Success

"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exltation; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...this is to have succeeded." _Ralph Waldo Emerson_

Monday, September 22, 2008

Wedding, Water, and Way Cool Boys

This is my friend Cindy Nixon...well now she is Cindy DeBeer. Heir to some of that DeBeer fortune??? I'm too embarrassed to ask...but it's possible, he is South African. Cindy and I traveled to Romania together many years ago where we worked in an orphanage. Her heart never left that kind of work, and a few years later she moved to South Africa where she has been living ever since. She works there with AIDS orphans...there are zillions of them. She runs a type of school, assistance programs, small clinic and a bunch of other things out of one building in a community of people ravaged by AIDS. She has since met an amazing man, named Neil and they came back to get married last weekend. Congratulations Cindy and Neil and may God bless you and your lives work together.
Cindy holds a special place in my heart. We were taking a ballroom class together at Sac State, and then we would have lunch together afterwards. That first month of September I met Rob who also started having lunch with us. By the end of that month Cindy said, 'Your going to marry that man.' I told her that was ridiculous, but if I did, she could sit in the front row. The ushers didn't realize that she had a reserved seat in the front, but she was there anyway.
BEAUTIFUL
A FEET WASHING CEREMONY, SO MOVING!
WHAT A HANDSOME COUPLE THEY ARE

MY HANDSOME BOYS IN MATCHING GREEN SHIRTS

AMERICA WANTS YOU....TO PLAY AS HARD AS I DO
WHO NEEDS EXPENSIVE 'WATER TABLES' WHEN YOU'VE GOT BUCKETS FROM THE HOSPITAL
MISTER COOL

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