I got a call from my mother late last night, it’s 3:15am CDT after all, saying that a friend of the family had been killed in a motor-cycle accident. I barely knew person but it will still become an event that changed my life. This event has made me decide to move ahead with a few ideas I’ve had lying around for a really long time.
A few years ago, when I had my first blog up, I posted this (with a few spelling corrections):
I think the status says it best, right now this project is really nothing more than some serious thought. However, my plan for CrossesByTheRoad.org is to create a community site where everyone is welcome to contribute a story. The stories are the important part of the site… The stories, or testimonies, are about those individuals/families who died in an automobile related accident.
It dawned on me one day, as I passed a road-side memorial consisting of nothing more than a cross with a name on it and a bouquet of flowers beside it, that the only people who know anything about that memorial are those who are/were directly affected by the accident that prompted its placement. This inspired me to find out if anyone else had setup such a site, and thus far, I have been unable to locate one. Upon realizing such, I decided that I would try and create just that, a site dedicated to road-side memorials.
If you have any ideas for this project, or even a testimony you would like to see posted on it, please contact me.
Now’s the time to make that happen…
