Recent Tributes

The Tributes are the most recent stories and comments added to the memorial. To add a new story or comment, you may visit the Stories link in the main navigation.

  • 12/21/2009: New Story added: Barbara's Library

    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 continue to learn) what a wonderful person she is ...

  • 11/03/2009: New Story added: The Knowing

    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. She was always amused by shamanistic follies, and ...

  • 11/02/2009: New Story added: Dia de los Muertos, 2009

    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 gathering.

  • 09/17/2009: New Story added: Barbara carries the spirit of the next humanity

    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 you. Vic

  • 09/07/2009: New Story added: The ears of cybernetics

    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 scientist of all fields :-), I noticed that there ...

  • 08/31/2009: Peter Vogl added a comment to Barbara, Always Close

    Marnie, Thank you so much for sharing your story and photos of you with Mom in Maui. I saw Mom after she came back from Maui and was light on her feet, and absolutely glowing. She spoke very lovingly of you on many occasions, and hoped to share you ...

  • 08/31/2009: New Story added: American Society for Cybernetics

    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 official contribution was made in the main part through ...

  • 08/29/2009: New Story added: Barbara - my mother figure and a budding animal communicator

    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 more of my mother than anyone else I have ever met ...

  • 08/28/2009: New Story added: Shining

     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 babbling on about.  She seemed to have taken a ...

  • 08/28/2009: New Story added: Barbara, Always Close

    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 Geraldine Ferraro, of course. But Barbara’s ...

  • 08/27/2009: New Story added: A Zest for Life

    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 Barbara for a few years, there are ...

  • 08/27/2009: New Story added: full moon

    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, full is how i see you. much love for you julie ruiz

  • 08/26/2009: New Story added: "We must spend some time together soon..."

    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 of  the next time we'd bump into each other ...

  • 08/26/2009: New Story added: A Few Tears Finally Fall

    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 together on sustainability, education reform, cultural ...

  • 08/26/2009: Monica McGuire added a comment to Main Story

    It is just amazing how many different looks we can have! Especially the camping photo, but also the black and white photo sitting with the 3 kids on the couch, hardly look like Barbara at ALL to me! What a rich beauty she still is.

  • 08/26/2009: Monica McGuire added a comment to Meeting Barbara For The First Time

    Thank you, thank you for this GREAT story. I laughed so deeply, in fellow Sagittarian recognition of Barbara's frank way of asking whether she would be welcome to make a political comment!

  • 08/26/2009: Monica McGuire added a comment to Political Matriarchs and Patriarchs

    ...noticing their Botanical neighBorhood, Buzzing with Progressive, alliterative B's: Bill Beltram, Bill Belton, Bernice Belton, and Barbara!

  • 08/26/2009: New Story added: "The Universe Works!"

     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 to think it was a quality one may be blessed with ...

  • 08/24/2009: New Story added: Stuart's memories

     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 was a very positive and cheerful person, and she ...

  • 08/22/2009: New Story added: Every Thursday we will miss her

    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 through the door with a huge smile on her dear face. ...

  • 08/11/2009: New Story added: Dear Grandma

    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 just once, I could hear your soft, comforting ...

  • 08/08/2009: New Story added: Remembering Barbara

    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 colleagues. Our last email exchange was on March ...

  • 08/06/2009: New Story added: For my dear friend Barbara Vogl

    .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. With profound respect; Johanna Lor Rain Parry ...

  • 07/30/2009: New Story added: My Gram

    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 and give me a big hug and kiss. She would wear cozy ...

  • 07/28/2009: New Story added: Political Matriarchs and Patriarchs

    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 Bill Beltram, my father and mother Bernice and ...

  • 07/28/2009: New Story added: I’ll miss those conversations a lot.

    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 connection I felt with her and what she brought to my ...

  • 07/27/2009: New Story added: Barbara was an example of an evolutionary leader

    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 simposium. Barbara and I were also students of ...

  • 07/26/2009: New Story added: A Poem for Grandma

    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 day, grandma had commented on that tree. Below is ...

  • 07/22/2009: New Story added: Barbara was my Teacher

    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 young maiden still coming to grips with her own ...

  • 07/22/2009: New Story added: Meeting Barbara For The First Time

    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 Barbara's beautiful home in the hills above Santa ...

  • 07/21/2009: New Story added: I will miss our cheery exchanges and her constant encouragement of my endeavors.

    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 stay.”   Which I did, for a few days in ...

  • 07/20/2009: New Story added: I met your family as a group with Barbara as its leader

    .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:   Forty years ago John and I came to Santa ...

  • 07/19/2009: New Story added: Remembering Barbara

     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 politics, her kids, her health and the sad loss of ...

  • 07/19/2009: New Story added: What exciting news do you have?

    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 new ideas was boundless. I always left her feeling ...

  • 07/19/2009: Barbara's Kids added a comment to Grand Funk Barbara

    It just so happens that a couple months ago, I spoke with Mom about this experience and learned just how close we all came to not being here. For those not familiar with the physics of flight, the essential ingredient to successful flight is ...

  • 07/18/2009: Peter Vogl added a comment to Olivia's last visit

    Steve please post the photo of you and mom from this trip! You know, the one of you two sitting in the restaurant in Monterey. Thanks Bro!

  • 07/18/2009: New Story added: Grand Funk Barbara

    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 and father were practically the sole healthcare ...

  • 07/18/2009: New Story added: Olivia's last visit

    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 rememberances of that visit.  Mom was especially glad ...

  • 07/16/2009: New Story added: barbara is a precious friend

    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 so much, as so many people do. my feeling is that ...