My heart sank a little bit. The World/United States of Love line that I created is one of the reasons that I was able to quit my full-time job. They even stole the…
Ashley Summers disappeared July 6, 2007 from her Cleveland, Ohio home, and hasn’t returned since.
The media has, for the most part, ignored the story, since Ashley isn’t from an affluent suburb, according to local crime writer/Scene contributor James Renner, known for his investigative work on the Amy Mihaljevic case. “If she’d been a cute young little girl from a rich suburb, you’d know her name. She’d be all over the news. Maybe even on Nancy Grace. But 15-year-old Ashley Summers was from the near-West side of Cleveland, from a ramshackle house on Holmden Avenue where the lawn has been overrun by little kids and dogs.” The local media put out the family’s press release, but hasn’t bothered to speak with the family, nor have any of the outlets broadcasted any follow-up stories.
According to information posted on Renner’s blog, The Coldest Cases, Ashley was living with a great-uncle on Holmden Avenue, in a dangerous neighborhood, at the time of her disappearance. Eric “Big Willie” Wilson was a known frequenter of the area at the time. Wilson has been in the news as the man who shot 12-year-old Cookie Thomas, who got caught up in the gunfire from a botched drug deal. Wilson went on the lam and was captured in Montana. He was found guilty last year of kidnapping and raping a woman, who escaped, in 2004.
Renner also brings up another twist: Ashley was known to frequent the McDonald’s on Lorain and the area where Georgina DeJesus and Amanda Berry went missing. Also, Berry’s family got a call after Amanda disappeared, from a man who said she was alive and safe. Ashley’s family received a similar call after she disappeared. Could all three disappearances be linked?
If you have any information on Ashley’s whereabouts, please contact the Cleveland Fugitive Task Force at 216-522-1400, the Cleveland Police Department’s First District at 216-623-5118, the FBI Cleveland Field Office at 216-522-1400, or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 800-THE-LOST. A reward is available.
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WHAT WILL MATTER………… ……… …….
Ready or not….some day….. all this will come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises…. .no minutes…hours or days.
All the things we collected, whether treasured or forgotten…
…will pass on to someone else.
Our wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what we owned or what we were owed.
Our grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies too will finally
disappear.
And so too, will our hopes….ambitions. ….plans. ….and to-do lists
expire.
The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.
At the end……it will not matter where we came from….
.. or on what side of the tracks we lived.
It will not matter whether we were beautiful or brilliant.
Even our gender and skin colour will be irrelevant.
So…. what will matter? How will the value of our days be measured?
What will matter is not what we bought, but what we built…
Not what we got, but what we gave.
What will matter is not our success….. but our significance.
What will matter is not what we learned….. but what we taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage or
sacrifice that enriched, empowered or encouraged others to live a better
life.
What will matter, is not our competence.. ….but our character.
What will matter, is not how many people we knew…..but how many will
feel a lasting loss when we’re gone.
What will matter, is not our memories…. . but the memories that live in
those who loved us.
What will matter is how long we will be remembered.. ..by whom and for what.
Living a life that matters does NOT happen by accident. It is not a matter
of circumstance but of choice.
So dear brothers and sisters….now is the moment….
Let us choose to live a life that matters!
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SLOW DOWN
Life is not a race. It is a journey.
Getting someplace first, before anyone else, has very little real and lasting
meaning. Seek instead to encourage others to come along, and we’ll find the
journey much more fulfilling.
When we hurry through each moment, we miss out on the richness that could be
ours.
Take the time to live, to experience where we are, rather than being so obsessed
with getting to the next checkpoint.
When we stop demanding to have it all now, we’ll discover that we have plenty
already. Learn to experience joy where we are, and we’ll experience it in abundance.
Yes, it can be wonderfully exhilarating when life is moving quickly. But do not
move so quickly that speed becomes our only experience, for there is so much more
to enjoy.
The terrain of life is filled with wonderful and astounding detail. Slow down and
take in its richness.
Deepak Balani. (dpb)
Blessings
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Ackem. Take two. This is so good.
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Twitter reverses the notion of the group. Instead of creating the group you want, you send it and the group self-assembles.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
