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Thank YOU for Your Time

Welcome to another beautiful day in the neighborhood. It’s beautiful because you’re my neighbor and you’re part of it.

On this Memorial Day it is good to not only remember those who died in service but all those who touched our lives. I remember hearing about my dad’s youngest brother. He was killed in WWII; I remember my mom & dad and my wife Barb and all they gave me and did for me. What will people remember about me? What will people remember about you?

Over the phone, his mother told him, “Mr. Belser died last night. The funeral is Wednesday.” Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days.

“Jack, did you hear me?”

“Oh, sorry, Mom. Yes, I heard you. It’s been so long since I thought of him. I’m sorry, but I honestly thought he died years ago,” Jack said..

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Good Day Everyone!

Welcome to another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Thanks for being my neighbor and making our neighborhood beautiful.
Is the pandemic and its changes and restrictions getting you down? Feeling overwhelmed with your situation. They don’t have to – you can turn things around. You just need to change your attitude and outlook.


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Good Morning Everyone!

Welcome to another beautiful day in the neighborhood. It’s beautiful because you’re my neighbor and you’re part of it.
I’m going to give you some suggestions that are easy to make, but may take real effort on your part. In this time of trouble and uncertainty we need to look for the positive, the blessings. 


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Good Morning Everyone,Welcome to another beautiful day in paradise.

Look with the eyes of your soul and see the beauty in others and you will see you are in paradise.
October 14th is Indigenous Peoples Day! A day to remember and honor the wisdom and gifts that the Indigenous People/Native Americans have given us. They especially showed us how to respect all life, including Mother Earth. They deserve a good life, equal opportunities and our respect and gratitude. There are many ways to help and support them. check out: the Northern Plains Reservation Aid at NPRAprogram.org (for the elderly) and St. Labre Indian School at stlabre.org (for the children). These are just two examples of how you can help.
Here is a bit of Native American wisdom:
“We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.”
–John Fire Lame Deer, LAKOTA

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How To Stay Young!

Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to another beautiful day in paradise. Look with the eyes of your soul and see the beauty in others and you will see you are in paradise.
To all my friends who think they are getting old (they’re really just getting better) and to all my young friends so they will know how to . . .  I offer this from one of our favorite authors: unknown.


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Thought for the Week

Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to another beautiful day in the neighborhood. It’s beautiful because you’re my neighbor and you’re part of it.

It’s a new day, a new week. Tomorrow starts a new month. We are entering a season of change. All of nature will be changing. Animal’s coats and furs will be thickening so they can be warm; trees will begin to drop their leaves leading to their dormant stage, etc. These changes come about smoothly. This is life, ever evolving, ever moving forward. It’s a never ending process and it is beautiful. We love the changing colors, the cooler temperatures, the wonderful sights, smells and tastes of autumn.

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Good Day Everyone!

Welcome to another beautiful day in the neighborhood. It’s beautiful because you’re my neighbor and you’re part of it.

Subject: A LOVELY ATTITUDE!

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A 92-year-old, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with his hair fashionably coiffed and shave perfectly applied, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.

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Remembering Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

Welcome to another beautiful day in the neighborhood. It’s beautiful because you’re my neighbor and you’re part of it.
January 21st is a special day, a day to celebrate the life and message of one of our greatest leaders, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is also a day to celebrate us for Dr. King saw us all as one, interconnected. His message was that we should live lives of love and service. He said “life’s most urgent and persistent question is, what are you doing for others?” He believed that “unconditional love will have the final word” and “whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly”. Therefore his call to love and service.

I know you can live a life of love and service. You are an amazing human being with gifts and talents and a love to give that is unlike anyone else. You are unique, there has never been and never will be anyone just like you. So go ahead and share your gifts, your talents, your service, your love. The world needs it. We need it.

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Welcome to another beautiful day in the neighborhood. Thanks for being my neighbor and making our neighborhood beautiful.

SONY DSCPeople must meet people

Jean Vanier, Untiring Advocate for People with Disabilities was honored for his five decades of advocacy for people with disabilities by being named the 2015 recipient of the Templeton Prize.

The $1.7 million award is given annually by the Templeton Foundation to a person who “has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works.” The foundation was established by the late billionaire investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton.

In his statement Vanier, 86, said he hoped that his receiving the prize would lead to more opportunities for people with and without developmental disabilities to meet and learn from each other:

People are healed and become more human as they enter into real relationships with others. They then discover that under all the feelings of stress, rejection and humiliation, that they are someone! Those in need and those who come to help are all being healed, and are all, together, becoming more human. Our society will really become human as we discover that the strong need the weak, just as the weak need the strong. We are all together working for the common good.

 “We must start to meet: people must meet people; we are all human beings. Before being Christians or Jews or Muslims, before being Americans or Russians or Africans, before being generals or priests, rabbis or imams, before having visible or invisible disabilities, we are all human beings with hearts capable of loving.”

Have a wonderful week.
Peace,
Terry

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Welcome to another beautiful day in the neighborhood.

SONY DSCIt’s beautiful because you’re my neighbor and your part of it. I got something in my email a few years ago that I saved, because it said so much to me, I may have shared it with you before, but I want to share it again with you. It’s perfect for this time, because it reveals to us just how easy it is to love, just how easy it is to be an individual savior in a world that’s begging to be saved, person by person, moment by moment. It’s another case where adults can learn from children.