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Linda,
I certainly appreciate your acknowledgement of my note and, those who have commented so kindly about it, your family has been here with us off and on today and where our key point when we gave thanks as we sat together as a family for lunch (being 'down under' we are around 12 hours ahead of you folk, it's almost 7pm Saturday as I write this). I hope as your Saturday begins you will find some small comfort in the remnants of our thoughts for you.
One of the (10 million) reasons I have started this hobby (read as obsession) is in an attempt to translate my writting into a more graphical format, I figure if a picture paints a thousand words, I can save myself a lot of words
. In no way do I mean to be overtly modest - simply honest by saying that whilst your kind words are very much appreciated I can't take a great deal of credit for what I see as simply using a gift that has been given to me - after all, there is little any of us can do to 'create' our talents - refine and exercise them yes but - I'm not big on taking credit for things I have been gifted - it would be a little bit like taking credit for my height or the colour of my eyes. BTW, I'm not a church living, soap box preaching Bible basher, I just know the truth, have an unwavering faith and believe that such things are a very personal - one on one experience. - (oh and of course, I'm just such a tremendous bloke 
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Your family will continue to be in our thoughts Jazz - the way you post it would be impossible to forget you - chatterchatterchatter . Thank you for allowing my family to be a small part of yours for a few hours today.
Keeping the Faith!
Terry. (respectfully) XXX
I certainly appreciate your acknowledgement of my note and, those who have commented so kindly about it, your family has been here with us off and on today and where our key point when we gave thanks as we sat together as a family for lunch (being 'down under' we are around 12 hours ahead of you folk, it's almost 7pm Saturday as I write this). I hope as your Saturday begins you will find some small comfort in the remnants of our thoughts for you.
One of the (10 million) reasons I have started this hobby (read as obsession) is in an attempt to translate my writting into a more graphical format, I figure if a picture paints a thousand words, I can save myself a lot of words
. In no way do I mean to be overtly modest - simply honest by saying that whilst your kind words are very much appreciated I can't take a great deal of credit for what I see as simply using a gift that has been given to me - after all, there is little any of us can do to 'create' our talents - refine and exercise them yes but - I'm not big on taking credit for things I have been gifted - it would be a little bit like taking credit for my height or the colour of my eyes. BTW, I'm not a church living, soap box preaching Bible basher, I just know the truth, have an unwavering faith and believe that such things are a very personal - one on one experience. - (oh and of course, I'm just such a tremendous bloke )Your family will continue to be in our thoughts Jazz - the way you post it would be impossible to forget you - chatterchatterchatter
. Thank you for allowing my family to be a small part of yours for a few hours today.Keeping the Faith!
Terry. (respectfully) XXX
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As a child I always wallowed in self pity. I wasn't pretty, my parents didn't have much money so I grew up in hand me downs, I was a middle child and felt like I was always getting shortchanged on everything. Kids picked on me at school because of the hand me downs and things like that. Kids were always laughing at me and I was always afraid to raise my hand in class to answer questions, because if I was wrong I was scared to death they would laugh at me, and I would feel so humilated. I married the first guy that asked me because I was afraid no one else would ever ask. He was an alcoholic and the marriage didn't last long, but it did produce my first son. As it turns out I have lived with a very low self esteem my whole life. I have always settled for less, and have never fought for anything I wanted. I have always settled for second best or worse. I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!! and I'm 51 years old. You would think that by now I would have found something that makes me feel satisfied with where I am in life. You don't know how extremely difficult it is for me to post anything on this forum. Because deep down inside I feel that no one here cares what I have to say or will just ignore my posts, and quite honestly I feel that a lot of my posts have been ignored like I never wrote anything. What makes it worse is I see a lot of my own low self esteem issues in my children as well. I tell them that they need to stand up for themselves, and that there is so much good in them and I wish they could just see that. It is so easy for me to give them encouragement and praise-but yet I have never believed in myself, so how can I make them believe it??? Don't get me wrong, people look up to me at work, and I hear people say positive things about me all the time. They tell me I don't give myself enough credit, that I'm a great friend and that I care too much about not hurting someone's feelings. That is what makes my position as a manager very difficult, because when I have to reprimand someone I find it very difficult because I don't want to hurt their feelings. My boss tells me I'm too good and too soft, but that's why she likes me because when she gets upset and wants to blow up at someone or fire them on the spot she comes to me first because she knows that I will bring up their good points and defend them in some way or another and it gives her time to think about it and not do something she may regret. 
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