Cindy Ladd

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Got my money's worth and then some at the snow-covered Nubble Lighthouse tonight, from golden hour through dark with a bright nearly-full moon.
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December 3, 2025
York Beach, Maine

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

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Full Harvest Moon , P

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Sunday Sunset , goodbye summer🩷
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Beautiful evening in Provincetown ☀️

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Amazing sunset , Provincetown, MA
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I can see the storm is on its way to Boothbay Harbor , ME
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I took these photos at the same time today at Sunset in Provincetown , one looking east and one looking west , Amazing 🩷

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Wintertime at Chatham Lighthouse Beach.

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Cape Cod Bay was a little wild today in Provincetown 😉 @ericfisher @PeteNBCBoston @NBC10Boston @MattNBCBoston @PtownTourism @CapeCodcom @capecodweather @CapeCodInsta

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Something was just not right with a flag hanging on a tree, so this bear did something about it. https://t.co/XNcJrzLs00

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Happy Father’s Day, beautiful day in Portsmouth,NH .

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Beautiful sunset from the top of the Sagamore Bridge looking west on Cape Cod Canal! @MattNBCBoston @PeteNBCBoston @ericfisher @capecodweather @CapeCodLife @NBC10Boston @weatherchannel @WMUR9_Weather @NECN #sunset #sunsetphotography

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One of two bald eagles hanging out together in Brewster this morning 👍🏻

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@capecodweather I saw them in Orleans last week!! Downtown 😊

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