our son Bill
Video: How I Got To Play John Lennon’s IMAGINE Piano.
Steve Schalchlin describes “how a simple Internet posting of a friend’s son’s death (Bill Clayton) turned into the opportunity of a lifetime, thanks to pop star George Michael and Kenny Goss, a chance to play the piano upon which John Lennon wrote the song “Imagine.” The interview is by our friend Tracey Thornton.
‘By Omission’ – “losing ground in silence”
Safe Schools Coalition and our son Bill were mentioned in this report: On Friday, in a hearing before the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee, Senators Nicole LeFavour (D-Boise) and Charles Coiner (R-Twin Falls) introduced legislation prohibiting employment, housing and education discrimination based on an individual’s real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill …
For no particular reason … remembering Bill
Yesterday Alec and I were talking to a friend about living with children who are at the young toddler age, and we remembered Bill when we were living in the upstairs of the big blue house in Hattiesburg Mississippi. I think Noel was about two and a half or so and Bill was a little …
Yes, today is Bill’s birthday.
If he were still alive Bill would be 30 years old today. Wow. That birthday was 10,957 days ago. We had him with us for 6375 days.And then he committed suicide 12 years, 6 months, 15 days ago.So now we have been living without him for 4582 days. Maybe doing numbers on this is a …
September 11th. Looking back, looking ahead, and looking around.
Here is something I wrote in September 2001: I want to recognize that this is a time when we all are aware of the vulnerability of our country and our people after the attacks on the east coast. I have been reading about people feeling that those acts of terror have stripped away the sense …
More on Stonewall Youth at Washington Middle School, including my letter to the editor.
Stonewall Youth’s speaker’s panel spoke about bullying at Washington Middle School in Olympia on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Alec and I attended a school board meeting on Monday, July 11, 2007, along with youth from Stonewall, members of PFLAG and other folks in the community. This letter to the editor was published as a Letters …
Photos of the Imagine Piano in Olympia
Photos are posted now on the ClaytonWorks flicker site of when the Imagine Piano was in Olympia on May 8th. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/claytonworks/ To see more about the Imagine Piano Peace Project in Olympia, on this page scroll down to Labels in the green column on the right and click on Lennon Piano. Then read from …
Yes there really are people like this.
An email I woke to this morning: Subject: Your son.Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:55:33 -0400From: grottingham02@aol.comTo: gabi@gabiclayton.com Dear Gabi, I am a 16 year old boy from the Bay Area, California. I think you should know that your son deserved to die and in the fashion that it occurred. Being “gay” or “bisexual” is …