MEGAPHONE
Elwood, Indiana Elwood High School(s)
Volume 6, No. 2 Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Contents
(Page numbers on the left can be used as links!)
Page 1 . . . Disappointment -- Nancy Sumner
Page 2 . . . Your Old Home Town -- Sharon (Benedict) Hurst
My Wintry Garden; Seasons of Love -- Poems by Cindy (Benedict) Odom
Page 3 . . . Me and Buford -- Pat (Conley) Kimmerling -- by Mickie (Conley) Bourff
Page 4 . . . The Anderson Jinx -- Episode IV -- Jane Ann (Seright) Lemen
Page 5 . . . Take The Highway -- Louise (Mountcastle) Romine
All I Need To Know I Learned . . . -- Penny (Romine) Faulkenberry
Page 6 . . . Illegal Computer Operations -- Jane Ann (Seright) Lemen
"Fowled Up" -- Louise (Mountcastle) Romine
Disappointment
by Nancy Sumner
Disappointment comes in all kinds of packages. It is not limited to any one individual or situation. It is the result of an outcome that we didn't want . . . thus disappointment in that particular situation.
As
a general comment, all of us are guilty in one way or another of not stopping,
not taking time in our "busy lives" to share or give to another. I'm
guilty of that and I am sure that you are too. It is not that we don't care or
not concerned . . . it is just that we don't stop. We take for granted that that
person or place will always be there when we decide to join in. Much like this
'Den Family', all of us make the assumption that the family members will always
be there for "us!" That every Sunday we will have the Hall Clock,
always at the same location. That every month we will have a Megaphone, always
at the same location. That every month we will have a monthly breakfast, always
at the same location. But how disappointed are we when there is a glitch! Very.
We expect that there will always be someone else participate.
With all of that being said, I'm going to turn the table so to speak. Consider
no one helping one another -- no one to make sure a particular task was
accomplished. Examples: 9/11, Florida hurricanes, California mud slides,
tornadoes in the Plains, fires and avalanches in the mountains, ice storm in
Indiana, flooding from Ft. Wayne to Evansville, and now the Tsunami. What if we
said, "Oh well, I don't know those people. I'm sure they will be alright.
Someone else will help. I'm really busy."
Whether the situation involves us individually or our home or our immediate
family or our neighborhood family or our city family or state and country family
or world family. When there is a need and that need is not met . . . there is disappointment.
Just by the simple act of caring or responding, however we can, the disappointment
is lessened.
Disappointment is a part of life experience. But with most experiences . . . we
always learn something! If you would stop and think, how many times has
disappointment ended up enriching your life! Out of the bad . . . the Good
Shines Through!!
Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, God Bless You and Your Family!
Take care of one another, and you'll be enriched too!
Nancy Sumner '66
Elwood
Land of ice, snow, rain, flood . . . and now more snow!!
; )
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