tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7953720738943614161.post4824263288692294520..comments2013-12-27T06:19:19.897-08:00Comments on In Between the Bubbles: The "My Friend Mike" ProjectKathryn Stilwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09409871642849491391noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7953720738943614161.post-2442011211373308582013-12-27T06:19:19.897-08:002013-12-27T06:19:19.897-08:00I aim to be present and aware, to be keen to be ki...I aim to be present and aware, to be keen to be kind, to help not necessarily when asked, but when I would want help were I to place myself in the shoes of another.<br /><br />I also commit myself to work more and more to the goal of living life by the following words hoping not only to touch and infuence others by the deeds and words individually procribed, but also to be an example of a 'true gentleman', "who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe":<br /><br />"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."<br /><br />- John Walter WaylandMichaelhttp://xkcd.com/212/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7953720738943614161.post-85610077981954184462013-12-22T05:54:42.020-08:002013-12-22T05:54:42.020-08:00and may you have a Christ-filled Christmas & j...and may you have a Christ-filled Christmas & joyful New Year<br /><br />just passing by..deepshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15296902414799985603noreply@blogger.com