BAPTISM

Ryan was baptized in St Augustine Catholic Church in Washington DC.

He took it very seriously.

ANHINGA

MEET JOE BLACK

Joe Black: I don't care, Bill. I love her.

William Parrish: How perfect for you - to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That's not love.

Joe Black: Then what is it?

William Parrish: Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging - it's missing everything that matters.

Joe Black: Which is what?

William Parrish: Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love.

Joe Black: So that's what love is, according to William Parrish?

William Parrish: Multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depth of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.

Joe Black: Those were my words.

William Parrish: They're mine now.

GANDALF

“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

PAUL'S BOAT

Terry Ann

 

Terry Ann - friend at helm
 

 

Paul's first sailboat - Valor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MARY JOSEPH

Mary,  Sally and Elaine

From Facebook:

Mary Kelly Joseph

August 4, 2014 · Ocala, FL ·

On August 3, 2005 I had a brain aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). I am Mary Emily Kelly Meiners Joseph.
My husband and I had gone to a restaurant in Mason Ohio. They have the best salad buffet table and they are about a mile away from an ambulance building. I am so grateful. No pain in the beginning or in the end. I passed-out. An ambulance picked me up and took me to Bethesda North Hospital.
I have no memory of that experience, didn’t want to know what happened in that 24 days. When I woke-up my vision was not good. I looked over at the window and I thought that this is a funky hotel. Then, I saw a family portrait. I was thinking that I must be about 12 years old. THEN, somebody gave me a mirror WOW what happened to 40 years. I could not stand-up, my right hand did not work, could not eat or drink until they gave a cracker test. But the worst was saying “yes” and “no” were difficult.
This is a statement that my sister, Ann added. * My sister suffered her aneurysm at age 50. Her mental age progressed at the rate of 7 years for one calendar year. That is, after one year she appeared to be age 7, after two years she appeared to be about age 14, etc. She must exercise daily to maintain the physical abilities she worked so hard to get back. Needless to say we are all amazed at her dogged determination to beat this health problem. * BY THE WAY, ANN, THIS YEAR I WILL BE 60 IN DECEMBER. I WANT TO STOP THE 7 YEAR ITCH . If it keeps going that time, you and I will be the same age. Gotta stop doing that.
That is the past. Now-a-days the issues are 99% positive. Am still going forward. Smile.
Thankful that anybody that helped me; like, the spiritual Lord, my doctors, my medical staff, my close friends, my brothers and sisters, my sons and my husband do a great job. My husband became my caregiver, chef, car driver, grocery buyer, teacher. . . thank goodness he is retired.
From then on, go forward. Smile! Just do it.
If there are only ten things that I have to tell you-- let’s do it right now.

1. Always be grateful, it can always worse
2. You are you, I am me
3. Go a another mile, physically and/or mentally
4. Make the best choose
5. Faith 
6. hope 
7. love
 
Now here’s four more things that I want to tell you about
8. Sad = negatives
9. Mad = negatives
10. Scared = negatives
11. Happy = positive
 
But the most important thing is a positive attitude. Smile again.
 
*Information written by my sister, Ann, is from the two stars.

Mary is truly one of the most remarkable people I have ever known. Her generosity and capacity to love are astonishing. Gratitude is the quality with which she defines herself.