Miata Mailing List: December 1999, Message #357

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Your wife sounds like a really wonderful person....one of those people (to borrow
Jackie boy's words in As Good as It Gets) who make you want to be a better
person.....you don't need one of my ricebags to keep you in love and in line, it
sounds like she'd do a great job of it just by being herself...  *sigh*   :)

It's so good to see people doing things for other people out of the goodness of
their hearts, these stories come too few and far between...maybe if people shared
more stories like this, then it would inspire others to go out and be that
unselfish....I know that in my generation, it's all about me me me, and while I'm
slowly trying to change that, it's difficult trying to work things into my
schedule (how ironic)...I've been thinking about being a big sister, but the
commitment is every weekend for 2 or 3 years (i can't remember which)...but with
the travel required for work, I can't dedicate that kind of time.  (how terrible
is that???)....another friend told me about a program similar to big sisters' at
UMass, where you would act as a role model to teenage asian kids who need guidance
(should I be shaping the minds of our troubled youths though??? i think that's a
dangerous thing)...i think the best thing for me would be to look for associations
that connect people like me with community service jobs (yeah, aside from
probation and parole officers)  Anyone have any suggestions?

a guilty conscienced Maris

Ted4Eagles@aol.com wrote:

>   Well, Denise, Roberta, and their story (<A
> HREF="http://www.miata.net/motm/1999/heart.html">http://www.miata.net/motm/199
> 9/heart.html</A>) certainly seem to have been well received by the fine folk
> on this list.  It's heartening to find that even we sporty car types can be
> touched by an act of human kindness.  One lister (thanks Clay) even offered
> to contribute money and urge others on the forum to do the same to help
> Denise and Roberta continue to enjoy Miataing!  Denise, as is her way,
> responded that she had everything she really needed, and that the money could
> be better spent if donated to battered women's or homeless shelters
> (baldfaced hint).
>   I wanted to provide a bit of background that was not in the MOM piece.  As
> some of y'all may know, Denise (AKA Bird Foureagles) is my lovely wife,
> though these days she lives full time, 24/7, with Roberta, because that is
> her special calling, and there was just no one else willing to do it.  We
> communicate via multiple daily e-mails, and occasional brief visits (ref.
> Walt Whitman's "A Dalliance of Eagles).  It was she that placed the order for
> good old Rocinante back in the summer of '89, and perhaps I have not thanked
> her enough for that.  She was also with me when ol' Roc. won her first 24
> hour autocross a couple of weeks later, and proved a formidable competitor in
> her nasty little black Suzuki Swift GTi.  Actually, I think that it may have
> been the fact that she could outrun Rusty, my old 2002, with that car that
> set me yearning for something like a Miata.
>   Denise is hiring someone to care for Roberta this spring while she makes a
> medical missionary trip to Honduras, and Roberta has arranged in her will for
> money to be allocated so that she can continue that work when Roberta is
> gone.  Once she returns, we plan to resume our lives together back home way
> up in the outback of southern Colorado.  I don't yet know what specifically
> we'll be doing there, or what we'll ever do with 2 snowbound Miatas, but
> assume that living with Denise will always mean reaching out to others.  Is
> it any wonder that I love this woman?
>
>   Foureagles