[bksvol-discuss] Re: For Mayrie
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 00:38:38 -0800
nd thank you, again,L:Issi for that wonderful udea.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Booksharian Friends,
>>
>> Thank you so much for your company and loyalty in paying a Booksharian
>> tribute to Mayrie by joining together in reading and volunteering for
>> Bookshare, activities which brought pleasure and conviction of
>> accomplishment to her. She'd be right here, doing what we just did if she
>> could. I think our turning pages stirred up a coast to coast breeze the
>> meteorologists aren't going to be able to explain.
>>
>> If you read with us and I don't mention your name, you know your
>> participation is felt and appreciated just as much.
>>
>> Evan scanned 94 optimized pages of, "The Twelve stories of Christmas," in
>> tribute to Mayrie's smooth moves at the scanner. I'm so glad that Amber,
>> Christina, Julia and Sandi and some other volunteer scanners showed up.
>>
>> I proofread 23 pages of "Dead in the Water, An Amanda Hazard Mystery #2."
>> Sue, Courtney, Cindy, Marty, Regina, Chela, and the other proofreaders here
>> know how Mayrie had to concentrate but loved every minute of it as she
>> Proofread as a member of Bookshare's staff.
>>
>> A few cute, quirky tidbits popped up in my proofreading as I tried to pay
>> attention while thinking about Mayrie and all of you who were reading, too.
>> Jaws makes them sound funny.
>>
>> *
>>
>> "Elmer only wore his false teeth while eating--period."
>>
>> I like that dash dash period period!
>>
>> *
>>
>> Nick yelped and shook his thumb when he hammered the wrong nail--his
>> fingernail.
>>
>> *
>>
>> Jaws pronounced snakebit, snack a bit, which is what I did as I proofed,
>> green and red em and emz.
>>
>> *
>>
>> Guess what Mayrie did during her vacation a year ago before she knew she
>> was sick? She picked a mystery series she hadn't worked on and read it
>> start to finish. Before Bookshare there were almost no complete series
>> accessible to us.
>>
>> Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart, for bookishly showing the
>> strength and caring of Bookshare volunteers for one of our own.
>>
>> Always with love,
>>
>> Lissi
>>
>
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