About Me
- T. Leon Crandell
- Post Falls, Idaho, United States
- Born Thomas Leon Crandell, but Tom died in 1981 from a drug overdose, Leon now lives.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Monday, November 21, 2011
Talk to my friend Gar this morning
We came to the conclusion that if I want my ministry to grow it would be advantages to utilize this blog to keep my contacts up to date. So like anything your going to utilize and make work you need to spend time with it and get to know it.
I want so much to be ale to speak what is on my mind. Become a well spoken orator I have so much to share about my life. I guess journaling about different topics will help me gather thought, and when I have opportunity and have audience of listeners I just need to cease the moment and speak up.
I want so much to be ale to speak what is on my mind. Become a well spoken orator I have so much to share about my life. I guess journaling about different topics will help me gather thought, and when I have opportunity and have audience of listeners I just need to cease the moment and speak up.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A new leg on the journey
I've relocated to Coeur d'Alene, ID so I can further my outreach to young people. Thirty years of a life is something I can't walk away from and act like nothing has happened to my life.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Friday, June 03, 2005
Lifestyle Choices
Hindsight is a concept of disappointment, however much it might shed light on an occurrence that should have had different, or at least, no noticeable results. How many times have we cringed after we’ve taken an action, racking our brains to effect a different outcome "if we had only …" done this, or not done that.
Life is made up of choices – some planned, some random, and all too many times, impulsive. It’s not in the plan to know what the consequences are for some of our less-thought-out decisions, and trusting to our youthful invincibility factor, we plunge forward with reckless abandon. We know no fear. What could happen? It won’t happen to me. Everybody else does it. Worse yet, we just don’t think about it. Not listening to the "still, small voice" that would give us the cautionary hesitation, we throw that caution to the wind and go where our hedonist impulses dictate.
T.L. Crandell’s story is one of powerful hindsight. Accustomed to enjoying the party scene, the obvious way for him and his friends to celebrate their accomplishments (or disappointments), or just create some adventure, was to get as much booze and as many drugs together as they could find and start slamming everything down all at once. How many times had they done that before? It may have been a fleeting thought in someone’s mind that they were taking big chances, but apparently not in Crandell’s corner.
Crandell’s earliest thoughts about his future started in the fifth grade, when he realized he had the makings of a great athlete. At the same time, he was already eyeing the alcohol and drug scene, experimenting first with wine, then moving on to an alarming array of uppers and downers. Before those substances had a chance to do their destructive work, he did achieve recognition during junior high, breaking seven school track and field records. At this point he was at a crossroads, trying to go in two directions. While making great strides in sports in the seventh grade, he tried marijuana at a party in his friend’s back yard. From that point, he was defending drugs and turning friends on to them. He took his chances along the way, and some of his experiments with drugs should have served as pretty graphic warnings.
However, a young body is resilient, with several physical defense mechanisms remaining intact over time. As Crandell grew into young adulthood, he successfully started a construction business with several employees under his charge. He was 26 years old and in the prime of life. One fateful night, he and his friends and crew planned to celebrate a sucessful first building season. The party ingredients were the usual mixture of speed, downers and everything in between. Only this time, his body had reached its tolerance limit, and his life would be over as he knew it. He had reached the point of no return.
Written by Lois Fry
To read the page turning life journey in the authors own words, purchase the book by following this link: http://www.SavingTeensAtRisk.com
Every book purchased helps in my efforts to educate young people on the importance of making good lifestyle choices.
Life is made up of choices – some planned, some random, and all too many times, impulsive. It’s not in the plan to know what the consequences are for some of our less-thought-out decisions, and trusting to our youthful invincibility factor, we plunge forward with reckless abandon. We know no fear. What could happen? It won’t happen to me. Everybody else does it. Worse yet, we just don’t think about it. Not listening to the "still, small voice" that would give us the cautionary hesitation, we throw that caution to the wind and go where our hedonist impulses dictate.
T.L. Crandell’s story is one of powerful hindsight. Accustomed to enjoying the party scene, the obvious way for him and his friends to celebrate their accomplishments (or disappointments), or just create some adventure, was to get as much booze and as many drugs together as they could find and start slamming everything down all at once. How many times had they done that before? It may have been a fleeting thought in someone’s mind that they were taking big chances, but apparently not in Crandell’s corner.
Crandell’s earliest thoughts about his future started in the fifth grade, when he realized he had the makings of a great athlete. At the same time, he was already eyeing the alcohol and drug scene, experimenting first with wine, then moving on to an alarming array of uppers and downers. Before those substances had a chance to do their destructive work, he did achieve recognition during junior high, breaking seven school track and field records. At this point he was at a crossroads, trying to go in two directions. While making great strides in sports in the seventh grade, he tried marijuana at a party in his friend’s back yard. From that point, he was defending drugs and turning friends on to them. He took his chances along the way, and some of his experiments with drugs should have served as pretty graphic warnings.
However, a young body is resilient, with several physical defense mechanisms remaining intact over time. As Crandell grew into young adulthood, he successfully started a construction business with several employees under his charge. He was 26 years old and in the prime of life. One fateful night, he and his friends and crew planned to celebrate a sucessful first building season. The party ingredients were the usual mixture of speed, downers and everything in between. Only this time, his body had reached its tolerance limit, and his life would be over as he knew it. He had reached the point of no return.
Written by Lois Fry
To read the page turning life journey in the authors own words, purchase the book by following this link: http://www.SavingTeensAtRisk.com
Every book purchased helps in my efforts to educate young people on the importance of making good lifestyle choices.
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