breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'

Subject: breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'
From: MichaelAnthony
Date: 23 Sep 00 - 03:40 AM

Hello Mudcatters and Guests,

I continue to ponder and digest Dirty's message. I'm finding myself leaning towards spreading the "Say a Prayer for Dirty" text about a little.

I don't consider myself naive, and I'm wondering if anyone would be willing to keep in touch with me as to my whereabouts if I went ahead with the above. The more the merrier. I have family I keep in touch with, but I've been known to be out of contact for months at a time. So not hearing from me would not necessarily be abnormal.

Of course it's not likely anything unusual would happen to me, but if anything occurred I'd like to be able to chat about it and not feel too isolated.

MA

Subject: RE: breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'
From: CarolC
Date: 23 Sep 00 - 05:40 AM

Could you be a little bit more specific about what it is that you are asking people to do? I don't quite understand what you are saying.

Carol

Subject: RE: breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 23 Sep 00 - 06:55 AM

In case someone doesn't know what this is about at all.

Subject: RE: breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'
From: Dulci46
Date: 23 Sep 00 - 09:28 AM

Thanks for making the clicky thing. I missed that one.

Really beautiful and sad.

Subject: RE: breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'
From: bbelle
Date: 23 Sep 00 - 10:42 AM

MA - If you are out of touch with your family for months, would it not be the same with mudcatters?

I travel A LOT and mostly by auto. I let several people know when I'm embarking on a trip, including where I will be when, and telephone numbers. I also travel with a Sprint PCS phone (a little plug for my company ) and can be reached wherever I am. It works for emergencies, for safety, for when it's late at night and I want to talk to someone, and for others to keep track of me.

This past Spring, on my drive to Dallas from Tallahassee, Jed Marum called me three times ... to find out where I was and if all was okay. I took another trip, up North, in July. Almost every day, I received a call from a friend in Canada, just to see if I was okay.

But, if you don't want or cannot afford the expense of a wireless phone, another suggestion would be to purchase a prepaid long distance card. This way, you could call whomever, to check in.

Or maybe, after the long diatribe, what you're talking about is email. How would you go about this? Do you have a laptop? Would you access through public libraries?

Subject: RE: breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'
From: MichaelAnthony
Date: 23 Sep 00 - 04:40 PM

Carol,

I see that I wasn't clear about what I was asking. Now that I think about it it seems possible that correspondences such as email and phone calls could even work against my goal of staying safe myself and protecting Dirty.

I had one idea -- I shared the text with the Southern Center for Human Rights. They were very very busy with trial cases when I stopped by and haven't heard from them yet. But having them aware of the text may provide some comfort for Dirty and anyone who may share this writing. And if the text was published as it is it seems like an appropriate place for people to send donations to. Of course, they may decide to have nothing to do with it.

MA

Subject: RE: breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 02:17 AM

Well, good luck. Let us know if there is anything we can do.

Carol

Subject: RE: breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'
From: MichaelAnthony
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 03:07 AM

Thanks Carol...and dulci and moonjen.

Subject: RE: breeze shooting: '...as if nothing h...'
From: rabbitrunning
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 09:03 AM

Check the local libraries to see if they have internet/computer access for free. In Boston, we have several homeless people who use our computers to have e-mail access via hotmail or yahoo.