Texas is a BIG state
by Maurice
HOWDY, to you (the people at Easter Seals)! First of all, my beloved grandmother passed away Easter Sunday afternoon. I saw it coming, but it was a relief for my family that she got rewarded of going home to God. She lived a wonderful 86 years of her life, and I was fortunate to spend 23 years with her. She taught me a whole lot of things, in which she was an inspiration to me. She has helped me to become an independent young man, whom she adored highly. She was a great person to everyone and loved us; she’ll be missed.
On a positive note, I have been traveling for Easter Seals, which I finally had a chance to do. On the days of April 2 and 3, I traveled to San Francisco, California to visit Safeway Foods. For many years, Safeway has been a supporter and national corporate sponsor of Easter Seals (especially for autism). I was fortunate to be a part of their successful campaign and glad to help them raise money for Easter Seals.
Next, I traveled to Dallas, Texas to visit several Easter Seals sites, both in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas. I stayed in the vicinity between Dallas and Fort Worth. Although I was in those two major cities, I also been to cities such as Carrollton (where Easter Seals of Greater Dallas is), Irving (that’s where the Dallas Cowboys play football in Texas Stadium), Lubbock, Lewisville, just to name a few. I would like to say Texas is a BIG state (Alaska is larger geographically, but who cares? People rarely visit Alaska anyway). I fell in love with it when I first arrived!
I was on vacation and traveling for business at the same time; isn’t that interesting? The vacation part of this was that I was on spring break from my place of employment, which gives me the opportunity to exit the cold from Chicago. However, for the business matter, I was traveling as being the representative for Easter Seals. For those of you that may or may not know, April is Autism Awareness Month. I’ve visited some Easter Seals sites in both Dallas and Fort Worth that provide autism services and met some very nice people over there who make their work special. I was fortunate to share some of my stories of my experience with everyone in Texas.
As I prepare to continue my mission of helping others and being myself, I ask that you will pray for me for a brighter future ahead! PEACE!
Maurice Snell is sharing his story and travels as the Easter Seals 2007 Adult Representative. He’ll be providing updates from the road from time to time.
July 5th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
these are the gators that the health center people drive, they are like little 4 weelers. they are lots of fun to chase into the lake. that is until patty ceatches you doing it!!!
July 4th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Kristen, that is cool! I didn’t know there is a “Gator Camp” in Texas. I know that Texas has horses, cowboys, and cattle, but I didn’t know they actually have gators too. I would love to participate in your gator camp. I hope that you keep this going with your Easter Seals location and I know you’ll change many more lives with what you do. God bless you, Kristen.
June 30th, 2007 at 11:19 am
I go to Easter seals camp sunneyside. it’s alot of fun. we get to do what’s called chase the gator when we chase the gator 4/4 and chase Patty all the way into the lake. We do that in Extreme Nature camp. I like to chase the gator. We chased it last year and it went into the lake it was rilly cool!!!!!!