well said, Andrew.
Thank you Stephen, for all the times you have brought her to us, and the summary of her life, a life so full.
Max
On 26/09/2012, at 5:24 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> That is sad, Stephen, but through you she did reach many lives beyond the
> shorelines of the Bay. I loved her wit and poetic replies to her son's
> interruptions. And I appreciated fully your love in transcribing them and
> sharing her with us. What a wonderful age to get to.
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> Andrew
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> On 26 September 2012 13:57, Glen PHILLIPS <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I offer condolences to Stephen and family.
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>> On 26/09/12 4:59 AM, "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> With inevitable sadness, yesterday afternoon my mother,
>>> Barbara
>> Mioore Vincent died at the age of 96. During the past few years, among
>>> many of
>> us here, she became known for her
>> proclivity to dictate her own
>>> poems, often improvising freely off the work of modernist writers such
>>> as
>> Joanne Kyger, Rexroth, Ginsberg, Levertov, Gertrude Stein and others whose
>>> works I would read
>> to her.Much of her out put
>> was published, most recently a
>>> group of poems in Eaoghıs issue on aging, edited
>> by Susan Schultz. For most of
>>> her public life, she was a politician, City
>> planner, and environmental
>>> activist in the San Francisco Bay Area, including being a founding
>> member of
>>> Save the
>> Bay. On the Richmond shoreline, the Barbara and Jay Vincent Park ,
>>> now part of the Federal Park
>> System, is a commemoration of the efforts of my
>>> parents to preserve the Bay
>> from industrial destruction. A graduate and
>>> veteran of many of this countryıs
>> 20th century natural, human and economic
>>> upheavals, she had an
>> incorrigible sense of honesty, bravery and sometimes
>>> humor in confronting the
>> reality of the various hands into which she was
>>> dealt. As not long after my
>> father dieed:
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>> January will open the horrible
>>> threat.
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>> February will break off a few of the wicked.
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>> March the winds will
>>> blow and frighten everybody.
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>> April will break my heart.
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>> May will come
>>> whisking through.
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>> June is hard to decipher.
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>> July will never stop to say
>>> hello.
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>> August is jolly and happy for people like me.
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>> September is hard to
>>> take.
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>> October is full of joy for very few.
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>> November marks the worst that
>>> could ever come.
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>> December for many itıs love and joy
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>> But not for
>>> me.
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>> Barabara Moore Vincent 1916 - 2012
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