Remembering Redmond Grybauskas
September 20, 1991-January 9, 2025
This website is a space to share stories, photos, and memories of Redmond.
redmond’s gofundme here
From no where our paths crossed during occupy, in 2013 in Egypt, we found eachother again on a roadtrip after Kailys wedding, and it was never perfect, but it was always honest.
A blessing to remember sneaking off campus at lunch to smoke cigarettes in the parking lot where we’d get sandwiches. Always a laugh, always with art materials all over him. May his memory forever be a blessing
Sweet Redmond, today is your birthday. A day to celebrate the magic of you, of your beautiful short life. You are ageless, a time traveler. You are everywhere, in the trees, the river, sailing across oceans.
My amazing son. Love. Spread good around the world.
I still remember opening the white padded envelope and pulling out a small paperback Redmond had sent me. I smiled and thought, Redmond… where the hell did you find this thing?
The following remarks were given by Jo Ann Beard at the celebration of Redmond’s life, March 29, 2025 I think my first correspondence with Redmond was in 2017; we were sharing our work, both writers, and both concerned with how to translate life into language. We kept in loose touch, writing letters on email or…

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