Casey Brooks Memorial Bench

02/02/2024

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 A Celtic blessing by John O’Donohue that Casey’s classmate friend shared , saying she thought there was something really special about it. ( I had to agree) :

On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble,

may the clay dance to balance you.

And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets into you,

may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green,
and azure blue, come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean blackens beneath you,

may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,

may the clarity of light be yours,

may the fluency of the ocean be yours,

may the protection of the ancestors be yours.

And so may ~~~a slow wind ~~~
work /weave these words of love around you,

an invisible cloak , to mind your life.

01/14/2024

Hello 🔵 It's official, signed at 14:24. It even came on tv.
Mine really turned blue. Don't forget, the new Facebook rule starts tomorrow (aka... new name META) where they can use your photos. Don't forget the deadline is today!!! I do not give Facebook or any company affiliated with Facebook permission to use my past and future photos, information, messages or posts.
With this statement, I inform Facebook that it is strictly forbidden to publish, copy, distribute or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The violation of privacy can be punished by law.
NOTICE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must publish such a note.
Whoever wants can copy and paste this version. Failure to post a statement at least once will be tacitly allowing the use of your photos, as well as information in profile and status posts.
Hold your finger anywhere in this message and copy will pop up. Click the copy button. Then go to your page, create a new message in “What’s on your mind” and put your finger anywhere in the blank field. "Paste" will appear and click Paste.
This will bypass the system....
He who does nothing agrees.
(Better to be safe and post this than be sorry later)
Just in case…..

11/19/2022

Sad to see all the broken glass, bottles caps, cigarette butts up in and around that special space. If you want to honor Casey's memory, and you happen to be visiting her memorial bench, please bring a baggie or trash bag and pick up a few pieces of stuff the very unconscious self-centered folks have decided was a good idea to leave there. For whatever reason they have. Yesterday we picked up many pounds of broken bottles and it looks SO much better now. It was weighing heavily on me. The Rec Center crew had been doing a good job but things haven't been cleaned as much as before. Maybe staffing cutbacks? Who knows. But, please do us all a solid and help us keep the area clean and relaxing for all who visit. THANK YOU

01/26/2019

In four days it will be 11 years since anyone
last saw her face 💔

05/09/2017

Photos over these many years

05/09/2017

Bringing Easter lilies for Casey Brooks, Mark Whitmer and Bob Bittens

12/22/2016

http://mtc.ca.gov/whats-happening/news/photo-gallery/golden-gate-bridge-su***de-barrier-renderings

01/31/2016

01/08/2016

Well, there are two new metal benches there now, but the one for Casey hasn't been rededicated yet. Seems that NIMBY and people not wanting to be reminded about mental disorders and su***de does exist and needs to be healed. Friends, make sure when you go there to see that others are respecting the neighbor's properties and that no one is being an ass hat, because there has been a rift with the neighbors who say they have seen rowdy partying, trashing the grounds, not to mention s*x going on up there. It is closed to "the Public" after sundown.. Many the forces of good surround this area..

10/01/2015

We have news that her bench will be replaced, and a second memorial bench will also be installed. There is going to be a neighborhood rally and dedication/ceremony for the district, and we will do a additional personal one . Will post more info on date, time when I know something.. Right now the benches are ordered from the manufacturer.

09/03/2015

Sad to report that at the moment, the bench is not there, due to vandalism of sorts. A person decided that it was attracting " hooligans" and thought that they could just tear it out of the ground and drag it down the hill and dump it there. It's beyond my understanding how a person could think it was ok to go on property not belonging to them, and destroy a memorial bench put there by the community of Casey's friends. I will post more info as we recieve it. We want the bench to be put back there by the person who tore it down, at at their expense. All that is left of the original bench that the participants paid several hundred dollars for, is the bronze plaque, which clearly shows it's a memorial bench..

08/13/2015

Casey's Memorial bench is not there at the moment. We had no notification. Hopefully it's being refurbished and will be returned soon.