Magie Alvarez Calleja aka Maddi, Maiuki

FireTom. Are you talking about building a site?
If so be my guest, I'm really busy at the moment. I can provide the code for the video upload and the photo gallery.

You can just just slot it in...

I started a photo group in Flickr to share the pictures with everybody. I will send invitations to the few that I know have a flickr account. But I hope that many people would join the group and send their pics of Magie. The group is free to join to everyone. Please pass on the following link:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/maiuki/

Flickr is easy to use and I recommend it for sharing pics. Once you create your account you can upload your pics (of Mauiki) and then join the group. Then from "Organize your photos" you choose the pics you want to "Send to group". Or you can view your pics individually and there is a "send to group" button on top of the pic.

I met Maddi briefly, she touched me with her personality and her light. When I received MK's message, tears burst from my eyes and I started this thread, basically to verify the news and in hope that they would be a hoax.

However, everytime I get busy with this, read the posts of other beautiful people who knew her - and many of you knew her much better than I did - everytime I think of her being gone for good, tears do come back, even though I am not usually wired this way.

Neither mourning, nor being engaged in such activities is common to me. It amazes my self, that I have such intense feelings attached to this - as I am usually not wired this way... This beautiful girl, who I had joked around with to be her tour guide in India or Thailand - last year when she was still uncertain which path to follow - who asked me for advice on India and Thailand, who I talked and listened to, watched few times only - she touched me in a wonderful way.

I can't and don't want to reason it.

But I do not want to take anything away, or appear as disrespectful to close friends and family of Maddi, therefore I sent a PM to Ronan and asked him whether there is anything that I can do to help. I don't care what this might be. If I am allowed to have a share in the activities to keep Maddi's rememberance alife - I will be more than happy.

But I will not register a domain, or build a website around it without the approval of Maddis' family. To me Ronan at least acts as an interface, therefore I will wait for his approval to move further.

Mourning (as I learnt) is a very sensitive engagement. Everybody finds her/his own ways to cope. Me, I am a stranger to her family. How could I make a move, without letting them know and without approaching them in all due respect for their feelings?

To build a website in her memory was Andrea's idea - a splendid one, I reckon and (as I said) I would do anything in order to help. A Flickr group is another beautiful idea, as is to tag videos on youTube in which she is seen with her name...

Please do note: To build a website for her memory was BansheeCats idea, not mine - I do not wish to take the credits for that! I just want to put this very clear, so nobodies feelings get hurt. It's a wonderful idea and I would do anything to help.

To build something significant like a website, engage in such activities I will wait for a sign from her family and (to me) this sign will be coming from Ronan.

God bless you all [sigh]

Hey Tom,
You don't take anything away or appear disrespectful in the least! in fact its quite the opposite.
I would love you to continue to help keep the memory of Maddi alive, something that i feel you are already doing.
I contacted Maddi's family about the website but haven't heard back about it, I'll let everyone know as soon as I do. Thanks you!

Nice one with the flickr account Antti , anyone else with photos of Maddi please feel free to post them.

The last few weeks have been so intense. Arriving back from Zarautz completely shattered, followed by a week of feeling completely numb and detecthed from the situation. I returned from a lovely visit up north with Clare and Andy, and ended up reading old emails from Maddi and looking at photos and burst into tears. Its been a crazy wave of emotions. Remembering her beautiful facial expressions, the things she used to say, so many things that we shared together, and realising that she won't walk around the corner again
In many ways it has opened my eyes. To realise this incredible suffering is but a drop in the ocean of suffering around the world. That every day around the world so many people are holding a lost loved one in their arms...
So many realisations about my own life and what I want to do with it.
There is so much to learn from this...



love,
Ronan

Love you Ronan... and hopefully see you very soon

Thanks Ronan, I am happy you say that and send you all and to survive. Maddi was and still is teaching... This is the way we continue exisence even after we are gone.

Thanks for the encouragement.

I got a email from maddis sister, Noemi, and her mum Blanca, and they asked for me to pass on their thanks:

"My mum and me was reading and crying in the website or forum or i ´don´t know. You send us information and i would like to answer every people, thanks for her photos and thanks for their beautiful words, thanks for their condolances...
Your words and your friend´s feelings, help us to cry and to cure our heart."

They also said that they agree with creating a website - www.maiuki.org.
It would be great if we could get someone to translate the site into Basque and Castillano... I'll try to work on finding someone as soon as the site is up...


Ronan

hey ronan

thx for your words...sending lots of &
...now your words and passed on messages give me a shiver and a somehow mixed feeling, but in a good way ...i think...as far as i can think....
stay in touch...


peace and love
xxx

so let's proceed...

Wow just walked into a group hug...



Blanca has said she would love to help translate the site.
I would like to share a video a folks in Berlin made for her.

My friend Rob, who I have known for almost 10 years was just killed in a car crash. I'm sorry to bring more bad news

All this death is really making me think...

I should just hasten to mention that he is from the US, and not any of the many Robs on HoP. It is strange to again have to look at the information through a computer.

Blues.

hey kyle ....

...still welcome at mine anytime......

peace and love,
kisses,

tina

Thanks
I will try to stop in before I fly out.

Here is the Video. I can put a better version on the site when it's up, or elsewhere if someone has hosting for it

i love the video, love the pix, love the words included in the video, love having you met, perhaps will come to berlin again in the next two weeks.....let me know your contacts...where you stay, at rico's place??? perhaps meet again in berlin....what do you reckon???

peace and love

wow, the videao is amazing. Send it in for the next CoL. If you win, you can use the money to pretty up the homepage or to organize a memory-firespinning-meeting.

Cheers guys,
I cried all the way through editing it, and really love it. The time had such a nice vibe, and I think you get a glimpse of this.

Matina, I'd love to catch up. I'm not sure yet though, I may go back to OZ next week. Otherwise I'll be in Berlin till Tuesday and then go to Switzerland. But both options involve flying back to Australia from Frankfurt though.
I'm not really sure what to do at the moment

Hey Kyle,
so sorry to hear about your friend Rob The past month has been filled with so much sadness, it really does get you thinking...

I loved the video, it was beautiful. My mum found me crying over my laptop and joined me as we watched it a second time.

Sorry to hear you're heading back to Oz and that I didn't get a chance to hang out with you as much as I had wanted. I look forward to bumping into you again

to Kyle

No internet connection, as my laptop is in repair.

But "Maiuki.org" was registered just now... anyone interested in hosting it?

kyle, i will probably come to berlin next week on thursday.....until then i am in frankfurt....i dont know what to do at the moment as well,....thats why i get back to berlin and meet up with some lovely girls from my time in london....thats what i will most probably be up to....just come around for a drink or whatever if you feel like it....in berlin or in frankfurt.....as you feel....just take your time and see what you feel like.....

peace and love

@firetom: i would be willing to host it with another bunch of people,...like you, ronan, kyle.....etc...

wishing to see the video... you tube is banned here, unfortunately. Let me know when there is another host for it please.

I miss Maddi terribily. So many memories.

Huge hugs to you too Ronin, and all of the little poi gang that gathered in thailand together, I am thinking of you all with much love .
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