About@reinard

Name reinard
About Me I will turn 48 this year. I am married (and give thanks everyday that my beautiful wife loves me and puts up with me) and have a beautiful - soon to be - 9 year old daughter, and a beautiful 17 year old step daughter who lives mostly with her beautiful dad. I am an office manager for the ACLU of Utah and I continue to struggle with what it takes to be a family man, employee, and citizen activist paying attention to a varied group of political, social, environmental and peace issues - and still be fun to be around. Having been arrested more then 30 times in my life, some might consider me to be a habitual criminal. I, unfortunately, will probably not find myself getting arrested again until my daughter is a teenager. When I find my self waking up in the middle of the night unable to sleep and after reviewing the current world situation in my head, I daydream of writing my first book and/or screenplay based on true stories from the nonviolent resistance movement, starting my own solo consulting business - Utah Nonprofit Solutions (at least 3 years down the road), and finding or helping to build an eco friendly house that my family can truly feel at home in. I love the mountains, deserts, forests and water of the western United States. As with everything else in life, this bio is an evolving story. There is more to come.
Website http://www.acluutah.org
  • 11 years ago
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  • 12 years ago
    reinard posted an update

    I haven’t forgotten MemoirSite. I will be back to start working on my life’s story soon. Currently learning Joomla, creating a new website for my work, and transferring over 13 years of archived material so that is keeping me busy. I can only handle so many web projects at a time. Peace and love!

  • 12 years ago
    reinard posted an update

    Hi everyone, the new MemoirSite looks great! I am looking forward to using it.

    • Hi – Glad you’re back. JG Coleman would like to hear from you. And she wonders, with your insights and experiences, whether The Esoterica Group has any interest for you?

  • 13 years ago
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  • 13 years ago
    reinard wrote a post "The story of an 1981 car accident " on the site All I Can Do Is Smile

    Reinard’s story: That night we (Mark Cramer, Kent Tomlinson and I) borrowed a car belonging to one of the interns living in the Houston House. I cannot remember if we stole it or asked her if we could use it. I am […]

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    reinard wrote a post "Some things that have made me feel alive in some what a chronological order" on the site All I Can Do Is Smile

    Things that have made me feel alive in some what a chronological order:(knowing that surely there is more then what I have remembered in this hour of sitting and reflecting.)

    Running naked – anywhere and often. […]

  • 13 years ago
    reinard wrote a post "D.S. Blog 2/07 - 6/08" on the site All I Can Do Is Smile

    6/21/08
    What an emotional and physically taxing week. My neck has been in pain all week.
    •    7 days ago: I connected with a very emotionally charged memory that i wrote down and shared in a very public way and it […]

  • 13 years ago
    reinard wrote a post "My bedtime "ritual"" on the site All I Can Do Is Smile

    I am thankful for my bedtime “ritual” that I take part in with my daughter Terra. After 2 or 3 books or stories we turn out the light and snuggle and we say, “Oh Great Spirit, we give thanks for this day and for […]

  • 13 years ago
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    reinard wrote a post "Iron Man Burning" on the site All I Can Do Is Smile

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  • 13 years ago
    reinard wrote a post "Some Dreams 2007 - 2008" on the site All I Can Do Is Smile

    18 October 2009
    It has been a long time but I finally had another Order dream a few days ago.
    People I know from my present life were mixed in with Order youth who were grown up. We were all moving out of the […]

  • 13 years ago
    reinard wrote a post "Thankfulness" on the site And All I Can Do Is Smile

    Started on Thanksgiving day 1987 and finished on 24th birthday, 1988

    I cried this morning. A cry of loneliness, confusion and seemingly total dispair. No burning tears fell from my eyes, and no anguished sobs […]

    • Hello, Reinard…We haven’t spoken before. Up early after a curiously sleepless night, I sit noodling around the MemSite site, wondering if I have the energy yet,(so early on a dark morning) to type another story onto my site. Reading your letter “What have I got to be thankful for” I feel moved to contact you.

      The description you give of the complexities, perplexities, dichotomy, enormity, beauty, brutality and the just plain brilliance of the human mind rang a bell. I totally understand the wonder and the agony. You…me…and around six billion others. We’re alive.

      We’re all in “Earth School” here , living in the third dimension where the toughest lessons that we need and have chosen to learn are being learned. We’ve chosen it all, Reinard…and the tougher we choose it the more we advance, so to speak.

      I’ve been on the “What’s it all about” quest for a long time. I’ve discovered answers that make sense to me. If you feel like persueing such an investigation, I’ll be glad to correspond. If not…that’s fine too, of course.

  • 13 years ago
    reinard wrote a post "Memories of the Kuala Lumpur house" on the site And All I Can Do Is Smile

    The K.L. house was in a neighborhood called Petaling Jaya. The house was rented to my father as a parsonage for the Methodist Church down the street where he was a minister. I remember arriving with my family to […]

  • 13 years ago
    reinard wrote a post "Memories of the Kuala Lumpur house" on the site All I Can Do Is Smile

    The K.L. house was in a neighborhood called Petaling Jaya. The house was rented to my father as a parsonage for the Methodist Church down the street where he was a minister. I remember arriving with my family to […]

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