No happier could I be than to see you enjoying healthy, productive, full lives with a keen and eager eye to the future.
I am proud of you both, your accomplishments, your attitude toward life, and the loving, caring influence you are leaving on the world.
Know that you are always uppermost in my mind and held so dear in my heart.
Love,
Dad
(Dedicated to my children)
Showing posts with label Tributes to my family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tributes to my family. Show all posts
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
A sister admired
I don’t have to travel far to find someone whom I greatly admire.
This good-hearted person is the fount of compassion and kindness, one who would give someone the shirt off her back or the car that she drives.
My sister Cindy actually did give away her family van (a second car) to a young man who was struggling financially and needed transportation to get to his job.
That’s just one of the generous acts that has caught my eye and softened my heart.
She also helps countless families with food and clothing donations. During the Christmas holidays, she and her family of daughters and grandkids pile in the car for a giving extravaganza.
Over the years, many homeless people have benefited from a pair of gloves, a hot meal and more as Cindy and her clan make stops along their goodwill route.
She and her therapy dog Pax make regular trips to a local nursing home. Residents get the chance to pet him and recount stories of raising and loving dogs in their earlier years.
There are many, many other acts of generosity that have poured forth from the heart of this remarkable sibling of mine.
Suffice it to say: She is my hero, a servant leader whose positive example reverberates throughout our family and the wider community.
Sis, I’m very proud of you, and admire your good and great soul!
Love,
Your brother Ron Cooper
This good-hearted person is the fount of compassion and kindness, one who would give someone the shirt off her back or the car that she drives.
My sister Cindy actually did give away her family van (a second car) to a young man who was struggling financially and needed transportation to get to his job.
That’s just one of the generous acts that has caught my eye and softened my heart.
She also helps countless families with food and clothing donations. During the Christmas holidays, she and her family of daughters and grandkids pile in the car for a giving extravaganza.
Over the years, many homeless people have benefited from a pair of gloves, a hot meal and more as Cindy and her clan make stops along their goodwill route.
She and her therapy dog Pax make regular trips to a local nursing home. Residents get the chance to pet him and recount stories of raising and loving dogs in their earlier years.
There are many, many other acts of generosity that have poured forth from the heart of this remarkable sibling of mine.
Suffice it to say: She is my hero, a servant leader whose positive example reverberates throughout our family and the wider community.
Sis, I’m very proud of you, and admire your good and great soul!
Love,
Your brother Ron Cooper
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
A mother's good example
My daughter Wendy learned through a co-worker of two young boys who are suffering a terrible brain disease and need money for medical care. She never met the boys, but was moved by their plight and obvious need for financial support.
She and a co-worker organized a bake sale. They asked everyone to bring in baked goods, set up tables, collected the money, and made sure the family got the $500 that was raised.
Then she told her daughter Greta the story of the boys, and how she had played a part in organizing the fund raising. This lesson of compassion by her mother will leave a lasting, positive mark on Greta!
By a proud father
Ron Cooper
She and a co-worker organized a bake sale. They asked everyone to bring in baked goods, set up tables, collected the money, and made sure the family got the $500 that was raised.
Then she told her daughter Greta the story of the boys, and how she had played a part in organizing the fund raising. This lesson of compassion by her mother will leave a lasting, positive mark on Greta!
By a proud father
Ron Cooper
My son's good example
I witnessed my son’s spontaneous generosity.
Jake and I were moving things from his old apartment when we met his next-door neighbor, a delightful 90-year-old woman from Colombia.
She spoke no English, but we managed to learn she is a nature-lover. She made admiring comments about Jake’s bird feeder. He had planned to take it to his new house.
But without hesitating he made it a gift to the woman, placing it where she could see the birds without leaving her living room.
Jake planted a little bit of good will that day, and a new friendship took flight!
--By a proud father
Ron Cooper
Jake and I were moving things from his old apartment when we met his next-door neighbor, a delightful 90-year-old woman from Colombia.
She spoke no English, but we managed to learn she is a nature-lover. She made admiring comments about Jake’s bird feeder. He had planned to take it to his new house.
But without hesitating he made it a gift to the woman, placing it where she could see the birds without leaving her living room.
Jake planted a little bit of good will that day, and a new friendship took flight!
--By a proud father
Ron Cooper
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