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Ambrose Austin Breen

This is a place to collect stories and pictures, to share experiences, and remember Amby. Please direct any memories or images for posting to ethan.sletteland@gmail.com





This leap year

Posted by Rose at 9:09pm on Thursday the 9th of February, 2012

This leap year marks the first anniversary of Ambrose leaving us. Please take a moment on that day to recall a memory of him. Also please do something special for yourself, as he would want his friends and family to be good to themselves. Tell someone how cool you think they are, because life is too short to regret anything. Amby feared public speaking, but volunteered to give a speech on gay and lesbian rights, as well as racial equality. He was teased for the speech, but I never told him just how proud I was of him. But he had said those words to me for silly things. Please love all your life. There will never be another like him.



Posted by Aunt Kathy at 6:15pm on Monday the 1st of February, 2010
I am Amby’s Aunt Kathy. I know I have not been much of an Aunt at all to any of my brother-in-law Paul’s children. Please allow me to thank all of you for the loving memories of Amby that have been written. We were not blessed to have known him in our lives as we should have. I feel a tremendous burden of guilt for not having kept in touch with my niece’s and nephews after we left NJ. I remember a few trips we made to Maryland - - they were too funny especially watching the kids feed the chickens! Amby’s caring nature was evident back then! I remember Tim being that very serious and studious young man - - he liked History back then; Rose, you were so filled with laughter and joyful abandonment; Simon (will always secretly be pieman to Uncle Nocona and I) you were an amazing child- I loved being around you and your smile that just lit up the room; Julie had a quite strength and gentleness about her back then - - I know she was just a babe when I last saw her but the images I have in my memory of the times we were with all of you will never leave me. I liked Amby’s blond curls too - - they made me laugh especially when my son was blessed with lovely golden locks until he was like three. Please just let everyone know that they will always be in my prayers as has their mother for all these years! I know that Amby is with his Mother up in Heaven - - Janice was the best example of how you should be a mother. I never stop thinking about how great she was to her babies. I will always remember how she lovingly took care of the children and let them explore to their hearts content. She was a shining beacon of how to be the best mom in the world. After having read all the stories of Amby, I just can not help but think how much the two of them were alike. You all have been given a rare gift in having known Amby that I will always wish that I had. May God Bless all of you for your love and dedication to each other especially in times of duress. Your Aunt Kathy!



where he lives

Posted by Rose at 10:49pm on Friday the 6th of November, 2009

The last time I saw my brother his words were, \"Rose, this is the best visit yet.\"  But Amby comes in my dreams almost every night.  Amby loved music, and in the best songs, there he is.  That Radiohead song, Paranoid Android, he would listen to the music- fast forward to the beautiful part, and in that music I feel my brother raining down.  I hear and see him in music and in my dreams, and clutch to them and hold them close to me as I move on.  I don\'t just have memories of him.  He is present in everything beautiful. 



On my mind

Posted by Rose at 2:20am on Sunday the 6th of September, 2009

It does not hurt as bad as it did, just like Amby would have wanted.  I am only writing to address the lies about Amby\'s decision. Ask direct family member about him.  We all miss him still,  Keep the stories going.



to all my breen \"siblings\"

Posted by alaina at 6:09am on Friday the 13th of March, 2009

I\'m really glad to have all of you as part of my family and I love you all dearly. I want you guys to know that not a day goes by that I don\'t think about Amby. Sometimes the memories make me laugh, sometimes they make me cry (and sometimes both at the same time). He was as much my little brother as if we were blood relatives, and I feel lucky to have been a part of his life.

A decision like the one that Amby made was his choice and his choice only. Nothing-- not a fight, not forgetting to say I love you that one last time, not keeping in touch as much as we should, can in any way contribute to making a decision like that. 

Suicide is tragic in so many ways, and friends and family inevitably feel guilty and are filled with thoughts of \"What if?\". Please don\'t think that. It\'s ONE person\'s choice and no one else is in that persons head and knows their thoughts. Amby wouldn\'t want anyone carrying around guilt like that--he\'d want us all to remember his goofiness and laugh and be happy for the time we had with him. In our thoughts, he\'s standing there, hands on hips in Ambrose Pose, saying \"Oooh shoot!\" and waggling his finger and telling us to be happy and not have any What Ifs.

I love you all, Breens