Spring/Summer 2014: In Memoriam

 

 

Tributes and obituaries may be sent to “In Memoriam” to coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre_at_gmail(dot)com. Please provide a photo.

 

Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart (May 27, 1948 – May 13, 2014)

 

Born as Diana Moore, subsequently known as Morning Glory Ferns, Morning Glory Zell and briefly Morning G’Zell, was a Neopagan community leader, author, lecturer, and priestess of theChurch of All Worlds. An advocate of polyamory, she is credited with coining the word. With her husband Oberon Zell-Ravenheart she designed deity image. (Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_Zell-Ravenheart)

 

“My beloved has passed beyond the veil. She drew her final breath at 5:42 yesterday afternoon. Her handmaidens, students and priestesses prepared her body and dressed her in her beautiful Sea Priestess robes. She is now lying in grace in the Temple for a few days until we take her body to its final resting place in the Earth. It’s been an incredible week–grief and joy intermixing like a lava lamp. So many beautiful loving people gathered around, taking care of everything. That’s all I can really say right now…I can barely see to type.” – Oberon Zell – (Facebook Page posting, May 14, 2014)

 

Tribute: http://wildhunt.org/2014/05/morning-glory-zell-1948-2014.html

 

from Oberon Zell:http://www.gofundme.com/6fa3bk

 

Goddess legacy project: http://www.gofundme.com/8b7sig

 

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Howard Bert Schwartz (May 6, 1943- Feb. 26, 2014)

Howard passed away in his long-time Oakland apartment while a friend read him mystic poetry, ending a long confrontation with liver cancer, heart disease, and chronic digestive problems. He was a long-time member of the folk club who frequently attended the Friday night sessions at Faith’s. He was well known for his ability to play accompaniment in the singing room, regardless of song or key. He also attended various other folk gathering in the Bay Area, and he played for numerous Sufi dance events.
Most of the local folkies are unaware of Howard’s many other accomplishments. Howard was a professor of sociology for many years, beginning with a position at Harvard and moving on to other positions that seemed right to him. He was uninterested in prestige or a high salary, preferring work that spoke to his sense of authenticity. He described his specialty area, ethnomethodology, as the study of everyday and common-sense thinking. Recently a journal in England republished Howard’s scholarly papers because they liked his work and felt it reflected the early foundation of that branch of sociology. With a friend Howard co-authored a sociology text book, Qualitative Sociology, a text notable for the sprinklings of humor Howard insisted upon. It continues in use and is translated into multiple languages.

Subsequently he successfully transitioned into computer programming jobs. Long after he retired from that work, he continued to help friends with his techy skills.

 

As an accomplished and self-taught classical guitarist, Howard played for Sufi dances as well as folk music performances and community gatherings.
Howard had many other sides to himself. His playful side delighted in entertaining people with his stock of magic tricks. With children he could interact at their level, without pretense and with mutual enjoyment. In earlier years he was an avid folk dancer and skilled tap dancer — the latter dating back to his days as a child actor. (He had significant parts in an episode of the TV series, Dragnet, and in the film, Marjorie Morningstar.) For many years he was active in the community of followers of the spiritual leader, Meher Baba, and he traveled to India several times to go to the Meher Baba center.
Encouragement of loving attitudes and community feeling motivated Howard throughout his life. Many of his friends were glad to share these qualities at a “Living Farewell” recognition event for Howard in April 2013. A memorial gathering took place in May 2014.

 

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Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014)

 

Tribute: Maya Angelou, Poet, Activist And Singular Storyteller, Dies At 86 by Lynn Neary May 28, 2014 9:41 AM ET “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

 

Via NPR: “Poet, performer and political activist Maya Angelou has died after a long illness at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. She was 86. Born in St. Louis in 1928, Angelou grew up in a segregated society that she worked to change during the civil rights era. Angelou, who refused to speak for much of her childhood, revealed the scars of her past in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first of a series of memoirs.”

 

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014)

 

Seminal writer of Magical Realism who was loved by a generation of writers and readers. “I feel Latin American from whatever country, but I have never renounced the nostalgia of my homeland: Aracataca, to which I returned one day and discovered that between reality and nostalgia was the raw material for my work”.—Gabriel García Márquez.

 

Webpage: http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/

 

Tribute: The Guardian

 

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Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gomes (21 December 1947 – 25 February 2014)

 

 

“I need to show that I still have something to tell with the guitar, otherwise I will disappear.” Paco de Lucia, Libération 26/10/04

 

Tribute: Why the death of Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia has touched so many

 

Produced by Rafa Cereceda

 

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Scott Asheton (August 16th, 1949 – 03/13/2014)

 

 

“My dear friend Scott Asheton passed away last night. Scott was a great artist, I have never heard anyone play the drums with more meaning than Scott Asheton. He was like my brother. He and Ron have left a huge legacy to the world. The Asheton’s have always been and continue to be a second family to me.

 

My thoughts are with his sister Kathy, his wife Liz and his daughter Leanna, who was the light of his life. – Iggy Pop”

 

Tribute:Legendary Stooges Drummer Scott Asheton Dead at 64