You do not know me as I have never posted to this newsgroup before. I did
not know of its existence until today (surfin' the web instead of
working!). Please forgive me for not knowing any of your jargon.
I am posting this now, because I want you to know that my daughter Elanor
attended her first gathering last July in Oregon and you may have met her:
tall, slender, dressed like Janis Joplin, almost waist length brown hair,
large diamond shaped tatoo in the middle of her back. She would have
pronounced her name as "Eee-LAY-nor." She telephoned a friend while she
was at the gathering and told her friend that she, Elanor, was "the
happiest chick in the world." I gather she had found a group a free
spirits much like her.
If you did meet her or know her, then I am afraid I have some very sad
news to report. Elanor was killed in a car wreck in Arizona while
returning to Texas from the gathering. I guess she has now gone to
another and grander Rainbow Gathering. May we all join her in some future
and better world.
"It is beautiful to have been alive while [she] was alive."
-Pablo Neruda
-- Elliot Richmond PhD candidate in Science Education The University of Texas at Austin