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On the fourth of July, 2007 Caleb Potter was involved in a skateboarding accident.
He suffered serious injuries and continues to need all of our positive thoughts and prayers.
This blog is to serve as a space for updates on Caleb's journey of recovery.
He suffered serious injuries and continues to need all of our positive thoughts and prayers.
This blog is to serve as a space for updates on Caleb's journey of recovery.
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A BIG Thank You
In this season of giving thanks and celebrating family togetherness, I wish to extend a warm thank you to everyone who has been involved in a myriad of ways with my son, Caleb Potter, and his recovery. On July 4, he was involved in a skateboarding accident in our little hometown of Wellfleet on Cape Cod, that caused him serious injuries. He came home from Spaulding Rehab in Boston just before Thanksgiving. Through the blog we started:
http://calebpotter.blogspot.com/
the Wellfleet community of support stretched far and wide across the country, and in fact, throughout parts of the world, with many people offering prayers and words of wisdom. We could not have come so far without this legion of support from all of you, in Wellfleet and beyond. We are sincerely grateful.
Sharyn L. Lindsay and family
http://calebpotter.blogspot
the Wellfleet community of support stretched far and wide across the country, and in fact, throughout parts of the world, with many people offering prayers and words of wisdom. We could not have come so far without this legion of support from all of you, in Wellfleet and beyond. We are sincerely grateful.
Sharyn L. Lindsay and family
DONATIONS
THE CALEB POTTER
BENEFIT FUND
Donations may be made in person at any branch of Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank or mailed to the bank at P.O. Box 697, Wellfleet, MA 02667.
Thank you SO MUCH
for your contributions.
With love,
from all of Caleb's friends and family
BENEFIT FUND
Donations may be made in person at any branch of Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank or mailed to the bank at P.O. Box 697, Wellfleet, MA 02667.
Thank you SO MUCH
for your contributions.
With love,
from all of Caleb's friends and family
Official Information
If you have questions about calebpotter.blogspot.com,
email Sky at:
novembersky.freysscole@gmail.com
email Sky at:
novembersky.freysscole@gmail.com
For Sending Cards etc.
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c/o Sharyn Lindsay
45 Sapokonish Way
Wellfleet, MA
02667
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Wellfleet, MA
02667
(please be respectful)
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55 comments:
sending positive thoughts from japan...sorry
Thank you, Sky, for such a sweet picture. My heart is breaking for this beautiful family.
Sending you all the most love,
Susan
i have visited this blog every single day since Calebs accident but have never posted a comment. Today i send my love, prayers, tears and hugs to each of you touched by this sad loss. I have been so moved by the words written on this blog....Sharyns heart, Calebs courage, Kai's resolve, Max's tenderness, Jennies devotion and now words that horrified me and dropped me to my knees. I wish you all strength and the ability to forgive a decision that again changes your lives forever. Know that you have many friends and arms around you, even if we have never met you. I have lived and worked in wellfleet but have never met you, but have seen you all and feel I know you.
many prayers....jean
thank you for the picture
god be with you all
amy in ct
No words could ever cover or express clearly enough all the sadness, confusion, and sorrow we all have in our hearts for you all this moment.
Love together, take care of one another and know we are all praying even harder for you all.
Jan, may you be in a peaceful waters, & safe journeys dear one.
Potter boys, love you all.
Family of Jan & Sarah, I am so deeply sorry for your loss.
Xo.. Clance & family
It is so strange to be reading all of this sitting in Amherst when all of my heart and soul is in Wellfleet. Sharyn, Sara, Kai, Caleb, Max all family, all friends...I have no words, only love. To say the least, I will miss Jan's daily visits to the Fish. Wellfleet, please continue to do what you do best; come together, support and love one another. My thoughts, prayers and sympathy-
Fleet Love
Emily
Sharon,
I have rewriten this note three times. What can I say. This is so very sad. Sending prayers and love to you and your family.
Jean
Dear Sharyn & Family,
I have been following your blog with Caleb's story since September. I check daily for updates and when I looked this morning, I re-read the post 6 or 7 times. I just couldn't grasp what has happened.
There are no appropriate words at this time. I'm so sorry for your loss.
Our thoughts are with you.
Sharyn, Kai, Max, and Caleb,
I am so very sorry.
With love and tears,
Arlene
Thank you Sky for such a beautiful photo.
I spent much of the day yesterday with those images in my mind. Like an accelerated slide show, pictures of Jan from so long ago to just yesterday when he held the door open graciously for me at the post office.
How do we tell you Sharyn, Caleb, Kai, Max, Sarah, Vivi, Poi, that we hold you dearly in our arms and we wish we could take away the pain?
"just yesterday when he held the door open graciously for me at the post office"
God if we only knew...
I check Caleb's page daily, sometimes two or three times a day. My heart has skipped a beat more than once, rushing to read the whole blog and make sure that he is OK. What an incredible turn of events this week. How terribly sorry we are for you all.
Love to our home away from home and all of the clan.Jim and Diane from CA
Sharyn and family:
I'm so sorry.
If you have not read When Bad Things Happen To Good People by Harold S. Kushner, now might be a good time. It might ease your pain just a little.
Please take care of yourselves and know there are a lot of people out here in computerland crying on their keyboards.
S. in Virginia
For Jan............April 2nd....2008
Dear ones......
it was an achingly Blue sky morning......brisk......no!...frigid.... North wind...sideshore at Newcomb’s Hollow.....High tide a bit after 9am.....
Kai was walking from an empty parking lot as I drove in.....wide-eyed..open-hearted we passed each other......in silence........a few minutes later sharyn’s truck...and sharyn and max were there....
I shared an OMG hug with a grieving mom...and me a grieving ...dad.....friend....
it is amazing how the hugs around town have become deeper.....still....we feel closer still........
Beyond belief and understanding.....we surround our hearts with each other.....and hope....
Jan Potter was an Outer Cape surfer.....he was my surfing brother....since our first- borns were borne.....tho’ I can’t seem to remember, even once, surfing “with” Jan....I always thought of him sitting ...just off the peak....at Newc’s....probably alone...he preferred it that way......
I was more of a 4-mile/LeCount’s kinda guy....that’s where I surfed/surf with Kai and Cabes
This morning....I paddled out at the top of the tide ...a cold day in April....’cause...well.....someone had to......
the water was typically APRIL....I was immediately met by a solitary seal.....a grey seal...grey and be-whiskered...a lot like jan and me....and in our wetsuits...and he or she in blubber....we would have made a be-whiskered trio........water-creatures-three
the ocean can accept all our tears....and bouy us up to cry some more....this summer....at prayer circles at Town Hall.... I became abundantly aware at how often our tears are prayers to the beyond...to the unknown....simple prayers that drip down our cheeks....salty tears ....become the ocean...
I caught one wave..blown out...short and sweet....another prayer to a departed brother.....he wouldn’t have wanted me to leave without at least ....one wave......
and then the loon...a single loon....alone??...lonely???....I don’t know....but a solitary loon.....
others gathered at the edge of the dune....tears were blown away with the wind...pirate and rainbow flags snapped in the North wind......
eventually...after a while.....I paddled back in.....curled up behind my kneeboard...but/and sleep/dreams....wouldn’t come....yet.....
soon come...mon!
a few prayer beats on the drum...sand flying by in the cold north wind....and I folded up my “tents”...back into my truck....and drove out of a nearly empty parking lot...heading homewards...with reggae in the speakers...with a heavy...but indeed a light-er heart........
Suicide bespeaks of a failure of Community...not BY community...but OF community.....
Dylan said “there is no success like failure....and failure is NO success at all”
It IS our community that sustains us....it WILL BE our community that gets us ALL through !!
I am so sorry that jan chose to check out early....i am so sorry that his pain was greater than the joy of anticipating that next “paddle out”....that next wave ...that next wipe-out.......that next session......so so sorry.....
i am sad...for my brother and the wake he’s left behind.....
we do “ritual” for ourselves...and with the departed...to help send Peace to the departed.....and to create hope for Peace for those that remain behind....
I truly hope for that Peace to come in like waves of the ocean...and wash away the hurt....and YES..... MY anger....and let Jan find peace in his ocean.....for me, what “works”, is to continue to think fondly of jan....hanging ...”just off the peak” at Newc’s....probably alone....probably NOT lonely...just waiting for the wave of the day...just waiting for that next wave.....
Jan was never one to Rest....so instead I wish for jan to float and surf in Peace..
-----F&SIP....jan-----
we loved you....we love you still...............*
ps....I asked the grey seal...to accept him into the flock...the tribe....the pod....the herd....the family of seals.....there wasn’t an answer....but ya know...i seemed to gather that “there was room in the line-up” for jan.........float on....bro’.....
light!ly....ch/dad
Oh, Chuck, thank you so much for your beautiful words. You've shared a lot of how and what we feel for Jan, and no one could have said it better.
Bless you Chuck for a beautiful post.
I hope that this is read by his family, for his family, with his family at some sort of gathering in the future.
There is truly something good and special in everyone, and I can tell you are a person that can see that.
I hope your community always finds something special in you.
J
thank you ch/dad..chuck...
thank you.
Yesterday, after many tears shed, stunned and heart-heavy, we needed to re-focus. I needed get outside, to look at something beautiful and imagine Jan now, being a part of nature. It was still pouring rain, but it was warm and the air smelled of wet leaves and spring. We walked to a very special place in the woods. A place that I, for some unknown reason, had never ventured far enough to discover. With darkness falling, the woods seemed deeper and the distant valleys were weighted with fog. It was breathtakingly peaceful, with only the sound of the rain falling around us. When we reached the top of the climb, there was the Herring River below, its waters bending around a wide bank to the right and left, wider than I've ever seen it. I was immediately grateful my friend had shared this place with me; it was a very sacred place.
I thought of how far into the woods we were and yet we were not far from anything at all. How true in life as well, we are only a thought away from one another, a moment away from sharing something special... we need only to take the step.
I am so so so sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
I haven't read for a while, relieved to know that Caleb was doing so well- this news brought me to tears. You have the strongest boys. This is just too much. My thoughts are with you all-
Chuck, your words moved me so much! Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
To Chuck-your beautiful words painted a warm picture to leave in our minds of Jan. Waves of love to you.
thank you ch/dad
your words always bring peace
amy in ct
Sharyn, Kai, Max, Caleb,
My deepest sympathy. I am shocked beyond belief. I am always astounded how some men keep feelings locked up so deeply. If there is anything I can do during this most stormy and terribly upside down time, please let us know. You're wonderful and strong and we admire you greatly. We're grateful for this wonderful community that comes together to keep all of us resilient. Keep on keeping on.
Reva, Joe and Dash
I'm so sorry for everything you've all been through...
Chuck,
The depth of your words leave me numb and profoundly sad, for Jan and for all who loved and knew him. Thank you so much for sharing.
Beautiful pictures, beautiful words from ch/dad. Thank you both. I am stunned and broken-hearted as I think of Sharyn and her boys and I hope that there will be a time when it is those images that will be most present for them. Mom in CT
I have been watching your beautiful lives unfold for quite some time now, and today have been moved to write. I am so sorry for yet another loss you face, but I know your love will bring you through this as well. My heart is with you...
Potters and mom, family, friends, all of Wellfleet.....We need to really love each other and spread light into the hearts of all we encounter. It is our job...to be loving and kind today, and from this day forth. I am thinking a prayer circle on Town Hall lawn on Friday? At 8 PM? What do you all think? Lisa
Lisa B -
I'm relieved to "hear" your voice -I've missed you. If you gather tonight will you please carry me along with you? My heart and mind haven't been far away from Sharyn, Jan and the boys since yesterday. It would bring me some peace if I knew I could ride along with you in spirit.
Thank you - and bless you -
Susan
Sadness fills my heart as the news reached me this afternoon.
Jan your big heart, strong hands and kind embrace will be forever remembered and missed by all the lives you have touched.
To Sharyn, the boys, Sarah and all of Jans family and friends my thoughts are with you in this time of sadness.
Much Love,
Kim Harris
I feel uncomfortable with a prayer circle under the circumstances. I understand the community's need to support each other, but I would rather gather round the family when and if there is some sort of service planned for the Jan. I thinks the families need their privacy now and the support from this blog, but I hope the family will be looking for help outside this blog if they feel the need as well.
beautiful ch/dad
A friend directed me to this blg yesterday morning (our children have neurological 'issues' though not of Caleb's magnitude).
I was so inspired by Caleb's journey that I went back to the beginning and read and read and read (and ignored my work!). I felt every up and down your family (and town) has traversed over the past 9 months. I cried with you and cheered with you at each step forward Caleb made. And I grew green with envy over the town you live in. The support you have received is awe-inspiring, within the town and the world, at large.
I came back this morning to finish reading and came to this post. I couldn't believe that one more heartache has befallen the "Fleet Family" (as I have come to call you).
Words won't erase the heartache; I can only extend my deepest sympathies. But I know that once again the Fleet Family will persevere and find a way to live again, and love again, and forge ahead.
Jen
blogs.timesunion.com/austinbenconnor
Sharyn, Sarah, Caleb, Kai, Max, Jenny and Timmy. My heart is completely broken and I am so confused. Please know that you are all in my thoughts and prayers. I wish so badly that there were something I could do......but I know there isn't. I am so sorry...
I'm am devastated to hear the news....my heart and prayers go out to all.
To ch/dad You have me broken down with tears that are soaking my lap as i read on. an amazing thing to write to us about jan and his place in the line-up. And as i watched the sunrise this morning all i could see were the rolling waves at newcomb.
Thanks so much Papa Ch..
You are a wonderful father, brother, friend.
The summer after my father died of cancer, my family decided to hold a reunion in Wellfleet--his favorite place to spend the summer. We went there to heal after the loss of my father, but we were so profoundly moved by the spirit of the place that we have been going back to Wellfleet to heal for nearly 15 years now.
To Sharyn and your wonderful family,
May the healing powers of this place and this community continue to accompany you on your journey. Your strength is an inspiration to us all. Our hearts go out to you.
Sky,
Thank you for the picture I remember well...
Chuck,
Thanks for the wonderful words...
Lisa,
I'll be there Friday night...
Kevin
Sky,
Thanks so much for setting this blog up, with your loving intentions, and kind heart we are all able to communicate, check in, and spread love via this.
I love you all.. xo Clance
Please do not forget Sarah in your thoughts, minds, prayers, grievings, as she is so alone now. She was his love.
Thank you Chuck for always painting a beautiful portrait of life.
Sky- thank you for this beautiful picture- it is your pictures that have helped those of us who don't
"know" this Wellfleet tribe visualize you all. Ch/dad- what beautiful words- Jan was clearly a man well loved. I am so sorry for this loss for all of you.
Laura in CT
Sky,
A picture is certainly worth a thousand words, how beautiful, thank you for sharing this.
Chuck,
You have honored your friend in a most beautiful way. Full of grace. Our thoughts and prayers are with you also, and with all of the Fleetians during this horrific time.
Peace to you all tonight-
Audrey & Greg
Potter/Lindsey family--Our profound condolences. It is so deeply unfair to have lightening strike the same family twice. Strength and love.
--Eve, Bill, Leo
Clearly a man loved yet unreachable
many thanks to jan's sister ken for sharing this photo with us in her post this winter.
much love and light to you...
MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU STRONG
GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN
AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE
SHARYN YOU ARE AN AMAZING PERSON
STAY STRONG
I did not know Jan, but, Sky, through your beautiful pictures, and Chuck, through your deeply emotional and loving tribute to your friend, I have a sense of him, and I will hold him in my heart always, and remember him in my prayers.
My deepest sympathies to everyone who knew and loved Jan.
NY/Wellfleet Mom
ch/dad-
Thank you for sharing your gifts and your insight with those of us in the cyber family. Your word are, as always, beautiful - a wonderful tribute to Jan.
Deb
I hurt for you, I cry, I weep...but I'm also @#$%$#ing ANGRY!! I don't have the gall to ask why, because for injustice there is never any why. and so there is no outlet, no words to go along with this anger. but there is a spirit, ignited and fueled by the passion, that is fighting for you...
I will be on the town hall lawn at 8pm friday evening! Thank you Lisa for putting that out there. Fleetians celebrate together and greive together. I can't even imagine any of Jan family & friends being offended by such a gathering. If anyone objects please tell us. We will respect your wishes.
May all our sorrows be replaced with peace.
ch/dad, your words eased my heart,and I thank you. I am there in spirit, and am adding my salty tears to your beautiful ocean. Jan was fortunate to have a friend/brother like you.
As always, with hope, and love,
peg from PA
I am so sad for this loss
Town of Wellfleet- hold each other closely and just love.
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