[Oe List ...] :Kristen Knutson

[Judi White via OE]

May you feel  Peace at this time.

On Wednesday, June 7, 2017, Joan via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> I just returned from Monterey, CA where Kristen lived.  On Sunday Kyle,
> her brother; Frank, her father. Robert Moselle, her significant other and
> I went to the hospital where a group of doctors were there to meet us.  We
> had a private room together and the doctors spoke in understandable terms
> so we could clearly understand the process she was in and we got the
> information to make the decisions we needed to make.  It all started last
> Wednesday when she had had her big toe amputated, had flu-like symptoms
> with a high temperature. They found her on the floor in the hospital and
> thought it was a heart atteck as her heart stopped but she had had a
> massive stroke to the brain and the only option for her future was 24/7
> care in an institution.  So on Tuesday we gathered around her and had the
> machines turned off and let our precious girl go.  I brushed her hair.  She
> was wearing a piece of jewlery I had made her.  She was holding a drawing
> that Roxanne, the niece that she adored, had made for her. Kyle downladed
> her favorite music that we played,  We gave her a beautiful pink rose and
> white lily.  We sat around the bed telling "Kristen" stories.  She was
> ready to go so it didn't take her long.  Off she went on a whole new
> journey  Thanks for all your prayers and notes of support,  The hospital
> was the most beautiful places I have ever been and we strongly felt the
> support of the staff there at all times.  Joan
>
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> Sent: Wed, Jun 7, 2017 8:24 pm
> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] :Kristen Knutson
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> A moment, one breathes here. The next,  Mystery.
>
> I did not know Kristen. Yet I know Joan as love and deepest compassion.
> All that is is enough. Eternity.
>
> Blessings and prayers, dear family,
> Sunny
>
> Sunny Walker
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> Saving the planet is the most pressing moral issue of our time
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> On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:46 PM -0600, "Dawn Collins via OE" <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
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> As a Face Book friend and sharer of past history of Kristen I remember her
> fondly as a colleague and girlfriend to many, an edge music sharer, a
> politically astute progressive, an engaged participant in the
> conservation/sustenance movement and most of all a lovely spirit child of
> the Mystery.
>
> We leave her to the tender arms of the One Who Leads us on our journey
> into and out of an existence that calls us to be true to ourselves and to
> others:
>
> When I'm on my Journey there is no one there but me. When I'm on my
> journey there is no one there but me...
>
> With prayers of thanksgiving for the sweet occasions to contemplate the
> gift she was to her family, contemporaries and the world,
>
> Dawn Collins
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> We love the Source, because the Source loved us first.
> - 1 John 4:19
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> On Monday, June 5, 2017 2:33 PM, via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','oe at lists.wedgeblade.net');>> wrote:
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>
> I just spoke with Joan. She, Frank and Kyle Knutson, along with Robert,
> Kristen's long-time partner, have decided that, unless there is a miracle
> tonight, Kristen will be taken off of life support starting tomorrow
> morning. An MRI yesterday showed a massive stroke to the brain, and her
> excellent doctors see no way Kristen can survive.
>
> Joan sang to her this morning: "How could anyone ever tell you, your are
> anything less than beautiful? How could anyone ever tell you you are less
> than whole? How could anyone fail to notice that your loving is a miracle,
> how deeply you're connected to my soul?
>
> In the name of our Divine Mother in God,
> the Son in Jesus Christ,
> and the Holy Spirit
> Amen
>
> Jann McGuire
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