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3 charged in shooting in which 4-year-old wounded
Police charged three people Tuesday in connection with the August shooting of a 4-year-old boy and his mother on the city's near southeast side.
Terrick T. Mackey, 19, Arsenio L. Purifoy, 17, and Drakaar L. Malone, 18, all of Rockford, were charged with aggravated battery with a firearm and attempted armed robbery. At the time of their arrests Tuesday, the three were already in the Winnebago County Jail on unrelated charges, Deputy Chief Greg Lindmark said.
A fourth suspect, Shamario A. Graham, 19, of Rockford, is still at large.
Early on Aug. 20, Chayse Maple was shot along with his mother, Tammy Dufoe, 30, in the parking lot of the Mobil gas station at College Avenue and Seminary Street, a location known for drug dealings.
Dufoe and her son were sitting in her SUV. Police said Dufoe was talking to someone standing outside her SUV when four men approached them. Words were exchanged, and Dufoe fled but not before shots were fired. Her son was struck in the head and she was hit in the arm. The four men fled in a vehicle that was later recovered by police.
Lindmark would not go into details about what led police to the three arrests.
"Information came in to us, and we followed up on that information." he said.
Chayse, who has undergone two surgeries, and Dufoe since have been released from the hospital. A third surgery for Chayse is scheduled for this week, said Matt Yarber, father of Chayse's older sister, 12-year-old Aeriel.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Graham is asked to call Rockford police at 815-987-5824 or Crime Stoppers at 815-963-7867.
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Officials Commit to Protect Women, Girls in Afghanistan
By Amaani Lyle
Source: American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, DC – In testimony before the House Armed Services Committee here April 25, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia vowed to quash discrimination and violence against women and girls in Afghanistan.
David S. Sedney told the House panel that DOD leaders recognize the challenges and successes in mitigating poverty, illiteracy, weak security and poor health that disproportionately affect Afghan women as the projected 2014 drawdown proceeds and security responsibility transfers to Afghan military members and police forces.
"Progress in Afghanistan has been great and greatest for women," Sedney asserted. "Since 2001, Afghan women's health, education, political participation have all increased enormously."
But that progress made over the last 11 years rests heavily on the basis of security, Sedney said.
"If the Afghan security forces fail, then the progress of Afghan women will fail as well," he warned. "Building that security, building the Afghan security forces remains the core mission of the Department of Defense in Afghanistan and will continue."
In a 2011 poll, the humanitarian organization ActionAid found that 86 percent of 1,000 Afghan women surveyed were concerned that a Taliban-style government could return after the drawdown. With troop drawdowns of about 33,000 members over the last 19 months and projected additional reductions of some 34,000 by February 2014, Sedney said the Afghan leadership has taken steps to meet human rights and equality challenges.
As the Afghan government takes a greater role in its security, it has enacted laws prohibiting violence against women, ratified the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, and put in place bureaucratic structures to implement that, he said.
Over the last eight years, Sedney added, the Department of Defense has invested approximately $40 million through the Commander's Emergency Response Program to fund more than 900 projects that specifically target the needs of women and girls in Afghanistan.
"More than a third of these [projects] were directly focused on improving the education of women and girls by repairing and building schools and women's centers, supplying education materials, and providing gender appropriate training programs," he said.
There are many International Security Assistance Force and Afghan government programs aimed at protecting women's rights and promoting women in the Afghan security forces, Sedney said. However, he acknowledged, implementation of a gender policy within the Afghan armed forces is a long-term project.
"Ensuring that this increased civic and political participation continues and improves is dependent upon effective rule of law," Sedney said, adding that Afghan women's participation in the justice system raises awareness and improves implementation of Afghanistan's laws and government Constitution.
Afghan women at the local level are gaining increased presence and visibility through the National Solidarity Program, Sedney said, and they constitute 24 percent of the participants in these local community development councils, which bring "real improvements in the lives of every day average Afghan women."
DOD efforts, he said, will continue to support women's security initiatives in Afghanistan through ISAF programs to develop Afghan National Security Forces and increased recruitment of women into the country's security forces.
"Many of the women who have benefitted the most from the progress … are most at risk." Sedney said. "They feel that they will be killed as a result of participating in the opportunities that we've helped bring them."
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Tell Me More of MRQ
In particular, I'm curious about the Second Age book, since, for the most part, my interest right now is very Glorantha-centric. Is it any good, both in terms of content and in terms of its playability as an alternate setting for the game? Deeply immersed in Third Age Glorantha as I am these days, I find it hard to imagine a better setting for a RuneQuest campaign, but I am nevertheless intrigued by the notion of playing during a time when the God Learners and Wyrms Friends were kicking around.
So, what say you?
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I am amazed and intimidated by the Second Age book for MRQ II. Amazed at its richness -- campaign ideas practically leap off every page -- and intimidated by its depth and complexity. It passes my main test for RPG background books, which is whether reading a page at random is interesting. It is also a bit intimidating, given the depth and complexity of the offering.ReplyDelete
The two main civilizations, the God Learners Empire and the Empire of Wyrm's Friends are also decidedly strange beasts, although the core motivations of the GLE are at least on their face rather Enlightenment/ Western in an odd way.
But I suppose a "United States of America" or a "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" will be pretty foreign concepts in few hundred or thousand years as well.
I remember having the board game "White Bear/Red Moon" (I think that was the name) that took place during the more ancient times of Runequest. Time of great heroism and legend and all that. Wonder if a copy of that ever comes up on Ebay?ReplyDelete
I played in a short 2nd Age game a while back. It was very mythic. I don't know if that was a function of the GM or the setting or the game. It was very "narrativist" (if I dare use that term), but there would be no reason it had to be. You could play straight fantasy hack & slash too.ReplyDelete
The Second Age book is not bad. Not bad at all. It has some insect men I don't remember seeing before and for some reason it has really good boxes of "How to play a only for a few race/culture. Apart from that it's quite good.ReplyDelete
Mind you, the 2nd Age books will make your eye bleed and you will cringe every time you pick them up because the terrible graphic design. Terrible case of "fontitis" and glaring colours.
The insides are quite fine, luckily.
Now I feel like breaking out my BRP tome and start a Gloranthan campaign!
Arrgh! I forgot that my odd use of brackets wold be interpreted as bad html...ReplyDelete
"really good boxes of 'How to play a this-or-that-race/culture' only for a few races/cultures."
I never dared to pick up any more 2nd age stuff. btw. I was scared of the covers...
I remember having the board game "White Bear/Red Moon" (I think that was the name) that took place during the more ancient times of Runequest. Time of great heroism and legend and all that. Wonder if a copy of that ever comes up on Ebay?ReplyDelete
WB&RM (which was later re-released by Avalon Hill as Dragon Pass actually takes place a few years after the default RQ setting -- the various RQ adventures and setting books all indicate "the present" as somewhere between 1615-1621 S.T. whereas the WB&RM game starts in 1625 (with the "Dragonrise"). The idea seems to have been to give PCs about 5-10 years of mundane adventuring time to work their way up to Rune-level status so that they could take up their place in the Hero Wars.
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I too broke down this past weekend and ordered both the MRQ2 core rulebook and the Glorantha second age setting book.ReplyDelete
So far I'm impressed, from skimming over them several times. I'll have to go through them more closely, to say anything more.
I strongly recommend picking up Blood of Orlanth and Dara Happa Stirs for a song on ebay as good examples of the sort of campaigns that could happen in the Second Age. They are both very rich in ideas and background as well as being solid adventures themselves. I run a Third Age campaign myself but am strongly tempted by a bit of time-traveling soon...ReplyDelete
It's much improved over Mongoose's original Gloranyha stuff, which I liked but did have a touch of the old Fodor's guide to it. The overall cultural organization and explanation is much easier to follow.ReplyDelete
Haven't had a chance to peruse the MRQII version of the Second Age Glorantha sourcebook yet, but various Glorantha sourcebooks for MRQ do a reasonable job of presenting the Empire of the Wyrms Friends and the God Learners.ReplyDelete
Although I think there is a problem that much of the work is drawn from the objects and legends that survived into the Third Age, which means that most of the things referenced in these books are at the mythic/heroic end of the scale, which are really above the normal level of Runequest play. Additionally, they tend to be a broad but shallow overview, rather than concentrating in detail on any small section. The big picture, in other words.
[As opposed to the old Chaosium RQ2 adventures that tended to examine a small area, such as Pavis, in great detail, and from the viewpoint of the attitudes towards things that might interest an adventurer.]
In other words, they are much more the product of a historian looking at the big picture that is the Second Age (or Uz or Mostali or...), than something that is capable of supporting adventure directly out of the box.
Hopefully later MRQII releases will change and we'll start getting less of the big picture (of interest to the Gloranthaphiles), and more of the basics.
Still, there are some interesting possibilities extant in the Age of Empires for play.
There is now a revised version of Glorantha Second Age for MRQII. It's in black and white and has character generation plus Draconic Mysticism in it. The first version was pure fluff and in colour, so I don't know which you have seen.ReplyDelete
I've been running G2A for best part of 2 years now, including the Blood of Orlanth campaign and having a great time. The three way dynamic allows for great stories and very cinematic set ups.
Plus you can have gonzo fun with God Learner explorer teams. I'm busy working up a campaign with the USS Prize Entry and its crew exploring new frontiers in the hero plane.
Second Age seems slightly more Moorcockian to me than 3rd age. That may or may not be a good thing depending on your preferences.


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Spokesman: House majority leader knew of Petraeus matter in October
November 12, 2012
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor knew in October about former CIA Director David Petraeus' involvement in an extramarital affair, a spokesman for the congressman told CNN on Sunday.
Doug Heye said Cantor, a Republican, was tipped to the information by an FBI employee. The congressman had a conversation with the official, described as a whistle-blower, about the affair and national security concerns involved in the matter, he said.
The New York Times reported Saturday that on October 31, Cantor's chief of staff phoned the FBI to inform the agency about the call between the congressman and the FBI official. The Times reported that Cantor learned of the whistle-blower through Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Washington.
A spokeswoman for Reichert told CNN on Sunday that the Times article was accurate but that the congressman had no further comment on his involvement in the case.
Petraeus resigned from the CIA on Friday after acknowledging the affair. He told Director of National Intelligence James Clapper about the situation on November 6, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official. Clapper then advised Petraeus to resign, the official said.
Petraeus' affair came to light when an FBI investigation looked into a complaint that his biographer, Paula Broadwell, was sending harassing e-mails to another woman close to the retired four-star general, a U.S. official told CNN on Saturday.
During the investigation, other communications surfaced between Petraeus and Broadwell, a married mother of two, according to the official.
A U.S. official said Sunday that Petraeus used a personal account to e-mail Broadwell and not his CIA account.
CNN has not been able to reach Broadwell for comment.
The official did not identify the woman who made the initial complaint and did not know the nature of her relationship with Petraeus.
The FBI interviewed Petraeus, said the official, who stressed that the CIA director was never the target of the investigation and his communications were never compromised. The official did not know whether Broadwell was interviewed.
The official could not say if the investigation is still ongoing. The Times reported that the investigation had already begun by the time Cantor talked with the whistle-blower.
Questions have arisen about why congressional leaders were not informed of the investigation immediately.
According to a congressional aide familiar with the matter, the House and Senate intelligence committees weren't informed that there was an FBI investigation into the situation until Friday.
"The committees are required to be kept informed of significant intelligence activities," the aide said Saturday. "If there was an official investigation that was looking, at least in part, at information that was compromising the CIA director, then I think there's a solid argument to say that the committee leadership should have been notified to at least some level of detail."
Petraeus' resignation comes days before he was scheduled to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee about the September 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The attack, in which four Americans were killed, became a point of contention during the presidential campaign.
Some have even suggested that the timing of Petraeus' stepping down is suspect, given the expected grilling in Congress. Acting CIA Director Michael Morell will testify instead.
CNN has confirmed that Petraeus was in Libya recently to meet with the CIA station chief to discuss the Benghazi attack and other issues.
"It just doesn't add up," Rep. Peter King, R-New York, told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley on Sunday. "You have this type of investigation. The FBI investigating e-mails, the e-mails leading to the CIA director, and taking four months to find out that the CIA director was involved. I have real questions about this. I think a timeline has to be looked at and analyzed to see what happened."
A senior U.S. official said Petraeus' departure wasn't connected to the Benghazi hearing.
"Director Petraeus' frank and forthright letter of resignation stands on its own," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic. "Any suggestion that his departure has anything to do with criticism about Benghazi is completely baseless."
Broadwell spent a year with Petraeus in Afghanistan interviewing him for the book she co-wrote, "All In: The Education of General David Petraeus."
His resignation Friday appeared to be an abrupt end to a spectacularly successful career in public service.
"After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours," Petraeus said in a letter to colleagues, explaining his decision to step down.
Before his nomination as CIA director, Petraeus was considered the nation's most well-known and popular military leader since Colin Powell.
He helped turn the tide against insurgents while commanding forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and literally wrote the book on counterinsurgency techniques by overseeing the development of the Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual.
Earning praise from both sides of the political aisle, the retired four-star general took the helm of the CIA in September 2011.
Petraeus, 60, and his wife, Holly, live in Virginia. They have two adult children.
— CNN's Pam Benson, Kate Bolduan, Carol Cratty, Terry Frieden, Suzanne Kelly and Jill Dougherty contributed to this report.


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NOAA: Global Warming Bringing 'Rapid Changes' to Arctic
WASHINGTON – The Arctic is under increasing stress from warming temperatures as shrubs colonize the tundra, changing wildlife habitat and local climate conditions, researchers said Wednesday.
Sea ice fell well below the previous record, caribou are declining in many areas and permafrost is melting, according to the annual update of the State of the Arctic report.
"The bottom line is we are seeing some rapid changes in the Arctic," said Richard Spinrad, assistant administrator for oceanic and atmospheric research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• Click here to read the latest Arctic Report Card from the NOAA.
And unlike Las Vegas, "what happens in the Arctic actually does not stay in the Arctic," he added, playing on a well-traveled slogan of the gambling mecca.
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Winter and spring temperatures were all above average throughout the whole Arctic, said James Overland of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle.
"This is unusual and looks like the beginning of a signal from global warming," Overland said in a telephone briefing.
If you go back 100 years, it would be warm in one part of the Arctic and cold in another, Overland said. "We're not getting that now."
Sea ice cover this year is 23 percent smaller than the past record low set in 2005 and 39 percent less than average, said Jacqueline A. Richter-Menge of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H.
She noted that the amount of older ice in the Arctic is significantly reduced, which makes it much more sensitive to change.
Vladimir E. Romanovsky of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, said the warming is affecting the permafrost in Siberia, Alaska and other regions.
"This similarity of very different regions shows the changes are not local, they are on at least a hemispherical scale," Romanovsky said.
Mike Gill, of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, said the largest declines in caribou are centered over Canada and parts of Alaska.
The herds are sensitive to changes in their range and sometimes have problems migrating in changing conditions, meaning that calving occurs before they get to new feeding grounds, resulting in higher mortality.
The tundra itself is "shrubifying," he said and the increased shrub cover over many regions affects habitat and local climate, since it tends to absorb more solar radiation.
The global goose population has been on the increase, he added, resulting in overgrazing in some areas.


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Happy 80/20 Day!
Italian economist, engineer and political activist Vilfredo Pareto was born on July 15, 1848, in Paris, where his father had fled due to political difficulties.
Pareto should be more famous, for his explanation of the 80/20 rule, and for his contribution to making better things, the Pareto chart. Many economic texts ignore his work almost completely. Quality management texts ignore his life, too — generally mentioning the principles they borrow, but offering no explanation.
His contributions, as accounted at Wikipedia:
A few economic rules are based on his work:
- The Pareto index is a measure of the inequality of income distribution.
- The Pareto chart is a special type of histogram, used to view causes of a problem in order of severity from largest to smallest. It is a statistical tool that graphically demonstrates the Pareto principle or the 80-20 rule.
- Pareto's law concerns the distribution of income.
- The Pareto distribution is a probability distribution used, among other things, as a mathematical realization of Pareto's law.
And now you, dear reader, having just skimmed the surface of the pool of information on Vilfredo Pareto, know more about the man than 99.99% of the rest of the people on the planet. Welcome to the tip-top 0.01%.
A mystery I attribute to low readership: I've posted much of this information before. In several years, not once has anyone criticized these posts as supporting fascism, the most common mis-directed criticism of Pareto.
- Biography at the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, at the Library of Economics and Liberty
- Note on the death of quality guru Joseph Juran (who is often credited with inventing the Pareto Principle, and don't you know there's some story there!)
- Player rankings in sports demonstrate the Pareto Principle, via Jennifer Ouelette


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Sunday, April 7, 2019
Let's Talk Trench.
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Same! Burberry is such a dream!Delete
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Yes girl you totally look so good in this trench! I love how on the east coast, it's fitting to wear trench coats and how New York's style is more sophisticated. I hardly have seen people wear much trench coats in Los Angeles (where I'm from).ReplyDelete
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Oh thank you so much hun!Delete
x Lisa
I love a classic trench coat, they will always be in fashion!ReplyDelete
Danielle xx
Absolutely :)Delete
x Lisa
This is one jacket that I don't own.ReplyDelete
Oh you need to get one!Delete
x Lisa
A lot of people have been wearing trench this season and I love everything about it. But if I have to buy I will go with a longer length.ReplyDelete
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I love a long trench :)Delete
x Lisa
Just gorgeous! I would love to invest in a mid-range camel trench. They're just so classic and pair well with nearly everything. Amazing post!ReplyDelete
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Thank you so much lovely!Delete
x Lisa
Can't go wrong with these classics. Lovely picks dear!ReplyDelete
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Thank you so much Jessica!Delete
x Lisa
I adore trench coats! I have at least a few in different colors. But this nude one you are wearing is amazing.ReplyDelete
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Thank you so much lovely!Delete
x Lisa
OOOO girl I love all of those options! I am obsessed with trench coats especially during the spring!ReplyDelete
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Thank you so much Jen!Delete
x Lisa
Absolutely love a good trench and I pretty much wear mine all spring long. Love it with dresses or my fave skinny jeans!! And LOVE all the ones you've rounded up here. Def could handle adding a black one to my collection!! Happiest long weekend!! xoReplyDelete
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YAY glad you agree girl!Delete
x Lisa
I love trench!ReplyDelete
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Glad you agree!Delete
x Lisa
Love both trench you styled! Simply stunning.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much lovely!Delete
x Lisa
Oh my gosh, I love the trench trendReplyDelete
Filipa xxx
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Thank you so much lovely!Delete
x Lisa
Ah I LOVE trench coat weather. It's such a wardrobe staple.ReplyDelete
So happy I can finally wear mine :)
x Lisa
You make every thing looks so elegant and timeless! Love these trench selections!!ReplyDelete
Oh you are so sweet!Delete
x Lisa
I love your coat choices. They all look classy and at the same time very chic.ReplyDelete


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Every now and then someone walks into a room, makes eye contact, a door to your heart opens and they walk right in. That's exactly what happened to me the morning of June 19, 2013 when I met Rocky Jones. It was a two way exchange, a soul encounter. I can count my in person exchanges with him on one hand, literally – three days of Art of Hosting training, two dinners – one with others and one in my home – what was to be the beginning of a next phase of important and difficult work in the world and now is a sum total of something that cannot be readily explained in words.
Carolann Wright-Parks, a friend and colleague near and dear to my heart, had persuaded Rocky to attend the first half day of an Art of Hosting training for African Nova Scotian facilitators on behalf of the Ujamaa board, to show support.
Even then, given his health, Rocky knew his time was precious. He gave thought and care to how best to devote his time, telling us fishing had a strong call on him. He came for the morning, participated in our opening circle, heard my good friend from MInnesota, Dave Ellis do a teach on World View (inspired by the work we are doing with Jerry Nagel of Meadowlark) and was inspired enough to clear his calendar for the next three days to participate.
His presence in my heart grew deeper roots the next morning when, as a group we were checking in to the day and this 71 year old man, a man who has seen and experienced much in his day, who shifted the shape of the world for so many in the province of NS and beyond, a legend in his own time, sat there in full humility marvelling at how much he does not yet know, how much he has to learn. He knew, like so many of us when we encounter the wisdom of ancient futurism alive in the Art of Hosting that here was something that when we practice it could shift the shape of how we show up together and just possibly could shift the shape of our most entrenched problems.
And he knew about entrenched problems having encountered them since the time he was twelve, as he describes in this TedTalk on Breaking Down Social Barriers. In our three days I watched him in his passion, curiosity and marvel as we shared frameworks for understanding he had never seen before and as he shared the history of African Nova Scotians making these frameworks come alive in his experience and the experience of the whole group.
I watched his incredulity at dinner one night in deep conversation with Roshanda Cummings a young woman from San Francisco who was on our hosting team about engaging youth, about how as a young Black woman, at times, she feels abandoned by her elders. He listened deeply, asking questions, trying to understand her experience and what he could learn that could help him invite youth in a way that they could find meaning and be supported in their journey too.
When the Art of Hosting was over, I couldn't wait for the next conversation we would be in, and the next, and the next – looking forward to learning from and with this man and to working with him. He reached out to me with a sense of urgency, wanting to find a time before I was on vacation and traveling again, thankfully, or it never would have happened.
At dinner in my home, we shared stories of journey, talked about the sense of soul connection. He said to me, "When I walked into that room, you really stood out." I paused for the briefest of moments and responded, "Well, I was the only white person in the room." We both laughed because we both knew that wasn't what he meant. Soul journeyers feeling the immediacy of connection.
He also said to me as we talked about a book he was in the process of writing with others, capturing the stories of his journey, "There isn't enough time." As I imagined the work of the coming months, I told him, "There is always enough time."
Turns out, he was right. I have no doubt he was sensing his path. And now he continues his work energetically in the spiritual realm. And his work on the physical realm will be continued by many who have been deeply inspired by him, his authenticity, integrity, impact and ongoing sense of journey.
I grieve deeply for a man I met for a few brief seconds of life, who impacted me deeply. I can only imagine the depth of grief of those who've known him longer and also the sense of celebration of a full life, a life worth living. I celebrate knowing him and I will carry him in my heart and soul journey in my own continuing exploration of race and racism and of changing the conversations to ones of community, healing, belonging and acceptance.
The ancestors live on in us. Rocky lives on in many.