PBMUG needs your help!
I recently finished a fascinating book on the founding fathers of this country. As I read the book, an interesting phrase “the hand of providence” kept popping up. Whether you believe in God, a higher power, nature, or whatever, this phrase got me thinking.
How does the “hand of providence” work in this world? Doesn’t it work through people?
When you receive a gift or an expression of love, how does it come to you? From an individual or a group people?
When you are reprimanded or disciplined, how does it come to you? It comes from a person or a small group of people, yes?
When you receive guidance and instruction, how does it come to you? From another party or a small group of people, right?
If our MUG is going to be able to continue on as a resource to the Palm Beach area, we need an expression of support. How will it come to us? I’m hoping it will be you!
The board is counting on enough people responding to this article. In a good month we might get 8 to 10 people who contribute to our website. We need to double that or even triple that number in order for it to make the difference we need. Will you be one of those people? Will you make a decision to “step up to the plate” with us in this unusually difficult time?
We have seen membership participation steadily decline. Short of cancelling our monthly meetings, which would mean reducing the group to an online community, there is not much more we can do to continue without your active involvement.
As many of you know, I work in a nursing home tending to the needs of the elderly. As silly as this may sound, I feel the work we do at PBMUG is very similar. We reach out to people in need of help. Our different board members have helped people who need someone to come to their rescue and assist them in their quest for lost emails, or to find a project that seems to be lost in cyberspace, or to sympathize with the pain of realizing MAC OS 9 isn’t coming back.
That’s what this user group is all about!
PBMUG has been like a hospital to me. . . it has been an emergency room for me when, figuratively speaking, I was having a heart attack because my computer crashed and I NEEDED that presentation done tomorrow, it has been a critical care unit, and long term care all rolled into one. As a patient, the clogged arteries I’ve suffered with are of a different sort – learning new things. The arthritis is often an emotional or intellectual variety.
All humor aside, our "hospital" needs a transfusion to continue. I’m counting on you, our membership community, to keep this hospital we call PBMUG alive and open for business!
Thank you for your support.
PBMUG Treasurer,
Nancy Sheridan