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From: "laurel j intrieri" laurelj@mindspring.com
Subject: just a small thank you among the many you
must get daily...
Hi there. just wanted to let you know
that your verses lifted my spirits.... I
have just lost a very dear relative.... and I am not
dealing with it very well, some of your
verses hit home.... The music and verses
were so soothing.... ~ Just
wanted you to know I appreciate you sharing your
talent with those of us who do not have
any, and need something to cling
to, to get us back on the emotional road to
recovery and back to our daily
routines.... Thank you again
for sharing, and giving us a few moments of comfort
in our hour of grief....
~ LJI
Dear
Laurel; It is wonderful to know that you found
comfort and uplifting on our site. Blessings
are like that, the more you share them, the more
they come back and bless you again. Your message
blessed me today. ~ I hope that
you will return. In case you didn't find the
prayer section yet (our site is SO large and
varied), you may like to keep this prayer I
wrote in 1993, so print it out and keep it where you
can read it in those low-times that catch us
unawares sometimes. The first year
(of firsts....) it happens with all the holidays and
anniversaries of things you've shared in the
past. It seems to be ever
near that first year - and a lot in the
second. Where
Are You Lord
~ Three years have passed without
Eric now, and a few fourth-time experiences of
yearly events without him... and it is still
pretty painful and at times I struggle or am
caught unawares by a small reminder which brings
me right back to that first few hours and
days..... Please return to visit and write if
you feel like it. I care. It is often
difficult for others to deal with our grief
unless they have experienced the depth of personal
grief themselves. Those of us who share
the experience, know how wonderful it is to find
solace in the listening of a friend who cares
and allows us to grieve rather than telling us
to "get over it" or "let go" or
"move on! " I embrace you with love
and caring,
Yours because I'm His, your Gypsy,
(Nina)
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From: sunysmile@webtv.net
~ Subject: SignedGuestbook
Gypsy, what touching words you left me!! Oh you made
made my day!! You have a wonderful heart, and thank
you for the encouragement!! God bless you, Now
I'm off to your page.....can't wait!!
Hugs, Suny
From: sunysmile@webtv.net
Words I wish I knew the words,... How I
feel right now .. compassion, yes... touched,
very much... uplifted because of your strength.
Saddened because of your loss. Hopeful
because of your hope. Seeking because you moved me
to want more. .Wishing I knew you
better because you draw me to you. Praying, because
I want you to be happy. Hurting because I feel your
pain. Peaceful because you are.
Thankful, because you shared. May God continue to
use you, for the Love He has planted in you, is His,
What a wonderful thing to see . You have blessed me
with your site. ~ Thank
you, Suny
My dear
friend, Suny; ~ "You wish
you knew the words?" I thought your words were
absolutely soulful and moved me deeply with
gratitude that you would speak them of me and mean
them so warmly that I could actually feel your heart
touching mine. Thank you for those special
words which will always mean very much to
me. Please feel free to write here, or
if you would like to be added to my
"pass-it-on" mailing list... Let me
know and I will add you to my private mail at gypsy@shentel.net.
In fact, I will be going to send something out to my
friends from that mailbox as soon as I send this to
you - so if you would like to be added, click
on the message and save the address and then
let me know to add you? Love and hugs,
Yours because I'm His, your Gypsy,
(Nina)
Subject:
Add me....
Yes please add me to your pass it on list!! I will
be looking forward to
hearing from you!! ~ May I add you
to mine?? I usually send out a smile or something
inspirational each day to my friends... If your mail
is already
overflowing, which I bet it is, I will
understand. You are a very special Lady and
I'm so glad I got to meet you!! And yes the
words were from my heart, because you touched it so.
Blessings to you and hugs ~
.......... Suny :)
Dear Suny;
You are most welcome. Thank you for being you.
!*S* ~ I will be returning to
visit again. I hope that you keep enjoying it
and growing in creativity and
pleasure. ~ Love
and a hug, ~
Yours because I'm His, your Gypsy,
(Nina)
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From: NichG@webtv.net
(Gary Nicholson Sr.)
Subject: A Glimpse Of Hell
http://hometown.aol.com/pooellaa/page2/index.htm
Do you know were you are going????
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Subject: Re: A Glimpse Of Hell
To: "Gary Nicholson Sr."
Yes!.
Absolutely!
http://www.user.shentel.net/nbaker/Redeem.htm
Yours because I'm His, Your
GYPSY, (Nina)
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From: "Larry
Wade" larrywade@freewwweb.com
Subject: Hi
Hi Nina. This is Larry Wade or better
know as "El-dubba-u" in the Pine Ridge Christian
Crusader Newsletter from Dallas, Georgia. After our
computer crashed, I couldn't remember where your web site
was and I've been searching until now.
~ I pray that all is well with you and your
family. ~ I need to ask is if we still
have permission to use your poems and stories in our
newsletter. I have to have an okay on file and when the old
computer crashed I lost all of our granted permission
emails. ~ Looking forward to
hearing from you and may God ever give you the strength to
stay faithful to His cause and to His Son, Jesus
Christ. ~ In His Service,
El-dubba-u ~ ChristianCrusader@netscape.net ~
larrywade@freewwweb.com
Dear
Larry; Yes, of course you may. I would,
however, ask the favor of letting me know (e-mail is fine),
where, when and what is used, and would also
appreciate your linking to either my main
page, or Erics'
table ~ I tried to access the URL, ChristianCrusader@netscape.net
but it wouldn't come up in MIE.... IS it only available on
Netscape? I hope not. Is there another access URL for your
publications/ministry? Please send to me if so. I
don't remember any notification from The Crusaders - of any
particular work of either Erics' or mine. Would you let me
know? I would simply like to know which work may have been
chosen as an offering. I do not limit or seek any reward
other than the joy of knowing what was chosen and
used. This has been a very nice year (in spite of a
second-year of severe drought in our area) for us. I don't
believe that a mothers' loss of her child ever really
heals.... We live out our remaining days with anticipation
of a reunion and the grace from our Lord to love
others and find fulfillment in serving
Him. ~ God bless and use you, Larry, Yours
because I'm His, your Gypsy, (Nina)
Hi Nina. ~ Thanks for
getting back so fast. We have not opened a web site yet. No
one in our church seems to have time. We mail out a
newsletter to just over 500 homes in Georgia and over the
country. When we print your poem or story we always include
the email address and the web address where the site can be
found underneath the author's name. On occasion, we send to
our email list an illustrated poem or story using the
ARCAMax program and that I can send to you. Sometimes I
take a page from your site (like a "A Mother's
Story") and email it to a select group and tell them a
little about you and then ask them to visit your site or to
email you and discuss their own losses and victories in
life. Maybe the Lord will open up the time (and the
brains) to put our church on the Net in the near
future. ~ Thanks for all the
comfort you have given me through your Web Site. I enjoy
visiting it, tremendously. I always leave with a word of
praise to our Lord for the words of wisdom and strength He
shares with us from you. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
In our Lord's Service, El-dubba-u ~
(Larry Wade)
And
AMEN to that, dear brother!
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From: NOMAD33@webtv.net
(Lou)
Subject: A Loss
Dear Nina, ~ I know this may be odd me
writing you since I am a man. But my mother
just recently passed away. I was looking for
something on the loss of a mother and came upon your
site. My brother was killed at the age of 16
and reading your letter as I gazed upon my mothers' picture
broke my heart, yet opened it up to possibly
understand what my mother went through. I can
only thank you for allowing me to fell a part of my mother
otherwise I would have never known, even though it is a
painful part. For it has helped me to
understand her better, and love her even more.
~ Thank You and God Bless You,
~ Lou ~ May Your Spirit Brighten the Darkened
Corners of Your Life
Dear Lou;
~ Thank you very much for taking time to write to
me and share how you were blessed in
visiting. I would like to hear from you
again and maybe you would like to tell me more about
your beloved mother? I don't know if you
discovered the guestbooks. (We are on #17 now) I archive
them at a certain size to prevent heavy loading for slower
computers. I'm mentioning this because I
was thinking that you may want to check them out for
other visitors who have lost their
parent<s>.
~ I have asked myself, many times, over
the last three and a half years, why it is that we
seek others with as nearly similar losses as our own,
to share with. After all this time, I
still feel that my initial idea of the why of it is
probably the correct conclusion. When we are in such
pain and we wonder how life itself can go on, how the
mornings can go on with a sunrise, how evening can
bring the moon and how we can go on in this life
without that loved one.... We all feel like the world
has changed too drastically to want to go on after such a
loss. ~ And at that time, when we
don't see how we can go on... hearing from another who
has endured/survived the same loss... is strengthening
and somewhat comforting. So I guess it's just that we
identify and see from their sharing, that we can go
on and sometimes, the things they share, help us as
only another who has experienced the same loss, can
do. Sometimes, the things they share, amaze and touch
the innermost parts of us when we learn that they also went
through some of the exact same grieving and healing
processes as we may think we are pretty weird to be feeling
or doing. Like, keeping something near which has
their unique smell still with it - using their
deodorant because it touched their underarms too, drinking
from their favorite glass or cup... keeping the
pillow where they laid their head - or hairs from a
brush. It all might seem rather bizarre to an outsider who
has never had to deal with your grief, and you might
even suspect that you are acting weird or losing your
mind. To know that others do those same
things, I believe helps us to know that we can and
will survive. Most importantly, it sort of gives us
the recognition that NOTHING at all is crazy about any
little bit of them which we might feel a need or desire to
cling to for a time... IS OKAY! ~ More of
those who grieve need to share privately and I understand
that. It is why I set the guestbook up as I
have, to be private if they indicate such choice. But -
every guest who has shared publicly, has left a gift to
comfort and strengthen others who come the same way along
the path. If you return to the main page and click on
guestbook, it will take you to the current book, but at the
bottom will be archive numbers which link you to each one
of them. You may find someone in particular whom you might
want to contact. Most of Those dear hearts have all
consented to participate in our family/experience of
mourning. I say "most" because the web I
originally published to memorialize Eric and his
writings, has grown to cover many subjects in three years,
and not all sharing is about grief. ~ Eric wrote such
a touching poem not long before he dies, and it was chosen
by those who worked with him on the college paper and
the literary magazine, to be used in the chapel
candlelight/memorial service which we attended there
the next week.... It is chillingly prophetic and always
touches my pain in the deepest way, for it seems that he is
speaking to all of us who lost him... You will find it
here, ThisDay.
It seemed written specifically for me as it described
the "foreverness" of life and love shared
with a loved one lost. ~ I hope that you will write
if I may be of any help in listening and just sharing the
grief or loneliness which you may feel. ~ Yours
because I'm His, your Gypsy, (Nina)
Dear Lou; Re: I
was looking for something on the loss of a mother ^
I remembered just as I was about to go out, a
dear friend who has a very nice page and he shares
there about losing his parents in very beautiful
words and poems which he wrote. Please visit there and
see if you feel comforted in him... His page is
here... http://www.cyberstate.infi.net/%7Epnb
Pauls'
Tribute to mothers page.
Love and comforting *hug*, From your Gypsy, (Nina)
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From: SLQ711@webtv.net
Subject: well done
Hi Nina... I didn't know when a good friend passed
this website on to me that I would be writing you to Thank
You for being the special person that you are! Your words
are the sweetest things next to heaven.....I admire you for
what you have endured...God Bless You Nina...I have a Buffy
too that I got from the pound so I understand....I have
eight loving (unwanted) pets here... Thank you so much..May
God richly Bless you.. In Christ... Sandra
~ AND....... "JESUS LOVES
YOU"........
Hello Sandra ~
Thank you for writing to me. I am blessed to know that you
enjoyed your visit. Thank you for the `strokes' also,
about my writing. *s* ~ Pets and children, they are such
blessings to our lives. I am sure that you know
that well enough with your "pet family". I
once had three dogs and found that I just couldn't keep up
with that many in a small home, so we are down to one now,
having adopted the other two (larger dogs) to good homes
and are now committed to him 24/7 ! If we happen upon a
needy SMALL dog - we will adopt it so that he will have a
playmate of his own-kind.
Yours because I'm His, your GYPSY, (Nina)
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From: "Ravi
Bhat" RaviBhat@email.msn.com
Subject: Hi
This is a wonderful sight. I appreciate it very
much. ~ ravi
Dear Ravi; ~ It is
always nice to hear that you are appreciated!
Thank you. I appreciate your taking time and letting
me know your feelings. *s* ~ Yours because I'm
His, your GYPSY, (Nina)
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From: dmdahart@webtv.net
(diana dahart)
Subject: good morning! ~ What a beautiful
30 minutes this has been reading all the
messages! I was searching for info on
foot surgery for the mother of a dear friend of mine..and
curiosity got the best of me. The music is lovely and
each message so inspiring and touching. you have suffered
much in this life but through His grace you have overcome,
and now you give to others! I'm not even sure
what date the last message was, but I hope you
are over the last surgery and on the road to recovery.
~ In the last year I have had more losses than once I
thought I could handle. A year ago my beloved Misha had to
be put to sleep at 18 years of age. She was my
first kitty and her eyes were like deep pools... When she
gazed at you it was as if she could see into your soul. for
weeks we gave her daily fluid IV's, but eventually, she
could not leave the bedroom.... could not eat, or make it
to the litter box (the room was covered in plastic and
papers!). At night I could only
doze, and constantly stroked her.
Finally, she was just suffering too much and I was
with her, holding her tiny body and telling her how much I
loved her, as the vet inserted the needle in her paw. so
fast.... A split second... and my little friend was
gone. This year, my Mom, who was 85, fell and
had a compression fracture in her lower spine. She lived in
Victoria, BC and i'm in Michigan. for 3 long
months. Ii went out there for about 10-14 days
each month and agonized seeing her suffer each day in the
hospital. her final 40 days were spent in a little cubicle
(no windows... little air circulation...
nothing on the walls until we took in pictures from Arizona
Hwys and a calendar) at a transitional care unit,
ill-equipped to work with the dying. With each
visit, I could see her wonderfully witty and sharp
mind being altered by the oh-so necessary
morphine. A couple of times in the car I would
scream at God for allowing this pain, but still tried to
stay faithful, and realize that I do not have the Big
Picture. I am Catholic, and I tried every
day to offer up Mom's pain, and even my inner pain,
for whatever God needed. The last time I
saw Mom I was sitting on the edge of her bed, and leaned
down to place my head on her shoulder.
Very slowly I felt her arms come around me and start to
stroke my hair, as she did when I was a
child. The tears flowed, but I think we
both knew this would be the last time we would be together
on this earth. Many years ago in a
northern Arizona valley, Mom and I stood together (no one
around for 20 miles) on a moonless night. we held hands,
and were speechless in front of the awe of God's glory..
the stars were so many that the sky was white! she died
alone one night last June, but now she is truly in God's
glory, and there is no more pain! Two weeks
before Mom's death, the lady who was my "second
Mom" died. And now, less then 2 weeks ago
I lost one of my best girlfriends to
cancer. We had known each other 27
years. I have bad days... and I have
"Mom moments". Those are the times when you want
to share something with her, or, when those 3 long months
evaporate, and you remember how much fun you had at
Christmas, and think, "how could all this have
happened so fast?". and my girlfriend,
Annie. I went to her funeral in Las Vegas, and
it was my first time at her home. Her husband was so lost,
but I felt she was only out of town. she should have
been there. God is with me though! He has given
me incredible graces throughout this year, and led me to
others who either touch my life, or perhaps I can be there
for them. I will explore more on your
pages, and will share this with my friends
mother. I have never had children, but
was married once and my stepson committed suicide at 14 and
I know how wrenching that loss
was. ~ Bless you for all you
do! ~ Diana
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Dear
Diana; What a
beautiful, heart warming, (as well as
heart-rending), message from you. I
feel that we have shared many
similarities in our losses.
Even now, I still comb through the
realities I face each day and each
occasion without Eric. Though it is
well into the fourth year now.....
sometimes it seems like it just
happened and I feel stunned and
unbelieving that it could be true,
while at other times, I think of all
the mercies and good aspects of the
swift, painless ending of his life
right at the pinnacle of success
in everything he loved to do and did
so well and so outstandingly that he
was recognized as the best of the
entire graduating class of 1996 (and
awarded as such) in both of his majors
at Ferrum college. When I think of the
blessings in how it all happened, I
cannot get lost in depression or
despair, and my heart can even feel a
surge of such gratitude for the
mercy...
---->
what
a beautiful 30 minutes this has been
reading all
^Either you are a VERY fast reader, or
you didn't
get to see the other guestbooks? They
are archived (16) and I will be
finishing my updating and archiving
#17 and #18 by Monday evening. I
do hope that you will return for
another look around, for there is much
to see!
---->
you have suffered much in this life
but through His grace you have
overcome, and now you give to
others!
^Oh, and THEY give to ME! (especially
kindred spirits (such as
yourself) and fellow mourners of loved
ones we've lost.
---->
not even sure what date the last
message was, but I hope you are over
the last surgery and on the road to
recovery.
^The foot surgery was in the Fall of
1997. I did VERY well with the three
different surgeries on both feet (6
altogether) and was feeling just
great! Then,
unfortunately, (and foolishly!) - was
in a lawn-tractor accident which tore
the meniscus in both knees, which
required two surgeries, one month
apart, (to remove the meniscus and
repair the damage to whatever-all was
frayed and damaged) in the Fall of
1998. Now, I'm holding out
until January 4, 2,000, for double
knee replacement surgery.
My surgeon wanted to schedule them
three months apart, but I have had 6
straight years of surgeries, and I
need a break! The
feet were to be the end of a 5 year
program of restoration and
rebuilding of long neglected (and
undiagnosed) medical condition
which is now under control (but
the damage was done before it was
discovered and treatment
begun). I hate
talking about medical problems, but I
also feel very blessed to have such a
wonderful doctor who feels like a
brother to me now! *S* He
has literally operated on me and
redesigned me from head to toes -
quite-literally! *giggle*
He is a great micro-surgeon and for
all I've had done, he leaves little
scarring or
disfigurement!
----> a year ago my beloved Misha
had to be put to sleep at 18 years
^I don't know if you read about my
precious Buffy, but she was also 18!
And I too, held her as she took her
last breath and was at
peace. I remember
that last night, like yours with your
Misha (a lovely sounding
name!)....
----> my Mom who <snip>
agonized seeing her suffer each
day
^Oh, I cannot know how utterly
devastating that must have been for
you to endure! That
was the very first question I
asked of the state trooper, "Did
he suffer?"
----> I could see her wonderfully
witty and sharp mind being altered by
the oh-so necessary morphine.
^I wish that I could hug you and tell
you that I really care and am so sorry
that your paths were so difficult to
her end. The only thing I can say is
that sometimes that painful way of
coming to the end of a
relationship/parting - helps you to
let go of the loved one and see that
death is not just an ugly specter, but
also a merciful
blessing.
Particularly when you know where she
is now and that she is perfectly
healed and restored to Gods' original
plan for us all for eternity!
----> very slowly , I felt
her arms come around me and start to
stroke my hair, as she did when I was
a child.
^Oh - how precious! I cannot count the
times I have longed almost unbearably,
to feel just one more hug and see his
dear face, stroke the softness of his
beard.... but that was not to be in
our journey.... or
parting. Yet, We did hug
and kiss goodbye having no idea that
it would be our last touch and goodbye
forever,) when we last saw each
other, and I stood at the door all the
while as he started the car up and got
his music playing and buckled up and
slowly, with a backward glance as he
pulled out and I waved from the
door.... he went back to campus after
an unexpected,
"Just-Because" - surprise
visit home for the weekend a few weeks
before... It hurts either way... you
know? Your path and mine, to the same
destination, filled with good and bad
aspects.... her we are, without them.
But, incredibly, look how God managed
to bring us together to
share....
----> we held hands, and were
speechless in front of the awe of
God's glory... the stars were so
many that the sky was white!
^You have a beautiful way of sharing
your experiences & I feel so
blessed that you shared them with
me. I hope we will
continue to be in touch...
writers just never seem to stop
writing. It is plain that you have a
gift for writing
too. I read your
letter twice today. I went to bed
about 12:30, but I kept thinking about
your experiences and about mine, and I
came out to read it again and
then it just seemed I couldn't go to
bed until I wrote to you myself... So
here I am and it's past 3:00 (a.m.)
and I am quite
sleepy-eyed. I shed some
tears with/for you, but I also praised
God too.... for He was so good
to bring us together.....
----> she died alone one night last
June,
^Oh, my dear, dear One..... this is
not at all true.
Remember Christ saying, Lo, I am with
you always! Even unto the
end! I will never
leave you nor forsake you! No, no.....
and we all have angels - guardian
angels set to watch over us and
minister to us.... And she was not
alone at all..... not at all! And you,
dear Diana, YOU were also with her in
her heart.... just as she is still
with YOU now...
----> two weeks before Mom's death,
the lady who was my "second
Mom"
^I am so sorry.... how tragic to be so
closely spaced in time for you to
adjust to two such losses!
---->
less then 2 weeks ago I lost one of my
best girlfriends <snip> we had
known each other 27 years.
^This is a beautiful blessing also, to
have had a true friend for so long a
time.... staying in touch all the
while. In todays' world, people do not
often stay in touch or maintain close
friendships for such a long time. You
have been richly blessed. The cost of
loving
and `having' - is, for one or the
other, usually, to lose and to grieve
the loss of the other who goes first.
But look at you.... you are such
a loving soul... and that is truly,
Christ in you. He suffered and I feel
certain, He suffers yet at the sight
of this world.... but - Oh, how
greatly He loves and gives us courage,
strength and abundant grace for the
journey we are set upon.....
---->
I have bad days...and I have "Mom
moments".
^I know exactly what you mean. I too.
I used to think it would get
easier.... in fact, everyone seems to
say that it will - but I don't think
that it does. It stays, but we change.
And as you are finding out, the
poignant memories and melancholy,
bring with them,
the gentle joy and warmth of love felt
and moments experienced and we then
come to rejoice at them and forget the
acute pain of loss, for we come to
know that they will be with us as long
as we wish for them to be and cherish
the memories so precious and
beautiful.
---->
Annie <snip> but i felt she was
only out of town.
^She was there with you, and she is
with you now.
---->
others who either touch my life, or
perhaps I can be there for them.
^this is very true... for you have
certainly touched my
life this day and forever, Diana.
Thank you for that. I thank God also.
---->
I will explore more on your pages, and
will share this
^I am in the process of intensively
working on the site now... redoing it
to be easier to navigate.... I just
kept growing and it became so big that
few people even comprehend the
magnitude or scope of
the territory it covers - *s*. So
please check back even when you
think you are through with it!
*grinning* By next weekend, every page
should be accessible from the
"Front Door" (the address
below my name here - in case you
didn't make it to the Front
Door-
---->
married once and my stepson committed
suicide at 14
^This also, is very tragic. I have
been so close to that weakness myself,
and the thing which caused me to fight
it - was the thought of what
others would feel if I did..... what a
terrible and selfish (unloving) legacy
to leave to loved ones.... Sometimes,
though, pain can be so overwhelming
that thoughts and other feelings and
(reasoning) can be drowned out in
it.... Surely... all who chose to end
their own lives.... hurt even more
than we could imagine.... I
understand, and I would surely hope to
never, ever have a friend or family
make such a choice without sharing the
pain with me or someone else who may
be able to help, comfort,
support and build them up....
---->
bless you for all you do!
^Thank you, Diana. And you certainly
have been an instrument or His
compassion, strengthening and comfort.
Today I feel He has made us friends
for a lifetime and then eternity.....
*S* Love
and embrace, (It is now 3:40
A.M.!)
Yours because I'm His, your GYPSY,
(Nina)
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From:
sheehan <sheehan@milfordnet.com>
Subject: Guestbook not
working
I am Starlitfire.... I tried to sign
your guestbook but it wouldn't let me
so I figured I would just email my
comments. I spent
hours at your site... It is very
emotional, and very touching... I
cried many times... I also write
poetry, and Eric's poems are
absolutely great..... Am very sorry
for the loss of such talent...
Please visit my site.....would love to
hear your opinions about my poetry,
and also have 2 special pages....one
is on spousal abuse the other is for
my son on child abuse...
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Jardin/5601/index.html
Love and Light always,
Starlitfire
Dear
Starlitfire; Hello.
I am just now beginning to try and
catch up the
guestbook as it is time to archive the
current one and start another. I
had over 700 emails in my que before
I finally got the FrontPage
upgrading done and my site all back
up. I hope that you were able to
return to see it since
then. ~ I
cannot find a reply from me to you
when you wrote to me. I
thought I had written to let you know
the problem was my fault there -
but I don't see a copy of one and fear
that I may have done something wrong
and sent your e-mail response to
another? Or thought I
responded and somehow missed
you? Otherwise, this
e-mail would not be here and I am so
sorry if that is the case. If so
- please forgive me and accept my
apology. I had a terrible time with
the website being so huge and
the new software upgrade just made an
awful mess (and my whole life!)
of it for weeks! ~
Let me know either way - okay? I am
slowly but surely working my
through catching up now that the site
is okay. Also - I have your site
on my visitation list for tonight. I
surf for an hour or two with my laptop
after Brandi is tucked in for the
night. Looking forward to visiting
with you then. Thank you for your
kindness and compassion over my
loss and letting me know that
you liked our writings.
I always feel so pleased when
people read his work, for I know that
it was his hearts' desire and that it
is being fulfilled for him. We
can't always give people what
they want most - but in this
case, it sure has been happening that
his desire is fulfilled on and
on.... As to the guestbook - it
is a personal choice I made to
allow people to write privately and
just publish their messages if they
don't mind and will share with
others. So very many
people who are hurting and/or
alienated from others, God, even their
life... need that safety of a
private communication... for they
already get enough condemnation from
others without going public for even
more. So the guestbook
link leads directly to this
special Website mailbox. I have
a private one as well, for
personal mail. So write whenever you
like - and do go and visit the
guestbooks with messages and exchanges
you may like to share... Thank you
again for writing to me and for your
caring. I love your
name.... it is a handle?
Or your actual
name.
~ Yours because I'm
His, your Gypsy, (Nina)
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From:
Wolfie3637@webtv.net
(343 353)
Subject: pages
Hello, I liked your home page
and thought the writing of everything
in
here was beautifully written and I'm
sorry for your loss, that does
break
my heart as well, and I i know if you
pray every day it will help in coping
with every thing too as, I
have been doing for so long because I
lost a lot of my loved ones too,
so keep praying and keep all your
loved
ones in your heart and you'll be
ok, and again I'm
sorry and hope all
of your family is ok too.
bye God Bless!!!
Dear
Wolfie; Thank
you for brightening my day with your
presence and appreciation of our
site. I think of it as
Erics' earthly home where we have a
cyber-castle with many, many
rooms! *S*. Although I am
well into the fourth year now, I
still find great joy when those of you
who write and share your appreciation
of his work, for, that is what founded
the site - his simple desire to be
read and to give something
lasting to the world and
people.... So when you
write, I know that our little lights
are still shining brightly in the
darkest of places and experiences
(particularly for those who
grieve). The site is
in transition right now, and I hope
that you will return to check out more
of it (particularly if you found that
any pages didn't come up for you -
for that is my fault in taking
so long to re-do it all! When I
upgraded to FrontPage 2000, I made
quite a mess of it! It was only
yesterday that I finally got it all
straight in my head and am now
"redecorating". I have been
pleased with the new features and
faster loading of pages!
*RVBS!* Bye
for now, Thank you, and
God has blessed both of us with our
meeting.
Yours because I'm
His, your GYPSY,
(Nina)
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I
get more than a few of these brief
ones... and sometimes I have been
asked why I didn't include them - so
now and then I will randomly pick one
and put it in. If you sent
one as brief and wondered why it
wasn't up - if you will mention that
you would like your name here with the
short message such as the one below -
I will assuredly post it - just let me
know - okay? It is not
ungratitude on my part - but simply
that I get such a lot of those and
until I get a secretary *giggle* - I
won't be posting them - but each of
you do know that I ALWAYS respond
privately and let you know that I
appreciate your visit and even a two
word message - for it is thoughtful of
anyone to write and I DO appreciate
every word.
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From:
JESUSWRITE@aol.com
Subject: (no
subject)
~ Hi, I enjoyed your site.
Roni
Thank
you, Roni; Yours because I'm
His, your GYPSY, (Nina)
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From:
shariff-arkie@webtv.net
Subject: What guest book?
every time i clicked on your guest
book to sign it brought me to write
a message. so where is your gest book?
you have a very lovely site.
Hello: And thank you. I
have most of my site off line right
now - for I
upgraded my software to FrontPage
2000, which led to my having to
rework it entirely in order for
faster loading for guests and friends
and adequate navigation which
became a problem - with
thousands (literally) of pages -
I had to really work on the challenge
of presenting it in better
cohesiveness. Please
return on Tuesday/Wednesday and you
will be amazed at what you didn't even
discover! *GFETE!*
Perhaps you clicked on the guestbook
link at the bottom of a page you
were viewing. That took you directly
to CURRENT one which explains
the how and why of my choosing e-mail
for entries and submissions. I am
greatly blessed at the kindness and
love exchanged there - we are on #18
right now (which is in the CURRENT
form and not yet archived as
#18. By the time you get
this e-mail - the site will be
inactive until tomorrow afternoon.
PLEASE return - and then I hope that
you will send your thoughts/feelings
by clicking on the guestbook which
will then bring you to e-mail to send
it. Thank you for
writing to me and I hope to hear from
you again. Yours because I'm
His, your Gypsy, (Nina)
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From:
"Brenda Holman" <7HillsSpooky2@linkline.com>
Subject: What am I doing wrong? Or
perhaps you are under construction?
Every time I try to enter a new
link I get the Not Found page on my
screen. I was looking
forwards to entering your world, looks
very pleasing. Thank you,
Brenda Holman
Dear Brenda; I am
finally getting my mail all caught up.
I am so sorry that your visit
was during the terrible time
after I installed the upgrade for my
software FrontPage 2000, and the
site was not working. It took a month
of very intense working night and day
to get it all back up. It is finished
now and all working.
Please forgive the length of time
before I responded to your mail
- I was just too overwhelmed to do
anything more at the computer except
emergencies (grief-support) - even
my closest friends were
wondering if I was ever going to
return to e-mailing regularly
again! ~
Thank you for visiting. I hope you
will return and check it all out now.
the guestbook is directly connected
here to this "page
mailbox" - if you get to it now
you will find explanation as to why I
chose to set it up that way and do the
posting of messages
personally. Hope to hear
from you again. Yours because I'm
His, your GYPSY, (Nina)
"Brenda
Holman" 7HillsSpooky2@linkline.com
Subject: Re: welcome back
~ Dear Nina, I am so
pleased to hear from you and will
visit often. Your site is so wonderful
and full of warmth, love, compassion
to be shared with many as I have
done. My husband has been
in the hospital since Oct. 10th. with
Pancreas problems and your
message is very comforting. Thank you.
My heart and prayers remain with you.
God Bless, ~ Brenda Holman
of Hemet, Ca.
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From:
TLCRhynas@webtv.net (Thelma Rhynas)
Subject:
MSM ~ I had no idea when I
began searching for info on MSM that I
would find such a huge amount on one
site, and so
helpful. Thank you.
I haven't read it completely yet, but
I will. Thank you again. Good
things......
T.L. Rhynas, Ajax, Ontario Canada.
Hello: I am so far
behind in my e-mail due to the
redesigning of my entire website
(approx 400 pages!) So I just
now read this from you. Thank
you for letting me know that the
report was helpful to you. I
believe that MSM will one day be
even more commonly taken that
vitamin C! It is
miraculous in so many ways. I
pray the best for you.
Yours because I'm
His, your Gypsy,
(Nina)
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.From:
Mary Smith msbaker2@bellsouth.net
Subject: Peace ~ Hi, I
just found your website. This is my
first time of browsing different
crescendo links. I want you to know
the peaceful, serene music and loving,
kind, heartfelt words were a blessing
to me. Thank God there are God
loving people on the Internet! You
know, where God is, Peace is! ~ Hope
to visit again soon! Marie
Hello Marie; This is
quite delayed a response, but better
late than never is
still true, I hope. Thank you for the
appreciation and enjoyment you
expressed. I hope that your
"newness" has been a
pleasant undertaking and now you must
be a real "pro"
surfer! It is such a
pleasant, (but addicting) thing to
do, for with each click you find
more to go to before you even
look around much and before you
know it... hours have passed and
it's difficult to even
remember where you began or what the
initial
topic was that you wanted to explore -
for it all looks so interesting
and you just click, click, click your
way around the
world. Thank you for
sharing your visit. Again, please
forgive the lengthy time in responding
while my site was so disabled - it is
all working again, perhaps you will
want to return and see the variety of
things.
Yours because I'm His,
your Gypsy, (Nina)
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From:
Apache74@webtv.net
~ You are the angel of
my prayer!
Dear Apache' ~ Thank
you for the email which I was so
delayed in visiting and responding to.
The music was especially
beautiful, and the sentiment
very sweet. It is truly wonderful
how we are all brought together
and able to reach out to each
other in this new cyber-realm of
communication. *S* ~ Yours because I'm
His, your Gypsy, (Nina)
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From:
"C. Halstead" halstead@wt.net
~ Subject: Eric
I read the articles on your site. What
a tragic loss, I couldn't help but put
my son in Eric place and for a moment
I felt your pain. I know that your
loss exceeds explanation with
words. I was wondering
what the big object in the road
was? Your article doesn't
say. It is not clear how the accident
happened. God bless
you. You are in my
prayers. I know that the
Lord will give you peace as He is the
peace giver. ~ Cliff Halstead
John
14:27 27 Peace I leave with you; my
peace I give you. I do not give to you
as the world gives. Do not let your
hearts be troubled and do not be
afraid. (NIV)
Dear Cliff; Thank
you for writing to me and for your
caring. There is more
information in another section of the
website where I published the
exchanges which took place between my
chatroom-friends posted on our
bulletin board. I was unable to
actually go online into
the chatroom, but I received so much
e-mail and phone calls that I
posted updates there so that all could
know and I would not have to try
responding to individuals at that time
when it took the utmost effort just to
post one message to all. ~
There was a house nearby which had
installed central AC (heat-pump) and a
spare eight foot roll of the
insulating material, fiberglass backed
by shiny metallic material, lay behind
their house all year with other debris
from the job. On the night it blew
into the path of Erics' car, it
was very windy and lightly
raining. It had blown to
the side of the road at the front of
the house where passersby had
seen it earlier in the
evening. No doubt, Eric
and his friends
passed it themselves on their way into
town. Having laid out in
the back yard so long, the thin
wire which bound this roll of
material was rusty (and thereby,
weakened). When it blew into the
path of the car, and contact was made,
the material burst open all at once -
the wire wrapped itself under the car
and was tightly wound around the right
axle. The car was rear wheel drive and
this, combined with the material which
was partly under the cars' tires at
that point of impact, and the shiny
metallic material caught, at first, on
the front bumper and covered the
windshield and drivers' side of the
car. (I spoke with an eyewitness who
was passenger in the car behind
Eric when it happened, and she
described to me that the windows were
entirely covered until the car, which
spun around with the wheel locked as
it was, left the road and hit the tree
sideways, at which time, the
silver material blew off and away. The
wire and part of the material which
clung to it, is depicted in one of the
photos and the accident investigator
is holding it up for the picture he
took when he went to the lot
where we had the car taken
afterward..... Firebird.
The third picture shows the material -
If you have not already seen this part
of Erics' story and the message I
published - you will see the house,
the building materials and the spot
where the insulation lay all
year. If you have not seen the
pictures, you may not want to-
for they are very graphic and
difficult for any parent to
see. I have the message up
to let others know that such a simple
danger, easily overlooked, can end a
lifetime of a young mans' dreams and
work... and most of all, a
relationship so precious and
irreplaceable as one mothers' only
son. Due to the small
diameter but sturdy nature of the tree
(Hickory) - it acted much like a
splitting maul and the car was bent
nearly in two (the weight of the
engine actually wrapping it around the
tree). Eric died instantly, without
even one sound of pain... this is
testified to by his best friend, Noel,
who was in the seat behind Eric and
upon impact, the seat lay right back
with Eric almost in Noels' lap. Noel
thought that he was unconscious. In
just a few minutes, an off-duty deputy
came upon the scene and got Noel
out of the car. The other Eric was
thrown from the car - the seat
belt ripped straight across in what
seemed to all of us to be an
impossible occurrence... but it
probably saved `that' Erics'
life. So that is how
it happened on that April night in one
brief and bizarre
happenstance that changed our lives
forever and ended all the brilliant
and talented promise of a gifted young
man. It is my prayer
that each person who sees such an
object will do what they can to remove
it and prevent another life or
lives from being lost to carelessness
with unsecured materials left for so
long a time (or for any time at all).
Yours because I'm His,
Your Gypsy (Nina)
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From:
"cmck213" cmck213@connectiva.net
Subject: so many
So many times we take leave of what is
best for us.... Only HE knows
what is in store for all of us. What a
pieceful sight this and makes us
remember all of HIS words and
promises to us. ~ What a beautiful
sight that you have. The music
is so wonderful! ~ I am
new. How do I get this to
other people?
Hello "New" *smiling*
A link you are wanting to share?
If so, you can copy the
address with a left click and
highlight of address (URL) as you
hold your finger down on the
left mouse-button and slide the cursor
over the address . When it is
highlighted, you click the right mouse
button and when the little box opens,
you choose copy, and then you
`paste' it into a message in e-mail of
a document you are writing or
whatever. ~ The front "page"
of my site is already here below my
name. Also you may prefer
to use the "Master
Index " page which is `clickable'
at the bottom of each and every page
of my entire site (over 350 URLs and a
wide variety of topics) ~ Looks
like you are finding your way around
okay anyway. Keep
traveling. Hope I provided some
help for you,
Yours because I'm His, Your
GYPSY, (Nina)
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