I've started going back to the YMCA to exercise since my kids have have returned to school and I saw my friend Stacie who was working at the front desk. I said to her, "HI Stacie, how are you honey!?" "I haven't seen you for a while!" Her personality is always very serious and she never cracks a smile - which makes me laugh. She said "I'm good," but then she became excited and said very quickly in her usual monotone, "I've lost 18 pounds!" I said, "That's terrific, good job, how did you do it?" She said, "I exercised." I said, "Well, point to the machine you used, that's the one for me!" "It's not here, she said, I go to "Curves."
Alrighty then.
Alrighty then.
My friend George attends the parish across town and he always likes to tell me about whats going with the Knights of Columbus. He's a proud member of the K of C and he gets particularly excited when it's Lent as he goes on to describe how he participates in their annual fish fry. George is my grocery sacker, and we chat at least once a week and have done so for many years.
Last week I bought two carts of groceries and George said he would help me to load them into my car. I said, "It's okay, I know you have other things to do, I can do it," but he insisted, and because I was feeling my age, I relented. I parked my car in the drive-thru lane and he began to move my things but as I got out to help him, he insisted, very sweetly, "You get back in the car, I will do it, besides your going to have to put it all away." Yeah, your right George, and I should bring you home with me, your very helpful.
Ah, thanks George, your the best!
Then when I was leaving another store, a group of special needs people began to exit their bus. Their leader was a very handsome young man who was making playful walking gestures with his hands and trying to engage the older teens and young adults with his humor. I glanced at him and shot him a smile of approval as he laughed with embarrassment when he noticed that I had been watching him act silly. Naturally I considered him to be very saintly and felt love at first sight for this man who was apparently as gorgeous on the inside as he was on the outside.
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* "An estimated 92 percent of all women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome choose to terminate their pregnancies, according to research reviewed by Dr.Brian Skotko, a pediatric geneticist at Children's Hospital Boston."
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92 percent of these women don't know what they're missing and the world is worse off without these people.
6 comments:
I love these people - always have. There is a theater group of special needs folks in Minneapolis - I saw them on our local PBS station - they are so fun.
Check it out:
http://www.mnoriginal.org/art/?p=2061
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyJ0bWlruyA&feature=player_embedded
A video I thought you might like.
I heard a Padre say at a sermon that a baby had been aborted that could have been the Holy Father that would bring the Church out of its crisis.
God be with you, Senora.
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Mr.T, That was a fun video.
These people are better people than we are, I think perhaps we'll be subordinate to them in heaven.
As far as PBS goes, when there's nothing good to watch on PBS then there's nothing worth watching on television.
Elizabeth is working on a documentary that will be shown on PBS. I thought that producers were better people than we are because somehow they were more efficient, well organized, and more intelligent. I need to stop putting people on pedestals. I've learned they're just as screwed up as the rest of us and most often, not very considerate of others.
Pablo, as a mother to eight, I can't even wrap my brain around abortion.
Wonderful post.
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