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| SCOTLAND |
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| BROTHER AND SISTER & THE BEST OF FRIENDS - BRETT & KARRIE |
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CROSSANS
A Family of Crazy Catholic SCOTS
& Fightin' IRISH!
It is with our passions
as it is with fire and water;
they are good servants,
but bad masters.
Aesop's Fables, 1692
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NO!
You
can't drive my JAG
to IMPRESS
the GIRLS!
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FORGET the
JAG!
THAT
will
IMPRESS the GIRLS!
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| CARLA ~ TEMPESTUOUS MADCAP |
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| OUR HELLRAISING WAYS |
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At Christmas Midnight Mass,
Carla was a “BIG HIT!”
Attended Mass wearing only a smile and a coat!
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| ME MUM AND BRETT |
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| A VISIT WITH RABBIE |
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A Mother's Love
What could pierce the heart of any mother
more than to see the hopes and dreams
of a bright future for her son shattered
by "Madness" - Schizophrenia.
Her selfless devotion to her son, Brett,
despite the knowledge that she was dying.
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| BOOT CAMP |
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| WITH THE CROSSANS |
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One of the Crossan HELLRAISERS,
Ronald Crossan
My Soulmate, Uncle Ronnie.
Sadly, as with many of the HELLRAISERS,
met with tragic ending at the age of 26.
His Hellraising past caught up with him.
Still miss you, Ronnie!
Born 1946/Died Easter Sunday 1972
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| TRAGIC LOVERS |
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| CARLA & RONALD |
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Ronald & Carla -
Stark, Raving Mad in Love
Ronnie & me:
Our future as a crazy-assed trial lawyer team
ended abruptly with his murder.
So I thought I might become a COP instead-
Try to do some good.
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| PADDY |
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| PATRICK JAMES CROSSAN |
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One of the great ‘Hearts’
of World War 1
One of my great-uncles,
Patrick James ‘ Paddy’ Crossan.
Had a pub on Rose Street in Edinburgh.
Sadly, never had a chance to meet
him. Died in 1933, not yet 40 years old.
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Live
the Life they want to make movies about.
"Which is the most reasonable,
and does his duty best:
he
who stands aloof from the struggle of life,
calmly contemplating it,
or he who descends to the ground,
and takes his part in the contest?"
Thackeray
We seek a renewed stirring of love for the earth.
What we are capable of doing to it is often what we ought not to do.
We urge that all people here and now determine
that a wide, untrammeled freedom
shall remain living testimony that this generation,
our own, had love for the next.
We may see that progress is not the accelerating speed
with which we multiply and subdue the Earth
nor the growing number of things we possess and cling to.
It is a way along which to search for truth,
to find serenity and love and reverence for life,
to be part of an enduring harmony,
trying hard not to sing out of tune.
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| LOCH LOMOND |
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| CHEERS! |
MY MOTHER’S REMARKABLE STRENGTH & CHARACTER
that she displayed despite the tragic
losses
of her son to mental illness,
her father and three brothers,
and the man she loved very deeply,
my father.
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| I'M YOUR HELL! I'M YOUR DREAM! |
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| A BITCH, A TEASE! A GODDESS ON MY KNEE! I AM NOTHING IN-BETWEEN! |
THE CROSSAN WOMEN
I can understand how you'd be so confused.
I don't envy you.
You're so good to me I know that I can't change.
I tried to tell you but you look at me
like maybe,
I'm an ANGEL underneath;
innocent and sweet.
Yesterday I cried;
Must've been relieved to see the softer side.
I'm a little bit of everything all rolled into
ONE.
| SO TAKE ME AS I AM! |
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| TOMORROW I WILL CHANGE, AND TODAY WON'T MEAN A THING! |
I’m a BITCH, I’m a LOVER.
I’m a CHILD, I’m a MOTHER,
I’m a SINNER, I’m
a SAINT.
I do NOT feel ASHAMED.
I’m your
HELL, I’m your DREAM,
I’m nothing in-between.
You know you wouldn’t want it
any other way.
So Take Me As I Am,
This might mean you’ll have to be a stronger man.
Rest assured that when I start to make you nervous,
I’m going to extremes; Tomorrow I will change,
And Today won’t mean a thing.
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,
the greater their power to harm us.
Those difficult times have helped me to
understand better than before,
how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way
and that so many things that one goes worrying
about are of no importance whatsoever.
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