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a community within communities Disney Realness dot com Happy Halloween from B-Bob s by The Rev. Bill Terry, Rector St. Anna s Episcopal Church Email: fr.bill@stannanola.org Did you do what we talked about? New Orleans enjoys all four seasons in a week during the winter months. Warm, rain, then cool, rain and warm again. It was on one of those autumnal days that Derrielle approached me. It was gloomy outside in the early evening hours, spitting rain, preparing for this week s winter. Derrielle is a precocious 9 years old who has planted on her round face a perpetual smile. She is a member of the after school program that we host at St. Anna s Church. I make it a habit to walk through the Parish Hall during this time to meet and just briefly talk with the 20 odd kids and ten or so adults who passionately give of their time to help teach these children. During my stroll Derrielle got up from a table across the room and with a newspaper in hand she approached; talking away with that winsome smile before she even got within ear shot. Children do babble, I thought to myself. Halloween!!! ~ Mobile, Alabama ~ Photos by Miss Cie & John Black & White Cotton & Candy Argh!! mobile paparazzi Halloween Pussy Cats Supreme Mother Coven Halloween Mr. Josh Duffy performing @ B-Bob s Without premise, opening line, or any indication of what her subject was she simply asked, Did you put them up yet? again that smile radiated. I asked what she was talking about. She said with smile never changing, The little girls that got shot this week and handed me the newspaper that she had brought from home; carried all day in school and now presented me with. She began to tell me all about her. She told me that one little girl was just about 12 about to have her birthday. The smile faltered but did not go away. I replied that the weather was raining outside and that I would surely put their names on the board as soon as the weather cleared. I looked at the paper. I looked down at Derrielle and expectantly she looked and said, You need to do that now. Smile falters once again but does not go away. You see St. Anna s is the church with the Victims of Violence memorial. We put the names of all murder victims on a board outside in the front of the church. We also have a permanent memorial on a Wall and alas we have very little room left on that. It stretches ten feet by four feet with over 2,100 names of others who died due to urban violence. Michael & Scotty It starts in 2007 and is still maintained today. No Derrielle, I can t today the ink won t dry. I have to wait until Monday. This is what the Times Picayune reported (by Paul Purpura, NOLA.com): Arabian Ray Ray Gayles was killed just eight days shy of her 12th birthday, when bullets gunmen fired outside her Pigeon Town home pierced a wall and struck her as she slept. On Saturday (Sept.14), four days after she would have celebrated that milestone, Arabian was buried following a funeral at the Baptist church at Willow and Monroe streets, only blocks from where she was fatally wounded. After reading the opening lines I sort of kneeled down so that I could be on eye level with Derrielle. I asked her, What are you feeling about this? Again, the smile faltered. It really did not come back much after that. She shrugged, as children do, and said I don t know. But you need to put her name up. I asked again, Does this make you sad? Again, a shrug, she looked at her feet and shuffled a bit <discomfort>. Then she said, I am dreaming about this. I asked, What are you dreaming? Again, a shrug and I don t know. Again I asked, Are you dreaming about her. The short answer that a lot of our kids give, yea said shyly and eyes cast down. I gave her a hug and asked if she wanted to help me put the name up. She shrugged and said, yea. It was, for me, a very quiet drive home: thoughts tumbling, wondering, trying to understand Derrielle and trying hard to think of a way to take her disquietude away. The streets were dark, the roadway wet, I headed home. I said very little when I got home. Then the dogs greeted me, my wife hugged me, dinner was set, programs to watch and Derrielle and Ray Ray faded for the evening. The weekend came and went, the weather was wonderful on Sunday and we enjoyed a great church pic nic at an old building we are restoring to provide a place for kids like Derrielle. Yet, at that time both Derrielle [continued on 26] Ryan & JC Essex Miss Cie @ B-Bob s Mobile Scavenger Hunt 2013 22 The Official Mag: AmbushMag.COM November 5-18, 2013 Official ficial Gay Mardi di Guide GayMardiGras.COM
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