Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

The newsletter devoted to spreading love and cultural awareness around the world.

April 27, 2008

 Today’s Announcement

Call for submissions:  Storytime Tapestry is in need of more stories, please keep them coming in.

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From my son Steven Roach:

I was thinking you should advertise the link regularly in your newsletter if the link doesn’t work just cut and paste

 
http://greenhorse.com/join_now.ghc?r=177952857
 
tell them it would help support the newsletter and they can earn money from it. They need to sign up and install it but they don't need to do anything else. They just do what they normally would anyways on the net and they earn money while it’s on. In other words they just keep it running while they are online. It’s small doesn't take up much system resources and they can earn more if they advertise their own link and get people under them as well. Let them know some people make 5-10$ a day on it and its been open since 2002. 

Don’t forget to order your copy of Angels Watching Over Me, the story of an ordinary woman facing less than ordinary challenges.  Angels Watching Over Me is a story of family love, sacrifices, poverty and an undying faith that makes heroes out of all of us. Here is the link in case you have forgotten it: http://www.lulu.com/content/964306

Important notice: Storytime Tapestry is a free e-zine, however donations are always needed to help with the operating expenses of running the newsletter and to keep Storytime Tapestry the quality newsletter you are so accustomed to.   You can make your donations to paypal at: winterose@videotron.ca, or if you would prefer to use the mail system contact the publisher at the same email address: winterose@videotron.ca

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THE cry of youth... WHAT SHALL I BE? WHAT SHOULD I STUDY?

Ellie Braun Haley

Listening to a 14 year old explain her lack of ambition and thus her failing marks motivated me to reply:

I BELIEVE
It is not necessary to know what we want to be when we grow up as long as we read, study, and work to know more, learn more, understand more, we will find areas where WE JUST FIT IN.

AND No matter what we do, we can please God and ourselves by giving of service to others.

Strange how much joy we receive every time we reach out to do for someone else. Sometimes it takes years and years to discover that.

MANY adults have enjoyed three or four different careers in a lifetime. And one career just seemed to follow the other. One gentleman said, "all that I learned in my studies helped in more than one area."

Personally, I still don't know what all I want to do.
I have written for a newspaper, written books, and short stories, taught television basics and then done a television show, been a director for a YMCA, taught at two different colleges, worked at an agency for mentally disabled individuals, taught at a school for the disabled. and now here I am working with my mother in a nursing home. I continue to learn and could live here another 50 years and still find more things to learn and do. I don't look forward to any kind of retirement because learning and doing are too fulfilling.

I do not believe there is just one thing we should aim for in life.
I think we should go and learn and soon the desire to be something, or work specifically at something will bong us over the head. (sooner or later).

In the meantime, if we fill our lives with meaningful work and service to others we will feel a great fulfillment.

Personally the two things I know I want to do are TO TEACH MORE PEOPLE ABOUT GOD'S LOVE FOR THEM, AND I want to uplift more people by sharing stories of goodness with them.

I can seek to do this in a way that I will see a cash reimbursement or I can do this in a volunteer manner, but there is nothing stopping me, if it is what I truly want. Once the desire is there, "spoken" and diligence gets into gear, the process is under way.

Ellie Braun-Haley

Author/Motivational Speaker

ellie@evrcanada.com

Poetry Corner

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 Get Well Soon

Cynthia Groopman

Oh, sorry that you are ill,

That you need to take those awful tasting pills.

Sorry that you do not feel full of energy and zest,

And all you enjoy doing is seeking  rest.

Sorry that you cannot have laughter and fun,

Because you must stay indoors, devoid of exercise, and your daily walk or run.

Illness has a dreary and miserable tune,

but with God's help and healing powers, you will recover very soon.

So, all I can say, to you my friend,

Is that you are in my prayers and you will be on the mend.

by: Cynthia Groopman

cynthia.Groopman@verizon.net 

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My Special Rose

Cynthia Groopman

In my garden of life, there bloomed a special Rose,

She was not a flower but a truly darling wonderful grandma, whom I had the joy to love and to know.

When she was walking this earth,

Oh, my heart sang with such delightful mirth.

Her delicious food she would create,

Gave me reason to shout with glee and happily celebrate.

Her lap and arms were always there,

To comfort me with tender loving care.

Her words were as golden as a priceless gem,

Oh, she would rock me and console mine teary moments, in childhood moments, back then.

She was my role model and devoted friend,

Many joyful times laughing; sharing, and smiling together we would spend.

Now she is in Heaven, dwelling with God above,

Gifting to me a warm sacred eternal flame of deep everlasting love.

  Cynthia Groopman

cynthia.Groopman@verizon.net 

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  Mailbox

Here is our Storytime Tapestry Angels: Also, I would like to thank those of you who chose to be a silent angel and gave an anonymous donation to keep Storytime Tapestry up and running.

Clara Westerfer, Mark Crider, Rosanne Catalano, Paula Booher, Kay Seefeldt, Mariane Holbrook, Mary Ellen Grisham, Louise Nomani, Sharon Bryant, Angela Walker, Hart and Helen Dowd, Keith Ready, Ginger Morgenstern, Ellie Braun-Haley, Surinder Jandu, Bob Shaw, Carol Meeks, Charlotte Hilliard, Marilyn Sink, Victor Buhagiar, Clarice Hinson, Conrad