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This campaign is a follow-up and and update to an original campain previously posted.
Patrick Thornton, is a therapist, Mindfulness Teacher, and Hospice provider who has devoted his life to helping others. It is with deep gratitude that the support he has received will go solely for providing care and resources to Joel. With the response Patrick has received, he has able to purchase a '65 Toyoto Corolla & a computer and printer, offsetting what had been lost in the "flood."
This has hardly restored his losses, yet he is continuing to move forward, endevoring to work with the resources he has while also attempting to address even larger losses that had occured immediatly prior to and following the loss of his car, and that had not been previously posted.
Only a few hours immediately prior to his accident leading to the original post, Patrick had been in conversaton with his 47 year old son, Joel, who was in hospital in Florida, after having severed his spine above the breast in a motorcycle accident. The conversation between Joel and Patrick led to a profound inquiry as to whether one wishes to live or to die.
Patrick's current circumstances prohibitted him from being any closer to Joel than the telephone would allow.
Joel has gone through multiple surgeries since the previous post, and because of inadequate care, he has ended up back in the hospital multiple times since his release, as well as in & out of 5 rehab facilities serving their communities.
There is no need to discuss the psych/spiritual and physical pain issues, and the suffering that has occupied Joel’s world over the last 14 months, other than to say it is unimaginable to one who has not been there them self in one form or another.
With much prayer, meditation and interaction with his close friends, as well as with my own therapist and physician; and after speaking with Joel and Joel's former wife, Jennifer (Jen); and after much soul-searching — Patrick decided last Friday - March 18th, to close down his practice in Santa Rosa / Sebastopol, California, and move to Bradenton, Florida, where he will be living with his son to provide what care & support for so long as it is deemend helpful and beneficial. This may be 6-months, a year, or a life-time. It will be as long as is needed and as is beneficial.
This may be a 6-month commitment, a years' commitment or longer, which only circumstances and needs can define … but it will be a full commitment that will be sensitive to Joel's needs. That is the only agenda.
Meanwhile, Jenn is looking for a two-bedroom bungalow where Patrick and Joel can live with Patrick as a primary caregive, and with the support of Joel's son and Patrick's grandson, Chase, and Jen, and Joel's friends.
Patrick learned that a former Mindflness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) student of his now lives not far from where Joel (and soon, Patrick) live.
She took her first MBSR progam from Patrick over 20 years ago when he was teaching programs with Bob Stahl at El Cameno Hospital in Mt. View, CA — which she says "changed her life."
She is now herself a Mindfulness teacher, teaching MBSR programmings through the Sarasota Mindfulness Institute, which is a 501.c(3), providing mindflness - based services to those in the Sarasota / Bradenton areas.
This might provide a viable opportunity for Patrick to find some income while caring for Joel through continuing to teach MBSR programs in the area as appropriate. At the present, however, it is merely a viable prospect.
This may also provide the opportunity for Patrick to invite his former student to co-author the book he rec'd the advance to write from New Harbiner Publications, "Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Grief."
However, both the book and teaching are speculative, and are subordinate to providing the best support for Joel. Patrick says, "This will be my practice, first and foremost."
Patrick requests your prayers and support.
This transition means letting go of livelihood for the immediate present and whatever time is required or appropriate for the needed relief for his son.
He will be loading up a trailer, and towing it over the Sierra Nevada's with his '95 Toyota Corolla, sometime around the last week of April (27th. - 29th.)
He managed to get the ’95 Toyota Corolla to replace the vehicle he lost in the “under water,” and will be taking with him only what can be towed over the Sierra’s by the Corolla.
Patrick says — reassuringly — that "the monthly Social Security check can go much farther in Florida than in California."
Even so, with a smile, he says, "Of coures (he) knows better."
Any support that can be offered in service to bringing care to his son, Joel, may be made through the GoFundMe site, a portion of which is set aside as a tax deductible charitable donation.
May all beings be Happy,
May all beings be Peaceful,
May all beings have ease of well-being.
Patrick may also be reached by emailing him through GoFundMe.
(Note: Direct emails are not encourage by GoFundMe in order to prevent fraud and abusive use of the interned.)
As Patrick does not have a webmaster, his two websites: www.patrick-thornton,net and www.mindful-loss.com have not been updated due to the distractions of loss and current events.
Even so, you my chose to visit them for more information about Patrick's work. You may find some of his writings, his talks, and his teachings to be of interest, as well as Patrick's downloadable guided meditation practices.
Hopefully, there will be opportunity in the near future to enlarge on the offerings on both websites.
With graditude………… for your support of Joel, his family and his loved ones on the long & often lonely path of the healing of body and soul.
Patrick Thornton, is a therapist, Mindfulness Teacher, and Hospice provider who has devoted his life to helping others. It is with deep gratitude that the support he has received will go solely for providing care and resources to Joel. With the response Patrick has received, he has able to purchase a '65 Toyoto Corolla & a computer and printer, offsetting what had been lost in the "flood."
This has hardly restored his losses, yet he is continuing to move forward, endevoring to work with the resources he has while also attempting to address even larger losses that had occured immediatly prior to and following the loss of his car, and that had not been previously posted.
Only a few hours immediately prior to his accident leading to the original post, Patrick had been in conversaton with his 47 year old son, Joel, who was in hospital in Florida, after having severed his spine above the breast in a motorcycle accident. The conversation between Joel and Patrick led to a profound inquiry as to whether one wishes to live or to die.
Patrick's current circumstances prohibitted him from being any closer to Joel than the telephone would allow.
Joel has gone through multiple surgeries since the previous post, and because of inadequate care, he has ended up back in the hospital multiple times since his release, as well as in & out of 5 rehab facilities serving their communities.
There is no need to discuss the psych/spiritual and physical pain issues, and the suffering that has occupied Joel’s world over the last 14 months, other than to say it is unimaginable to one who has not been there them self in one form or another.
With much prayer, meditation and interaction with his close friends, as well as with my own therapist and physician; and after speaking with Joel and Joel's former wife, Jennifer (Jen); and after much soul-searching — Patrick decided last Friday - March 18th, to close down his practice in Santa Rosa / Sebastopol, California, and move to Bradenton, Florida, where he will be living with his son to provide what care & support for so long as it is deemend helpful and beneficial. This may be 6-months, a year, or a life-time. It will be as long as is needed and as is beneficial.
This may be a 6-month commitment, a years' commitment or longer, which only circumstances and needs can define … but it will be a full commitment that will be sensitive to Joel's needs. That is the only agenda.
Meanwhile, Jenn is looking for a two-bedroom bungalow where Patrick and Joel can live with Patrick as a primary caregive, and with the support of Joel's son and Patrick's grandson, Chase, and Jen, and Joel's friends.
Patrick learned that a former Mindflness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) student of his now lives not far from where Joel (and soon, Patrick) live.
She took her first MBSR progam from Patrick over 20 years ago when he was teaching programs with Bob Stahl at El Cameno Hospital in Mt. View, CA — which she says "changed her life."
She is now herself a Mindfulness teacher, teaching MBSR programmings through the Sarasota Mindfulness Institute, which is a 501.c(3), providing mindflness - based services to those in the Sarasota / Bradenton areas.
This might provide a viable opportunity for Patrick to find some income while caring for Joel through continuing to teach MBSR programs in the area as appropriate. At the present, however, it is merely a viable prospect.
This may also provide the opportunity for Patrick to invite his former student to co-author the book he rec'd the advance to write from New Harbiner Publications, "Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Grief."
However, both the book and teaching are speculative, and are subordinate to providing the best support for Joel. Patrick says, "This will be my practice, first and foremost."
Patrick requests your prayers and support.
This transition means letting go of livelihood for the immediate present and whatever time is required or appropriate for the needed relief for his son.
He will be loading up a trailer, and towing it over the Sierra Nevada's with his '95 Toyota Corolla, sometime around the last week of April (27th. - 29th.)
He managed to get the ’95 Toyota Corolla to replace the vehicle he lost in the “under water,” and will be taking with him only what can be towed over the Sierra’s by the Corolla.
Patrick says — reassuringly — that "the monthly Social Security check can go much farther in Florida than in California."
Even so, with a smile, he says, "Of coures (he) knows better."
Any support that can be offered in service to bringing care to his son, Joel, may be made through the GoFundMe site, a portion of which is set aside as a tax deductible charitable donation.
May all beings be Happy,
May all beings be Peaceful,
May all beings have ease of well-being.
Patrick may also be reached by emailing him through GoFundMe.
(Note: Direct emails are not encourage by GoFundMe in order to prevent fraud and abusive use of the interned.)
As Patrick does not have a webmaster, his two websites: www.patrick-thornton,net and www.mindful-loss.com have not been updated due to the distractions of loss and current events.
Even so, you my chose to visit them for more information about Patrick's work. You may find some of his writings, his talks, and his teachings to be of interest, as well as Patrick's downloadable guided meditation practices.
Hopefully, there will be opportunity in the near future to enlarge on the offerings on both websites.
With graditude………… for your support of Joel, his family and his loved ones on the long & often lonely path of the healing of body and soul.
Organizer
Ange Stephens
Organizer
Sebastopol, CA