My 1st Mate
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Charlotte Foxtrot
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I'm not surprised to hear there were so many supportive folks in physical attendance who added to the virtual support found here. From the feelings exhibited by this thread, I'm sure Cyn was as warm and loving a person as Fred is.
You're still in our thoughts and prayers. Take good care and know good thoughts and support are still headed your way.
Charlotte
You're still in our thoughts and prayers. Take good care and know good thoughts and support are still headed your way.
Charlotte
Ozee Adventure
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I didn't quite comprehend the magnitude of your loss until I watched my mother slowly die this past week. Watching my father lose his wife of 50 plus years is and was the hardest thing I have ever witnessed. I just wanted to say thank you for this thread as it has helped me deal with things and given me an insight as to what my father is/will be going through.
Vivian
I didn't quite comprehend the magnitude of your loss until I watched my mother slowly die this past week. Watching my father lose his wife of 50 plus years is and was the hardest thing I have ever witnessed. I just wanted to say thank you for this thread as it has helped me deal with things and given me an insight as to what my father is/will be going through.
Vivian
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Hi all, just checkin in. Been hard to try to get back in the saddle and ride, but life goes on! There are good days and bad. the smallest things trigger the brain and the tears flow. I have spent some time in the north of Wisconsin, and trying to get Hasten set for launch. She goes in Thursday, I look foward to getting out on the water.
Something strange happended to me the other night, and it shook me up a little. I had a dream that I was laying down with Cyn and she was asking about my day? What I had done, ect... I had spent most of it going over options of where to put her 401k and how to invest it. This dream was every real, as I started to wake I became aware that I was holding her hand in bolth of mine and that she was standing over the side of the bed. Her hand was hot to the touch and I knew it was her hand from the hours I had spent holding it. I tryed to pull her to me 4 times , but could not move her. I tryed to open my eyes , but could not it was like they were glued shut. I felt that I was now awake and still the feeling that she was with me. As I got my eyes open she was gone, but I was sitting up in bed with bolth arms streached out to the left and clasping one another.
Some will say that I just had a dream, I think she visited me. It left me a bit shakenat the time ,but comforted noe to know sheis ok and looking out for me.
Take care, and hug some one you love!
Fritz
Something strange happended to me the other night, and it shook me up a little. I had a dream that I was laying down with Cyn and she was asking about my day? What I had done, ect... I had spent most of it going over options of where to put her 401k and how to invest it. This dream was every real, as I started to wake I became aware that I was holding her hand in bolth of mine and that she was standing over the side of the bed. Her hand was hot to the touch and I knew it was her hand from the hours I had spent holding it. I tryed to pull her to me 4 times , but could not move her. I tryed to open my eyes , but could not it was like they were glued shut. I felt that I was now awake and still the feeling that she was with me. As I got my eyes open she was gone, but I was sitting up in bed with bolth arms streached out to the left and clasping one another.
Some will say that I just had a dream, I think she visited me. It left me a bit shakenat the time ,but comforted noe to know sheis ok and looking out for me.
Take care, and hug some one you love!
Fritz
MikeR
Super Anarchist
Nothing strange about that at all Frtiz. It's all a normal part of what you're going through.
After my father succombed to cancer I had an incredibly vivid dream of him in which I could even smell fresh cut lawn (we were outside at our home in Canada). I awoke 100% convinced I was standing in front of him, as I was in the dream, on that lawn, but I was on the other side of the world and he was gone. It tore me apart at that moment as I realized I was dreaming but I regularly recall it with feelings of warmth and love for him (it was a good dream)... that was 14 years ago and I can still recall the entire dream in detail.
I pondered the spiritual side of it for a long time and considered that he had "visited" me to say goodbye. The whole conept of afterlife and reincarnation come into play tremendously when you are grieving. I am convinced a person's spirit remains with us in some form. Perhaps your dream was Cyn's spirit offering you comfort. Remember it and enjoy recalling it for years to come.
And enjoy your launch and time back on the water...
Ozee Adventure
Super Anarchist
I was hoping you were off doing sailing things 
RtWL
Anarchist
The community banded together to honor Cyn this past weekend at Louie's 10th Last Regatta. Over $32,000 dollars was given in her memory and to put her name on the Maggie Bersch Memorial Trophy for top fundraising boat. Fred said it was her goal to have her name on the trophy and raise money for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. It was an incredible sight to see all of those people come together for Cyn and make it happen.
Cyn is up there with Maggie smiling down on all of us.
Cyn is up there with Maggie smiling down on all of us.
hellion
Super Anarchist
That is wonder-full news.
Grinder
Super Anarchist
Kickass!
Bowgirl
Super Anarchist
Somewhere there's one more smiling angel. Way to go Cyn, what a legacy!
NACRADUDE
Super Anarchist
Excellent news. I'm sure she would be pleased at those results.
Take care.
Take care.
Point Break
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Sionna
Member
Sending good thoughts your way.
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The 12th annual Louie's Last Regatta and fundraiser for Children's Hospital is set to sail September 25, 2010!
Fritz and Hasten will be sailing and askins for donations for the kids,
Louie's is one of the nation's largest fund raising regattas. It is a fun filled weekend of sailing and fund raising for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Held off the Milwaukee shoreline in the summer warmed waters of Lake Michigan, Louie's attracts hundreds of boats and thousands of sailors and fans to the Milwaukee sailing/fund raising scene.
I can't really put into words how significant this fund raiser is to me, but I think it's important that you understand how much your donations have meant and continue to mean to me.
Above all the regattas I race each year, this one has the most personal significance to me and I look forward to it with great emotion and a heart overflowing.
As most of you know, my wife Cyn and I never had children of our own. We saw this fundraiser for Children's Hospital as a way to give of ourselves and express our love to sick and injured children.
We dedicated ourselves to this cause since 2003. I will always look back on those years with pride in what we were able to accomplish as well as with loving memories of participating in this event with my beautiful and loving First Mate. Likewise, my heart and eyes overflow with the memory of the outpouring of generosity from all those who loved her and donated in her honor the year her ship set sail. Indeed, because of this, her name is forever inscribed on the coveted Maggie Bersch Memorial Trophy. Her dream became a reality because of your generosity. I can't thank you enough, or truly express how much that continues to mean to me.
As a tribute to Cyn, I have included her words, written in 2007, her last Louie's Last.
"Children are full of wishes, hopes and dreams. Their faith in the future can be unshakable and their wishes come in all shapes and sizes: a new puppy or a baby brother; a heart that works right or leukemia that goes away; families who treasure them. Children's Hospital works on many fronts to fulfill those wishes: state-of-art medical care to help heal children today and research to heal children in the future; medical education to ensure there always will be doctors and nurses who know just what to do for children, and advocacy programs to be sure that others, like parents, do too."
Help us grant some of those wishes with your donation to CHW. You too can make wishes come true!
I will continue to participate in and promote this regatta in living memory of Cyn and for the children she so loved.
Please help me in my continued dedication to raising money for Cyn's favorite cause, Children's Hospital, in her memory and honor and with her ever-continuing love.
With true gratitude and love,
Fred Stritt, Captain of Hasten (Hey, Cyn!)
Please visit our first giving page
Thanks Fritz
For more information about Louie's Last Regatta and what it means to the kids, please click on: http://www.louieslastregatta.com
Fritz and Hasten will be sailing and askins for donations for the kids,
Louie's is one of the nation's largest fund raising regattas. It is a fun filled weekend of sailing and fund raising for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Held off the Milwaukee shoreline in the summer warmed waters of Lake Michigan, Louie's attracts hundreds of boats and thousands of sailors and fans to the Milwaukee sailing/fund raising scene.
I can't really put into words how significant this fund raiser is to me, but I think it's important that you understand how much your donations have meant and continue to mean to me.
Above all the regattas I race each year, this one has the most personal significance to me and I look forward to it with great emotion and a heart overflowing.
As most of you know, my wife Cyn and I never had children of our own. We saw this fundraiser for Children's Hospital as a way to give of ourselves and express our love to sick and injured children.
We dedicated ourselves to this cause since 2003. I will always look back on those years with pride in what we were able to accomplish as well as with loving memories of participating in this event with my beautiful and loving First Mate. Likewise, my heart and eyes overflow with the memory of the outpouring of generosity from all those who loved her and donated in her honor the year her ship set sail. Indeed, because of this, her name is forever inscribed on the coveted Maggie Bersch Memorial Trophy. Her dream became a reality because of your generosity. I can't thank you enough, or truly express how much that continues to mean to me.
As a tribute to Cyn, I have included her words, written in 2007, her last Louie's Last.
"Children are full of wishes, hopes and dreams. Their faith in the future can be unshakable and their wishes come in all shapes and sizes: a new puppy or a baby brother; a heart that works right or leukemia that goes away; families who treasure them. Children's Hospital works on many fronts to fulfill those wishes: state-of-art medical care to help heal children today and research to heal children in the future; medical education to ensure there always will be doctors and nurses who know just what to do for children, and advocacy programs to be sure that others, like parents, do too."
Help us grant some of those wishes with your donation to CHW. You too can make wishes come true!
I will continue to participate in and promote this regatta in living memory of Cyn and for the children she so loved.
Please help me in my continued dedication to raising money for Cyn's favorite cause, Children's Hospital, in her memory and honor and with her ever-continuing love.
With true gratitude and love,
Fred Stritt, Captain of Hasten (Hey, Cyn!)
Please visit our first giving page
Thanks Fritz
For more information about Louie's Last Regatta and what it means to the kids, please click on: http://www.louieslastregatta.com
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Not sure if Im doing this right =, but I think this will get you to the first giving site. Thanks for any and all help.
"The link to the Team Hasten pledge site is: http://www.facebook.com/l/59a12;www.firstgiving.com/fredstritt" Please sponser our team or another team it don't mater, the kids will win!
"The link to the Team Hasten pledge site is: http://www.facebook.com/l/59a12;www.firstgiving.com/fredstritt" Please sponser our team or another team it don't mater, the kids will win!
