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Hey have you ever thoughts of the many lost conversations that you know you wanted to have with a loved one that is no longer here, well I have in a certain sense with my step brother Lyle Watson who as you all know died a couple of days ago. Now what I mean by lost conversations isn't ones where the loved one that has past away was right or wrong, or that you who are still around to care for others is wrong or right either. I happen to be talking of conversations of stuff you may have both greatly enjoyed in life in general. As I have said before both Lyle and I are sci-fi geeks through and through the one we both loved a lot was the series known as
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Star Trek a whole bunch. There will be many of more on this very topic for sure you can bet on it, but the one thing that we never got around to was this "Did Lyle enjoy the two newest reboots of Star Trek themselves?, the ones that are from director of all out new kind of science fiction films or at least one more besides the Star Trek ones.... known as "SUPER 8" yes that is right I'm talking about my main man who created Jennifer Garner's Sydney Bristow
in the series called ALIAS, that is right I'm talking of J.J. Abrams. Who just so happens to be the go to man for the next trilogy of Star Wars films......." all that aside, like I said Lyle and I never did get down to discussing our reviews of what we liked or loved about them as a whole! I wish that we had though because I'm sure he was one of the main Trek fans who disliked the Spock and Uhurra love relationship aspect of both films. As to my answer to that very relationship for the most part I'd say I'm with those who like things never messed with! At the same time though I have to give the writers a bit of cheer for pulling a grand out of nothing surprise with the very idea of facing a new story idea in any timeline of the final frontier!
Hello All,
I've been thinking a whole bunch lately on how we as humans take everything we know to be all out important in every part of life, mainly because of my step brother Lyle's passing away because of a brain blood clot on his brain since this past Sunday. Now I know that with having a sibling when you are young more times than not there is fighting to without a doubt see who is right whether you are or not? and as I have said before I was rather lucky in life for the first elven years of my life I was the oldest of three. An then in late ninety eighty four a young girl by the name of Merri was our babysitter at the time that was how I first came to know a small bit of my soon to extended family. It wasn't until about March of nineteen eighty five that I met my soon to be older brother Lyle, had a friend with him that was a couple years older than he was named Matt Copper who was always drawing comic book characters of some sort and he and Lyle were great pals as I recall for both of them had drawn me back into the fold of loving superheroes yet again. I remember after my mother Nancy Watson had introduce to Merri and Lyle's father Chuck Watson, but back in those days Micheal, Kylie, and I just called him Mister Watson this was of course out of respect since we as kids didn't know him at all just as our mom's new square dancing partner from at the old y building over in Kennwick Washington. It was coming close to May in that year when Mom and Mister Watson told all of kids that we were going to be a family because they decided to both get remarried to each other, for each of us as kids we all had our own way of dealing with grief and worry of how our other parent would get along in life or at least that was on my mind a lot, then came our family units being joined, we had it at the Richland Community House which still stands today over by Howard Amon Park.
Mister Watson walk out first up to the judge, then Lyle held his sister Merri hand and walk up to where Mister Watson was, then Micheal and Kylie strode down in a silly way to the Judge then it was my turn with my mother at my arm to accept her love for this guy known only as Mister Watson to my thirteen year old self. When all was said and done WE the children all had our own set of vows just as our new father had to our mother and vice verse Lyle and Merri with their new mother and boy were those ever fun for sure. Then came time for changes for Lyle since at the time he was nearly force for at the time to live on his own he did it better than I let's just say. As I took his room and made it mine over many years of time, still when he came back I would share it with him when and if he wanted too. Lyle had this cool cave like bed that were painted in purple and gold on the main framing that it was built out of and inside the cave he had a blue light bulb where he had spent most of his time reading his many books. Which turned out to be science fiction or fantasy related.
When I was really little at the age of seven and eight I had seen this cartoon called Star Blazers and I remember hearing a story of how Lyle and Merri were shown that learning was truly important it turns that their father and had gotten a coin dispenser and had attached it to their television set and Lyle must of helped him put the cable junction feeder into the coin dispenser. Then Mister Watson was able to regulate how much time could be spent watching any type of program on the television. Merri had RED painted quarters and Lyle had of course BLUE ones..... I'm not really sure if I recall hearing this before we lived on the east coast or after or maybe both but I do know it was the first time of knowing Lyle's favorite color was mine as well from that very bit of Watson history. Lyle without a doubt was always very creative for sure no matter what he was cool with a heart of real passion for friendship and family and I'm glad to say I knew him as both!
Hello All,
Yesterday I was sharing from on the first of many crazy moments since I had found out earlier at the start of this week of my brother Lyle Watson. Maybe, for today instead of telling us all myself included of how Lyle got to where he is right now I can say this much of the young man who was a great gamer of life
, I will explain on that in a moment on two. It is often said at times the wise ones leave this wonderful walk of the experience of life waaaay to soon, it is with great tenderness of my own weeping soul that a little after six thirty tonight that I now am full of relief for Lyle. His sister Merri had as I said jumped onto a plane like her father and my mother did early on Monday from Minnesota, she didn't have as long a trek as they did from Cuenca Ecuador, but still emotional worn all the same. On the night of when we her dad and my mom were at Shari's restaurant on the first of this month we found out she was staying in Spokane with a collage girlfriend of hers and drove up yesterday. Lyle was not only super smart of loving the stuff he loved, which is a lot of the type of things I have loved or liked for a lifetime, he loved theater production and setting up sets of lighting very much so. He was "The ultra awesome sheik roller of nerdism in every part of his being" the one sure thing I knew best of Lyle was he was no small dreamer, he found the way of asking the richer part of WHY?, to everything he knew, so he could be a wealth of knowledge."
After his sister said her goodbye to her loving brother, she and her dad Chuck were wanting to pull the life support machine so he could go in peace, and be with not only other family members who had passed just recently (this includes their mother Barbra Willis Watson, she passed away back in mid July of this year). Also both sets of his three pairs of grandparents, here I'm including his step mother Nancy Watson's parents (Ben Franklin Powers and Evelyn Day Powers) as well.Late into Tuesday they found out by looking at Lyle's health insurance that he had requested to be an organ donor in the event of his death. So they found out all the information of what they didn't know a lot of what needed to be done in the state of Washington, relating to a recently organ donor that passed, they had to wait a full twelve hours for anyone needing immediate transfer and moved Lyle from intensive care unit area to..... ( I'm calling it here even through it is not "The Harvesting Room"), but it could be the operating room/morgue in where they moved Lyle with his life support unit. I'm only saying that for I was not there yesterday night or today at the tie Lyle drew his final breath. Still through a phone call from my mom I did find out that at least part of Lyle's wishes are granted for from they surgery of what could be used were his heart valves and his corneas of his eyes will be useful for someone, and a part of Lyle's Legacy of helpfulness.
We all met up at Round Table Pizza and shared great stories of a son, a brother, an a uncle
with some good pizza as well I might add! Now I know you are just wondering how is it that I know that Lyle is up in heaven running God's life computer for us down here on earth?, in truth I don't know anymore than I bet he is up there with James Doohan (March 3,1920-July 20,2005) whom played Scotty on the original series of Star Trek and movies...... I can see the two of them hard at work talking to the computer in heaven saying "Computer, Hello Computer.....like from the voyage home movie of Trek lore.
Hello all,
Well the picture seen here
, is without a doubt from way back on a very special night for yours truly, that very night being the night the class of Hanford High's class of the year "1991" faded into what is known as life. Now twenty three years later it has an equally same powerful meaning for me! The meaning of course relates to what all hope will come with ease the passage of being welcomed home when one's duties on earth are assumed over.....
For those who haven't heard my elder step brother Lyle Watson had had a blood colt on his brain just a couple of days ago. He was rushed to Kadlec hospital in Richland, Washington by his loving friends who run the Tri Cities yearly summer event known as the "Ye Merrie Greenwood Renaissance Faire", which takes place around the time of when the Hydro plane Columbia Cup boat races and the Allied Art show in the last week of every July. Yesterday as you all know I went and wore my heart on my shelve and was asking that anyone who is dealing with the grief of lost of a love one to really think and pray for that love one to be with God. Today even though I should keep my praising to myself of what I had shared with Lyle as I saw him hooked up to the life support machine in the Intensive Care Unit last night when my mom and Chuck Lyle's father gave me a choice of "Just saying goodbye in my heart to him or seeing him and letting Lyle know that "I his step brother Matt Byrd", am assured his time on planet earth was and always will be well remembered with memories of grand love, no matter what! "
So of course I did have my folks take to the Kadlec after I got of from work, at Albertsons, on the way there in the car ride over they told me what the doctors had told them and my brother Michael and his wife Kathie. Which was "Lyle had a blood clot some time through out the early hours of the morning of this past Sunday while in his REM sleep pattern. The blood clot had expanded at some point and pushed Lyle's frontal cortex upon rupturing off of it's place. An filled that stretched open space with blood because it couldn't go anywhere and that pressure from all that blood made the reasoning center of his brain press against his top portion of his skull. When the doctors were reliving the clot they had to remove the whole right portion of Lyle's skull to do what they could to get at their main area of work. With the frontal cortex of the brain out of place a human being can't remember every day things like their own name and are always going to be in a unconscious state for a long while, if not ever to come out of a peaceful sleep, better known as a coma."
Now here is what I said to my brother Lyle as I saw the life support machine doing it's job. "Lyle, you and l your step brother Matt Byrd have had the same kind of love of many things, particularly anything or everything science fiction related, to us both enjoying the Asian art called Anime. I also told Lyle how much I love him as a fellow human being outside of our family relationship as brothers. I shared with him that HE is now the captain of any "Enterprise of his choice of registry number....or any Star Trek ship that HE also loves best outside of Starfleet. Then I remembered as well the one time he made me the best birthday card ever, I even shared that I'm slowly learning about role playing card games, the whole time or most of it I held his hand to let heaven know that I'm ready to accept what I know that Lyle's in the place where he is forever safe."
After I was done sharing my rightful moments with Lyle and had a few leaky tears on my mother's shoulder and cleaning my hands with a sanitation gel and wipes, the three of us had headed over to Shari's restaurant on George Washington way for some much needed food. While there we got a call from Chuck's daughter Merri saying she is in Spokane, and will be here on the following day!
Hey there every one,
I know that I haven't in a long time brought up religion here on my site for long while, but with things being well unknown for sure about my step brother Lyle Watson because of what has happen needs a lot of exploring by all who reads this....also it will help me put my own thoughts in a open perspective, which is what I know that I need most right now! Like I said yesterday I as well as my whole family have our thoughts of worried love going out to a beloved son, and brother. It is said in the bible any bible that "For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS ONLY Son, that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16) I know that WE ALL, have friends or family that do pass away from violent or non violent type of stuff everyday, but we must remember one grand thing for anyone who is part of life and that is GOD has HIS REASONS of why HE makes us overjoyed with liking someone, it's because no matter what GOD NEEDS US to know love because most times we as human do forget to be thankful for the small things in life, WE ALL tend to like or love it when whatever life brings it has got to be BIG and AMAZING for when it's not we at times, but not always fall into our own trappings of despair when someone close to us does die we need to remember it is not over for them at all it is just the start of being in a much better place. I'm sorry if I have overstepped my bounds of relating how I know time matters to not only us as the fragile little beings who call ourselves humans and we think the world can't hurt us.....but whomever you pray to in your time of hope and need know that they love you from when they gave you life till the time they call us home. Jesus loves us regardless of if We frail humans ever truly understand the meaning of his many adventures all at once, I know he gives us all a chance to reach our faith by loving us by just letting every human experience the journey known as life. So please if you know anyone who needs to be loved this day or just a word of encouragement let them know it best of two ways with a friendly greeting from deep inside you, and with a smile.
Now we must get down to another matter altogether that being did I forget that we have a monthly event here that needs attending to as well. With it being Batman's seventy fifth year of being around did you think I would only celebrate it in the summer only well put on your best Batman clothes if you have any? As long as your suspended in surprise is the only true thing that matters. Here was what I had as my Bat Plate here on the site being
of course, it doesn't mean I like Peter Paker's alter ego any less? Or maybe for a while I do I don't really know why that is?....do you? For my desktop image of the month of August I went looking for the neatest looking Bat symbol that I could find
and with this one it broke three mind binding things that I thought were cool, what are they your wondering huh? come back tomorrow for these and other exciting stuff of Lyle to be shared!
Hello everyone,
You know there are given times when a blog can at times just write itself from nothing at the ground up portion or bottom for that matter either, and well today is most assuredly one of those kind of topics, for sure. For whatever reason even though it is of course the weekend and a person usually finds it rather easy to relax by staying up to the wee hours of the morning when you don't have to work the next day because it is your weekend let me tell you this not every weekend can be a bed of easy comfort as I found this very morning, you can't expect your Sunday morning to be a waking nightmare for the rest of your forthcoming week and boy was set it REALLY in stone like that for me......... . I found myself for some reason or other needing to watch the first season of "ARROW" which I had got last summer when I had bought the Mary Jane teen novel. So at a little after elven last night I started it from the pilot of the series and watched the whole first disc out of five so I could be on top of my game when my copy of season two comes out which is released on 9/16/2014 in the united states as I know it, any way I was up till four in the morning before deciding it was time for sleep. It was right at the time of this very posting time that my phone work me up. It was my mother on the other end of the line I was still just trying to get some shut eye since I stayed up to that awful morning hour, so I only heard what she was saying a little bit focus wise but something from her voice tone told me it was you have to listen right now buddy boy, so I came out of my bed room an replayed my phone's answering machine. She and Chuck my step father are on their way from Cuenca, Ecuador at a whirl wind tornado speed because of my step brother Lyle being found unconscious by one his roommates he is at Kadlec hostpail in Richland Washington. Later today my sister Kylie called me and we talked of the impact of it all and how it might be Lyle's last few days sooner rather than later. I then called my brother Micheal and his wife Kathie told me what they knew of what Lyle's condition is from what the doctors were saying. After talking with them I called Lyle's sister Merri whom I had just seen with my folks this past May during my trek to seeing good ol Mount Rushmore. We chatted for a half hour or about that and I know that she too is coming home to visit during this sad moment in time. All I know is the only thing I can say is right now I'm mighty broken at this moment with thoughts of Lyle.
Hello All,
You know when I heard it earlier that Robin Williams passed away and it was all over Facebook I just wasn't sure how or what to think of this man who brought so many laughs to so many people that had a way of thinking "Laughter, why do I need to laugh at all most things in life aren't that funny at all..... and when they are it's only to take you away from what's important in life work, for no one has time to be funny, really." Now I know a lot of people will say why did I Matt include that quote about life and why we should ever think thoughts of the very kind, well it is because I want everyone who reads this even as sad or remarkable of a tribute to Robin Williams this is please, Please don't have that way of viewing life as a whole.
Robin Williams, was a very talented man who gave us all a way of saying "Laughter is what makes us all needed at times". He gave us such enduring characters as Aladdin's Gennie
and "Ms. Doubtfire". He was just getting ready recently to reprise his role as Teddy Roosevelt in a third installment of "NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 3", some may say his returning to television series "THE CRAZY ONES" not being picked up for a second season wasn't part of why Robin took his own life. I went through everything I could think of his early work that I could reflect on and like the title of this entry states I happen to have some his best parts as the Orkion alien seen here
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Robin Williams also made some other great movies besides those listed above. Goodwill Hunting with Matt Damon and the soon to be Batman Ben Alfeck in the Dawn of Justice movie coming out next summer with Superman in there for good measure I Guess?, then there's Hook where Peter Pan faces life adult and can't go back to Neverland for the obvious reason that he doesn't believe anymore in himself. I guess that is a small bit of reasoning that when you look at Williams life he was able to make others so humbly happy whether he was a beacon of hope in every character he ever was, even in dramas he made you think not of yourself but how to explore your own set of being a bundle of laughs. All I know for sure is everyone will miss the man who could pull us from our troubled everyday woes and make us all a lot richer with humor. I do happen to have couple of his films that I may get out just for ol time sake and see if they may show while he was so empty of emotion early today, I know in truth that they won't help with healing the pain of why he couldn't find it in himself to laugh at his own inner demons.....still it is rather unique way of showing us all that sometime even the best medicals can't be easy to be just laughter. But we have to make life worth seeking especially since the answers of understanding life at all are never easy even if we are somebody knowing or thinking we knowing it all, we are just humans that need love from others.
till next time Nan Noo, Nan Noo
