@michele-b Actually she was 66. She would have turned 67 in September.
Thank you for such beautiful words. She was a great lover of the environment and animals and had a great sense of humor. We shared quite a few adventures. It's funny - even though she was incredibly beautiful, she never paid much attention to it. She let her hair go white, she had sun damaged skin - she didn't care.
The very best and most important kind of true beauty there is!
Thank you for such beautiful words. She was a great lover of the environment and animals and had a great sense of humor. We shared quite a few adventures. It's funny - even though she was incredibly beautiful, she never paid much attention to it. She let her hair go white, she had sun damaged skin - she didn't care.
Please keep sharing throughout your grieving. Grief is the most amazing and exquisitely painful of all emotions.
It comes back again and again and again. Elizabeth Kuebler-Ross talked so much about the stages and Pema Chodrun is great in her Buddhist explanation of dealing with hard times of all kinds as well as loss (in a very different way in her book ("When Things Fall Apart ") but oh one has to experience it over and over to know its deep hold and role in our lives. Ages and stages and rebirth of one transformational emotion with a grip like no other.
You are always in my prayers as is her family. And yes I hit send and thought 66 not 67. She is laughing and doesn't care i added that and so am I ?
Please keep sharing throughout your grieving. Grief is the most amazing and exquisitely painful of all emotions.
It comes back again and again and again. Elizabeth Kuebler-Ross talked so much about the stages and Pema Chodrun is great in her Buddhist explanation of dealing with hard times of all kinds as well as loss (in a very different way in her book ("When Things Fall Apart ") but oh one has to experience it over and over to know its deep hold and role in our lives. Ages and stages and rebirth of one transformational emotion with a grip like no other.
You are always in my prayers as is her family. And yes I hit send and thought 66 not 67. She is laughing and doesn't care i added that and so am I ?
@suspira44 I’m so sorry for the loss of your beautiful friend. And @coyote, best wishes on the job *fingers crossed*
@jewels
Thank you for sharing that. It's been so frustrating.
An interesting thing happened last week. I was corresponding with a woman who had an issue related to the consulting that our consortium is engaged in. After much back and forth, she asked me if I would be willing to come and train some teachers in her area? Our typical fees were probably out of her budget range, especially now -- and she's not a district w/public monies. She is privately funded by parents. So, here I am, confronted with an opportunity to take it all and run with it. Instead of offering myself as a single option and taking all of the fees for myself, as this other member of our group -- I'll call her Greedy Pants -- whom I talked about in the previous post would have done ( and has done), I chose to do the following.
I emailed my cohort, including Greedy Pants, and explained that there's an opportunity. I went into some detail about how fortunate I felt to have been invited to be included among their cohort and how honored I felt to be part of the collegiality and collaborative group we'd built, and that MY success with them was BECAUSE of the exposure to the connections of the lead person who organized the consortium -- it only made sense to extend the offer of this opportunity to ALL Of us. I wanted to make sure they were included in the offer of contracting for this training. I mentioned that we'd have to reduce our fees, but if they wanted to pursue it, I would forward their names to the individual who was asking for the training. Of the three others in our consortium, two emailed and said they'd want to be included. Ms. Greedy Pants never even replied. In essence, the email called her out for her behavior in NOT including the rest of us in the past and opportunistically cashing on on our leader's connections and generosity.
I think she got the message. Still and all, if she continues to do what she's been doing by taking what's not hers, it still may need to go into legal consequences.
and everyone else :-)
I just wanted to stop in briefly to say thank you for your kindness and prayers. The surgery went well, and as far as I know everything is where it's supposed to be. ;-) I still have another doctor visit on Monday to remove an apparatus, but although it's early, recovery seems to have begun well. I'll have some days to rest, and then about 6 weeks of therapy before they can officially declare me "repaired". Thank you again, everyone. :-)
@tgraf66. Bless you. Sending you healing for this time of rest and recovery.
I am so sorry for your loss. She was lucky to have you as a friend. I'm glad her passing was peaceful and surrounded by those she loved.
Hi, well, I'm back again asking for help for someone I don't even know. I saw a post today from Big Fluffy Rescue (dogs). Apparently a Peace Corps worker arranged to have a dog brought to the states from Guyana. She had all the shots and documentation for the dog, and it took three months to get him here, but somebody here said they don't believe the documents and the dog is due to be deported - tonight. This evidently is what they spend their time doing.
They could get a vet to repeat the vaccinations and get a titer test but they just want to ruin this woman's life on a weekend when she can't reach anybody who might be able to help her. She said by the time Monday morning rolls around her dog would have taken two transatlantic flights.
She needs a miracle, and I know this group can help. She has a million suggestions, what she needs now is a divine hand. Thanks.