Glad to have LPA

[Guest guest]

HI, I've just started in this group. And I read all the messages

posted. I've heard good and bad comments. But I am so glad to be a

part of LPA! Where I grew up (and still live) I wasn't able to have

other lps as friends. Now, I have made so many email friends I could

burst! Though I can't go to meets, I enjoy having some kind of

contact with others. I than God everyday that LPA was created! Not

only have I made friends, I have also learned more of what is offered

to us. So to all my new friends GLAD TO HAVE YOU in my life, FINALLY!

I hope to continue my new friendships and eventually meet some of you

in person. For those of you who have my name is

babygirl_pebblez. On aol instant messenger it's EZPebblez04. Again

than you all, I am so glad to have LPA in my life!

[Guest guest]

Wow...how encouraging! It's nice to know that someone can see the positives

that can come forth out of being a part of LPA. I totally agree with

everything that pebblez has said here. Once you sort out all the bad apples

from the good, then you can begin to see the real motive for support behind

such an organization. Every large organization isn't going to always get

along..that's life folks. Like pebblez who for one reason or another

doesn't have that added opportunity to attend meetings (although I hope one

day that she does) on a chapter, district and regional support, then there

is this..the dwarfism listserv.

If we start reaching out to others in this organization....maybe to the

shut-ins, new families of lp little ones and the like, then we wouldn't

have time to sit here and knit-pick at each other. Like many who have said

before me and myself included...get involved in LPA on a volunteer basis and

if you think that what you have to offer isn't needed, then look again.

Many people volunteer and don't even gain recognition. Start by emailing or

calling your local chapter president today, who I'm sure could always need

an extra helping hand. Just by contributing to your local chapter

newsletter or by starting up a monthly column of your own, is one way to

start volunteering and it doesn't even have to involve leaving your home,

for those of you (myself included at the present time) who are homebound.

Again...welcome pebblez and I hope you can continue to see the real purpose

of what LPA is all about. Encouragement and motivation to improve

something, instead of knocking it down can come from within. So let's start

with what 'we' have to offer and not worry about how anybody else acts or

reacts, to something that's probably of a trivial nature anyway. Time is a

wastin' here peoples.

Ann

Glad to have LPA

> HI, I've just started in this group. And I read all the messages

> posted. I've heard good and bad comments. But I am so glad to be a

> part of LPA! Where I grew up (and still live) I wasn't able to have

> other lps as friends. Now, I have made so many email friends I could

> burst! Though I can't go to meets, I enjoy having some kind of

> contact with others. I than God everyday that LPA was created! Not

> only have I made friends, I have also learned more of what is offered

> to us. So to all my new friends GLAD TO HAVE YOU in my life, FINALLY!

> I hope to continue my new friendships and eventually meet some of you

> in person. For those of you who have my name is

> babygirl_pebblez. On aol instant messenger it's EZPebblez04. Again

> than you all, I am so glad to have LPA in my life!

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