The Christianville Spirit
The Spirit that Inspires The Soul
May 28th, 2025 – TCS # 900
Well, My Readers, It is The Moment that We have been waiting for, My 900th Newsletter!
Yes, Ladies and Gents, 900 Newsletters that I have written! So, I am just as surprised as You are! I am amazed that It is My 900th Newsletter!
Before I forget, I have a Website Announcement!
In Honor of My 900th Newsletter,
For The First Time in History, One Newsletter was Added to Two Sections!
The “Why We Have A Romantic Person
(or Forever Romantic Person” Newsletter has been added to The “Christianville Classics” Section as well as
“Christian’s Romanticism” Section!
It deals with Both! It deals with Romanticism and is Part of The “Why We Have...” Series.
I hope You enjoy The New Changes!
Historically speaking, When I started Writing This Newsletter, It was not Every Wednesday, it was more like Every Other Week and then, on Odd Days like Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday to name a few. I finally chose Wednesday to make it a routine and It stuck. I figured also that Nothing was going on that day and It was a Perfect Time of The Week. I have been Writing Every Wednesday Faithfully with a Few Breaks or Vacations since then. So, Before We get to the Subject of The 800th Newsletter, Let’s see what I wrote about in Past, what I now call “Milestone Newsletters”. The Following are references and Newsletter Titles.
+++ 100th Newsletter: “Playlist of Your Life” Series; Popi (April 2008)
+++ 200th Newsletter: “All Thanks to You” Series; My Readers (May 2010)
+++ 300th Newsletter: Launch of My “I Believe In Love” Campaign (May 2012)
+++ 400th Newsletter: “Happiness....Simplified” Series: What is Happiness to Me (May 2014)
+++ 500th Newsletter: My Dreamscape- Now (June 2016)
+++ 600th Newsletter: Thank You for An Amazing Childhood, Mr. Jeff! (July 2018)
+++ 700th Newsletter: Readers Choice II (August 2020)
+++ 800th Newsletter: Reader’s Choice III (February 2023)
and, That brings us to Now! How do I top That?!
I was going to Let You, My Readers choose What I was going to write about for This Newsletter, This Time with a Twist! I wanted to put a Poll on My Website with Topics that I was thinking about Writing about and I figured that It would be Better to put it on My Facebook. Just like Last Time, I gave Several Options of The Following:
Burning Questions
Geography Lesson
Christian’s Romanticism
Whenever I put a Poll out like This,
I Never Expect The Amount of Votes per Poll.
It was The Following Vote Tallies. Starting with The Least Amount of Votes.
Christian’s Romanticism with 0 Votes; Geography Lesson with 2 Votes; Burning Question with 5 Votes.
So, My Reader’s Chose for Me to Write about Burning Questions.
So, The Trouble with My Poll this Time is that People voted for Their Option, However, They did not Understand The Second Part of The Assignment. And, That was to Ask Me Questions that They have always wanted to Know.
Personal Questions or PTLS Related.
I did however, Get a “Burning Question” outside of My Facebook Poll. This Question actually came from My Brother.
Saying “How has Your Newsletter affected You & Your Life?”
Well, That is a Deep Question Actually! How has My Newsletter affected Me and My Life.
So, This Newsletter (It’s actually a Blog) but, I prefer to The Term, “Newsletter” was actually a Project that My Mom said that I should start to both Keep Me Busy and Get My Thoughts on Paper. By The Way, Keep Me Busy, as in to give a Job to do in My Routine after High School because Honestly, That is The Scariest Question for both A Parent of A Special Needs Person and The Special Needs Person Themselves.
(In Deep Voice) (Mockingly)
“Soo. What’d Ya Gonna Do after High School?!”
Sounds Pretty Daunting doesn’t It?! Yeah. PTLS Family Members, Fair Warning! Rant Coming!
It is a Pretty Daunting Question for a Regular Kid (aka a Typical Kid), Let alone a Special Needs Kid.
For Most People, not to sound Harsh, but, It usually goes One of Three Ways. College, Trade School, or Military.
Unless that is You have Specialty in Something, then By All Means, Go after That.
Now, Yes, I can say that People with Special Needs can do what They want but, Because of Certain Restrictions and Whatnot, They usually Start Working a Job like The Grocery Store (At Least Here in The US anyway).
Have Any PTLSers gone into College? Yes, They have. But, They usually Struggle with some of It.
So, When I started This Project, It started as an Email with Me mentioning The Various Events of My Last Year of High School. About The Time of Graduation, I thought that It was Time to Try to Reach Out and Start Writing on a More Public Platform because Sending Emails.
I think I started on a (Deep Voice) “Get Paid to Write” Site that I don’t remember the Name of, but That was Short-Lived and Hard to get off The Ground. So, then, Yahoo 360!
I thought! Write on There, A Little more Public and Get My Writing more in Public, despite Me not wanting to be so Public, but Anyway.
Eventually, I decided to go with A Blog Site called Blogger and That’s Where I have been ever Since.
I will say that It took Some Time to Really “Get It Off The Ground” and Set a Good Schedule to Write My Newsletter.
Wednesday! I thought! Middle of The Week, Not Much on TV, Seems like a Good Day to Write and It stuck! I have been Writing My Newsletter on Wednesday (or Near Wednesday) for 18 Years. Perfect!
After I got The Roll of Things, then Pretty Every Tuesday Night, My Mom always hears that Weekly Question,
“What should I write about This Week?” and She would help with Coming up with Ideas. It wasn’t until Later, after I got Enough Readers that, I started Getting Suggestions from Various People (Inside and Outside of PTLS) about What I should Write about.
I feel like This Newsletter, is an Outlet for Me to Write about Various Things that I feel or Felt, Things that I have Seen and/or Observed, Life’s Adventures, and Of Course, Things that Might have Bothered Me at The Time.
So, It gives me Lots of Feelies and Love to know that My Newsletters have not only Affected Myself, but, Also, Affected those that I have Met in My Life.
In Fact, One Example that is Literally Ringing in My Ears as I write This, is that I Literally got The Opportunity to Meet Lynee’s Family with The Goal in My “Happy New Year 2016” Newsletter and Literally, like In The Middle of January of that Year, I finally met Lynee’s Sister, Jona! Because of My Newsletter! Funny Enough, A Year Later, I met Lynee’s Mom and Dad, also Because of My Newsletter!
It was also Because of My Newsletter that I have shown
PTLS Family Members that Their Child will be Okay and They should Believe in Them!
Oddly, It is Because of My Newsletter sometimes that People recognize Me. Both Inside and Outside of PTLS.
When I was on The Cruise with The PTLS Family, I was recognized by Someone that worked with Dr. Lupski and They happened to be on A Vacation Themselves!
All in All, I write My Newsletter for You, My Readers to be Inspired and to See The World through My Eyes.
I Believe that My Newsletter, is a Very Positive Force that has Affected Me in Many Ways and Best of All, Affected Others.
And, Honestly, That is My Goal with My Newsletter, to Always Spread Love to Everyone, Whether They are Inside or Outside of PTLS, and I want to Believe that I am Inspiring You with All of These Newsletters that somehow have gotten to 900!
Thanks for Reading The Christianville Spirit. Looking Forward to The 900-Series Newsletter, Inspiring and All.
