Our friend and colleague Albus (Upsetting content)

I'm really sorry to hear this. I recently joined the group, looking for information. Albus was one of the first to reply and offer help.

Thank you Albus for taking the time to help others, when you were going through a difficult time yourself.

I hope you're in a better place now, free from pain and struggles.

Rest in peace.

Godbless ❤️

A lesson we can all learn from kind, compassionate, supportive people like Albus, and there are many of them is:

the slogan / matra if you will, of the Recovery College:

You are worthy of the compassion you give out to others.

The Recovery College was set up by people with mental health problems/ need/ distressed, people/ service users of mental health service/ survivors/ thrivers to create courses for recovery.

Please have a look Google ''Recovery College'' - I wish I'd told Albus about this as he was very distressed at times.

Are our tributes getting to Albus's family and friends?

A poem for Albus

A kind, compassionate man.

A disabled fellow traveller.

Who knew the meaning of helpfulness indeed.

He always went the extra mile for disabled people, and those who suffered anxiety, depression, trauma and all those with distress.

Simply because he knew what it meant to be discriminated against.

Albus was pure in his determination, his name means 'white', or what does it mean.

In a sense, I never knew him, I didn't meet him face to face, never saw him online or his photograph.

However I knew this:

his willingness to go the extra mile for disabled people.

His total commitment to the rights of disabled people, a belief in his, our, and all our capabilities.

His belief in a more just society, and antidiscrimination values, and actions.

He was a service user, a survivor, of bad experiences, which he told us about,

and no doubt many more…

He was a modern man, open to feelings, sharing and caring.

And caring he did extremely well.

He had hope among his physical and mental pains, a nonmacho determination.

He was compassionate, intelligent, and kind.

He made all of our lives better

He was kind kind kind .

He knew there is no such thing as a small act of kindness,

in what can be a cruel world, in fact it can be vicious.

Albus was a KING of Kindness, a King of the only wisdom that really matters:

A King of Compassion.

Milan Ghosh.

This poem is not copyrighted; it is for his friends, acquaintances and family, and work colleagues.

All I ask is that SCOPE pass it on to these latter, and confirm it.

Thank you Rosie-Scope indeed, and on behalf of others too. re passing on our tributes for everyone's compassion, and wellbeing.

True.

Many people say I write beautiful poetry of all kinds: for socialism, being oneself, nurturing and healing oneself, being kind, and compassionate, madcap humour, about personal and social transformation, about being a total optimist because of surviving 3 near death experiences; I write all this to help myself, and others, the classic Middle Path for Buddhists.

Many disabled and other oppressed groups write beautiful poetry too, it is part of our self healing, comradeship and resistance of stigma. It is therapeutic to write, and healing for others.

Something tells me Albus might have written poetry too?

Catherine21, and everyone one of us here, now, grieving, and celebrating Albus's life are BEAUTIFUL too.

When you see the best in people, and keep doing that more and more, the colours we see are vivid, nature, everything is beautiful, and even our 'enemies' (bitterness is for fools, makes on bad company, repulsive, and destroys that precious thing happiness; our enemies can teach us patience, and deep compassion, quote Jesus, Thich Nat Hanh, Mandela) are beautiful.

We have woke up to the presence of life, love, everything good.

Albus brought out the best in us, as every person who really knows what the value of life, loving, and living means, and he is not the only one.

There is no scarcity of the good, the wholesome, the just and the beautiful, or truths. But anxiety can make us feel we can't, when we CAN,

There is always abundance, and Albus gave us abundance and determination, campaigning strength and caring, and many other wholesome qualities; he was a hero to inspire the best in each of us. He certainly was courageous, and very kind to me.

The best tribute we can pay to him, and other like him, living now is to carry on the work of resistance to stigma, not be bitter, to reverse the PIP ESA benefit reforms - and I TOTALLY believe it CAN be done, if we pull our weight 8m disabled people, 11m elderly and disabled voters; we are a weighty opposition to Labour's Big Benefit Cruel Letdown, if we forge alliances, even deeper than we have already.

The best tribute we can give to Albus is to keep showing up for the best in humanity, the quest for equality, opportunity, sensitivity, caring, and social reforms.

Dear Albus helped me greatly, as he did you Catherine21, as I helped you too, as you thanked me so, as we all help each other.

Let us celebrate his life, by living ours, fully and wholesomely and joyfully, despite the personal and social and political demons.

Catherine21 you are beautiful, as is Albus, I am beautiful, we disabled people are beautiful, this is the antidote to disablism, hatred and stigma.

We KNOW it.

Lets keep going and win justice, our benefits back, and no matter what, court action if necessary.

Albus would want nowt less!

PS

Its time to look after ourselves,

by treats, by meeting with friends, by whatever ways we restore our batteries, in the face of Albus's death.

Dreadfully sad, so sorry to hear, he was always very helpful and kind. RIP!

Its all bout love

''Your wow..'' comment above proves to me absolutely that

it applies to you Catherine21?!

Please meditate, or contemplate on this.

Do you get it you are worthy of the compassion you give out, too.

We are all worthy of the compassion we give out.

You underestimate how wise, and compassionate you are,

and anyone else reading this, who has transformed their lives from bitterness, isolation, unskillfulness to love.

Really, the best thing we can do is keep collecting money for his family.

Please tell us Rosie @scope how it is collected, through what bank account, please give us the account number.

And address to send cards gifts to, messages to for his family,

and

to keep going strong, along with our vulnerabilities as disabled and distressed people.

Paradox, like me, you Catherine, many are extremely, even clinically vulnerable, and yet amazingly strong.

I ask you all to develop, grow even further than you have already, little by little,

drop by drop, step by step to transform your lives, Google mindfulness and mediation, and your towns name and postcode.

and

if you have any suffering, grief or 'mere' irritation, to keep dissolving it into love, and good works.

All demons are diamonds,

and real transformation is gradual mostly.

The best tribute we can pay to Albus and the likes of him is to keep being as courageous, kind, honest, real, down to earth as he was.

In other words, to keep being the vey best in ourselves.

If you need support keep asking for it, get an advocate, keep campaigning for more and better NHS, and other services, and to get the disability benefit cuts reversed.

Finally, if there are no services start a self help/ mutual support group for disabled people, do more of what you enjoy, go for a walk cut the hedge, do organic gardening, and conservation, positive activity, or whatever tickles your fancy (funny expression that, probably by Nora Batty, my mum and auntie Winnie loved it and said it a lot.

Have a laugh at no ones expense, I bet Albus had a great sense of humour, let his colleagues in SCOPE tell us please? BE KIND, in your jokes.

Dear Catherine21

You speak inspirationally, wisely and compassionately too.

Albus did too.

Many others have said very kind and inspiring things in their grief too.

We all deserve love and the good things in life.

Whilst we all suffer because we suffer we have a need for mutal love and compassion, get it?

take care of yourselves and others too please.

P[S

Can a staff member of SCOPE ask Albus's family if they could post a picture on this forum,

because it would be nice, lovely in fact, if we could see what he looks like, please

It might provide comfort for people, help them grieve, perhaps?