Ivy is still missing
And Wave Farm, apparently, is preparing to sue me.
UPDATE: Ivy was found!
That is Ivy, who has been missing, apparently, more than a week. Ivy is my dog, along with my daughter and ex-wife. My daughter picked Ivy. Ivy was the runt of the litter. Mama was stepping on her, as I remember. Our daughter wanted to nobly take care of the weakest member of the pack. We called her “Scaredy Dog,” or at least I did, because she was always skittish.
Nobody on the entire planet has told me that Ivy is missing. I believe she has been missing at least eight days. None of my family or friends, not anyone who saw a social media post about the missing dog, nobody shared the information. I happened to see a social media post about my own dog, several days after Ivy went missing, and that is the only way I know that Ivy is still lost in the woods in Greene County.
Some of the folks at Wave Farm are not busy trying to locate the missing dog — the radio technology of a drone aircraft would seem useful for this project — but with something else. They have circulated an email this week to WGXC programmers telling them that the non-profit organization I founded is preparing to sue me. They are collecting evidence: send your screen shots of anything I have done wrong, in a virtual world or real life, to feedback@wavefarm.org and feedback@wgxc.org. (They actually used someone’s personal address in their message to programmers, because this is personal. Those feedback email addresses are meant to democratize the criticism of the station. Instead, by using a personal address, they are creating less transparency.)
(Also, Wave Farm recently denied a request from a volunteer programmer to read my “Hudson Valley Show Paper” events calendar on the air. I do the calendar because the station stopped doing its own for programmers to read on air.)
Wave Farm still has many of my personal belongings, but that is the final tie between myself and the organization. Until very recently, everyone was on the one-yard-line to let me come over so we could sort out who’s stuff was who’s, and then the other side became suddenly unresponsive, and has since cut off all communication. A couple of hours walking through the property, and this would all be over, but instead the Wave Farm board of directors has decided to use your pledged donations to collect evidence for a future lawsuit against the organization’s founder. And that board is refusing to pay their fired founder the promised $16,000 severance pay, and are refusing to let the founder of the organization get his personal belongings. The intent of a lawsuit, I suppose, is to shut me up, which they could do much more cheaply and easily by just giving me a call at 518-947-4806 and working out the final details of when I can stop by to pick up my personal belongings. The phone call would take a few minutes, and the visit and collection, a few hours, and then it would all be over.
More importantly, I would hope someone would send me any information they have about Ivy, and if anyone knows anything about her whereabouts, I am hoping she is still alive. Belongings are just things. Ivy was part of the family.