And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 07:49:21 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Ramblings from Papa >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 224 > >Dear friends: >As I sit here and think what can I do to make this year 1999 a better year for >us all. I realize I cannot make it a better year I can only do my part to make >it more worthwhile for a few. > As we reach the millennium I watch Walter Cronkite's program on how much we >achieved in the last one hundred years. America has gone from horse and buggy >to fast efficient cars we went from flying a few feet at Kitty Hawk to the >moon. Yet in many ways we are much worse off than we were when we began this >century. What happened to: I am my brothers keeper, what happened to helping >your neighbor, what happened to life time friendships? > I can now set in my home and talk to the world via the intranet yet I have >problems just getting to know the folks who live next door as they do not have >time to stop long enough to answer my question "how are you today? good I >hope! did you have a good day at work"? no comment they just run into the >house like I am a nut because I am doing what I was taught to do by my parents >I am trying to be a good neighbor. I take tomatoes and fresh vegetables to my >neighbors from the garden and they think I am nuts I should be selling the >good things I grow. Why? I love working the soil in my organic garden. No >then it would not be fun to grow then it would be work. Mother earth allows me >to reverently gather from her bosom the fine red tomatoes and green beans >which I feel obligated to share with those around me yet they do not have the >time to stop and say a simple thank you I would love some fresh home grown >vegetables. > So we carry on, and each day I offer some of my fresh produce to all who I >encounter in the neighborhood a few are thankful but most don't have the time >to prepare them: they just barley have the time to open a can of beans from >the store for their dinner. So we carry on! > Why? Why do we neglect our need for having friends and neighbors why have we >gotten so involved in our petty life styles we forget to help our neighbors >our families and our friends? In winter when it snows I clean the snow from >the sidewalk on the whole block with my snow blower just so the children >walking to school have a dry sidewalk is this bad? > As many know I have started a charitable organization to give the elders a >hand up not a hand out. What this all means is being a good neighbor and >helping those who have less than we do. Yet because of the world of today >many ask what are you getting from this how much money do you get the answer >is simply nothing except the joy of being a good neighbor. On one side I know >nothing about how to go about raising the necessary funds to do this yet I >cannot sit idly by and watch my neighbor just fade away into nothing. I must >try to do something for them. So heres wishing each and everyone a joyous new >year!!!! > <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/papapossum/BucketLine.html">BUCKET-LINE TO >THE ELDERS</A> http://members.aol.com/papapossum/BucketLine.html > Thanks for reading ramblings of a man chronologically gifted =LOL old man > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
