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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Posted by Aunt Kathy at 6:15pm on Monday the 1st of February, 2010 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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