Regularly I receive emails from members. Emails share stories and comments.  All comments, stories, quotes, etc are appreciated. This issue I am publishing two emails. They are printed here to encourage members and in some cases bring a smile.
 

From Reinhard Schram in Hamburg, Germany
Subject: Coffin handles make a Stroker's life less dangerous

When my Chechenian nurse first came to our old house, she demanded that the shower be rebuilt. That was done immediately. Later she checked for other danger spots and found some steps and stairs, where I climbed up and down by using door posts and door handles. So I called a local cabinet-maker, who also owns a funeral home, to attach handles to some door posts.

Two weeks ago his Russian employee, a very competent and friendly young man, appeared and said: "I've got some really nice handles for you,” and attached them immediately. Last week I found out where the handles came from. A businessman had ordered a luxury coffin for his deceased mother. But as she was, according to her last will, cremated, the handles had to be removed from the coffin before cremation. Visitors to our house now tell me, how nice the handles look, really antique.
 

From Christopher Tobin in North Carolina, USA
Subject: Shared Quote
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander Graham Bell