and now the poem:)
Backstrom kelli
Ugh, it's late! I should paste now! This is to benefit a 10 year old girl who has brain cancer. Just for this morning, I am
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> going to step over the laundry,wonderful
> and pick you up and take you to the park to
> play.
>
>
> Just for this morning, I will
> leave the dishes in the sink,
> and let you teach me how to put that puzzle
> of yours together.
>
> Just for this afternoon, I will
> unplug the telephone and
> keep the computer off, and sit with you in the
> backyard and blow bubbles.
>
>
> Just for this afternoon, I will
> not yell once, not even a
> tiny grumble when
> you scream and whine for the ice
> cream truck, and I will buy you one if
> he comes by.
>
>
> Just for this afternoon, I won't
> worry about what you are
> going to be when you grow up, or second guess
> every decision I have made
> where you are concerned.
>
> Just for this afternoon, I will let
> you help me bake cookies, and I won't
> stand over you trying to fix them.
> Just for this afternoon, I will take
> us to McDonald's and buy us both a
> Happy Meal so you can have both toys.
>
> Just for this evening, I will hold
> you in my arms and tell you a story
> about how you were born and how
> much I love you.
>
> Just for this evening, I will let
> you splash in the tub and
> not get angry.
>
> Just for this evening, I will let
> you stay up late while we sit on the
> porch and count all the stars.
>
>
> Just for this evening, I will
> snuggle beside you for hours,
> and miss my favorite TV shows.
> Just for this evening when I run
> my finger through your hair
> as you pray, I will simply be grate! ful that God
> has given me the greatest gift ever
> given.
>
> I will think about the mothers
> And fathers who are searching
> for their missing children,
> the mothers and fathers who are
> visiting their children's graves
> instead of their bedrooms, and mothers and
> fathers who are in hospital rooms watching
> their children suffer senselessly, and screaming inside that they
> can't
> handle it anymore.
>
>
> And when I kiss you good night I
> will hold you a little tighter, a
> little longer. It is then, that I will
> thank God for you, and ask
> him for nothing, except one more day.............
>
>
> Hi. I am a 29 year old father. Me and my wife have had a
> life together. God blessed us with a child too. Our daughter's name isan
> Rachel, and she is 10 years old. Not long ago did the doctors detect brain
> cancer in her little body. There is only one way to save her and that is
> operation.is
>
> Sadly we don't have the money for the operation.
>
> AOL and Zdnet have agreed to help us. The only way they can help
> this:---------------------------------
> If you send this email to other people, AOL will track this email
> and count how many people get it. Every person that opens this email and
> sends it to at least 3 people will give us 32c.
>
> Please help us.
> George Arlington.
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Tia Leschke
> Ugh, it's late! I should paste now! This is to benefit a 10 year old girlwho has brain cancer. Just for this morning, I am
> > going to step over the laundry,This is a hoax. Before sending these on, check one of the hoax sites. Here
> > and pick you up and take you to the park to
> > play.
are two. http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxCategories.html
http://hoaxbusters.org/
Tia
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The poem is cool. The "benefit" is bogus (as to money for e-mail chain
letters) but this verse I wanted especially to repeat, and contrast with
something I read to Holly last night while she was falling asleep:
Just for this evening, I will let
satisfaction of confirmation of your literary knowledge!
The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
There were thousands of millions of stars.
There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree,
Nor of people in church or the park,
As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,
And that glittered and winked in the dark.
The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,
And the star of the sailor, and Mars,
These shone in the sky, and the pail by the wall
Would be half full of water and stars.
They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries,
And they soon had me packed into bed;
But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes,
And the stars going round in my head.
It's "Escape at Bedtime" by Robert Louis Stevenson, part of _A Child's Garden
of Verses_.
I love the bucket being half full of water and stars.
If only his parents had sat with him outside and talked about the sky instead
of chasing him and putting him to bed maybe his poetry and stories would
have been less scary and lonely.
Sandra
letters) but this verse I wanted especially to repeat, and contrast with
something I read to Holly last night while she was falling asleep:
Just for this evening, I will let
> you stay up late while we sit on theI'll just quote it and if anyone recognizes it before the end, you get the
> porch and count all the stars.
satisfaction of confirmation of your literary knowledge!
The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
There were thousands of millions of stars.
There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree,
Nor of people in church or the park,
As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,
And that glittered and winked in the dark.
The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,
And the star of the sailor, and Mars,
These shone in the sky, and the pail by the wall
Would be half full of water and stars.
They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries,
And they soon had me packed into bed;
But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes,
And the stars going round in my head.
It's "Escape at Bedtime" by Robert Louis Stevenson, part of _A Child's Garden
of Verses_.
I love the bucket being half full of water and stars.
If only his parents had sat with him outside and talked about the sky instead
of chasing him and putting him to bed maybe his poetry and stories would
have been less scary and lonely.
Sandra
Fetteroll
on 4/2/03 10:38 PM, Tia Leschke at leschke@... wrote:
Joyce
> This is a hoax. Before sending these on, check one of the hoax sites. HereAnd Snopes too (http://www.snopes.com)
> are two. http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxCategories.html
> http://hoaxbusters.org/
Joyce
Angela
I think the poem is sad. Just for tonight, implies that the things
being done in this poem, aren't done very often. I think it's sad that
a child has to have a disease before parents can remember to spend some
quality time with them.
Angela in Maine
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being done in this poem, aren't done very often. I think it's sad that
a child has to have a disease before parents can remember to spend some
quality time with them.
Angela in Maine
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Backstrom kelli
thank you Sandra, that was really beautiful. I will have to read that to mine tonight! Sorry about the bogus benefit, I am truly naive when it comes to things like that. I cant believe that someone would lie about something so serious and heart breaking as a sick child! Kelli
SandraDodd@... wrote:The poem is cool. The "benefit" is bogus (as to money for e-mail chain
letters) but this verse I wanted especially to repeat, and contrast with
something I read to Holly last night while she was falling asleep:
Just for this evening, I will let
satisfaction of confirmation of your literary knowledge!
The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
There were thousands of millions of stars.
There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree,
Nor of people in church or the park,
As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,
And that glittered and winked in the dark.
The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,
And the star of the sailor, and Mars,
These shone in the sky, and the pail by the wall
Would be half full of water and stars.
They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries,
And they soon had me packed into bed;
But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes,
And the stars going round in my head.
It's "Escape at Bedtime" by Robert Louis Stevenson, part of _A Child's Garden
of Verses_.
I love the bucket being half full of water and stars.
If only his parents had sat with him outside and talked about the sky instead
of chasing him and putting him to bed maybe his poetry and stories would
have been less scary and lonely.
Sandra
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SandraDodd@... wrote:The poem is cool. The "benefit" is bogus (as to money for e-mail chain
letters) but this verse I wanted especially to repeat, and contrast with
something I read to Holly last night while she was falling asleep:
Just for this evening, I will let
> you stay up late while we sit on theI'll just quote it and if anyone recognizes it before the end, you get the
> porch and count all the stars.
satisfaction of confirmation of your literary knowledge!
The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars;
And high overhead and all moving about,
There were thousands of millions of stars.
There ne'er were such thousands of leaves on a tree,
Nor of people in church or the park,
As the crowds of the stars that looked down upon me,
And that glittered and winked in the dark.
The Dog, and the Plough, and the Hunter, and all,
And the star of the sailor, and Mars,
These shone in the sky, and the pail by the wall
Would be half full of water and stars.
They saw me at last, and they chased me with cries,
And they soon had me packed into bed;
But the glory kept shining and bright in my eyes,
And the stars going round in my head.
It's "Escape at Bedtime" by Robert Louis Stevenson, part of _A Child's Garden
of Verses_.
I love the bucket being half full of water and stars.
If only his parents had sat with him outside and talked about the sky instead
of chasing him and putting him to bed maybe his poetry and stories would
have been less scary and lonely.
Sandra
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In a message dated 4/3/03 5:50:30 AM, unschooling@... writes:
<< I think the poem is sad. Just for tonight, implies that the things
being done in this poem, aren't done very often. I think it's sad that
a child has to have a disease before parents can remember to spend some
quality time with them. >>
If any parent who gets that poem is kinder and gentler with her child even
for one day, it serves a much greater purpose than most e-mail stuff, though!
And when people read it who are already giving their kids as full a life as
they can, it reinforces them.
It is sad that so many parents shut their kids out of life. Just by living
our lives the way we do, unschoolers, we make it harder for parents to keep
doing that for hundreds of years to come. Some will. Not as many will.
What else can we do?
Sandra
<< I think the poem is sad. Just for tonight, implies that the things
being done in this poem, aren't done very often. I think it's sad that
a child has to have a disease before parents can remember to spend some
quality time with them. >>
If any parent who gets that poem is kinder and gentler with her child even
for one day, it serves a much greater purpose than most e-mail stuff, though!
And when people read it who are already giving their kids as full a life as
they can, it reinforces them.
It is sad that so many parents shut their kids out of life. Just by living
our lives the way we do, unschoolers, we make it harder for parents to keep
doing that for hundreds of years to come. Some will. Not as many will.
What else can we do?
Sandra
Backstrom kelli
If any parent who gets that poem is kinder and gentler with her child even
for one day, it serves a much greater purpose than most e-mail stuff, though!
And when people read it who are already giving their kids as full a life as
they can, it reinforces them.
This is what it meant to me last night when I read it. I was on the computer in our bedroom and my 10 year old had just fallen asleep in our bed reading Artemis Fowl (a new book we are reading together) I could hear sleep take over her in her breathe and I just felt this overwhelming urge to hold her, keep her with me, protect her and love her. The poem was a reminder for me of such a great gift that I have and how fortunate I am that she is healthy and the other two are healthy too. Peace, Kelli
SandraDodd@... wrote:
In a message dated 4/3/03 5:50:30 AM, unschooling@... writes:
<< I think the poem is sad. Just for tonight, implies that the things
being done in this poem, aren't done very often. I think it's sad that
a child has to have a disease before parents can remember to spend some
quality time with them. >>
If any parent who gets that poem is kinder and gentler with her child even
for one day, it serves a much greater purpose than most e-mail stuff, though!
And when people read it who are already giving their kids as full a life as
they can, it reinforces them.
It is sad that so many parents shut their kids out of life. Just by living
our lives the way we do, unschoolers, we make it harder for parents to keep
doing that for hundreds of years to come. Some will. Not as many will.
What else can we do?
Sandra
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for one day, it serves a much greater purpose than most e-mail stuff, though!
And when people read it who are already giving their kids as full a life as
they can, it reinforces them.
This is what it meant to me last night when I read it. I was on the computer in our bedroom and my 10 year old had just fallen asleep in our bed reading Artemis Fowl (a new book we are reading together) I could hear sleep take over her in her breathe and I just felt this overwhelming urge to hold her, keep her with me, protect her and love her. The poem was a reminder for me of such a great gift that I have and how fortunate I am that she is healthy and the other two are healthy too. Peace, Kelli
SandraDodd@... wrote:
In a message dated 4/3/03 5:50:30 AM, unschooling@... writes:
<< I think the poem is sad. Just for tonight, implies that the things
being done in this poem, aren't done very often. I think it's sad that
a child has to have a disease before parents can remember to spend some
quality time with them. >>
If any parent who gets that poem is kinder and gentler with her child even
for one day, it serves a much greater purpose than most e-mail stuff, though!
And when people read it who are already giving their kids as full a life as
they can, it reinforces them.
It is sad that so many parents shut their kids out of life. Just by living
our lives the way we do, unschoolers, we make it harder for parents to keep
doing that for hundreds of years to come. Some will. Not as many will.
What else can we do?
Sandra
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It may have been a hoax,
but it made me think.
Linda
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but it made me think.
Linda
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gonzalezpalace5
also, urbanlegends.com
mimi
mimi
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From: "Tia Leschke" <leschke@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] and now the poem:)
>
>
> > Ugh, it's late! I should paste now! This is to benefit a 10 year old
girl
> who has brain cancer. Just for this morning, I am
> > > going to step over the laundry,
> > > and pick you up and take you to the park to
> > > play.
>
> This is a hoax. Before sending these on, check one of the hoax sites.
Here
> are two. http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBHoaxCategories.html
> http://hoaxbusters.org/
> Tia
>
>
>
>
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