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Special thanks to each of our "vines" that continue the legacy each day, and
those who "remember" as a verb.
Sincerely,
Colby Kluthe, Director- Daniel McCree Foundation
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Remembering Ray (Cover Story) December 2011
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A Short Reflection on this months issue:
I guess in a sense, the monthly go-round of putting the monthly publication together is my version of throwing around some color. The inside joke has been that no matter how many times I "proof" an issue, there is always one glaring typo. And it has almost become a sense of questioning where it will be, and how it will make it's presence known. Those of you further down on the vine remember that Daniel often put typo's in his writing to prove a point. Perhaps the point is that perfection is something unattainable, or an even more benign method of simply saying "I'm still here". Either way this month's blunder would be none other than that I misspelled my own name... how about that :) I think the best and only thing to do is just call it out and allow it to be whatever it is.
Peace & Shalom,
Colby
A Short Reflection on this months issue:
I guess in a sense, the monthly go-round of putting the monthly publication together is my version of throwing around some color. The inside joke has been that no matter how many times I "proof" an issue, there is always one glaring typo. And it has almost become a sense of questioning where it will be, and how it will make it's presence known. Those of you further down on the vine remember that Daniel often put typo's in his writing to prove a point. Perhaps the point is that perfection is something unattainable, or an even more benign method of simply saying "I'm still here". Either way this month's blunder would be none other than that I misspelled my own name... how about that :) I think the best and only thing to do is just call it out and allow it to be whatever it is.
Peace & Shalom,
Colby
Sunday, November 27, 2011
World AIDS Day 2011 (ST. LOUIS) December 1st
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Come join us as we celebrate and remember the lives of those we have lost or who are living with HIV/AIDS. There will be memories told and a message of hope shared. During the service there will also be a candlelight vigil. Following the service there will be a time of fellowship with light refreshments provided by the Ezekiel Project HIV/AIDS Ministry Team.
Thursday, December 1, 2011, 7p
(service held at MCC of Greater Saint Louis)
1919 South Broadway
St. Louis, MO 63104
Speakers will include Doug Price and Colby Kluthe of the Daniel McCree Foundation.
Thursday, December 1, 2011, 7p
(service held at MCC of Greater Saint Louis)
1919 South Broadway
St. Louis, MO 63104
Speakers will include Doug Price and Colby Kluthe of the Daniel McCree Foundation.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Ray Henry Ulrich - A Story from our Vine
(Regarding the Loss of our Dear Friend Ray Henry Ulrich (aka Radio Jesus) You are truly a blessing from the vine.)
I really hadn't imagined that I would have spent some time this week adding a new section to the grapevine, but as a close friend put it so eloquently " fate is something that we can not escape. She is an evil witch and on occasion she rears her ugly head." I was blessed to have shared in exchange with Ray, and had found so many blessings in his sharing this great story with me almost 2 years ago. I am thankful that our paths crossed and know you a spirit I feel i know well. I am honored to republish your story again on Danny's Birthday. I know how much he loved each of the branches on his vine.
(VISIT RAYS BRANCH @DanielMcCree.Org)
-Colby
A story from RAY ~ a grape on the grapevine (March 2010)
A story from RAY ~ a grape on the grapevine
by Daniel McCree Foundation on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:09pm
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Published with permission of the author (Ray Henry Ulrich)
March 3, 2010 (12:15pm)
RAY (New Orleans, LA & St. Louis, MO)
I woke up this morning and found I had received this email from an old friend. All it said was, "holy sh#t. I didn't know he killed himself" and then it contained a link to Danny's (as I knew him) web site that, I think, you made for him in memorandum. I didn't know this until today and so it's hit me as though it just occurred. I lost another good friend the same way at the same time but I knew about that when it had happened. I wish I had known then that I had lost two.
I don't know if you would have ever heard of me but I knew Danny through some of his rougher moments. I'm the guy who he drove to New Orleans with the night before he began what would probably be his most difficult life stage. Danny and I had both been through a relationship with the same person, him after me, and so we had that in common.
They were abusive relationships in very similar fashions and so when Danny was coming out of it he and I became friends. I helped him to come out of that and I did everything I could to help him see clearly in that time because I knew from experience how hard that was and I knew exactly what he had gone through with that person.
When I decided to leave for New Orleans late on a Sunday night, Danny insisted he go with me. I often wish I had refused but at the time I wanted to take him far away from our ex, who was on a rampage. I won't go into (...) details but Danny was vulnerable and I should not have allowed certain things to take place. I was easily swayed by his cleverness and his looks. I think he was only really wanting validation that he deserved love. He did.
He was so young then and so wounded. He had come from one of the worst childhoods I had ever heard of. He shared it with me and I could not believe it. He had a lot of pain and a lot of anger then. I had also had a terrible childhood but hearing his made me stop complaining. Mine was nothing compared to his.
When we arrived in New Orleans, he started acting crazy. I didn't know him as well as I should have, perhaps. I didn't expect these things. He started disappearing for days and when he came back home he would tell how he had been sleeping with homeless people in train cars. We would tell him he was nuts for doing this when he had a place to go at night but he did it anyway. We fought a lot. He was violent sometimes, too. He hadn't really started the drugs yet, that I am aware of, but he had started engaging in some very worrysome behaviors and I knew him when he contracted HIV.
We had a particularly horrible night and me and our other roommates told him he had to leave. He had broken some windows and had tried to punch me. I was a lot taller than him and was able to hold him at arms length and he could never reach me to make real contact. I knew it wasn't really his fault. I knew he had issues and I suspect he had Bipolar Disorder (as do I) and I don't know if he ever did get treated. But he couldn't stay there and destroy the apartment and possibly injure people.
He left on foot for Texas to see a friend of ours and came back shortly to stay across the courtyard from us with a girl who was his friend. She took up for him a lot but when they lived together she experienced his volitile nature and also asked him to leave.
That's when we lost contact.
The next time I saw him was several months later and he had started his working with a magazine (not exp) and travelling and I was happy to see him calming down. He still exuded a frightening energy at the time but he was getting better. I remember playing a CD for him I thought he would like and he tried to take it. Not steal it but he just asked if he could have it. I said no.
Those were rough times. It was in 2001 and maybe into 2002. I stayed in New Orleans long after he disappeared and I heard little stories of him now and then.
When I came back to STL, I saw the ex again and he knew a little about Danny's whereabouts but not too much. He faded from my forethoughts but stayed always in my mind.
People always ask me if I hear from him and I didn't so I never had anything to offer them. Then today I receive this news, two and a half years later.
I'm having a very quiet, somber day.
I don't know why I am writing. Perhaps because you and I knew very different people in Danny. When I went to his site and read his work, I did not know this person. He wasn't really doing this stuff yet. He didn't make art. I think he kept a journal but not this. I see this writing and it's such a mature person, unlike the angry kid I knew. It makes me feel so sad.
Back then Danny had no idea who he was or what he wanted. Every time he would make a new friend he would start talking like them and he always wanted to be like them. He was very absorbant of people he felt, I imagine, had the key to the happiness he so wanted.
Now I see he had actually started to find himself and so it's all the more sorrowing that, along with himself, he didn't find the happiness he had hoped for.
You're right that he changed the lives of everyone he knew. He sure changed mine. If he and I had never met, I would never have gone to New Orleans. I would never have found MYSELF in my own journey and I would never have "arrived".
I loved Danny. I hated that he was so lost. I hated that his confusion had to result in still more agony in his life. He was dealt an extremely rough hand in life and, considering his starting point, he went so much further than most people do and it was in a much shorter period.
Today I keep thinking, "why would he do a thing like this?" as I am sure everyone else does.
I'm sorry to hear this. He has never left my thoughts. The night he left for Texas we went out and got so drunk and I cried like a baby. I was actually a little mad at him when he returned a week later because I wouldn't have cried like that if I had known I was going to see him again so soon. ha ha!!!
I had a lot of pictures of him from NOLA but I lost my album.
Thanks for reading and also thanks for keeping him alive.
I just felt like I had to write this.
-- From RAY
(contact editor@danielmccree.org for RAY's contact info)
Wed at 4:26pm · Delete Post
Daniel McCree Foundation --- cleverness LOL :) Daniel absolute in his clevernrss ! truly Diamond.
CK
(VISIT RAYS BRANCH @DanielMcCree.Org)
I really hadn't imagined that I would have spent some time this week adding a new section to the grapevine, but as a close friend put it so eloquently " fate is something that we can not escape. She is an evil witch and on occasion she rears her ugly head." I was blessed to have shared in exchange with Ray, and had found so many blessings in his sharing this great story with me almost 2 years ago. I am thankful that our paths crossed and know you a spirit I feel i know well. I am honored to republish your story again on Danny's Birthday. I know how much he loved each of the branches on his vine.
(VISIT RAYS BRANCH @DanielMcCree.Org)
-Colby
A story from RAY ~ a grape on the grapevine (March 2010)
A story from RAY ~ a grape on the grapevineby Daniel McCree Foundation on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:09pm
www.DanielMcCree.Org
Published with permission of the author (Ray Henry Ulrich)
March 3, 2010 (12:15pm)
RAY (New Orleans, LA & St. Louis, MO)
I woke up this morning and found I had received this email from an old friend. All it said was, "holy sh#t. I didn't know he killed himself" and then it contained a link to Danny's (as I knew him) web site that, I think, you made for him in memorandum. I didn't know this until today and so it's hit me as though it just occurred. I lost another good friend the same way at the same time but I knew about that when it had happened. I wish I had known then that I had lost two.
I don't know if you would have ever heard of me but I knew Danny through some of his rougher moments. I'm the guy who he drove to New Orleans with the night before he began what would probably be his most difficult life stage. Danny and I had both been through a relationship with the same person, him after me, and so we had that in common.
They were abusive relationships in very similar fashions and so when Danny was coming out of it he and I became friends. I helped him to come out of that and I did everything I could to help him see clearly in that time because I knew from experience how hard that was and I knew exactly what he had gone through with that person.
When I decided to leave for New Orleans late on a Sunday night, Danny insisted he go with me. I often wish I had refused but at the time I wanted to take him far away from our ex, who was on a rampage. I won't go into (...) details but Danny was vulnerable and I should not have allowed certain things to take place. I was easily swayed by his cleverness and his looks. I think he was only really wanting validation that he deserved love. He did.
He was so young then and so wounded. He had come from one of the worst childhoods I had ever heard of. He shared it with me and I could not believe it. He had a lot of pain and a lot of anger then. I had also had a terrible childhood but hearing his made me stop complaining. Mine was nothing compared to his.
When we arrived in New Orleans, he started acting crazy. I didn't know him as well as I should have, perhaps. I didn't expect these things. He started disappearing for days and when he came back home he would tell how he had been sleeping with homeless people in train cars. We would tell him he was nuts for doing this when he had a place to go at night but he did it anyway. We fought a lot. He was violent sometimes, too. He hadn't really started the drugs yet, that I am aware of, but he had started engaging in some very worrysome behaviors and I knew him when he contracted HIV.
We had a particularly horrible night and me and our other roommates told him he had to leave. He had broken some windows and had tried to punch me. I was a lot taller than him and was able to hold him at arms length and he could never reach me to make real contact. I knew it wasn't really his fault. I knew he had issues and I suspect he had Bipolar Disorder (as do I) and I don't know if he ever did get treated. But he couldn't stay there and destroy the apartment and possibly injure people.
He left on foot for Texas to see a friend of ours and came back shortly to stay across the courtyard from us with a girl who was his friend. She took up for him a lot but when they lived together she experienced his volitile nature and also asked him to leave.
That's when we lost contact.
The next time I saw him was several months later and he had started his working with a magazine (not exp) and travelling and I was happy to see him calming down. He still exuded a frightening energy at the time but he was getting better. I remember playing a CD for him I thought he would like and he tried to take it. Not steal it but he just asked if he could have it. I said no.
Those were rough times. It was in 2001 and maybe into 2002. I stayed in New Orleans long after he disappeared and I heard little stories of him now and then.
When I came back to STL, I saw the ex again and he knew a little about Danny's whereabouts but not too much. He faded from my forethoughts but stayed always in my mind.
People always ask me if I hear from him and I didn't so I never had anything to offer them. Then today I receive this news, two and a half years later.
I'm having a very quiet, somber day.
I don't know why I am writing. Perhaps because you and I knew very different people in Danny. When I went to his site and read his work, I did not know this person. He wasn't really doing this stuff yet. He didn't make art. I think he kept a journal but not this. I see this writing and it's such a mature person, unlike the angry kid I knew. It makes me feel so sad.
Back then Danny had no idea who he was or what he wanted. Every time he would make a new friend he would start talking like them and he always wanted to be like them. He was very absorbant of people he felt, I imagine, had the key to the happiness he so wanted.
Now I see he had actually started to find himself and so it's all the more sorrowing that, along with himself, he didn't find the happiness he had hoped for.
You're right that he changed the lives of everyone he knew. He sure changed mine. If he and I had never met, I would never have gone to New Orleans. I would never have found MYSELF in my own journey and I would never have "arrived".
I loved Danny. I hated that he was so lost. I hated that his confusion had to result in still more agony in his life. He was dealt an extremely rough hand in life and, considering his starting point, he went so much further than most people do and it was in a much shorter period.
Today I keep thinking, "why would he do a thing like this?" as I am sure everyone else does.
I'm sorry to hear this. He has never left my thoughts. The night he left for Texas we went out and got so drunk and I cried like a baby. I was actually a little mad at him when he returned a week later because I wouldn't have cried like that if I had known I was going to see him again so soon. ha ha!!!
I had a lot of pictures of him from NOLA but I lost my album.
Thanks for reading and also thanks for keeping him alive.
I just felt like I had to write this.
-- From RAY
(contact editor@danielmccree.org for RAY's contact info)
Wed at 4:26pm · Delete Post
Daniel McCree Foundation --- cleverness LOL :) Daniel absolute in his clevernrss ! truly Diamond.
CK
(VISIT RAYS BRANCH @DanielMcCree.Org)
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Celebrating the life of Ray Henry Ulrich
As Clair Janz mentioned, we are going to have a celebration of Ray's life.
The Koken Art Factory has opened up their doors to us on December 10th. Please spread the word. Brenda and I are putting together some of his favorite songs to perform that night.
Ray was a friend of Daniel's and supporter of the Daniel McCree Foundation. We shall join with family and friends in the celebration of this important spirit from our vine. He shall be missed.
To read his contributions to the foundation, (CLICK HERE)
A story from RAY ~ a grape on the grapevine
by Daniel McCree Foundation on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:09pm
A story from RAY ~ a grape on the grapevine
by Daniel McCree Foundation on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:09pm
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
We Love You Alisha Taylor
Colby Kluthe We recently "adopted" a fundraiser effort for We Love You Alisha Taylor, a mother of three who is battling with lung cancer in Springfield, Missouri.
Daniel McCree Foundation is happy to host a fundraiser page for them on one of our subdomains making it easy for friends and family to easily donate online.
Join the Alisha Taylor Family on Facebook!
Donations made from this page do not benefit Daniel McCree Foundation, but fund directly to the Taylor Family in Springfield, MO. And the designated administrators of this fundraiser efforts.
Daniel McCree Foundation - We Love You Alisha Taylor
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Daniel McCree Foundation for your mobile device / smartphone
Colby Kluthe:
perhaps a bit 'not necessary' but
Daniel McCree Foundation is now a bit mobile that is... fitting perhaps, but not 'necessary'
- Daniel McCree Foundation
for your mobile device / smartphone
Daniel McCree Art Gallery
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
The Day the Lights Went Out - July 23rd
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First off, I want to thank those of you who have made donations to the foundation in the past month. Through your efforts I was able to pull off our pride production of Art Prints,
AND thanks to a "vine" in Pasedena California, who secured the domain for another year through his donation.
(Fingers crossed) It should be presented for payment sometime this weekend.
FOUR YEARS and the vine continues to grow. Daniel always said he had roots that went deep, but how he knew much more than I did even then.
In observance this year, I will be "signing off" the internet and will remain internet silent throughout the day.
I have asked our fans and friends to simply visit his website on this day in my absence. Many of you may have received the event invitatation on Facebook, and I encourage you to invite those you know, as well as share a story about Danny, or anyone else you wish to remember this day.
Below is a copy of the EVENT INVITATION so you feel you have the full picture.
We are still about 8 days out, but I will go ahead and Also copy those we have already decided to keep in prayer and links to their memorial pages (if available).
AGAIN, thanks to each of you who have supported our endeavors over the past year, and I hope you will continue to do so as you feel lead.
Many Blessings,
Colby
First off, I want to thank those of you who have made donations to the foundation in the past month. Through your efforts I was able to pull off our pride production of Art Prints,
AND thanks to a "vine" in Pasedena California, who secured the domain for another year through his donation.
(Fingers crossed) It should be presented for payment sometime this weekend.
FOUR YEARS and the vine continues to grow. Daniel always said he had roots that went deep, but how he knew much more than I did even then.
In observance this year, I will be "signing off" the internet and will remain internet silent throughout the day.
I have asked our fans and friends to simply visit his website on this day in my absence. Many of you may have received the event invitatation on Facebook, and I encourage you to invite those you know, as well as share a story about Danny, or anyone else you wish to remember this day.
Below is a copy of the EVENT INVITATION so you feel you have the full picture.
We are still about 8 days out, but I will go ahead and Also copy those we have already decided to keep in prayer and links to their memorial pages (if available).
AGAIN, thanks to each of you who have supported our endeavors over the past year, and I hope you will continue to do so as you feel lead.
Many Blessings,
Colby
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Russel Austin Mueller, 18, of Belleville, Ill., born June 15, 1991, died Wednesday, May 5, 2010, after a courageous battle with depression. Austin attended Whiteside Elementary School, Belleville East High School, and currently attended S.W.I.C. He was a ...member of the honor society Phi Theta Kappa and STRIDE. He was always an excellent student and also an amazing artist. He was preceded in death by his grandfathers, Miron Mueller, Mike Evansco Jr., and James Becker. His gentleness and kindness will be missed by all who loved him.Page: 65 people like this.
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