The Christianville Spirit
The Spirit that Brings Hope
August 5th, 2020-TCS # 699
Well, My Reader! We have Reached The End. The End of My 600-Series of Newsletters! I am so Happy! The Number 6, at least to Me is not a Good Number and There were Several Not-So-Great Numbers in The 600-Series. But, Finally, We get to move Onward! For Those of You that may not know, I am a Newsletter away from My 700th Newsletter! Funny Enough, It happens to be My Birthday Next Week where I will be Turning 33! Yes, I can not believe it either. Great numbers!! Come to Think of it, I will be 33 when I write The 700th Newsletter! Two Milestones in One Week!
So, 700 Newsletters! Can You Believe It?! It is Milestone that each time I hit The 100 Series Mark, I can not believe that I have made it that Far.
That must take a lot of Writing along with All The Times that I have taken off, Subjects Written about, and Life Events happening.
So, Let’s Celebrate! So, What shall I write about for My Pre-Lead into My 700th Newsletter? hmm...Lots of Choices! I have done some good lead ins. Among them, Here they are, along with References...
- Pre-100th Newsletter: “Playlist of Your Life Series” (April 2008)
- Pre-200th Newsletter: “All Thanks to You Series”: PTLS Families (May 2010)
- Pre-300th Newsletter: “About The Girl of My Dreams” (May 2012)
- Pre-400th Newsletter: “Happiness...Simplified Series” (April 2014)
- Pre-500th Newsletter: “My Dreamscape-Before” (June 2016)
- Pre-600th Newsletter: “Your Soul Place” (June 2018)
Which brings us to Now. So, How do I top This? Well, For The Pre-600th Newsletter, I am going to do a Rerun with a Reason. Now, Don’t Groan. It is going to a Big One! So, Some Context here. Back in 2013, I decided to let My Readers choose what I was going to write about, on Facebook. I gave Several Options of The Following, My View of Something; PTLS Related; An Adventure/Trip; A Life Event; or An Accomplishment. Back in 2013, My Readers chose An Accomplishment. I am going to Rerun the Orginal. But, That is What I am going to for My 700th Newsletter is do it Again! Let My Readers choose What I write about for The Big 700th Newsletter! Until Then, Enjoy The Original! And, I see You after I turn 33 Years Old!
This Newsletter was Originally written on June 19th of 2013 (Refer to Newsletter 356)
So, My Readers, I decide to do something different for This Week’s Newsletter. You See, On Facebook, I decided that instead giving My Readers topics that don’t always interest them or that they don’t want to hear about, I decided to give you, My Readers, the power to choose what I write. My Choices I came up with were My View on Something, PTLS Related, An Adventure/Trip, A Life Event and An Accomplishment. The Winner, to My Surprise, was An Accomplishment. So, That is what I am writing this week, Thanks to the input of My Readers. Enjoy!
So, To spotlight, one accomplishment would be hard to pick, so I will do a couple of them. In My Head Anyway, This Accomplishment is a big one (although there are bigger). You See, when I was in High School in 10th Grade, The Schedule gave me a sort-of “Job Study Period.” It turned out that there wasn’t enough to keep me busy. So, one day the Vice Principal assigned me to a very important job, what was known as “Parking Lot Duty.” So, The Vice Principal took me around The Teacher Parking Lot and said, “These Green (Keystone Looking) Tags represent The Teachers and Those 3 white painted lines for Visitors” and he told me that any person who had one of those “Keystone Looking” Tags that parked in the wrong place that I had my clipboard that I had to write the License Plate number. After a couple trial runs, I got the hang of it and I was used to doing “Parking Lot Duty” at the time. Considering that I am Routine Oriented and Am Big On Rules, I was excited about getting to do it everyday. Eventually, though, it caught up with me and My Own Teachers would tell me not to write them up because they took the wrong car to School and forgot their Tag. They helped by describing where the car was and what color. But, to me, I was on The Rules, that and by the time I got out there, I would forget what they told me and without realizing it, I wrote them up anyway. At the end of The School Year, I got 100% Compliance that Year. After many Teachers were wondering, who I was and who was writing them up. I got an award near the end of the School Year for “Parking Lot Duty” that I didn’t even know that I had won. There was an Award Ceremony that I didn’t go to because I thought that I wouldn’t get an award that I got one anyway. So, I personally count that more as a Professional Accomplishment. The next Accomplishment is something that My Mom is proud of. You See, do you remember My Mom and I went to Houston to meet this wonderful Photographer who is now our buddy? This was a while ago, so it is okay if you don’t remember. Anyway, Before we all had our “Model Pictures” taken if you will, We went to a Presentation at the Baylor College of Medicine to show all his photos that he has taken of People with various Special Needs since the beginning. Anyway, after they showed all the pictures, Dr. Potocki & Dr. Lupski, and Other Doctors as well as My Mom joined a little panel in front of Over 200 Medical Students for a program called “Compassion and The Art of Medicine.” Dr. Potocki told me the night before that I could join if I wanted to. When the panel started, I was a little nervous sitting in the audience and then, Dr. Potocki said, “We also have Julie’s Son, Christian here if he would like to come up” and I sat there for a second and I thought, Okay, I might as well. After I sat down with everyone, They had a microphone for everyone to pass around and Of Course, with every question, they passed it to me. Eventually, I got the hang of it and used to them passing the Mic to each person. Now, as My Mom likes to say, it didn’t go without me having People in Tears with the things I said. I even polled the audience to see who looked at people from The Inside (Meaning Inner Beauty), instead of The Outside (Meaning Outer Beauty, like someone’s appearance) and only a few hands came up and I said, “God Bless You Guys! Because We need to see the Inner Beauty of People, Not Outer Beauty.” I told people that sometimes It is hard to see the Inner Beauty because you are too fixated on the outside and Yes, even I have done that a time or two. One of the Most Inspirational Things I said was (as I quote Myself from My Records), “Most People only look at the outside of others. That is all they see and are judged on. You can brush your hair, and put on Makeup, but Someone is still going to tell you, “Man, You Look Ugly!” Then, Of Course, there was the very daring thing I said that My Mom LOVES to Reference, I told Over 200 Medical Students and Doctors that, “Having Special Needs is not like living in Hell or anything.” After the panel was over, I just stood there looking at everyone answering questions and the next thing I had a line of Medical Students and Doctors Thanking Me for being so honest and Asking different questions. So, I’m really proud of this accomplishment because I had to talk in front of so many people. A Minor Accomplishment that I did was that I rode in a “Traffic Helicopter” during TV & Radio 5 O’ Clock Traffic Report and Told to keep my eyes peeled from Traffic Trouble. They were impressed that I knew where I was in all parts of the city. they told me that I was welcome back anytime, that was a Fun Accomplishment! All in All, I am very proud of these many accomplishments in My Life.
Thanks for Reading The Christianville Spirit. Be Proud of Your Big and Small Accomplishments.
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