Jewel Founded Higher Ground for Humanity · April 1, 2004
Jewel is also active in philanthropy, founding the non-profit organization Higher Ground For Humanity together with her mother, Lenedra J. Carroll.
Posted: Sep 01, 2006
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Posted: Sep 01, 2006
The mission of Higher Ground for Humanity is to promote human excellence by pioneering what it means to be a human being in the highest sense, inspiring new possibilities for humanity.
Higher Ground for Humanity's aim is to join with others in the world community in assisting to create peace and generative prosperity for all peoples.
Posted: Sep 01, 2006
Jewel is also a supporter of the ONE Campaign, the campaign to make povery history.
Posted: Mar 30, 2009
Hello
Well I guess I will begin by telling you a little bit about my life.
I was born in a suburb of Cleveland to my parents John &Terry Tylek.
My father was a drunk and he was very abusive to my mother and me. Later in life I found out he was abusive to my half sisters and his second wife too. I remember a time when I was about 7 years old he through my mother through a glass saloon type door and then made us walk in a foot of snow about 4 miles without shoes to my grandmothers. Yeah a real nice guy. I have a lot of stories like that but the good news was, when I was about 8 my parents got divorced and I was sent to live with my grand parents. They were great. But at that young age I was crushed I felt like my parents didn’t want me and I also blamed myself for my parents breaking up. I grew up as a heavy kid, picked on a lot by the neighborhood kids you know the normal stuff, push you around and call you names. A few good stories like getting shot with a BB gun but pretty normal stuff. I never really fit in. I was always longing for someone to accept me. As I got older I got even bigger about 250 lbs to say the least I stop being pushed around but I could still see people making fun of me and finding a girlfriend in high school I don’t think so. I remember having the biggest crush on this girl I met at one of my friend’s. Later on I found that girl with one of my best friends. Yes the same friends that left me in a neighborhood where I got held up at gun point. Some friends. Then my life seemed to get a lot better. when I was 19 I met this girl and fell head over heels for her. She accepted me and I gave her my heart and my soul we were married in 1990 well it wasn’t that easy I had to chase her for a while she played hard to get. I guess even to this day she just doesn’t get that I really needed to be accepted. We had a fairly good marriage, we were both very young so it was rocky at times but for the most part we were happy. Then on October 11 1992 my life took a tragic turn that changed me forever. As I held my dieing son I lost faith in god and in myself
Then two years later on February 15 1994 my twin daughters died at birth. I hated the world, and everything in it.
The only thing I loved was my wife and alcohol .I can remember nights that I would get drunk at the cemetery and sleep there all night in the rain or snow it didn’t matter I really just wanted to be with my babies I wanted to die. It took a few years but I finally started to function again I loved my wife and put all of my faith in her, and now the world couldn’t hurt me anymore than it already had , so I worked hard trying to become wealthy and prove to the world that it had not beat me. than in 2000 I was sitting in my family room watching TV and I heard a cell phone ring , I answered my wife’s cell phone and the man on the phone was very nasty with me and told me he was the man having a affair with my wife . I thought it was a prank call. I asked my wife and she said that she did not know the person so I wrote down the phone number and went to bed. The next day I had taken a vacation day to do some remodeling work on our basement I went to my desk to get the phone number of the prankster but it was gone so I called my wife and she was acting crazy like I was screaming at her but I wasn’t. Little did I know what was to come? She didn’t come back for a few days and she had told her family a lot of lies about me to try to cover up her actions she actually told her cousin that I had killed her dog hell that dog was my best friend and to top that off she was having an affair with god knows how many people. When she came back she asked me to meet her at the grave site of my children. It seemed weird but I did. when I got there I don’t know maybe the fact that my kids were right there watching or maybe because I wanted my kids to be proud of me and I sure couldn’t argue with there mother right there in front of them or maybe because we had gone thru so much together I put my arms around her and told her I was glad she was ok and that I was worried about her (the truth was I really was worried even though I was hurt I was more worried.) She came back home but really rubbed the affair in my face a lot. We seemed to argue all the time At least until my beautiful daughter was born.
After that life seemed to go back to normal I had a great job and my wife was doing well as an office controller and sales rep for a construction company we were in the 6 figure pay range and living well. Two years after my daughter was born we had a son. I was complete two beautiful kids and a loving wife two dogs nice house a thriving business the American dream.
I had been thru so much in life I deserved this.
Then it happened I got a phone call from a lawyer saying my wife had stolen money from her job. A lot of money she denied it and got her own lawyer. But after a long drug out process she confessed to the crime and to having a few more affairs. I had to get DNA testing on my children. Thank god they were mine. Her company and The United States of America came after my wife and because I spent some of that money guess what... You got it off to prison I went too. I had lost everything my home my business my babies not again I couldn’t, I just couldn’t be taken from them .. But I was taken from them guess what I was wrong this world could find a way to hurt me again. Prison boy there’s a whole story in it self so for now let’s just say it’s not a fun place and I have plenty of stories about it. Now two years later I am living in a halfway house trying to mend my ties with my children as our system tries to keep me from them it is a nightmare I have to wake up right.
Well no chance in that and I will face every challenge...
I have bared a cross that most men could not even conceive.
I will keep going and I will have a bright future with my kids.
I know that somehow everything happened for a reason.
I now I can appreciate life’s little things and I get joy from the smallest places.
I see my kids more and more and that’s the best part of life it really is so don’t over look that time in your life.
What’s my point I have hit every low a man can hit.
Guess what I came back …
Nothing can stop you…
So now I ask you if there is any hope of you helping my children I would never ask for anything for myself. And my little boy and girl will be ok but I would like them to have a better education. Right now I can’t even give them a good home the government took everything and has informed me that I owe them 1.6 million dollars. I have a full time job a good one and I am a very hard worker. Some day I will even open up my own business again but right now I have a lot of obstacles to overcome don’t get me wrong I will prevail. But this will take time and my kids have waited long enough to be with there father. I will do anything for my children and any help would be appreciated. I would like to sell my story or maybe write a book... if this helps please let me know... I will do anything ... my children deserve a fair chance... they should not pay for my burdens
Thank you
John Tylek
1677 West Idlewood
Twinsburg Ohio 44087
john@rpscrane.com
440-248-0731
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