He never had a chance.....

[agw123]

I have recently learnt of the death of a boy that I used to care for. He lost his life violently, at the age of 15, trying to find his way in the world. It's a sad sad situation and I can't help but wonder if we gave him as much as we could during the short time that he was in our lives. He was born into chaos, he was an absolutely wild and out of control child who for some reason happened to connect with me. He let me see the best sides of him while driving those around us mad. He responded to me, he laughed with me, he captured my heart. His spark will remain with me forever. As situations changed, he was shuffled off to another family member in another city, shuffled into a new life. He was a child that made you want to wrap him up and make life okay for him, to give him something to hope and dream for. He wanted attention and to know that people cared. I feel like we let him down. He did not deserve for his life to end this way. They say that it takes a village to raise a child, and we should take note of this. It is not fair to bring children into a world over which they have no control and few ways out.

Sleep well dear boy, and please please discover peace.

......I'm not sure what I'm hoping to gain from posting here, but it helps to have somewhere to put thoughts together.

[Kelly]

Dear Members,

We are excited to mention that we are moving to a more new and improved message boards on MONDAY MORNING AUGUST 9th! The boards will be done for a few hours while we are making the conversation. Remember we posted information about this move a month ago. For some of you this might seem a bit sudden,  but when we were reviewing the site we determined the current message board you are using is out of date and the company that designed it is no longer in existence. The good news is this new message board will have new features that have been requested in the past like more fields we can add to your profiles and a chat room up to 20 people at one time. If we find the chat room is bursting at the seams we will add additional room for extra people. All your old posts, private messages and such will be migrated to the new message board. You might have to put up your profile picture again but not sure. The new company will be doing the migration for us. Here is a short list of some of the new features on the board:

- Custom Profile Fields

- Users can customize their profile pages by selecting a background color or background image, with tiling options.

- Facebook and Twitter Integration

- users can respond to multiple posts at once with "mini-quote"

- Pinned discussion threads - like welcome to our board etc.

- Announcements made across some boards or the entire message board

- Search: Users can easily find all content generated by a particular member, by clicking the 'Find Content' button that appears on the main profile page, or in the Mini Profile Popup which can be accessed throughout the board. The results page allows content to be filtered by application, as well whether the member created it or merely participated in it.

- Privacy: allows users to sign in anonymously, hiding them from the online users list. Users also have the option to disable personal conversations and user-to-user emails, as well as ignore other users if necessary.

The next exciting piece of news about the new message board is it will have a new domain name of www.grieving.com for search engine optimization purposes. It will still be apart of Beyond Indigo and can be found through www.beyondindigo.com. We will be redirecting your current URL's to this new domain name but we might miss a few. If that is the case simply go back to www.grieving.com or www.beyondindigo.com to find your message board thread. We will try to make the transition as seamless as possible.

The bottom line is the new board will give us room to grow our community and more options to interact better with each other.

If you have any questions please direct them to feedback@beyondindigo.com.

Kelly Baltzell, MA

CEO/President

Beyond Indigo Family