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December 14 2012:
“I’m thankful for everything we have” -Thomas Darnell …..
This kid warms my heart just when I need it most …
I Am Thankful for Everything We Have
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Category Archives: Thomas Darnell
Nature Has Its Own Decorations
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December 14 2012:
“Nature has it’s own decorations” -Thomas …
Said when he saw the sparkling grass this morning. Yep Thomas, indeed nature provides us so many “decorations” … Right on!!
The Reason for Music
February 9 2018:
“People have forgotten the reason for music. It’s supposed to make you feel something.” -Thomas Darnell
Thomas hears things in music that I have never heard or paid attention to hearing. He does this with movies too. The performers pitch and tone, the mix of instruments, and the like. He analyzes it in a way that is so foreign to me. He doesn’t get some modern music and certain genres of music either.
What Does Age Have to Do With Intelligence
February 10 2018:
“Age doesn’t have anything to do with intelligence.” – Thomas Darnell
Thomas continues to educate and humble me. The pure beauty and simplicity of how “young ones” view the world is magical. xoxo
He has never understood why kids are treated as second class citizens, why they don’t have any “rights” until a certain age … He enlightens and teaches me so much … xoxo
I am Really 100 Years Old
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December 2 2010:
Thomas just told me he is really 100 years old! I told him he looks really good for his age! This little dude really cracks me up!
**Update – December 23 2017: Thomas asked for the numeral 100 as candles on his birthday cake in November! HA!
He Helps Keep Life Un-Boring
January 13 2018:
Conversations with Thomas are always interesting and varied …
“The Dalai Lama has a twitter account and I’m following him.” ….
This after talking about the FBI and the CIA and the Dalai Lama’s escape from Tibet …
I like him. He helps to keep life un-boring …. xoxo
January 19 2018:
“In politics it doesn’t matter your morals, it just matters how you deliver it.” – Thomas
Yep. I like him!
He Brings Incredible Joy
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November 28 2011:
One more of my favorites from today at Red Rock Canyon . . . I’ve got to get this kid in some type of drama/acting/improv class . . . he cracks me up!!
What’s “interesting” is that not even a month after this I won a semester of classes at a local acting/dance/theater agency and Thomas did indeed take some acting classes!!
I Get This Funny Good Feeling
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November 27 2013:
“Whenever I build Lego sets I get this funny, really good feeling!” -Thomas …
He’s so excited, his eyes are almost sweating! This afternoon he received the two sets he ordered with birthday money .. The cottage and the treehouse! Cottage is put together. Now he’s working on the treehouse.
Patience is the Word of the Day
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November 27 2012:
Invested about an hour of time after school with Team Member T working on emotions/anger/appropriate responses and suggesting different alternatives when anger begins to set in …. (with an uncooperative Mr. T) …
He was returning to an awesome young man by the end of our time … He offered to do the dishes after dinner and then wanted to clean the stove!!! Man, that 80/20 rule is right on!! 20% invested gives you 80% of the results or something like that!!
Word for the day for ME ….. PATIENCE!!!
Dearest Thomas: May You Ever Know
January 19 2018:
Finished Thomas’ Gift! Now I can move on to the 2018 Theme Poster!!
Who else likes to use recycled items for gift making?
I so much loved making this. I like to use recycled items so this is on a piece of cardboard. The top and bottom border, flower stem, and two hearts are candy wrapper (Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Honey Mints) as Thomas loves the color and we save them (and I love that they are only 3 ingredients).
The tree is from an old calendar, the cow is from an old issue of Edible Reno-Tahoe magazine, the house and cat are from an old Trader Joe’s circular, and the rest is glitter glue! Made to hang with a piece of old hemp shoe string. About 5 years ago a friend gave us rolls and rolls of this hemp string. Still using it!
He loves trees, cows, and cats, and I know he would love living in that house … xoxo
Dearest Thomas
May you always ask questions,
May you always engage others in conversation,
May you always seek to understand.
May you ever know there are times when silence is the Way.
May you continue to be an explorer in the sea of knowledge,
May you filter that knowledge through the knowing of the Heart,
May you love this life and live it to the fullest.
May you ever be connected to the knowing of your Heart,
May you ever still …. Go here to read more …
