Tell me about a really really good person you personally know

[La Lioness Priyanka]

my friend heather, was born with treacher collins syndrome, had 30 reconstructive surgeries to have a semblance of a face. when we walk down the street people always stare at her like she is some bizarre attraction.

probably the best person i know. she is getting her masters in social work. she wants to specialize in counselling patients who are dying (cancer, aids etc)

she is always such a good listener. in doesnt matter how trivial my own whining is, she gives it full attention. she turned vegetarian to save the earth. went to nepal to teach orphans and calcutta to care for sick people.

i call her bitch heather affectionately. i love my friend bitch heather.

[Bennyboy]

1. Wavy Gravy!

The best person I have ever met. I started a non-profit and asked me how he could help. I said "make a fish" and he did.

He started the SEVA foundation and through that has given millions of people the gift of sight.

He runs Camp Winnarainbow which is a performing arts camp. For evry full tuiton paid, he gives one disadvantaged youth a free ride scholarship.

He is on the board of directors of many great foundations. Ones that are not beauracracy heavy, but ones that give money directly.

"What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000" indeed.

[Rambis]

4. You are friends with Hugh Romney?

Say hello to Wavy for me! Loved the Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor too by the way-

[Bennyboy]

6. maybe not friends but I know him and he knows my name.....

So I am something. I'll be seeing him in September at Earthdance (it is at his place in Mendo).

[Rambis]

7. Nice

There were manny things right and wrong with the dead and extended family (personalities,hangers on, addictions,con men, trying to support the crew etc) but one thing you can't take away was the fuckin great music that was made. Humans are humans with all their flaws and Hugh is one of the good hearted guys with the work he has done shows that for sure. What an attitude!
Peace!

[commander bunnypants]

2. good for her

Us social workers are usually pretty good folk

CB

[Javaman]

3. Honestly, my wife.

she has a heart of gold and is such a giving person.

The quality of my life, my day to day, my inner self has become better because of her.

[easttexaslefty]

5. My husband

He has stopped so many times on the side of the highway to help someone in need. Changed tires in the pouring rain, bought gas for those out of gas, worked on cars, and taken a family 45 miles to relatives when the car could not be repaired. He is a carpenter and has worked on many houses for free on the weekends after a long hot Texas week. He loved my sons like his own and has been so understanding,gentle and supportive after my son's suicide. He is the kindest, most compassionate man I have ever know.

[Lyric]

8. I have this friend.

I'll call her M.

She is one of the most hard-working, positive, loving people that I have ever known. She gives and gives and never expects anything in return. I remember two years ago, she heard that a family was struggling at Christmastime, and sent a box full of toys to their child to help. Even though she had issues of her own, she gave $250 to a family who had just lost all of their Food Stamp perishable groceries to a refrigerator failure. Last year at Christmas, she again heard that a family wasn't going to be able to buy anything at Christmas for their child, and bought several hundred dollars worth of toys, movies, games--even a Nintendo DS--and had them shipped out so that on Christmas morning, there was a pile of packages under the tree instead of nothing. Then she took time out from stressing about her own life to respond to yet another cry for help when a poor family was about to lose their home. She's donated time and money to broader charities, and the same to individuals desperately in need. She took in young people who had nothing and no one, people who weren't "family", but who were in Need, and helped see them through college. And this is just what I personally know about--I have no doubt at all that there have been countless other incidents involving other people that I *haven't* heard about.

Everything she has done with her life is what I desperately *want* to do someday. She loves her children and her family more than anything in the world, and she loves the rest of the world almost as much. She's the kind of woman that inspires people; the kind that helps you set the standard for the kind of person you want to be. She's the kind of person that makes everyone feel loved and worried about--the kind that you consider "family" even though you share no actual blood.

She's a person of faith who doesn't judge or condemn, a soul full of love and concern that doesn't set conditions or walk away when things are tough. I've admired her deeply for a long time, although I don't know if I've ever told her. A small part of me has occasionally wished that she was *my* Mom--THAT'S how amazing she is to her kids.

Someday I'm going to be Somebody, and when I am, I'm going to acknowledge her in public. She's made a difference for so many people--sometimes THE difference. I don't know if God exists, but if he does...this lovely lady was created specially by him as a gift to the world, and to everyone who knows her.

She is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful people I have ever had the privilege to know. Someday I hope to tell her that in person.

--Brandy

[Fran Kubelik]

11. That's beautiful.

Wow.
I'm glad there are people like "M".

[Lyric]

12. So am I. Believe me, so I am.

:loveya:

[Xipe Totec]

9. The list is numerous and distinguished

I dare say, every person I have befriended has been a very good person.

I don't put up with much, I am hard to get along with, and I am merciless to my enemies.

Whoever survives a close encounter with me is a saint.

[datasuspect]

10. my friend, let's call him "the boat guy"

is one of the best people i've ever met.

he has many weaknesses that have dragged him down into some shit.

lost his business, just scraping by.

when i met him, he was at the top of his game--probably grossing 10g per week cash from his boat salvage and repair business. and this was a functional illiterate who dropped out of school. but he found his niche in a small town and many people liked and respected him.

but that wasn't what defined him.

he's a texas good ol' boy.

if you were hungry, he'd feed you, thirsty, you drank, needed money, he'd put you to work.

truly one of the most giving, generous, helpful, caring people i ever knew.

he likes to portray himself as an asshole, but he really wasn't.

both of us, as grown men, cried together at times during 3 am sojourns into worlds of dissolution and haplessness.

i was very emotionally in love with him. which is strange for me, because there wasn't any attraction or sexuality about it, i was just in love with him as a person.

i don't know how to characterize it.

most people don't like me--he always defended me to other people.

we even fought once. fist fight, busted each other up pretty good, but we remained friends.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. My mother is the best person I know.

I know that sounds lame, but she really really is. She always resists the urge to hold a grudge against someone(no matter how much they REALLY REALLY deserve it). She gives freely of her time and money to anyone that needs it. She judges no one. She takes care of my grandma, and that's a BIG ONE. My grandma has six kids and only my mom takes care of her. I love my grandma but she can be harsh. She would tell people (including my mom) that my mom was not her real kid.

She is so honest too. She works extremely hard and always has. She provided a life for myself, my grandma and my cousin (his mother had given him up because she was only 17 when she had him). She was always fair in dealing with us. That drove me up a wall when I was a kid, because I felt that my grandma was on my cousin's side and my mom was 100% fair, so I was at a disadvantage. But she stayed fair.

The greatest thing my mom did for me was to be strong for us. My father was an abusive alcoholic. He would call *me* and beg to come over. He would be drunk but when you're five you don't know that. Of course, I would beg my mother to let him come over, but she couldn't. Then he would tell me that he couldn't come over because my mother wouldn't let him. He put that on her. He made her a villain, and she had to be strong enough to take it.

[callous taoboy]

14. Sorry, everyone in my sphere is fatally flawed in one way or another.

[derby378]

15. My wife, ginbarn

She bought a ring for a homeless couple who just got married. Not a very expensive ring by our standards, but these two didn't even have two quarters to rub together. The bride was overcome with joy at ginbarn's gift, and she wears that wedding ring all the time now.

[MonkeyFunk]

16. My boyfriend

He just doesn't have a mean bone in his body. He's gorgeous, but has no idea. He's kind, generous, sweet, funny and smart.

I'm very lucky.