One Good Deed in Remembrance

[puppetmaker]

I have to special thanks a fellow artist who goes by the handle bayarts on Live Journal for bringing this site to my attention.

I have been thinking about how to talk about this day.

I know a couple of people who have birthdays today and they were around before the towers fell. So Happy Birthday to YOU! You deserve to celebrate like it is 1999 (OK I am going to know how old I am for those of you who don't get the reference.

I even went over the stuff I have said the past couple of years on this day and really didn't know how I was going to address it this year until I saw what she had posted in her journal. And it made a world of sense to me. One thing that did come out of that day was that we were all nice to each other. We were concerned for our fellow beings. We helped each other. People who were sitting on our very long subway ride to Queen were people who needed to sit. All able-bodied people were standing and there was no pushing or shoving. The doctor and the two other individuals who took that shell-shocked woman to the hospital. Trains were hard to come by but these three people gave up their space on the train to help this woman. People helped each other and it was a beautiful thing.

And in that spirit My Good Deed was started. You can do something little or something big. It really doesn't matter. It is a good deed in memory of those who died today. Bringing a little light into the world and making someone feel a little better. We did it than and I know we can continue to do it now. I'm going to make an appointment to give blood as soon as I can medically (they prefer you wait a certain amount of time after taking a run of antibiotics). And I'll probably come up with something I can do today too. I encourage all of you to participate even if you don't go to the website. Opening a door for someone. Letting someone in while in traffic. Giving up your seat on the bus. Helping your neighbor by bringing in their garbage cans too. A lot of little somethings can add up to a big something.

(And the good deeds award goes to lyonessnyc for sorting out the HTML problem I was having. Thanks!)




I am grateful for another way of thinking about today.

Comments

Here ya go!

[lyonessnyc.livejournal.com]

If you go into the html editor, there should be a part that says "a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/lyonessnyc/pic/0002bp4x/"

except in yours it should refer to your pix. Replace between the quotes with "http://mygooddeed.org" and it will link to the site instead of to your photo album.

Hee, I figured it out by playing with it on my on LJ. Thanks for the link, and good on ya for posting it. [hugs]

even better...

[lyonessnyc.livejournal.com]

I went into the code on your page and found it.


Here:

(http://mygooddeed.org)

See if that works. [[[more hugs]]] I'd forgotten how much I like to play with HTML.

Re: even better...

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm...Maybe because I am on a Mac all I see is the button. Can you send it to me missing the last > and then I think I can cut and paste it.

Thanks.

Re: even better...

[lyonessnyc.livejournal.com]

I'm on a Mac too -- I use Firefox, and go into VIEW: Page Source and I was able to find it. Let's see if this works without the last >.




</a (http://mygooddeed.org)

OK, try hunt and replace

[lyonessnyc.livejournal.com]

Darn it. OK. You're going to have to replace { and } with < and >. That's the only way I can see to give you the code.

Here:

{br /}{br /}{a href="http://mygooddeed.org"}{img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/puppetmaker40/pic/0000a19d" width="234" height="60" border="0" /}{/a}

see if that works. Not a >or< anywhere. :)

You so RAWK!

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! It works!

Re: You so RAWK!

[lyonessnyc.livejournal.com]

Aw shucks, ma'am, t'weren't nuttin'. :-D

I enjoy figuring things like this out. I think I'll play with HTML some more.

[[hugs]]

Thought you'd like to know...

[lyonessnyc.livejournal.com]

This has made the 'net news.

In 9/11 remembrance, a turning to good deeds

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070910/ts_csm/adogood

If only we could all keep this up every day, eh?

Re: Thought you'd like to know...

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Wow. this is amazing

Re: Thought you'd like to know...

[lyonessnyc.livejournal.com]

There are, of course, trolls posting BS to the site, but it looks like a lot of real people are taking it to heart.

Let's hope it doesn't become like volunteering at a homeless shelter on Thanksgiving -- it needs to be a little bit, every day.

[hugs]

[duck-puddle.livejournal.com]

Opening a door for someone. Letting someone in while in traffic. Giving up your seat on the bus. Helping your neighbor by bringing in their garbage cans too.

I do all those things anyway. It's just polite and in fact, here in the south, it's kinda considered rude NOT to. Except for in Atlanta. All bets are off in Atlanta. Heh.