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Beau Wann, Jr.
Great greetings to all our friends and classmates of W64!!! Just got home from the Monthly Board meeting at Fudds!!! We agreed it was so much fun, that we voted to keep meeting forever and ever amen!!!! )thank you Randy Travis( oops, looks like I got the () mixed up! Wellm, you know what I mean!!!!! SQUEEK SQUEEK SQUEEK, guess you know who showed up!!!! Yup, my other dog, John boy with his rubber squeeky chicken!!!!
Anyway, we all had a great time at fudds!!! Had one new person, Richard Kennedy! Well, he isnt perzactly new, he is our age, but this is the first time he has been to fudds! Saw him weekend before last at reliant center! hadnt seen him in 45 years! If you havent been, and you dont live too far away, like Berlin, Texas, do try to make it to fudds!!! What a wonderful time everyone seems to have! I have a great time!!! And thanks to Jackie and Barbara for giving me a ride home! Yeah, I bummed a ride!
The conversations ranged from Oak Forest Elementary to the current administration, and in between!!! One of the things to come up, is the super ultra sensitive people out there that just cant stand this word, or that word! It just boggles the mind all the super sensitve people out there! Hell, everyone picks boogers out of their noses just like everyone else! AINT NO ONE THAT SPECIAL!!!!
The new offending word, is RETARDED!!!!!! Yup, the R word!!! Just boggles the mind!!! Before anyone starts having a cow over my use of the word, My wife taught special ed for 30 years, and is now a supervisor, and some of the folks I talked to are now, or have been special ed teachers! None of them are offended by the R word!!! All you motor heads out there, when you tune an engine up, and set the timing, which is critical, you either ADVANCE THE TIMING, OR RETARD THE TIMING!!!!
Now, My first wife has two, countem, two retarded brothers! And guess what, Mr Browne, Dollys father, father of the two brothers, founded MHMR council!!! Yup, thats correct, Mental Health Mental Retardation council!!! I have worked with these two young men before, and since their minds have not advanced, their minds are,Retarded!!!! They aresweet and lovable guys. They can do a lot of tasks, but not brain surgery, like me!!!
They both have held jobs of sorts, and may still have a job! Havent seen them this year, but the year is young!!! I have worked with Special Olympics in the past, and a greater group of kids, I have never met than these! Mickey and Jackie have participated in the special olympics before! One year at Del Mar stadium! They both entered the softball throw! Well, both softballs are orbiting the earth, as we speak! They threw them out of the stadium, somewhere over 290 and 610!!!! If you have never been to a special olympic event, go!!! you are in for a treat!!!
So what do you say when you talk about a "special brother or sister"! I have a retarded brother??? Or a "special" brother! Either way, folks know what you are talking about, and neither one is derogatory, in my opinion, nor in the opinion of the Special Ed teachers I have talked to, or parents of "special" children!!!
Now the R word controversy started with Rahm Emmanuel, Pres Os cheif SS officers use of the R word! Calling his presidents own political base "F---in retards", and has since apologized for it! Big deal, and so what!!!! Which only goes to show you, that you dont have to wait too long before some one is offended about something!!!! seems like there are a certain class of folk out there that is just waiting to be offended so they can protest and possibly get in their 15 minutes of fame! Even the people reporting on Emmanuels use of the R word, were blasted!
My wife has a cousin that has a son that has Downs syndrome! Such a sweet sweet child! He is about 20 now! Just saw him at his aunts funeral! He just cried and cried and hugged people! Whens the last time any of us acted that way???? Probably never!Me being a macho guy, never!!! But, my loss eh??? William even spoke at his aunt candys funeral. Mostly unintelligable because of the emotion, but we all understood the emotions and sentiments, even if we didnt understand the words! But was william embarrased??? Nah!!!! Would I have been??? You bet!!! But why??? one word, Upbringing!!!!! Just the way I was raised, as most of us were! "Show no emotion"!!!! It's a sign of weakness!!! REally????
Oh, Mickey and Jacky, my brothers in law, are both in their 60s now! They werent expected to live this long! Dont know why though! I will miss them when they do move on, but when that time comes, they will be home, at last!!!! Whether you believe in a higher being for us or not, you have to believe in one for the "special"boys and girls among us!!!! I do believe we are supposed to learn from them, which technically, makes US Retarded!!! hell, some days my thinking is retarded!!! Just frustrates me no end!!!!
Special??? Werent we all little boys and girls at one time???? We were special once then too!!! I think we are all still pretty doggone special, dont you????
Just heard the S word on the news!!!!!! "SMOWMAGGEDON"!!! aBOUT the snow in the east!!! Hey Bernd, is it snowing there??? Do you get our snow??? I mean does it snow here, and then move on to your place???
It is freezing here!!! Well, metaphorically speaking of course! bt it is cold as hell!!! Now theres anoxymoron if I ever uttered one, "cold as hell"!!!
We need to start a book, or history group!!! Dontchathink???? I am rereading C S Lewis "A Grief Observed", and "Mere Christianity"! His works are a might wordy, and very intellectually stimulating!!! In "Mere Christianity", he is almost frantic trying to get across the fact that he believes in God, and you shoud too!!! He was an atheist at one point in his life, but found religion sometime in the late 30s or early 40s!!! He also wrote "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe", and "The Narnia Chronicles", both of which my Grandchildren have read!!!
One of the best childrens books I have ever read, was "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madame L Engal (sp)! I generally dont like science fiction, but this book was just wonderfully written!!!!
I really want to thank all the folks at fudds for being so special!!! I didnt get to talk at length to a lot of folks, and I guess there just isn t time to do that! Generally only 2 to 3 hours divided among about 50 or 60 people! That be my onliest (east texas for only) complaint! Just seeing all the familiar faces, is satisfying! So, thanks!
Hey Kay, Tony, we missed you!!!! And also all others that couldnt make it! Hey Wayne L, you stuck in the snow in Minnitonka???? Well, guess I will call it a night, for now! Maybe I'll be back before the dawn patrol!!! Hey Burge, we are all in your corner!!! Dont forget that!!!! We will all be praying for all with concerns! You know who you are, and so do we!!!! You are and will be in our prayers!
Being a "special" child, as we all are, or have been, I'm reminded of a poem by Thomas Hood, or which the last stanza goes like this; "I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I use to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy."
Goodnight Mrs Simpson where ever you are! And I'm sorry about slaughtering the english language, and dashing english protocol to smithereens, I do know better, but it's what I do best, and it does produce a smile, even if just from mine own lips!!! Your friend and brethren Your Bard, Beauregard
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