and Jeannine King of Moncton; two sons: Paul (Giselle Melanson) of Dieppe and Donald (Marjolaine Samson) of Montreal, QC; four sisters: Violet Corbett (Vern) of Victoria, BC, Dora Owens (Bill) of Moncton, Charmaine LeBlanc of Moncton, and Ida Severen (Ted) of Saint John, NB; two brothers: Roy (Therese) of Moncton and Laury (Therese) of Massachusetts; several grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Besides his parents, he was predeceased by two sisters: Lorraine LeBlanc and Angela Richard.

The family will receive condolences at Frenette Funeral and Cremation Centre, 88 Church Street, Moncton (858-1900) from where the funeral service will be celebrated on Saturday March 21, 2015 at 11 am. Visiting hours Saturday from 10 am until time of funeral. Veterans will hold a service of remembrance at 10:45 am Saturday at the funeral centre.

RIP and thanks Uncle Reg.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 18 Mar 15 - 08:26 PM

Glad they are doing well and contributing well also! I would never have had the nerve and the confidence in my youth. Doesn't take a prophet to foresee this will be an experience that will be life changing and life enhancing, not only for them, but for many who they will effect (affect?) through their actions and choices.

Shout out to maeve and tl. Come settle for a little while by the warmth of the galley stove. There is aromatic herb tea in that pot covered by the cozy. Shall I pour a cup for you?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 18 Mar 15 - 03:21 PM

I unhesitatingly join Pete in that good hope.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 18 Mar 15 - 09:39 AM

no need for apologies, nigel, and nice to read of the travellers doing well. I hope the life that gets in the way is nothing problematic !               blessings all            pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 18 Mar 15 - 07:01 AM

Apologies to all for my sporadic posts. As a good friend of mine said recently: "Life's been getting in the way of Life!"

Sandra...I need to write about the wonderful Music posts...give me a little more time, please.

ChanteyLass...my Granddaughter & her friend are currently in Peru. I wrote in an earlier post that they were doing a month's voluntary work, helping to build a school. It is actually an orphanage. They work in the mornings & play with the children in the afternoons. The Girls are both excellent sportswomen, enabling them to teach skills, establish purposeful training & best of all, have LOADS of fun with a large group of enthusiastic youngsters.

I will do my best to catch up with posting. I have neglected 'The Rainbow' of late...too much other 'stuff' getting in the way.
                            Much Love to You All,
                                                             Nigel.
                                                             xxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Mar 15 - 02:59 AM

Pete - we're taking the same to workshop to the National Folk Festival at Easter as 3 daily sessions & expect lots of musicians!

We're also presenting a Family dance with musos ranging from 7 to 80 & all ages in between.

We're taking a few of our own 2nd generation members along - 2 brilliant fiddlers 13 & 15, 7-year old singer & multi-instrumentalist, 15 year old clarinetist, several dance callers late teens & twenties, 7-year old singer who is also a beginner fiddler,

a great time will be had.

sandra

ps. the grown up members also get gigs - Songs workshop, Tunes workshop & Colonial ball. Naturally the younger members are welcome at all gigs.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 09:36 PM

renew

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: pattyClink
Date: 17 Mar 15 - 10:59 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Mar 15 - 07:05 PM

Nigel Paterson, what news from your young women traveling friends? Where are they now?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Peter from seven stars link
Date: 15 Mar 15 - 04:55 PM

Pic to raise a smile, Sandra. Don't look like folk will be dying out in your neck of the woods !.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 15 - 03:50 PM

Roight! That one took. Maybe the other one couldn't make it though tha snow and tha gale. She's solid white by times. St. Pat drove the snakes out of Ireland. I wish he would fire up his snowblower and drive the snow out of NB.ca. I NEED some GREEN!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 15 Mar 15 - 03:43 PM

Buddy b'y. She's stove in here. Blowin a piece and snowin two. Nere movin outside a tha house cept ta scuff off in fronna Mum's back door on the side of her house that faces where a Nor'easter lays it's ugly egg every hour or so eh. Mine's on tha back and up at bridge level so she blows clean.

WTF? Did that not post?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 15 Mar 15 - 08:12 AM

Wish I were using my time as commendably as Sandra. Can we hope, Sandra, to see one of the pics of the children?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Mar 15 - 06:44 PM

Always good when young people get involved in music as audience members or musicians!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Mar 15 - 02:18 AM

& I had lunch with some early members of Australia's oldest folk club - friends who joined in the mid 50s (when the club started) & late 50s talking & listening to the reminiscences.

Last night I presented a (very small - 9 audience members) but perfectly musically-formed concert. Then I caught up on a week of lack of sleep!

Tomorrow I'll be taking pics at a children's traditional Australian music session. We've presented the session several times & I love watching the kids enjoy the songs & music.

sandra

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 13 Mar 15 - 10:52 PM

It's ok, Chantylass, as long as you don't toss your cookie!

Have lifted my winter-weary spirits greatly this week with new music. Yesterday, I got our own Lonesome EJ's CD in the mail (it's great, by the way), and tonight J-boy and I went to see Anna (Roberts-Gevalt) & Elizabeth (LaPrelle) at a really nice little venue with great acoustics in Portland. It was great seeing the variety of ages in the audience, first folk concert I've been to where the majority of the audience may actually have been younger than me! I'll go to bed tonight with my head full of music.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Mar 15 - 07:24 PM

Eek! That was me babbling about dragons on 12 Mar at 6:32 PM! I didn't realize I'd lost my cookie.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 13 Mar 15 - 04:33 AM

No need to be afeared o' dragons...we've got Gnu, Maeve & Janie! I think our dear, departed Pat P. would've made a fearsome adversary for dragons too.

Still here, reading, thinking, hoping, laughing, shedding a tear.

Triumphs & disasters...joys & sorrows...no matter what broadsides Life batters us with, there's usually someone aboard with knowledge & experience to offer wise words of comfort or a timely epithet.

Keep your eye on those sails, Mysha. We don't 'encourage' the unknown, but a little advance warning is always helpful (-:
                                                       With Love to You All,
                                                                                       Nigel
                                                                                       xxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 15 - 06:32 PM

Sailing into the unknown? Can't have that! Everyone knows, "There be dragons."

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Mysha
Date: 11 Mar 15 - 06:34 AM

Just trimming the sails a bit to keep us from sailing into the unknown.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 09 Mar 15 - 08:14 AM

Thanks for your last two posts, Maeve. The grief one can feel on the passing of a total stranger! The obit thread was started, I note, on 23 Feb, the very first day of a very hectic visit by me to Trinidad and Tobago. No wonder I missed it. RIP, Pearl.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 08 Mar 15 - 04:18 PM

Now the penny drops- I might have realized that Moira's friends are The Admiral and Pearl in this thread: 2015 Obit: Pearl O'Neill (Mrs Admiral)

Very special friends to many, and great friends of good music.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 08 Mar 15 - 01:32 PM

Glad to help, Manuel. Moira and her husband live far from us yet are long-time friends.

Moira tells me that sadly, although not surprisingly, her good and dear friend Pearl, died about 2 weeks ago. Her husband Tony is coping and has loved ones to support him. Perhaps we can still offer thoughts and prayers on his behalf, as well as Moira and other friends who are grieving this loss.

Wendy- I suspected that you of all people would have tried the picture cards already- and it was worth trying! I hope you can find peace knowing that your health matters to all who love you. If I am sick, I'm on my own. Please accept appropriate care. You're still strong and capable even when you may need some caring yourself.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 08 Mar 15 - 08:14 AM

Maeve, thanks for going out of your way. You are kind.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 07 Mar 15 - 10:53 AM

I posted but... oh well. Glad to hear about the test results, Wendy. Disconcerting about the poor bedside manners of the staff re the other, tho. Hope all is okay.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 07 Mar 15 - 09:36 AM

Manuel- Mudcat had a crash and lost about 2 months of posts. I'll check with Moira and ask her how things are going with her friends.

Maeve

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Manuel
Date: 07 Mar 15 - 08:09 AM

Have been unable to keep up with all the posts to this thread in recent weeks and hope I have not missed any from Moira, whose friends (Pearl and Tony, if memory serves me right)remain in my prayers. One wonders how they are doing.