Radio 8: "Shortcuts make it easy to enter repetitive or hard-to-remember text in your weblog."  [Scripting News]
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In Memorium Mark Christopher Malone, son of our school's principal, Mary Malone, passed from this world to eternity at the age of 29, this past Friday during the night after a long illness.
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The Twinkle in His Eye The Twinkle in His Eye On Friday, Martha Zepeda, our Kindergarten teacher and her trusted co-educator, Ruth Solis went on their bi-weekly student house visits. What was to be a "routine" visit turned into a "Lazarus" event for a man in the winter of his life. What was a shadow became carnate. The old man, who was in his seventies, entered the conversation between his grandson's teachers and parent by asking if his grandson was as quiet at school as he was at home. With that question, his own silence was broken, as the man began to eventually speak of his journey on this Earth. Martha and Ruth's genuine interest in his story, motivated him to talk of life, music, friends, tragedy, opportunities lost, and his present precarious health condition. He recounted a song that a gifted but down and out composer friend gave him. A sad song which locally was so popular in his pueblo that he always was asked to sing it at social functions. Martha not only wrote down the lyrics but brought out a cassette player to record the man singing "his" song. As "we" know, "Our" Mexican sad songs can make even the coldest stone cry. By the end of the visit, he had been transformed! They could see the twinkle in his eye. He had been listened to, validated, appreciated and affirmed. When they recounted the story, both Martha and Ruth had this special aura about them. It was if they had been in the presence of something beautiful which produces awe and where words fall short of describing the event in its fullness, the sacred. In so many words, Ruth was correct in saying afterword that Martha has a gift for putting that twinkle in one's eye.
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