The Easter break doesn't sound like much of a break, but it's nice to get personal items checked off of the list. The stone walkway looks great and will surely help with the mud.
Around here we say that there're five seasons, the four standard ones and the muddy season which we are right in the middle of.
Making a rock garden for the succulents should be fun to do.
I took a look at the new website for the Papillon Foundation and the people that put it together did a great job, and they are going to host it for free, that's a winning combination. While taking a good look at the website, the people you serve, the Papillon recipients are so diverse and in such need of a helping hand.
What a feeling of accomplishment you must have, helping so many who may otherwise just continue to feel helpless with no way out of their present situation.
God Bless all of those involved with your charity and ask for nothing in return.
Thank you and yes I like your five season concept, as winter is almost here and as we are in a winter rainfall area, the mud will soon start again.
The rock garden wants a lot of time and I will do it in stages, but will have to finish it before the Spring season arrives. We thus far have about 30 succulents and I will have to get a few more.
Difficulty strikes here from all sides my friend and thankfully we have time to populate thec website with a gallery page and other items of note.
But to get the time to sit with it for a few hours is a bit difficult.
I am just glad that you like the new website and we have high hopes for it.
As an ex teacher you know the feeiling when a student performs very well and it is very much the same with the people that we work with. To see a man that had no hope and had nothing, driving his own car that he proudly comes to show me makes my heart sing.
To me it simply means that he can feed his own family now. Mission accomplished.
God has blessed us with some human angels as allm of their hearts are centered on only one thing.
To be a blessing to all others.
Blessings and !BEER
As a teacher, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing someone make gains that will change their life forever.
I worked with many teachers and I wish I could say the same thing.
Some should have retired long ago and I believe the only reason they were still w-- king was for the money.
A principal of mine once told me that a good teacher is like an actor, they need to hold the audiences
attention and being on stage five days a week is not easy.
You are so right and it's always only the special teachers that care.
Most of my teachers were abusers and hit me every day. We only discovered many years later that the "Corpus collosum" in my brain does not correspond between the A and B brain.
It also explained my ambidextry and now that I understand it, I can respond with the correct front end of my brain. Confusing though, as the one side is a dreamer and the other side is literal.
Yes, money or the lack of it keeps many in the trade long after their expiry time.
I can believe you and the danger is that the actor role could transform into one's life, but thankfully sanity prevails for some such as you.
Cheers and !BEER
There are so many ways to learn, and a good teacher should be able to individualize their lessons accordingly. I know for myself I am very visual and had difficulty learning when the teacher just stood in the front of the room and lectured, it came across as blah, blah, blah.
Not knowing exactly what "Corpus callosum" is, I did a little reading.
You sure have navigated this hurdle very well, but I'm sure there were many instances when people didn't understand, and therefor directed their rath in your direction, but there is never a reason to strike a student.
Hahaha, it was that blah, blah, blah that never got trough to me and if they suddenly asked me a question about what was just said, I was in my mind out in the ocean on a boat 🤣
So I would give some inane answer and the whole class would burst out laughing, which infuriated the male teachers and then I was in for it.
Fortunately I communicate much better in the written form and as evidenced I breezed through a Theology degree. Not really, but I got along very well and I have always risen into manegerial positions in the previous companies that I worked for, so it's not for a lack of trying lol.
Then of course I gave it all up and walked into charity work 21 years ago and have never looked back.
Such is life my friend.
Cheers and !BEER
Most anything can be accomplished by working hard at whatever you choose to do.
I can't remember ever giving less than my all when I decide to do something.
I have always feared, looking back at my life, and realize that the reason for failure was due to not going all in.
Hard work and fortitude will most often get you over hurdles that are presented throughout life.
You walked away 21 years ago, that had to take some guts. 21 years is a long time to be at the helm of your wonderful charitable organization. The amount of time and effort it must have taken to get to where you're at, speaks volumes to how much you must love what you're doing.
I always tell @farm-mom, if there is really a heaven, when you get there the gates will be wide open. I've got a funny feeling when it's time, she will be running into you!
You have kept me pretty drunk with all of the beer you so graciously send my way and let me not forget the wine.
Thank you very much, my friend.
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.If only many others would adopt that "giving all" concept in the things that they decide to do, there will be less trouble in this world. It is this new generation that troubles me, as we struggle with many youngsters that have no idea how to help themselves. All that they know is how to eat and their mobile phones are their best friends. But many of them have lost their parents to AIDS/HIV and the rest come from dirt poor homes.
The time had arrived in my life 21 years ago to make a major decision. Keep on in the business world as is, or follow your heart. But let me tell you that once the decision was taken, then miracles started to appear, which were all affirmations to me that I was finally on the right road.
Hahaha, I believe that there is really a heaven, but works will not get one in there, as Faith has the key. For 17 of the first 21 years I was also a registered preacher and had 2 churches and 6 old age homes where I preached on a rotational basis every Sunday. But the secret is that one must practise what one preaches and the charity work is an ideal opportunity.
Since we have relocated down here I have only had 2 sermons thus far, not surprisingly titled "Be a blessing to others", but yes, it seems that I am slowly drifting away from preaching. The doing is more important and the work is much.
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But I can give you a new one !BEER and !LUV
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