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Re: I'm Devastated R.I.P. - NileRodgers.com

shelleytaylor — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 06:18:51 -0000

Nile, we met at IMS last year (I told you about our digital fan clubs). I love your smile! But I know how hard it is to keep smiling through hard times. I lost my son and only child 5 years ago so I know loss and death intimately. I write my way through hard times (www.bruisedandbattered). It seems you do too. We have to do something, and smiling helps. But there are just those bad days. I am so sorry for the loss of your aunt. I'm sure that wherever she is she would be giving you a big hug. I hope you can get up out of bed soon, find your energy and your joy. We need you in this world. Each one of us who struggles and lives to show others how we can keep smiling helps us all. love.

Re: The Stigma of Suicide

shelleytaylor — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 03:12:06 -0000

Anger is the appropriate emotion in the face of stupid and cruel
comments made by people who do not have a clue. As you know I do not
know how my son died. I don't want to know. I know or believe it was an
accident, but it could have been suicide... Who knows (well someone
does, but I don't want the image that you have in my head, I choose not
to imagine his last moments)... I just know that I wish I'd been with
him. I wish I had reached him on one of the 10 times I called him that
last day when he was alive and well. We think it was our job to protect
our children but being a good mom, a really healthy mom, means preparing
them to be adults and to take responsibility of themselves. You are a
great mom! Lala was an amazing girl from everything I see. There should
be no shame in her death - because you did the absolute bst you could
and so did she. I do hope that in the future there are more
sophisticated ways of balancing brain chemistry so that a wave of
chemicals can no long move a person to suicide. This is what taking your
story to the streets is all about. There might be a better future for a
different mom if we learn more about the brain, this disease. And
beyond all of that, there is something so powerful (I won't say healing
because I don't think moms who lose children ever heal) about coming out
so honestly about all of this. It has its own kind of wave, and those
of us who read you cannot help but be swept along by your passion and
your justifiable anger... it will help us all look for solutions for
other would-be Lala's and Shaye's. xxx

Re: Run away to Ross Lake Resort

shelleytaylor — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:25:00 -0000

I remember hearing about this place from Gary. It sounds so lovely. My roots are in the northwest, but I have been so far away for so long... in London and other European cities. But I stumbled on this and was reminded of how great the nature is out there. I miss it.