How does someone, whom you've never met, make an impact like that after she's gone? Because I want to be that person.
Mary aka Pink touched more people than I could ever dream of touching. (For those of you who are too lazy to click the link, shame on you and shame on me for enabling you)
If
you're about to throw away an old pair of pantyhose, stop. Consider:
Mary Agnes Mullaney (you probably knew her as "Pink") who entered
eternal life on Sunday, September 1, 2013. Her spirit is carried on by
her six children, 17 grandchildren, three surviving siblings in New
"Joisey", and an extended family of relations and friends from every
walk of life. We were blessed to learn many valuable lessons from Pink
during her 85 years, among them: Never throw away old pantyhose. Use the
old ones to tie gutters, child-proof cabinets, tie toilet flappers, or
hang Christmas ornaments. Also: If a possum takes up residence in your
shed, grab a barbecue brush to coax him out. If he doesn't leave, brush
him for twenty minutes and let him stay. Let a dog (or two or three)
share your bed. Say the rosary while you walk them. Go to church with a
chicken sandwich in your purse. Cry at the consecration, every time.
Give the chicken sandwich to your homeless friend after mass. Go to a
nursing home and kiss everyone. When you learn someone's name, share
their patron saint's story, and their feast day, so they can celebrate.
Invite new friends to Thanksgiving dinner. If they are from another
country and you have trouble understanding them, learn to "listen with
an accent." Never say mean things about anybody; they are "poor souls to
pray for." Put picky-eating children in the box at the bottom of the
laundry chute, tell them they are hungry lions in a cage, and feed them
veggies through the slats. Correspond with the imprisoned and have lunch
with the cognitively challenged. Do the Jumble every morning. Keep the
car keys under the front seat so they don't get lost. Make the car dance
by lightly tapping the brakes to the beat of songs on the radio. Offer
rides to people carrying a big load or caught in the rain or summer
heat. Believe the hitchhiker you pick up who says he is a landscaper and
his name is "Peat Moss." Help anyone struggling to get their kids into a
car or shopping cart or across a parking lot. Give to every charity
that asks. Choose to believe the best about what they do with your
money, no matter what your children say they discovered online. Allow
the homeless to keep warm in your car while you are at Mass. Take
magazines you've already read to your doctors' office for others to
enjoy. Do not tear off the mailing label, "Because if someone wants to
contact me, that would be nice." In her lifetime, Pink made contact time
after time. Those who've taken her lessons to heart will continue to
ensure that a cold drink will be left for the overheated garbage
collector and mail carrier, every baby will be kissed, every nursing
home resident will be visited, the hungry will have a sandwich, the
guest will have a warm bed and soft nightlight, and the encroaching
possum will know the soothing sensation of a barbecue brush upon its
back. - See more at:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?n=mary-a-mullaney-pink&pid=166788801&fhid=17777#fbLoggedOut
" If
you're about to throw away an old pair of pantyhose, stop. Consider: Mary Agnes
Mullaney (you probably knew her as "Pink") who entered eternal life
on Sunday, September 1, 2013. Her spirit is carried on by her six children, 17
grandchildren, three surviving siblings in New "Joisey", and an
extended family of relations and friends from every walk of life. We were
blessed to learn many valuable lessons from Pink during her 85 years, among
them: Never throw away old pantyhose. Use the old ones to tie gutters,
child-proof cabinets, tie toilet flappers, or hang Christmas ornaments. Also:
If a possum takes up residence in your shed, grab a barbecue brush to coax him
out. If he doesn't leave, brush him for twenty minutes and let him stay. Let a
dog (or two or three) share your bed. Say the rosary while you walk them. Go to
church with a chicken sandwich in your purse. Cry at the consecration, every
time. Give the chicken sandwich to your homeless friend after mass. Go to a
nursing home and kiss everyone. When you learn someone's name, share their
patron saint's story, and their feast day, so they can celebrate. Invite new
friends to Thanksgiving dinner. If they are from another country and you have
trouble understanding them, learn to "listen with an accent." Never
say mean things about anybody; they are "poor souls to pray for." Put
picky-eating children in the box at the bottom of the laundry chute, tell them
they are hungry lions in a cage, and feed them veggies through the slats.
Correspond with the imprisoned and have lunch with the cognitively challenged.
Do the Jumble every morning. Keep the car keys under the front seat so they
don't get lost. Make the car dance by lightly tapping the brakes to the beat of
songs on the radio. Offer rides to people carrying a big load or caught in the
rain or summer heat. Believe the hitchhiker you pick up who says he is a
landscaper and his name is "Peat Moss." Help anyone struggling to get
their kids into a car or shopping cart or across a parking lot. Give to every
charity that asks. Choose to believe the best about what they do with your
money, no matter what your children say they discovered online. Allow the
homeless to keep warm in your car while you are at Mass. Take magazines you've
already read to your doctors' office for others to enjoy. Do not tear off the
mailing label, "Because if someone wants to contact me, that would be
nice." In her lifetime, Pink made contact time after time. Those who've
taken her lessons to heart will continue to ensure that a cold drink will be
left for the overheated garbage collector and mail carrier, every baby will be
kissed, every nursing home resident will be visited, the hungry will have a
sandwich, the guest will have a warm bed and soft nightlight, and the
encroaching possum will know the soothing sensation of a barbecue brush upon
its back."What do you say about a woman like this? I wish I had known her. It makes me a little sad because day after day you see the news stories about women being kidnapped or guns being shot or children being caught in a cross fire. That's the world we live in, but that's not the world Pink lived in. She lived in a world where you trusted and you helped others and you gave of yourself no matter what the circumstances.
This blog is leaving me doing a lot of wondering...I wonder what would happen if we all lived in Pink's world. Would we improve the lives of the people around us and as a result of that stop some of the bad things that are continuously happening? Would we change one person, who changed another, who stopped someone from being that person that did an inherently evil thing and change the course of many lives?
It's an interesting thought isn't it?
How Pink are you?
If
you're about to throw away an old pair of pantyhose, stop. Consider:
Mary Agnes Mullaney (you probably knew her as "Pink") who entered
eternal life on Sunday, September 1, 2013. Her spirit is carried on by
her six children, 17 grandchildren, three surviving siblings in New
"Joisey", and an extended family of relations and friends from every
walk of life. We were blessed to learn many valuable lessons from Pink
during her 85 years, among them: Never throw away old pantyhose. Use the
old ones to tie gutters, child-proof cabinets, tie toilet flappers, or
hang Christmas ornaments. Also: If a possum takes up residence in your
shed, grab a barbecue brush to coax him out. If he doesn't leave, brush
him for twenty minutes and let him stay. Let a dog (or two or three)
share your bed. Say the rosary while you walk them. Go to church with a
chicken sandwich in your purse. Cry at the consecration, every time.
Give the chicken sandwich to your homeless friend after mass. Go to a
nursing home and kiss everyone. When you learn someone's name, share
their patron saint's story, and their feast day, so they can celebrate.
Invite new friends to Thanksgiving dinner. If they are from another
country and you have trouble understanding them, learn to "listen with
an accent." Never say mean things about anybody; they are "poor souls to
pray for." Put picky-eating children in the box at the bottom of the
laundry chute, tell them they are hungry lions in a cage, and feed them
veggies through the slats. Correspond with the imprisoned and have lunch
with the cognitively challenged. Do the Jumble every morning. Keep the
car keys under the front seat so they don't get lost. Make the car dance
by lightly tapping the brakes to the beat of songs on the radio. Offer
rides to people carrying a big load or caught in the rain or summer
heat. Believe the hitchhiker you pick up who says he is a landscaper and
his name is "Peat Moss." Help anyone struggling to get their kids into a
car or shopping cart or across a parking lot. Give to every charity
that asks. Choose to believe the best about what they do with your
money, no matter what your children say they discovered online. Allow
the homeless to keep warm in your car while you are at Mass. Take
magazines you've already read to your doctors' office for others to
enjoy. Do not tear off the mailing label, "Because if someone wants to
contact me, that would be nice." In her lifetime, Pink made contact time
after time. Those who've taken her lessons to heart will continue to
ensure that a cold drink will be left for the overheated garbage
collector and mail carrier, every baby will be kissed, every nursing
home resident will be visited, the hungry will have a sandwich, the
guest will have a warm bed and soft nightlight, and the encroaching
possum will know the soothing sensation of a barbecue brush upon its
back. - See more at:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?n=mary-a-mullaney-pink&pid=166788801&fhid=17777#fbLoggedOut
If
you're about to throw away an old pair of pantyhose, stop. Consider:
Mary Agnes Mullaney (you probably knew her as "Pink") who entered
eternal life on Sunday, September 1, 2013. Her spirit is carried on by
her six children, 17 grandchildren, three surviving siblings in New
"Joisey", and an extended family of relations and friends from every
walk of life. We were blessed to learn many valuable lessons from Pink
during her 85 years, among them: Never throw away old pantyhose. Use the
old ones to tie gutters, child-proof cabinets, tie toilet flappers, or
hang Christmas ornaments. Also: If a possum takes up residence in your
shed, grab a barbecue brush to coax him out. If he doesn't leave, brush
him for twenty minutes and let him stay. Let a dog (or two or three)
share your bed. Say the rosary while you walk them. Go to church with a
chicken sandwich in your purse. Cry at the consecration, every time.
Give the chicken sandwich to your homeless friend after mass. Go to a
nursing home and kiss everyone. When you learn someone's name, share
their patron saint's story, and their feast day, so they can celebrate.
Invite new friends to Thanksgiving dinner. If they are from another
country and you have trouble understanding them, learn to "listen with
an accent." Never say mean things about anybody; they are "poor souls to
pray for." Put picky-eating children in the box at the bottom of the
laundry chute, tell them they are hungry lions in a cage, and feed them
veggies through the slats. Correspond with the imprisoned and have lunch
with the cognitively challenged. Do the Jumble every morning. Keep the
car keys under the front seat so they don't get lost. Make the car dance
by lightly tapping the brakes to the beat of songs on the radio. Offer
rides to people carrying a big load or caught in the rain or summer
heat. Believe the hitchhiker you pick up who says he is a landscaper and
his name is "Peat Moss." Help anyone struggling to get their kids into a
car or shopping cart or across a parking lot. Give to every charity
that asks. Choose to believe the best about what they do with your
money, no matter what your children say they discovered online. Allow
the homeless to keep warm in your car while you are at Mass. Take
magazines you've already read to your doctors' office for others to
enjoy. Do not tear off the mailing label, "Because if someone wants to
contact me, that would be nice." In her lifetime, Pink made contact time
after time. Those who've taken her lessons to heart will continue to
ensure that a cold drink will be left for the overheated garbage
collector and mail carrier, every baby will be kissed, every nursing
home resident will be visited, the hungry will have a sandwich, the
guest will have a warm bed and soft nightlight, and the encroaching
possum will know the soothing sensation of a barbecue brush upon its
back. - See more at:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?n=mary-a-mullaney-pink&pid=166788801&fhid=17777#fbLoggedOut
If
you're about to throw away an old pair of pantyhose, stop. Consider:
Mary Agnes Mullaney (you probably knew her as "Pink") who entered
eternal life on Sunday, September 1, 2013. Her spirit is carried on by
her six children, 17 grandchildren, three surviving siblings in New
"Joisey", and an extended family of relations and friends from every
walk of life. We were blessed to learn many valuable lessons from Pink
during her 85 years, among them: Never throw away old pantyhose. Use the
old ones to tie gutters, child-proof cabinets, tie toilet flappers, or
hang Christmas ornaments. Also: If a possum takes up residence in your
shed, grab a barbecue brush to coax him out. If he doesn't leave, brush
him for twenty minutes and let him stay. Let a dog (or two or three)
share your bed. Say the rosary while you walk them. Go to church with a
chicken sandwich in your purse. Cry at the consecration, every time.
Give the chicken sandwich to your homeless friend after mass. Go to a
nursing home and kiss everyone. When you learn someone's name, share
their patron saint's story, and their feast day, so they can celebrate.
Invite new friends to Thanksgiving dinner. If they are from another
country and you have trouble understanding them, learn to "listen with
an accent." Never say mean things about anybody; they are "poor souls to
pray for." Put picky-eating children in the box at the bottom of the
laundry chute, tell them they are hungry lions in a cage, and feed them
veggies through the slats. Correspond with the imprisoned and have lunch
with the cognitively challenged. Do the Jumble every morning. Keep the
car keys under the front seat so they don't get lost. Make the car dance
by lightly tapping the brakes to the beat of songs on the radio. Offer
rides to people carrying a big load or caught in the rain or summer
heat. Believe the hitchhiker you pick up who says he is a landscaper and
his name is "Peat Moss." Help anyone struggling to get their kids into a
car or shopping cart or across a parking lot. Give to every charity
that asks. Choose to believe the best about what they do with your
money, no matter what your children say they discovered online. Allow
the homeless to keep warm in your car while you are at Mass. Take
magazines you've already read to your doctors' office for others to
enjoy. Do not tear off the mailing label, "Because if someone wants to
contact me, that would be nice." In her lifetime, Pink made contact time
after time. Those who've taken her lessons to heart will continue to
ensure that a cold drink will be left for the overheated garbage
collector and mail carrier, every baby will be kissed, every nursing
home resident will be visited, the hungry will have a sandwich, the
guest will have a warm bed and soft nightlight, and the encroaching
possum will know the soothing sensation of a barbecue brush upon its
back. - See more at:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?n=mary-a-mullaney-pink&pid=166788801&fhid=17777#fbLoggedOut
