Gremelin's Infinite Void

Took forever to figure out what was wrong with it, but it’s fixed…

Seems that when I changed domains (from blog.gremelin.com to www.gremelin.com) I neglected to dig through their millions of settings and locate the ONE that said “security” and added the domain… Though I changed the old urls easily enough :/…

I meant to do a minor update to the style here… What I ended up doing was overwriting the template with the css coding, versus putting the css coding in the style…

What does that mean in laymen? I completely purged the complicated stuff, leaving the other complicated stuff abandoned…

So I got to completely recode everything lol… But, my change works now :/…

Every year or so I get a copy of this email, I love the story so much that I re-read it every time it makes its way to my inbox.

EMail:

Too Busy for a Friend?

One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name.

Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.

It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.

That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that individual.

On Monday she gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. “Really?” she heard whispered. “I never knew that I meant anything to anyone!” and, “I didn’t know others liked me so much,” were most of the comments.

No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn’t matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group of students moved on.

Several years later, one of the students was killed in Viet Nam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special student. She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He looked so handsome, so mature..

The church was packed with his friends. One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin. The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.

As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came up to her. “Were you Mark’s math teacher?” he asked. She nodded: “yes.” Then he said: “Mark talked about you a lot.”

After the funeral, most of Mark’s former classmates went together to a luncheon. Mark’s mother and father were there, obviously waiting to speak with his teacher.

“We want to show you something,” his father said, taking a wallet out of his pocket “They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it.”

Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which she had listed all the good things each of Mark’s classmates had said about him.

“Thank you so much for doing that,” Mark’s mother said. “As you can see, Mark treasured it.”

All of Mark’s former classmates started to gather around. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, “I still have my list. It’s in the top drawer of my desk at home.”

Chuck’s wife said, “Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album.”

“I have mine too,” Marilyn said. “It’s in my diary”

Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. “I carry this with me at all times,” Vicki said and without batting an eyelash, she continued: “I think we all saved our lists”

That’s when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don’t know when that one day will be.

So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

And One Way To Accomplish This Is: Forward this message on. If you do not send it, you will have, once again passed up the wonderful opportunity to do something nice and beautiful.

If you’ve received this, it is because someone cares for you and it means there is probably at least someone for whom you care..

If you’re “too busy” to take those few minutes right now to forward this message on, would this be the VERY first time you didn’t do that little thing that would make a difference in your relationships?

The more people that you send this to, the better you’ll be at reaching out to those you care about.

Remember, you reap what you sow. What you put into the lives of others comes back into your own.

May Your Day Be Blessed As Special As You Are

-God Bless

Here in beautiful Portland, Oregon, school starts this week. Kindergarten starts tomorrow, and Trey’s pretty psyched! He was happy to go to the orientation the other morning, he didn’t want to leave…

I’m sure he’s going to have a blast (as he did last year at Head Start, and this summer at summer school), kinda hard realizing that my little baby isn’t so little anymore…

Well, I think I’m about satisfied with a Tumblr v1 theme; how’s it look?

Got kinda aggravated when their code wouldn’t play nice with my tableless xhtml :/…

evangotlib:

Don: That’s your job! I give you money, you give me ideas!

Peggy: And you never say thank you!

Don: That’s what the money is for!  You are young.  You will get your recognition.  And honestly, it is absolutely ridiculous to be two years into your career and counting your ideas.  Everything to you is an opportunity.