Note Regarding Order of Entries

The posts in the pages that follow are in this order:

May 2012: CAS Graduation—Kyle Harty Strang Spirit of CAS Award
May 2011: CAS Graduation—Kyle's loyal and loving CAS-mates move up.
March 2011: Two incredible articles that appeared in local newspapers
November: Lyrics of a beautiful song written for Kyle by Sarah Crews
July: Things shared on and around the 17th anniversary of Kyle's birth
June: Snippets of Facebook interchanges, end of school year pieces, and other things written to Kyle
May: CAS Memorial and misc. contributions received in May (in the order the comments were made)
April: Kyle's funeral and misc. contributions received in April (in the order the comments were made)
March 2010: Before Kyle's funeral and information about where to make donations in Kyle's memory

Because postings do not appear in the order they were posted, you will have to check the listing in the Blog Archive below to see whether there are posts you have not read, and then click on those posts.

If you made comments at one of the memorial events and/or if you have words about Kyle that you would like to post, send to: jbarber@berkeley.edu

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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Poem for Kyle from Niko and Mamma


Your eyes are green as the grass.
Your friends love you as much as I do.
I’m going to miss the sound of your alarm clock
Buzzing each morning as you sleep through it.

Your voice with your daily greeting
“how’s it going?” and your smile
Turned our days.

I wish I could have known you longer
So that we could have played baseball together,
Gone out to breakfast more,
And played tricks on our parents.

Planting a garden together and watching the caterpillars
Turn to butterflies,
We passed the days of summer
Your body growing from a wispy thing-of-a-boy
Into a strong young man.
Where did that time go?

I wish we got to know each other better:
That we could have played more games
And eaten dinner together and
you could watch me grow up.

I wish we got to know each other better.
That we could have talked about writing,
That I could have known you as a man
And watched you grow up.

Kyle, we’re so lucky we have such good parents.
Don’t worry, I’ll make sure they
Don’t get into trouble.

We love you  very much Kyle and we miss you.

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