{"id":17,"date":"2007-03-02T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/descansos.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/baby-grace-experience-the-twinkle-and-sparkle-of-life\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T01:02:00","slug":"baby-grace-experience-the-twinkle-and-sparkle-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/baby-grace-experience-the-twinkle-and-sparkle-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Grace :: Experience the Twinkle and Sparkle of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just received a preliminary sketch of Baby Grace’s<\/a> roadside memorial. I’m really excited that Nancy B. decided to assist me on this project by preparing this sketch. I plan to make a presentation of this roadside memorial to Andy P. to see if he would allow me to place this memorial at the entry to his recycling plant. <\/p>\n

So you may be asking yourself why I would do this for a child I never knew. This baby was not a relative of mine – I don’t even know what she looks like. My answer honestly has to be “I don’t know!” <\/p>\n

I don’t have a valid reason for doing it… nor can I even justify an excuse for NOT doing it. I don’t know why or for what reason, I just know it’s something I must do. If I don’t do it then who will!?? Who will make sure that her death was not in vain. <\/p>\n

See Baby Grace died without a mother to acknowledge her, no family to take care of her body and in spite of that – she did not die alone. The twinkle of a newborn’s life was not lost on the factory worker that found her body. The sparkle her life had to offer is NOT wasted – it is recycled back to the universe! Back into you & I. <\/p>\n

The way I see it is that this little angel came into this world to show us that a single soul – in one day of life – actually made a difference in our humanity by touching many lives! She made an impact in the lives of the recycling plant owner who was inspired to pay for the funeral; on the 50 people compelled to go to the funeral of a child they did not know; and she made an impact on my life! She has touched more people in her single day of life than many of us allow ourselves in a whole lifetime. <\/p>\n

What her life inspired in me is to :
Imagine what I can do with the years of my life… <\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

How many people, in my life, do I actually have a positive impact on? How many people do I leave them in better spirits\/ feelings\/ state of mind, then when I first met them? I yelled at my son before leaving the house; at the gas station I tossed the cash on to the counter; on the road I cut somebody off really close. See, like many of us, I live my life like I don’t have time, I’m too busy running my business – too busy needing to make a living – too busy raising a family, that I do not have time to care about the other. <\/p>\n

This is not living – that’s surviving! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am too busy with the everyday stuff that… I forgot to live life to its fullest. Forget to appreciate what & who is really around me in my life. I know the postman got a ‘get out of my way’ look this morning.<\/p>\n

So from what I see missing, I am inventing the possibility of…
experiencing the Twinkle and Sparkle that life has to offer each and every one of us…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

With this new insight on life & with the experience of Baby Grace’s life, I can really see that experiencing what life has to offer would really be living life to the fullest. Enjoying every moment like it really matters… because it really does.<\/p>\n

“Carpe Diem!<\/a> Seize the day, lads! Make your lives extraordinary!”<\/p>\n

“–Dead Poets Society<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just received a preliminary sketch of Baby Grace’s roadside memorial. I’m really excited that Nancy B. decided to assist me on this project by preparing this sketch. I plan to make a presentation of this roadside memorial to Andy P. to see if he would allow me to place this memorial at the entry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,16,22,18],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-babygrace","tag-memorial","tag-possibility","tag-roadside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/descansos.psolis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}