User talk:Teenly

The soaking branches drip

And all night through

The dropping will not stop

In the avenue.

Goodbye my angel.

Teenly has died of complications resulting from leukemia.

She lived in a residence for persons with special needs, where I was her neighbor and her music teacher. Her user name "Teenly" means "Tiny". She was small in stature, but great in spirit. She lived a terribly difficult life with courage and dignity, and somehow she always found joy in the midst of the pain. I am proud to have known her.

She had the finest mind I have ever encountered; logical things like playing chess and artistic things like drawing and writing poems she could do wonderfully well, and her musical gifts were beyond compare: but when she wrote "I take gymnastics and karate and swimming and skating and dancing", she was wishing on a star. Her broken little body could do none of those things.

She had been making occasional IP edits on Wikipedia for a couple of years before creating her own account. I was one of several residents who secretly opened accounts of their own, meaning to keep watch over her. She was not too proud to ask an adult for assistance with her early edits as "Teenly", but before long, as with everything she did, she was finding her own way with very little help.

I do not believe she recognized "Fenneck" as someone she knew in real life, or she would not have told him she was eight years old, which she pretended to be on Wikipedia. In reality, at the time of her passing she was just a few days older than six and a half.

My sincere thanks to BWilkins, Error -128, Jerome Kohl, Eptalon, Nelson Nanataktuk, AlbertHerring, and any other Wikipedian who treated her with kindness and respect.

Fenneck

_{Sterben werd'ich, um zu leben!
Aufersteh'n, ja aufersteh'n
wirst du, mein Herz, in einem Nu!
Was du geschlagen
zu Gott wird es dich tragen!
--User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 23:49, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

When Teenly was orphaned, she came to the residence I direct only as a temporary measure. Many residents objected to having a small child staying here, but within a week there was not one person who would have let her go without a fight. Every door was left open in hopes she would come to visit, and even as a four-year-old, she was careful to go to every room ("making her rounds") and not disappoint anyone.
When she was near death in December the residents had an all-night vigil (not easy for the people who live here) and she rallied. But our hopes were dashed, and she was taken from us. Our sorrow at losing her is profound, but we remember her with undying love, and we are grateful for having had her here to teach us what is truly important in life. TAKIN' NAMES ✰ 14:38, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Angel Heart Barnstar

Awarded with love to

Teenly

For sharing with us

your priceless treasures

and absolute inspiration

Presented on behalf of

your many friends and admirers

both at home and at Wikipedia

Oh Tiny Star
Oh tiny star, your little spark

A welcome, hopeful sight,

As, from afar, you pierce the dark

To shimmer through the night.

Yet closer now, and dazzlingly,

A beacon, shining bright,

At dawn to rise, so we may see,

And bask in warmth and light.

Oh tiny star, time cannot fade

What lifts a heart to sing.

Your glow dims not, for you were made

An angel on the wing.
✴✴✴✴✴✴
Error -128

When you first met Teenly, you felt sorry for her because of her disabilities. Then you realized she did not feel sorry for herself, and she did not allow disabilities to stop her from doing wonderful things.
So then you were impressed by her brilliant intelligence and her astonishing musical talent. Then you realized she herself was not impressed by those things, and was scarcely aware of them.
Then at last you were humbled by the simple, innocent goodness of her little heart, and that is what I will treasure always in my memory. Thalo (talk) 23:06, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Teenly always remembered the names of everyone's children and grandchildren and nephews and nieces and dogs and cats. She knew every detail of all the endless stories that old people tell and tell again, but she listened just as if they were brand new, and never said a word if sometimes the ending was different. Rekkener (talk) 23:21, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I live in the farthest part of the residence from where Teenly lived, so I did not know her personally as well as Fenneck or some of the others did. As an engineer I find myself fascinated by the workings of her superb young mind.
In the Meno, Socrates leads a child step by step to a simple mathematical discovery. This child needed no Socrates. Confronted with a faulty presentation of a problem with which she is surely unfamiliar, with essentially no mathematical tools to work with other than pure reason, she works her way patiently and systematically through the problem, exploring each possible interpretation, discarding what does not bear scrutiny, until she has defined the error: then discovering what needs to be done to fix the error, arriving finally at a solution which is correct, clear and elegant: then checking every single step ("Here is the whole thing...") to make sure there is no loophole: and lastly trusting her findings to the judgement of a more experienced editor. It is hard to fathom that her greatest gifts were not for science but music, and that people were even more impressed with her heart than her mind. Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 16:41, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am always shocked to hear of a death of someone who I have even had a small degree of contact. I knew nothing of her disabilities, and appreciated her abilities - specifically that Teenly took interest in an article that I was helping to work on from scratch, and really let her do some good article expansion after I created the basic format. I am glad that she found her contact with me to be happy, and wish the best to her family, and wish the best blessings of whatever beliefs they hold (talk→ Bwilkins / BMW ←track) 11:35, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You Teenly for your contributions

The Wikipedia community would like to thank you for your contributions. May you rest in peace, and find comfort in your beliefs.

My heart, thoughts, and condolences go out to all of Teenly's family, friends, and on-line friends. — Ched : ? 02:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If God is Love then Teenly was the most God-filled person I have ever known. I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Gloria Tibi Trinitas (talk) 23:27, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Archive of Teenly's Talk Page

Teenly's Talk Page as it was at the time of her death

Welcome

Hello, Teenly! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! BMW(drive) 13:57, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Are We There Yet

Anyone have an episode list for Are We There Yet?
It would be useful to have information such as:
Episode # - Stars - Place Visited
BMW(drive) 12:24, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for finding that ... I won't be able to do a copy/paste, but I will work on a table to make it work. I never knew about that resource! BMW(drive) 13:57, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Looks great - thanks for continuing to add to this article, I haven't had much time to work on it myself! -t BMW c- 20:17, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the welcome

Teenly, just a short note to thank you for your message. I've responded here. Error -128 (talk) 02:10, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not to worry

Hello Teenly. You really don't need to apologize. We all make mistakes, and you fixed yours. I thought you might want to know that your user page is garbled on my computer. It's probably because I use the Modern skin, because when I switched to Monobook it looked great. Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 20:51, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I took a look over at Simple English. Tharnton was not blocked for making honest mistakes. If you just keep plugging away making good edits liked you have been doing all along, you will have nothing to be nervous about. Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 21:52, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the offer, but I'd rather just go to the Welcome Templates page and read the Welcome Messages there if I'm feeling unwelcome. I will take your suggestion and check out Simple English to see if I can be useful there. Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 14:59, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations!

Congratulations on your very first article! Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 14:21, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jan Blockx

Excellent work. That was on my to-do list a while back, but I never got around to it. I'm glad to see someone else knows about him.
Would you believe I have a recording of something of his lying around here? I was just looking at it the other day, in fact. --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 19:21, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not very old? I wouldn't have guessed - you write very well. Much better than many of the people I work with, and they're...well, let's just say they're older than I. :-) The only think I changed was the category sequence - I added "Belgian composers". Other than that, you did fine.
The Blockx I have is the "Flemish Fair" sequence from Milenka, actually - it's on a disc of Romantic symphonic music from Antwerp that I picked up secondhand. Interesting stuff. I actually first read about him in a little book my father gave me, way back when, about opera. Strange little encyclopedia; it has a lot of people I wouldn't have expected in it.
And yes! My signature is from Gioconda - it's the first act, when Barnaba is musing about what he wants to tell the Council when he sees it next. One of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite operas.
Keep up the good work! --User:AlbertHerring ^{Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla!} 20:42, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Best Wishes

I hope you will soon be feeling better and brightening up Wikipedia again. Nelson Nanataktuk (talk) 12:56, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]}