Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

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

May 2, 2008

 Today’s Announcement

Happy brithday wishes goes out to Christopher Shively, please send your cards and well wishes to:  merribuck@aol.com, or meribuck@aol.com sorry I forgot the right spelling.

My son in law, Earl Schneider, Sr is not improving.  The pneumonia has moved into the other lung and he is is under sedation due to the necessary pain medication that is being administered plus he remains on oxygen.  My daughter spent the night with him but the dr sent her home this morning so she is resting as I sleep but must be back on the job at 5p.m.  I will, hopefully, update you as situations change.  Thank you in advance for your continued prayers.    'We serve an awesome God who is still in the business of healing' Norma: hoopla214@yahoo.com

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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. 

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  THE MAN ROB PAYNTER (March 2008)

By Georgewaters Ojeigbe – Lagos, Nigeria gojiegbe@ jhplc.com

A white South African is he.  A very passionate man with good sense humors.  Just as the Negroes on America soil have their trace to the soil of Africa so is the man Rob Paynter might have had his trace to one of the European countries.

You may ask what is so special about the man Rob Paynter?  Well, in every individual there is(are) special attribute(s) embedded in them, but some have more influential attributes than others.  I hope I am now painting a picture.  The world of today deserves passionate people. 

You see, as the world’s population continues to expand so is the mass of land seems to be reducing that is why the act of tolerating one another in a globalised world of today is very necessary.  Enough of the Mongo Park and Landers Brothers’ days – the days of the likes of lords and masters; the governor-generals of the colonial era. 

Accommodativeness is his nature with a motivational addendum running in his bloodstream.   The man Rob Paynter, irrespective of his race, maintains a balanced relationship with individual person.  He respects and practice the culture of the land of Nigeria.  He made the locals to value their attires (local dresses) which was sort of forbidden in the offices on Fridays but today the attires are proudly put on every Fridays.  Have you ever seen a white man in an ‘agbada’ (‘local dress that looks like parachute’) and a red cap on his head?  Okay what about the northern slip-on footwear?  Those are the man Rob Paynter’s favourites wears on a Friday.

Each Friday before the day’s work starts the man Rob Paynter would go into various offices to display his latest native dress and you can always see the smiles on people’s faces.  I still remember a particular Friday after he had returned from one of our northern states where he was given a beautiful full geared dress as a gift from the Royal leader of the state, he went about as usual showing off his gift.  Believe me you, a train-like crowd followed, cheering him about offices.  It was fun that faithful day.

He is usually flanked by many staff and non-staff alike each time he is seen on the corridors or in his car.  He has the act of listening to ones problem and gives a nod of concern.

His style has brought a u-turn in his capacity as the managing director of the organization.  He has made lot of people to understand that leadership is mingling with the people and not observation from a far distance.  He made people to realize that you can only govern successfully people’s whose minds are open to you.  Leadership is chainlike – what goes around comes around and he is still proving the theory till this moment while I am on the keyboard.  He has also succeeded in making people realize that a happy man can always give his best while at work.  For example listening to music while you work makes you to forget the worries of your life.

Now, time is changing and I believe ideas also have to change.  The ways in the days of Mongo Park, Landers Brother, Christopher Columbus and their likes are far behind.  The world has taken a new turn and needs a new look and new ideas for improving peoples welfare.

Hopefully in the nearest future, he may be bestowed with a chieftaincy title here in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa – perhaps ‘the Marshal of the African Continent’, who knows.  I shall be glad to observe the coronation when the time comes.

THE END!

Poetry Corner

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The Heart

Conrad S. Cardinal

The heart is the center of everything.
It makes you laugh, it makes you sing.

There are times when it makes you
cry.
It makes you sad when you say good
by.

Whatever the brain processes, the heart
makes  real.
No matter how brilliant the brain , the
heart makes you feel.

There are some we say, don't have a heart.
That can't be true, it’s an important part.

Others have a big heart, we can tell by what
they do.
If I were to ask the folks you know, what
would they say about you?
                               
                            Conrad
                            cconseth@aol.com

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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