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I hope this day finds you cheerful and full of gladness. I just got off a blog talking about swishy skirts. I admit, I like them too. I have two long swishy skirts myself. Chirstmas is coming soon. I am excited about giving my $5 gift to my family. This should be something special. Hubby is still against it though. We don't spend much during the year so Christmas and birthdays tend to be a bit special. Since I came from this blog talking about what others find beautiful. I will ask a question along those lines. What do you find beautiful in others? Can be perfect strangers, family, friends, anyone. Here 'll get us started.....What I find beautiful is something I read recently in my Readers Digest for December. It was under Real-Life miracles. My favorite was After Katrina. It was about a man named Blake Bailey. He and his family moved to New Orleans just two months before Katrina came. Lost everything....They were begaining their fight with insurance companies, banks and FEMA without documetns that were lost in the flood. He had taken his car to an auto body shop to get the AC fixed. Well, after the mechanic told him it would cost about the same as Blue Book of the car Mr. Bailey thought he would cut his loosses. The office employee was writing up the labor and she noticed that he was from Louisiana. She ask if he was from New Orleans. Yes was the reply. No charge said she and continued to shake her head after he took out his wallet. Mr. Bailey went in for a haircut, same thing happen. After a lease expired on an aptment they had been living in Fl they tried to find a rental house they could afford so they could still pay on their morgage on a house they no long had. They looked everywhere. Mr. Bailey thought he would have to live in drastcially reduced circumstances for a time when he received an email from a James Kennedy in California. (Bailey was a writer) and Mr. Kennedy had recently read some pieces that Mr. Bailey had written. Mr. Kennedy wanted to give Mr. Bailey a new house (no strings attacted) in Mandeville, Louisiana. This is not a scam wrote Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Bailey was thinking this is to good to be true but replied thanking him but had not plans on moving back. Around the same time a poet at the Universsity of FL offered to rent them a Victorian home he owned. When though the rent was far less than some of the *awful hovels* they had looked at but still a burden for pay. Mr. Bailey offhandly mentioned the poets offer to Mr. Kennedy and the next day he FedEXed a check covering rent for eight months. Mr. Bailey writes.... Throughout this ordeal, the kindess of strangers has done much to restore my faith in humanity. It's almost worth losing your worldy posessions. Indeed, it's not a bad thing to start life over from scrathch with that knowledge in mind. Please share....What do you find beautiful in others and why....  |
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