Random Acts of Coolness
timbe...@my-deja.com
thinking...
I'm leaving for work now and am going to make it a point to do
something nice for some person(s) today. Then I'll come back to the
site and tell you about it. Not to brag or anything lame like that.
But just to make some good clean fun and tell about it. That would be
cool.
Talk to ya later
Tim
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mars...@my-deja.com
kindness I can do today. Anyone else want to join in??
Terri Luck's (she went to Temple when we were in 10th grade and then
she moved to Missouri) father is leaving for Europe in two days to do
some work with orphans. I don't remember the country he is traveling
to, but it is in those European communist block countries. He will be
there for 6 weeks. He has to take a plane to Europe, then a train for
15 hours or so. And he is near 80 years old. He needs your prayers
for his journey and safe return and in his work there.
God bless Herschel Luck.
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terr...@my-deja.com
Yes,it's true, I've been eavesdropping for months. You all are an
entertaining bunch!! I'm sure that only a handful of you actually
remember me. I was only at Temple for one year and that was 76/77!
EEK! Are we that old?!?!?!? Scary!
Thought I would go ahead and join since Marsha so thoughtfully included
my dad in this particular thread. She got most of it right. My
parents have been working in the mission field for the past five years
with the Church of Christ. Sorry, I was only a Baptist while at
Temple. Anyway, they planted the seeds in a small town in Ukraine in
1994 and it has grown into a large thriving church with some smaller
ones popping up. Kind of a cool thing for them in their retirement.
Anyway, my dad is heading back over for six weeks with two other
gentlemen to train several young men to be ministers. Marsha mentioned
the train. Well, Thank God, they can now fly directly to Donestk from
Keiv and don't have to endure that. It's an 18 hour ride and not the
most pleasant. Does the fact that my mom brings along toilet paper and
a can of lysol tell you anything? Makes you think about what you've got
here in the good ol' USA!!! Plus, it's probably not the safest means
of travel.
Marsha mentioned the orphans because I had told her about the orphanage
that they support there. The pictures they bring back just make me
cry. One little girl wouldn't leave my mom's side and I told her she
should have just brought her home to me. What a face on that kid!!!
My dad is actually 77 and has more energy than I do. This whole
missionary thing has been a real blessing for them even tho it takes
them so far away and it makes my sister and I crazy. At least they are
LIVING their lives and NOT sitting on their asses in front of the TV
all day withering away. I'm very grateful. They are doing something
I'm not sure I could do.
If anyone is inclined to say a little prayer the other gentlemen are
Denny Kruse and Stan Bryan. My dad is Hershel Luck. So, thanks for
thinking of him on his little journey. Once I have figured out how to
move all around this site, now that I've joined, I'll chat a little
more often.
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jillsl...@my-deja.com
Sounds like we could take a few lessons from them! My father in law
was Ukranian. He was first generation American. His father, Carl
Slavinsky, came over in the early part of the century. Moved around
the country and finally settled in Brooklyn, New York. My husband
could have some relatives over there!
Speaking of random acts of kindness, the junior and senior high
departments at Temple had a "RAoK" day a few weeks ago. All the kids
had to bring $6 and they split into groups, pooled their money and
chose a "kindness" to do. One of my daughter's group bought window
cleaner and paper towels and went to a gas station and cleaned people's
windows as they were getting gas. They also gave everyone an air
freshener for their car. One guy told them to "get the f___ awy from
my car." Such nice people. My other daughter's group bought balloons
and flowers and went to a hospital and a nursing home and passed them
out. Many of the older people would say they can't take them since
they didn't have any money to pay for them. People really do not know
how to accept an act of kindness. All the kids had a good time and
felt good doing something for others. (TBC has changed ALOT!!!)
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timbe...@my-deja.com
So getting back to you on my "kindness mission" I managed to have
enough left as I was going home (about 5PM) to act.
I was in the left turn lane of a fairly major Tucson intersection, you
know the kind with a green arrow to "go." This guy with a dirty, but
smiley, face sells newspapers from the narrow and long median next to
the turn lane.
Anyway I wave to him while traffic was stopped and he comes running
down the median to me. Papers were 25 cents. I gave him a five $,
asked him to give papers to the next 10 or 15 people behind me and
keep the little bit left over.
Cost me peanuts, but fun for me. So simple.
Tim
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us (as well as a couple of my business associates). My dad is very
active in large-scale charity golf outings; this one was NOT large-
scale. I'm not sure how much money was raised, nor am I sure that a
good proportion is going to the charity I was hoping to fund (I didn't
know it was going to be pooled and divided up by committee). The only
thing I am sure of is that at the dinner they held three 50/50 raffles
(meaning 50% goes to the charity(ies) and 50% to the winner. My dad
bought a pile of tickets for me and I/he won the largest of the three
and I was able to give the money directly to the charity we were
playing for. The weird thing is that my dad taught me while growing up
that raffles were gambling and so we never did it and it has still
stuck with me to this day. Now I'm all confused (but I'll work through
it). BTW, we were 19 strokes away from the winning team's score (they
were 14 under par - yikes!).
terr...@my-deja.com
Well, your Tigers beat our Royals but our Chiefs beat your Lions!!!
Heck of a day for both sports. I was at the Chiefs game....Season
tickets. Oh, and those poor Steelers! I don't know what happened in
Pittsburgh but Bill Cower had to be a very unhappy man after that.
Whew! Especially to lose like that at home. Sounds like the Chiefs
last season. hahahahahahaha! We're optimistic about this year, so
we'll see.
I think it's great that TBC is doing something like that with the
kids. Even if there are some people who just can't be reached. What a
miserable way to go through life when you can't even be grateful for
someone who wants to clean your wind shield. They did a good thing.
Nursing Homes are a great place to go. I would love to get a small
group together to just go and sing once in a while. They love that
sort of thing and so do I.
I don't think I've consciously done anything yet, but I do try to smile
at everyone I make eye contact with. I always do that. Most of the
time, I get a smile back. Sometimes, it's just another of those sad
individuals who won't smile back. I smile anyway. I think it makes a
difference.
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