Gordon Randall Kehler

Just thinking of Randy and Betsy and their lives. They are fine people.

I worked on Randy´s campaign for State office in the mid `70´s...his vision inspired my first foray in politics... I knocked on a lot of doors for his campaign in Sunderland Massachusetts!!!

When I was a young man I met Randy at The Woodman Hill farm school. I wasn't much older than the students and not much younger than Randy. For a while he was my cabin shed neighbor living in his own room just 15 feet away. There were times we spent together playing guitar or reading that are some of my fondest memories I've ever spent with another human being. One evening he lead myself and my friend on an overnight drive to pick up American civil rights activist Wally Nelson, whom was being...

You asked for my opinion

one day when supporters

prepared for dark responses

for flashing lights and fears

we walked along the road

where it would happen

your home before a siege

I don't know what I offered

then but I do know you asked

so open to others and their thoughts

in a world of thoughtlessness

a gift from you unforgotten

were it now I would say

The Beloved Community is grieving and holding all the Kehler/Corners in the light today. Godspeed Randy.

May you rest in the peace you so ably championed all of your life. May this finally bring relief from the terrible wasting disease you suffered for so many years.

You have had a life well lived. May a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest. A fellow traveler along the Peace Trail. Genevieve

Remembering Randy Kehler When it comes to accounting for people who truly inspire us, while there is a list for most of us, it is often short. Randy is among the elite on my short list for his resolute, quiet, value centered determination. We all occasionally need help sustaining our resolve on so many of life's challenges and Randy and Betsy beside him, have modeled and led for so many of us. Whether for the issues Randy and Betsy championed or others less heady and encompassing, I and we...