Jen Wichmann

Daughter, Mom, Friend and evolving Catholic. Jays fanatic since ‘77. Proud EA with PVNC for over 25 years. Until we meet again, I love you Mom ❤️🙏🏻

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@NiallHarbison Thank for sharing that it’s okay not to be okay. Sending you prayers and hugs 🤗
Thank you for being you!

[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

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@BlueJaysDad 😁

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@BlueJaysDad /2
We share together. We cheered so loudly and he woke up so happy this morning. His first greeting was “Mommy, I feel so freakin awesome!” My Nana and Mom are smiling down on us today. They would’ve been so proud of this team! #WANTITALL

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@BlueJaysDad My Nana Reet (Rita) introduced me to the Blue Jays on April 7, 1977 and my Mom kept them alive for me after she was gone. Now that my Mom is gone, I’m keeping them alive for my 20 year old son. He lives with neurodiverse difficulties and struggles daily. Baseball is the bond…

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@ThatEricAlper The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald- Gordon Lightfoot

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah).

In memory of 6,000,000 who were murdered solely because they were Jewish.

Never Again.

[Michael Gerald Gibbs @Mikeggibbs]

I hope people understand how courageous a moment this was. Usually with life time achievement you sit thru your funeral. Then you go up, get it and that's that.

Anne Murray insisted on doing it herself: a 10 min presentation. Live to the nation. Anne made herself so vulnerable❤️

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Signs

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[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@ianthegeneral 😂

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

Get your #ChooseToInclude donut from @TimHortons , in support of @SOOntario athletes! I can tell you first hand that sport has meant so much to my family🥇 @PeterboroughSOO @SpecialOCanada

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@FoodProfessor We have not used Heinz products since they first pulled out of Canada. We’ve been using French’s ever since and love it! A while back my special needs son wrote a letter to the @BlueJays asking them why they only offer Heinz when they are a Canadian team. May need to send again!

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Is this the image of Jesus?

There's a lot of talk about the Shroud of Turin lately, so let's break down the evidence.

A new X-ray study suggests it's 2,000 years old — but that's just the beginning.

Buckle up... (thread) 🧵

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

Thanks @Kennedy_Farms and all the farmers for all the hard work that put healthy, delicious food on our table! I hope and pray you find time to refill your own buckets! #ThankAFarmer #MentalHealthMatters

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

In September the @AuschwitzMuseum account lost 1,954 followers.

We can commemorate victims & educate people on social media thanks to the support you all give to our mission. Every RT matters.

Amplify our voice. We remember together.

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@ianthegeneral The top pic brings back fond memories of my grade school lunch box. It was orange and the thermos always had a distinct aroma of everything you ever put in it. No matter how many times it was washed!

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@ianthegeneral And may I ask which tube steaks work best with this clever culinary contraption, this galvanized gourmet gizmo? 🌭

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@KarenSh03385510 @BlueJaysDad I was thinking about a vanity license plate with that on it.

[Jen Wichmann @thewick73]

@ianthegeneral That sounds amazing! I’ll have to keep my eye out for that.