Not everyone who drops **** on you is your enemy.

I love doing these PR's, they give me an opportunity to go over the many stories, anecdotes, quotes etc, that I have  in a scrap book, a collection that motivates, encourages and teaches me to live life to the fullest one day at a time! Not surprisingly, these 'snippets' never lose their value, and each time I read them they always take on a different meaning - a relevance to the circumstance that I may be facing or thought for the day that propels me forward. They have also been instrumental in renaming the defining moments of my life. I have reproduced one of my many favourites here it is:

A Bird Story
 
A little bird was flying south for the winter.  It was so cold; the bird froze up and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it.  As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was.  The dung was actually thawing him out!  He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.
 
A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him!
 
The morals of this story are:
 
Not everyone who drops **** on you is your enemy.
Not everyone who gets you out of **** is your friend.
And when you're in deep ****, keep your mouth shut!

Life gave me the opportunity to learn all three lessons. I owe the people who taught me these lessons my gratitude for helping me be the person I am today. Wherever you are, my brother/sister. 

At PetesPlace, we have begun regular classes as scheduled from the 18th Jan 2016. I want to thank you all for the tremendous support and encouragement you  have been over the past 3 months while I was working to get this project on track. We have got five students within the first couple of weeks of opening admissions/registrations and hopefully we should have more signing up before the end of the month. I still need your financial assistance for the audio/visual equipment required for our class room presentations. My estimate is that if each of my 500+ IBO friends contribute just $2 it will help me with the target amount required to add to our teaching aids.  I will be much obliged if you could help and share this with your friends and associates. Thank you in advance. You can contribute thru' our

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