Stories about Barbara
This is where you will be able to tell the stories of your loved one. Friends and family can share entire chapters or just a few words about the departed.
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Barbara's Library
December 21, 2009
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I am very pleased to be part of moving Barbara's library to the Independent Media Center in Urbana, IL. As part of this process, I was just editing some text about her, and was happy to remember (and ...
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The Knowing
November 3, 2009
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Thank you Lee, Vic, and Lucas for your thoughts, insights, and reflections. I can't help but think as Mom made her recent journey she left bread crumbs not to find her way, but for those to follow. ...
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Dia de los Muertos, 2009
November 2, 2009
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Here in San Francisco all kinds of people celebrate Dia de los Muertos together — the Mexican holiday honoring the people who have died. I brought a picture of Barbara to this year's ...
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Barbara carries the spirit of the next humanity
September 17, 2009
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Barbara, May your spirit be with us as those of us back here on Earth journey through the trials of a creating a conscious human transformation. Sending my love to you and your family. I will miss ...
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The ears of cybernetics
September 7, 2009
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One of Barbara's most fascinating skills was her art of listening. Long before I got know that she had actually virtually every important thinker in California and probably most of the important ...
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American Society for Cybernetics
August 31, 2009
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For the past 15 years, Barbara Vogl made a vital and important contribution to the health of a humanistic approach to cybernetics, both through her work, and by being who she was. Her ...
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Barbara - my mother figure and a budding animal communicator
August 29, 2009
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I had two key connections with Barbara in life that I will always remember with great fondness and interest, as well as an ongoing connection with her in the afterlife. 1) Barbara reminded me ...
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Shining
August 28, 2009
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Barb and I met through an academic organization that we both belonged to. The thing I remember most about our first conversation was her unfaltering interest in whatever it was i was ...
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Barbara, Always Close
August 28, 2009
Barbara In the summer of 1984, I was working on an unusual political campaign. Barbara Marx Hubbard was running for Vice President of the Democratic party. Yes, VICE president, along with ...
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A Zest for Life
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August 27, 2009
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We first met Barbara when our son Craig became engaged to Barbara's grand daughter Sara. She immediately made us feel welcomed into the family. Although we only knew ...
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full moon
August 27, 2009
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everytime there is a full moon i think of you. your joy your smile your zest for life. you, your soul is forever alive. thank you for the teachings, thank you for the view, of your life on earth, ...
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"We must spend some time together soon..."
August 26, 2009
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I'm so sad to just now be hearing of Barbara's passing. I'll miss her so--and only now realize how long its been since we'd been in touch--as if she would just always be somewhere nearby--sure ...
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A Few Tears Finally Fall
August 26, 2009
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I knew Barbara most of the 12 years I have lived in Santa Cruz, since she was another great person I met through my wasband, Vic Desotelle. We started a lasting friendship with great work ...
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"The Universe Works!"
August 26, 2009
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There is a quality in my own mother which I have come to cherish, whereby she will come fully present with me when I am profoundly engaged (hard or joyous) with something of magnitude. I came ...
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Stuart's memories
August 24, 2009
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I met Barb at 2 or 3 ASC conferences, and we corresponded about articles for the newsletter Patterns. I do not believe I knew her well, but I always enjoyed our interactions. She ...
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Every Thursday we will miss her
August 22, 2009
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My husband and I have had the great pleasure of knowing Barbara since October 2007. We became friends immediately. She came to our home each Thursday which we looked forward to. She always came ...
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Dear Grandma
August 11, 2009
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Dear Grandma, Everyday I look up into the blue sky and think about you. Every night I pray to you, asking to just to see you or talk to you one more time, just so I could say good-bye.Or ...
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Remembering Barbara
August 8, 2009
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Alexander and I met Barbara in the early 90s in the context of the annual conversations of the International Systems Institute (ISI) in Asilomar. We immediately bonded and remained friends and ...
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For my dear friend Barbara Vogl
August 6, 2009
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.hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } From 80 To Infinity For my dear friend Barbara Vogl, for her 80th Birthday. ...
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My Gram
July 30, 2009
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I miss you. What first comes to mind is when I would come over every week and help out or cut her hair. When I walked in the door she would have a big smile on her face and she would come over ...
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Political Matriarchs and Patriarchs
July 28, 2009
I've been Barbara's neighbor for nearly 20 years. I live on the same road, Glen Haven, as she did. The road was, for so long, the haven of quite a few political families. Elsie and ...
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I’ll miss those conversations a lot.
July 28, 2009
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Dear Pat and Pete: I’ve been reading pieces of emails and notes about your mother. I wasn’t privileged to know Barbara for many years but that didn’t seem to diminish the ...
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Barbara was an example of an evolutionary leader
July 27, 2009
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Hi Pat, I heard the sad news of your mother Barbara passing away. I knew Barbara through our participation in several communities of learning and transformation, such as the ISSS and the ATD ...
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A Poem for Grandma
July 26, 2009
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When my mom told me about a flower that had magically appeared at the bottom of an dying tree outside of their house, it touched me deeply. Just a few weeks earlier, when I was visiting for father's ...
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Barbara was my Teacher
July 22, 2009
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Barbara was one of my three teachers at The Workshop, an alternative high school in the San Lorenzo Valley in the 70's. We had Dick Harrah, Yale educated and rambunctious, Sharon Gladden, a ...
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Meeting Barbara For The First Time
July 22, 2009
Six years ago Bill and I travelled to Santa Cruz to meet our son's future inlaws, Pat and John Bakalian. Damian and Kelly were to be married in August of 2003. John and Pat took us to ...
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I will miss our cheery exchanges and her constant encouragement of my endeavors.
July 21, 2009
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Barbara and I had a delightful first connection at the ASC annual meeting in Vancouver in May 2001. She said to me then “If you ever have the chance to be down my way please come to ...
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I met your family as a group with Barbara as its leader
July 20, 2009
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.hmmessage P { PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } BODY.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana } Dear Pat, Peter and Steve: ...
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Remembering Barbara
July 19, 2009
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Dear Pat & John and other family members, Barbara was one of my "Spa buddies" . We had long lefty conversations in the locker room, walked out to the parkinglot talking about ...
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What exciting news do you have?
July 19, 2009
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Barbara always approached my husband Gary and i with a question. She wanted to know what was energizing us, or what new ideas we were exploring. Her enthusiasm and openness to learning and sharing ...
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Grand Funk Barbara
July 18, 2009
One of the many stories our mother told as we grew up, and one that quite frankly inspired my look skyward, took place in Bowman, South Dakota shortly after the end of WWII. My mother ...
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Olivia's last visit
July 18, 2009
In April of 2008, I thought it was time that my daughter, Olivia, visit "Ahmma" again. Living on the East Coast, we don't get out there often. So, here are some photo ...
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barbara is a precious friend
July 16, 2009
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barbara is a precious friend and a fellow member of womenRise for global peace. we celebrated her on monday evening and will continue to celebrate her extraordinary presence in our lives. i love her ...