Posted by Kate on February 07, 2001 at 17:22:17:
In Reply to: Re: A HEARTFELT PLEA TO MOHICANLAND!!! posted by Rich on February 07, 2001 at 15:41:16:
: Very well done, my friend.
: I rememember getting choked up while I was addressing the group about this little girl at Linville last year. You just did it to me again!
: And so, all you NEWcomers, today's evidence to the contrary aside, we're not ALWAYS out of our minds. Sometimes, we are most definitely within our hearts!
: It makes me very content to know that all the trials & tribulations we have gone through via this web site over the years have resulted in some enduring positives. This one is the best of all!
: Thank you, folks. Thank you, especially, Kate & Bea! I see you've been doing your homework. And, I will have those CDs ready for you come June. You can count on it!
: So, if we haven't frightened you all away, here's hoping we can once again count on you!
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I'm sorry – I didn’t mean to put a damper on the ‘laughter’ side of things – I think we all need this kind of ‘therapy’ in January/February!! :o) But – I felt time was moving along so quickly, I HAD to get moving and gently remind folks that we really need their help!
(Just one thing! Uh... excuse me? ‘done my homework’? Homework??? Homework indeed!! I KNOW these things! I have a medical degree, dontcha know!! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist… :o)
Well Rich, can I tell you this little story that makes ME choke a little, if you’ve a mind to hear it…
I was sitting in my back yard last September, doing some sewing for Ariel’s Cabin, when this BIIIIG, ‘rough’ looking, hulking, walking muscle came to my door and asked if I would like the Beech trees in my back yard trimmed. Well, they WERE a bit scabby so, we haggled about the price and then I said okay go ahead – do it. Well, by golly, he hacked and he sawed and he pruned and worked like a Trojan for a good couple of hours!
Finally, he came over, said he was finished, looked at my patchwork and said ‘how nice, that’ll look good on the bed’. I told him I was making it to raise funds for the sweetest little girl who was born with no eyes, had a twisted spine, a backward aorta and a multitude of problems that come with these ones – and yet has a smile like the sun rising in the morning.
This BIIIIG, hulking, macho, tough, gruff, rough man’s face crumpled, he cut the cost of the job in half, I gave him the other half – and he promptly gave me back half of THAT and told me to ‘put it in the kitty for that poor little girl who will never see the Beech trees, or see the daisies in the grass or puffy little clouds gently moving in a blue sky on a summer’s day’!!
So – no guesses where the first 'funds' of Gathering 2001 will have come from!!
Ariel touches the heart of EVERYONE who hears her name…
K.