tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41875661638633880992024-03-13T12:24:25.569-04:00Strands of PearlsA Fussy Girl's Guide to All Things IrresistibleSweaterGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00946638585314299808noreply@blogger.comBlogger409125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187566163863388099.post-81768458468212582632022-06-18T11:30:00.002-04:002022-06-19T09:28:19.794-04:00"She Did Not Stand Alone..." The Gifts That are My Foundation-Father's Day 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">~Marinela Reka </span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;">This Father's Day weekend may not be my first without Daddy, but like every year at this time, I try to keep the mascara from going by hugging the memories</span></i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;"> and re-opening his many gifts to me. Gifts that I carry with me every day and always will. Gifts that are sewn into the core of my soul and especially my heart. Gifts that have given me an umbrella policy for life, a firm footing even when it feels as if the universe has sent me into orbit all on my own.</span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;">We lost my Dad suddenly. After the shock wore off, and the numbness set in, I felt as if I was living without that safety net, free falling-I still have a whole lot of days I feel that way. It took some time to realize that Daddy had left me the biggest net of all- the knowledge that I do have solid ground beneath my feet at all times, because of the lessons he taught me: be yourself, stand for what you believe, laugh no matter what, show them how it's done! know you tried your best, believe in who you are! These lessons helped to build my foundation, grow the roots that sprout from my feet, and created my own terra firma, composed of all the love that I was graced to be given. </i></div><div><i style="color: blue; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The gifts on which I stand, my Father's love, and thorough unwavering belief in me have taught me to trust my strengths, and to know that I CAN “run my own race”- even when I have trouble finding the track. My Father taught me to rely on my instincts, believe that there is nothing I can’t accomplish and that the worst thing I could do would be to give up, pass on an opportunity or to sit on the sidelines and never even try! </i><i>I think the only instances that Daddy was really upset and angry with me is when I gave up, ran home, hid under the covers, and retreated without giving it a shot. </i></span></span><br />
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<i>Still on the days when I think…” There is NO way I can do this!” or "What do I do next" I hear Daddy saying “Just try!”. I take a deep breath and pull on that string that brings him closer, grab a Kleenex for the ride, and know that even in a world that makes absolutely no sense, I can move forward and knit my way through. My Dad lived through the Depression, dealt with loss, went t war too young, saw too much in WWII, and came back to make his own way-no one handed him a thing. These experiences framed him, perhaps left scars that I wasn't shown, but they didn't impede his spirit and I know he would expect me to learn the lessons of my time, and not let these days stop my spirit, and move forward to whatever might be next knowing I am tied to love.</i><br />
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<i> Happy Father’s Day Daddy…Thank you for my many gifts. Oh, how I wish you were here to watch me run my own crazy race, especially when I run the other way :) I love you today and everyday!</i></div>
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</div>SweaterGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00946638585314299808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187566163863388099.post-83752459946019394352022-05-08T10:37:00.002-04:002022-05-08T10:37:40.230-04:00Mother's Day and Every Day-The Voices I Carry<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqhGIdVfZFwz_BNglhtjYlE3PpknxnMF78C4U7M-E-Li3rNt0TlEL_BaLHa5cDxXvQuaZfF8XVsWb1rK0vlksWzfhTQbR-ST_XiKsKPf0YwV1TPfzJz-fKbCYSIM4lkTdJIpa8IFKQAB_c6STpRZF8dCEhp2d4EbrEYisQn0HI_bke335g0YEceKxt_Q/s1080/Motherhood%20All%20love%20begins%20and%20ends%20there.%20_%20Robert%20Browning.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqhGIdVfZFwz_BNglhtjYlE3PpknxnMF78C4U7M-E-Li3rNt0TlEL_BaLHa5cDxXvQuaZfF8XVsWb1rK0vlksWzfhTQbR-ST_XiKsKPf0YwV1TPfzJz-fKbCYSIM4lkTdJIpa8IFKQAB_c6STpRZF8dCEhp2d4EbrEYisQn0HI_bke335g0YEceKxt_Q/w640-h640/Motherhood%20All%20love%20begins%20and%20ends%20there.%20_%20Robert%20Browning.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p>Throughout this world turned upside-down existence, I have worked to create a "normal"- someplace where things don't seem so out of time and space -and where I could continue to run MY life. I am SO over anything with a screen and my once passion for news and politics has been supplanted with a “just don’t look” desire, but of course look we must So, I did this! I played the supermarket delivery games, did matching masks, went through jugs of sanitizer, and put one foot in front of the other doing what had to be done to stay safe, including getting poked in the arm a few times as we all must. Grateful for so much including a messy garden filled with critters who give me fits chomping away on anything with a bloom but who welcome me to play along til the sun goes down. </span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-4359a4ee-7fff-2867-1ce0-ea86ad07b92a"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">" Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." ~Ambrose Bierce</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One thing in all these two surreal years I could not arrange, organize, make neat and tidy, or even make work, however, was a Mom in lockdown. I imposed with a fierceness, and did everything in my power to ensure, a fortress around her life. Try as I might to create and fill with whatever cheer I could find on a daily basis to "Camp Mommy" with books, conversations, movie suggestions, lessons on hairstyling -she had not done her own hair in 60 years, email links to rabbit hole sites, suggestions for how to play bridge online, book and magazine drop-offs, and grocery deliveries filled with fun food...she was still sheltered, albeit comfortably, in one place-alone. Having to impose yet another lock-down early this winter was not met with full compliance. Yes, Mother’s “misbehave”! She did "escape" once or twice from my carefully planned fortress and incurred the sheer blinding panic-driven overblown wrath of an overwrought daughter, she seriously has not let that go! Throughout all this insane time I always insisted that "I got this"-this telling the universe not to come near! Taking on a role that she sees as hers and I insist is mine. We played continuous round robins of who is better at protecting whom, who is really in charge, and whose role is it really?? and through each check-in I heard my voice and I heard "The Voice" that has been firmly implanted -that Mom recording that I hit "Play" on again and again and again. Yes, I learned well-perhaps too well, but here I am still hitting the play button on a voice that I don't want to hear for myself yet find automatically flying out of me. The voice of my Mom and her Mom. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That voice that lectures remind, pushes, and frets and worries, oh yes that voice worries-a lot! That voice comes from a source that was planted through generations. Even though my Grandmother is no longer here she would be happy to know that the Muzak she implanted in both her daughter and in me plays every day! WWND?-What Would Nana Do? makes us smile, laugh, and remember. By some extraordinary string that will always connect us, we still do it Nana's way, with our own twist, but Nana is in there in every fiercely determined instruction, lecture, reprimand, and laugh! How lucky I am -I got those voices in stereo! There is my Nana's Muzak and there is my Mother's- not surprisingly very similar tunes. Of course, it is not just the "do it my way" tunes that I hear each day but more profoundly the emotional songs that have taken root in my being. The roots that hold me firmly in place, perhaps too much some days, come from knowing without any hesitation or embarrassment that I keep playing those tunes because I need to hear that "noise"...and I have learned once again through these crazy days that it is clear I always will.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 14pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 14pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>"If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to in the beginning."</i></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span id="docs-internal-guid-3c559573-7fff-7047-e846-c8a93e52f17f"></span></i></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>~Unknown</i></b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I need the voice of the ones who love me no matter what! I may not always get it right but there is no auditioning or interviewing here. Even when the raincoat is in the car keeping the car dry, I know that if I get wet there is always shelter, just hit the play button. If you are lucky in this life the bond with your Mom is the simplest, and many times the most complicated, one you will ever have. I am THAT lucky! There is nothing more basic or necessary than being loved completely and knowing that love sustains, motivates, and grounds you. The string that runs from Mom to child is the most powerful and lasting connection there will ever be. We may walk through different doors painted different colors but we are usually going in the same direction... together! (much like the time we discovered we were in adjacent dressing rooms in Bloomingdales!)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 14pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 14pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><b>"Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother."</b></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><b><span id="docs-internal-guid-411b55c2-7fff-b220-9be5-68f07d53cad1"></span></b></i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #323232; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><b>~ Unknown</b></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The definition of a Mom cannot be found in a Hallmark card, in an ad for cake mix, or on a rerun of a 70s sitcom. A Mom is defined by her life's work which stems from her soul and the most remarkable bond there can be. As we witness the Moms of Ukraine move heaven and earth to keep their children out of harm's way, placing themselves in peril very often to do this, as we watch them push forward with no idea of what lies ahead just to ensure their children have some sense of stability amidst chaos and horrific options, we are seeing the definition of Motherhood. Leaving everything they have ever known, in an instant, with only what they can literally carry including favorite teddy bears and warm clothes, and with no sense of when or if they will ever be able to bring their children back “home.” Heartbreaking. Painful. Unimaginable. These are the choices that Moms make -not for themselves, but for their children-first and foremost, their children. So a Mom can run a country if that was her choice, but her Momdom is probably at the core of everything she does-her compass. Her real mission is not found in any public-facing material success but in the knowledge that there is a perpetual work in progress out there that will always hear her music, always need her tune to be played, and always love her, even when through periods when they may be on different galaxies, speaking different languages-that core essential thread running through them both, a thread that began long before they did, is always pulling them back to center, back “home”.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As we slowly, very slowly Mom-are you listening!, make attempts to move forward from this surreal time we can actually plan a Mother's Day even if we are still popping on a pretty mask. I realize with all that still is not right, and all that the world is facing, that the moms of the world are facing each day, one thing is holding up...a tradition. For us that tradition looks a whole lot different from the many Mother's Days past, the Mother’s Day crowd is just two and a tradition that I recognize with great pain that far too many cannot do at all. The horrors of this moment in time take my breath away, it cannot be absorbed, it is so large, so overwhelming. All the more reason to do everything within my power to ensure that tradition, no matter how altered, endures. The voices that I carry, that I rely on, and always will, of a Mother and a Grandmother who help me steer my own ship, and whose life’s work matters to me very much! they will be celebrated! on this Mother's Day and everyday!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy Mother's Day Mummy...job well done, but never really finished! I will always be your “work in progress” I love you!</span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-78b2b3b4-7fff-44bf-b8e9-74a2833654e0"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 14pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 14pt;"><span style="color: #323232; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"<i>A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary</i>."</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #323232; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher</b></span></span></p><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #323232; font-size: 14.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div></span>SweaterGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00946638585314299808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187566163863388099.post-51489469311197365302021-06-20T09:48:00.003-04:002021-06-20T09:48:30.260-04:00The Gifts on Which I Stand-Happy Father's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio52wgbNUeP7E0BHHRMbDav8FWG4QspGzjTTZWxjsxK5EP_FHqdZnZvI6UE1oOSA86Hh8iB1zL2H7nNNh3oUnokf4llJcpPReCQ8jMqmtiyAR2Pb_WKOAzX4RvRgisPEWapluBZd7t8o9H/s688/3327a4c233f53b8bd44a715d05e2ff9b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio52wgbNUeP7E0BHHRMbDav8FWG4QspGzjTTZWxjsxK5EP_FHqdZnZvI6UE1oOSA86Hh8iB1zL2H7nNNh3oUnokf4llJcpPReCQ8jMqmtiyAR2Pb_WKOAzX4RvRgisPEWapluBZd7t8o9H/s16000/3327a4c233f53b8bd44a715d05e2ff9b.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; letter-spacing: 0.32px;">“She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father."</span></i></span>
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</div><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It astonishes me,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;"> I have lived as much of my life without my Dad as with him. How can that be? Yet, my Dad has never really left me, he never could. The tumult of these months, and years, have me continually searching for my anchor, my center point on which to land and from which to move forward again. On these many days I pull on a thread, a very old tired thread. Sometimes I have to really tug at that thread, it is covered in the dust of disappointment, worry, expectations, dreams and promises. It is that thread,however, that doesn't unravel me as you might think a long thread of memories might, rather it helps me to do what I know well, knit myself back to what I wear best-the love of my Dad.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">~Marinela Reka </span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></i></span></div> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>I am a "Daddy's Girl". I have no shame in saying that. Sure, there are a lot of negative looks that come with that phrase...spoiled, Princess, indulged...not exactly words you label someone who has always been a feminist and worked to encourage all girls to believe in themselves and their dreams ...but for
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re-opening his many gifts to me. Gifts that I carry with me every day
and always will. Gifts that are sewn into the core of my soul and
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Run your own race,baby. He could have said it a dozen other ways. “Be independent.” “Don’t be influenced by others.” But it wouldn’t have been the same. The words he chose touched my heart and have remained with me all through my life. Whenever I’m at a crossroads, I ask myself, </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>We lost my Dad suddenly. After the shock wore off, and the numbness set in, I felt as if I was living without that safety net, free falling-I still have a whole lot of days I feel that way. It took some time to realize that Daddy had left me the biggest net of all- the knowledge that I do have solid ground beneath my feet at all times, because of the lessons he taught me: be yourself, stand for what you believe, laugh no matter what, show them how it's done!, know you tried your best, believe in who you are! These lessons helped to build my foundation, grow the roots that sprout from my feet and created my own terra firma, composed of all the love that I was graced to be given. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The gifts on which I stand, my Father's love and thorough belief in me has taught me to trust my strengths, and to know that I CAN “run my own race”- even when I have trouble finding the track. My Father taught me to rely on my instincts, believe that there is nothing I can’t accomplish and that the worst thing I could do would be to give up, pass on an opportunity or to sit on the sidelines and never even try! </i><i>I think the only instances that Daddy was really upset and angry with me is when I gave up, ran home, hid under the covers,and retreated without giving it a shot. </i></span></span><br />
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<i>Still on the days when I think…”There is NO way I can do this!” or "What do I do next" I hear Daddy saying “Just try!”. I take a deep breath and pull on that string that brings him closer, grab a Kleenex for the ride, and know that even in a world that makes absolutely no sense, I can move forward and knit my way through. My Dad lived through the Depression,dealt with loss, went t war too young, saw too much in WWII and came back to make his own way-no one handed him a thing. These experiences framed him, perhaps left scars that I wasn't shown, but they didn't impede his spirit and I know he would expect me to learn the lessons of my time, and not let these days stop my spirit, and move forward to whatever might be next knowing I am tied to love.</i><br />
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<i> Happy Father’s Day Daddy…Thank you for my many gifts. Oh how I wish you were here to watch me run my own crazy race,especially when I run the other way :) I love you today and everyday!</i></div>
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SweaterGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00946638585314299808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187566163863388099.post-64056018794719244252021-05-31T12:55:00.006-04:002021-05-31T13:01:37.734-04:00Sit Right Down and Write Me a Letter<p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/EbYYvyy49wZtianOiDlKD5rfjag=/fit-in/1600x0/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/6d/86/6d86851e-ef7a-485d-ba95-3e28d5e4f2fc/jane_austen_1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/EbYYvyy49wZtianOiDlKD5rfjag=/fit-in/1600x0/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/6d/86/6d86851e-ef7a-485d-ba95-3e28d5e4f2fc/jane_austen_1.png" /></a></div><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/new-edition-pride-prejudice-crosses-its-ts-and-dots-its-is-180975808/" target="_blank">Via Smithsonian Magazine</a></i></span></span><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">OK...so, I admit to a life lived in hopes of Jane Austen-esque scenes where the arrival of letters, and letter writing, become central to the day. Letters and regular correspondence are always at the heart of Austen's novels, in fact, Pride and Prejudice started out as an epistolary novel called First Impressions, consisting exclusively of letters between the characters. Letters, the writing, arrival, and reading and rereading of letters are central in every wonderful novel, not just Austen's, though Persuasion will always hold one of my most Kleenex driven scenes, Letters in literature reveal the characters and move the story forward-Wuthering Heights, The Color Purple, Little Women, most anything Dickens, Atonement...even Harry Potter. So how can we abandon letter writing! Yes, texting, email, and Twitter are the new post but ...can you tie them in a ribbon, place them in a box and revisit them when your heart needs to? And, what can you learn from a misspelled text decades from now?-I shudder to think.</span></p><p></p><p></p><blockquote><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><blockquote style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; border-left: 4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-xlarge); font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 3.6rem; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; quotes: none; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you..." F. W. </blockquote><blockquote style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left: 4px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 3.6rem; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; quotes: none; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">~Captain Wentworth to Anne Elliot, Jane Austen's Persuasion</i></span></blockquote></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote><blockquote><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></blockquote></blockquote><p> <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This is why <a href="https://www.beverlybeckham.com/" target="_blank">Beverly Beckham's</a> column </span><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/28/metro/world-thats-gone-virtual-handwritten-letter-is-magical/" rel="noopener nofollow" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--color-action); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank"><b style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a world that’s gone virtual, a handwritten letter is magical</b></a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">- in <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/05/28/metro/world-thats-gone-virtual-handwritten-letter-is-magical/" target="_blank">The Boston Globe</a> made me smile so. Handwritten letters and cards are magical! In fact, handwriting itself, not something clumsily punched on a keyboard, means something. Someone chose to sit, yes sit, and think-remember thinking, to let me know their thoughts, their news, their wishes, and even that they care. </span></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I live my life gorilla glued to an email box. I think at last count I have 10 email addresses that actually get used every day! I truly get loopy hopping from one to the other, checking and emailing and deleting, and sometimes I forget which box I am in and why on earth I am there. A very strange life for someone who loves all things paper. Call me Wilma Flintstone but a lovely envelope, with a perfectly chosen stamp, holding even a line of Hello is a treasure. </span></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Receiving a card or letter in your postal box is as Beverly Beckham said an "occasion-", always a treat - romantic and nostalgic in this day of three-letter texts. I still have the very first Birthday, Holiday, and Valentine cards I ever received, every letter written to me-well there may be a few I tossed for reasons we don't need to discuss, but I have letters and cards from so many who are no longer with me, and through those paper bound memories, they are here. When I need to visit with my grandmother I open a note or card she sent with her amazing penmanship that she maintained well into her nineties, She was appalled at mine, little did she imagine that soon handwriting would disappear all together-how is that a thing? There is comfort in my many many boxes of cards and notes and letters. It means that I will always have access to the memories, to their love in an envelope forever, can't get that with an email! </span></p><p></p><blockquote><br /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </i><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">"Because you get a sense of a person by seeing their script, by the size and slant and steadiness of it. And because — and this is the most important reason we should not abandon penmanship — years later when the writer of that script is gone, when you stumble upon a card or a letter they sent, for a few magical seconds that person won’t be gone at all. She, he, they will be right beside you." </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">~Beverly Beckham</i></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">I cannot imagine a world without letters and cards, though I realize we are literally zooming our way to their extinction. Perhaps it is my love of the stories of real lives told through correspondence -Abigail and John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, letters from the wars... How would we know of the lives they led, the emotions they experienced, the human beings they were without the intimacy of their letters? Many years ago I was given letters that my Dad wrote to friends during the war. As with most who fought in WWII my Dad didn't speak much about his experiences but these letters revealed the real fear that a very young man, in his late teens, was feeling as he faced the unknown days and months ahead. The remarkable thing about these letters is my Dad was not a letter writer or card sender. This Memorial Day weekend I look at those letters and think of all the letters written to families, friends, lovers... connecting lives, often the most mundane of daily moments-where the real living is, through the most tumultuous of times. I think about all the "kids" in the midst of horror who would read and reread letters that told of "not much new", about going to a movie or walking the dog, and how much those letters of "not much new" meant to them. Letters can bring devastating news of course, but they also bring joy, and like the ribbons that tie all my many years of cards and notes in those boxes, put a bow on our human connections...a text or an email cannot ever dream of creating that.</span><br /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: var(--font-size-large); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 3.2rem; margin: 3.2rem 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p>SweaterGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00946638585314299808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187566163863388099.post-9707848990990207792021-05-08T11:52:00.003-04:002021-05-08T11:52:45.551-04:00Tied to Tradition-Mother's Day and Everyday<img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="698" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWqSyk7ZjV4vZPWAOUmcSJIV8jLBRtdeuMq6FhyGUjKr4n1Di3EmBRXEYdREG5fuC_U9zgwRIlGmykppl7dNPjmkO3tlELS1RETCyR1Cndhh_do8t8AVxZNW7ODqHKw1gs6KfSscEmyik/w640-h508/cassat_combing-hair.jpg" width="640" /><br />
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<b><i>"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."</i><i> ~ Robert Browning</i></b></div>
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<b><i>" </i><i>Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." ~Ambrose Bierce</i></b></div><p><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One thing I couldn't rearrange,reorganize, make neat and tidy or even make work,however, was a Mom in lockdown. I imposed with a fierceness, and did everything in my power to ensure, a fortress around her life. Try as I might to create and fill with whatever cheer I could find on a daily basis to "Camp Mommy" with books, conversations, movie suggestions, lessons on hairstyling -she had not done her own hair in 60 years, email links to rabbit hole sites, suggestions for how to play bridge online, book and magazine drop-offs, and grocery deliveries filled with fun food...she was still sheltered, albeit comfortably, in one place-alone. She did "escape" once or twice from my carefully planned fortress and incurred the sheer blinding panic driven overblown wrath of an overwrought daughter, she seriously has not let that go! Throughout I always insisted that "I got this"-this telling the universe not to come near! Taking on a role that she sees as hers and I insist is mine. We played continuous round robins of who is better at protecting whom, and who is really in charge, and whose role is it really?? and through each check in I heard my voice and I heard "The Voice" that has been firmly implanted -that Mom recording that I hit "Play" on again and again and again...Yes, I learned well-perhaps too well, but here I am still hitting play on words that I don't want to hear for myself yet find automatically flying out of me.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My Mom and her voice...well, she is a Mom, my Mom. This is what she
does and it seems it is what I do too. Despite many other roles and abilities, being a Mom is who she is
with every inch of her being..and the root of all of this is love. </span></i></span></span></i></span><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That voice that lectures and reminds and pushes and frets and worries and...all come from a source that was planted through generations. Even though my Grandmother is no longer here she w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ould b</span>e happy to know
that the Muzak she implanted in both her daughter and in me plays
everyday! WWND?-What Would Nana Do? makes us smile,laugh and remember.
By some extraordinary string that will always connect us we still do it Nana's way, with our
own twist, but Nana is in there in every high pitched instruction and lecture and reprimand and laugh!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>How lucky I am -I got stereo! There is my Nana's Muzak and there is my Mother's- not surprisingly very similar tunes.</span></i></span><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Of
course it is not just the "do it my way" tunes that I hear each day but
more profoundly the emotional songs that have taken root from the
bottom of my feet. These roots come from knowing without any hesitation
or embarrassment that I keep playing those tunes because I need to hear
that "noise"...and I learned this year that it is clear I always will.</span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I need the voice of the ones who love me no matter what! I
may not always get it right but there is no auditioning or interviewing here. Even when
the raincoat is in the car keeping the car dry, I know that if I get
wet there is shelter available.</span></i></span></span></i></span><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> If
you are lucky in this life the bond with your Mom is the simplest, and
many times the most complicated, one you will ever have. I am THAT
lucky! There is nothing more basic or necessary than being loved completely and knowing
that love sustains , motivates and grounds you. The string that runs
from Mom to child is the most powerful and lasting connection there
will ever be. We may walk through different doors painted different colors but we are
usually going in the same direction... together! (much like the time we
discovered we were in adjacent dressing rooms in Bloomingdales!)</span></i></span></span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></span></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTWrHS7Y9RqwvJfHbIqw0CHGRyIuUzrJvx3S1eJ9OxllFIKa31y90cy9eathRSH7Qsya5Yqv8MFLZf7GBC3aYYPSX7b7LJzk6tXobE00mmWyuOGmqbLXWGvuyQY9TW3VB883uOaT5EJ1J/s720/tumblr_o3xjydcm2R1qgn7e1o1_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTWrHS7Y9RqwvJfHbIqw0CHGRyIuUzrJvx3S1eJ9OxllFIKa31y90cy9eathRSH7Qsya5Yqv8MFLZf7GBC3aYYPSX7b7LJzk6tXobE00mmWyuOGmqbLXWGvuyQY9TW3VB883uOaT5EJ1J/w426-h640/tumblr_o3xjydcm2R1qgn7e1o1_500.jpg" width="426" /></a></span></i></span></span></i></span></div><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i></span></span></i></span><p></p><p><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
definition of a Mom cannot be found in a Hallmark card, in an ad for
cake mix, or on a rerun of a 70s sitcom. A Mom is defined by her life's
work. She can be a Supreme Court Justice or a candidate for President,
but her Momdom is at the core of everything she does. Her success is not
found in material success but in the knowledge that there is a perpetual work in
progress out there that will always hear her music, always need her tune
to be played, and always love her.</span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So as we slowly, very slowly Mom-are you listening!, emerge from this surreal year, we can actually plan a Mother's Day even if still with a pretty mask. I realize with all that still is not right one thing is...a tradition. This tradition looks a whole lot different from the many Mother's Days past, so many are now just two. A tradition that I recognize far too many cannot do this year, Moms and Daughters who cannot do Mother's Day any longer. The pain of this year takes my breath away, it cannot be absorbed, it is so large, so overwhelming. All the more reason to do everything within my power to ensure that tradition, no matter how altered, endures. A Mother and Grandmother will be celebrated! on this Mother's Day and everyday!</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Normally this week "between" the holidays is a time that we all start the annual rear view mirror exercise...and then we go hunting for our crystal balls to see what will come. This year, no way! The annual "year in review" is NOT something I want to do, who does? Best to toss this one in the dustbin and light a match! As for the crystal ball I don't have the courage I admit to even go dig mine out this year. It seems like everyone is just holding our collective breath, waiting for the moment when the world can exhale. Yet, it is hard not to look back, it is hard not to think about what might be. Trying to get your head around a year that no one can make sense of and to try to just sit and understand- the extraordinary losses, all the pain. It is inevitable that we feel the need to look for the lessons and search with earnest for the hope that must be. So now as we step oh so gingerly into a new year there are a whole lot of "what nexts". By nature and attitude I am an optimist, I admit that the optimism has slipped as I spend far too much time watching,listening and reading the news. My optimism needs to be nurtured and it needs to find a path with a purpose. That's a lot to take in before midnight chimes on the 31st. Usually at this time the month of December is one BIG blur, this December all of 2020 is one big blur and everything is spinning. My brain is pleading "can we just hit PAUSE please!" </span></i></span></div>
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How about a hat with giant pompom or wait there are a hundred projects that need finishing, just one more sleeve, how about that needlepoint pillow from...what ever became of that? Don't forget to pot the Amaryllis bulbs... </span></span>Sure there is some mail to open, bookeeping to do -who wants to look at those numbers!, certainly bills to be paid, dusting and laundry, closets and cupboards to clean out for donation boxes, oh yeah and a whole year ahead to figure out...but for this week I'm taking MY time in between! </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6HhbOabYopoqf-ZOOP9RmvAf0BjSWo-bQ1KPfG_Vq3yt9RNYO8p4fDYg85UWEmSWZC9QuWHhGeo04emUkkjLHTtX6dFXCr4OXLQl84eEhb7AZcMRzQ4mN8WGL6v3Y7w4oFwjcTlh-DENS/s400/nishanakgulian1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6HhbOabYopoqf-ZOOP9RmvAf0BjSWo-bQ1KPfG_Vq3yt9RNYO8p4fDYg85UWEmSWZC9QuWHhGeo04emUkkjLHTtX6dFXCr4OXLQl84eEhb7AZcMRzQ4mN8WGL6v3Y7w4oFwjcTlh-DENS/s16000/nishanakgulian1.jpg" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqUdmNOnU2PZIXG20Vt7ErgjuXc2__QiF4m1-BTkNBv6QtrDVC_2PuyH6qM3vaNY8BqP2u6CgehMh5ejRVFVsC6pl2JbBNeqhpCPstAJlKtN3CfVMNMaeCFWkdmoRm6Dzb3wfLAk2pVTAZ/s361/39.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.nishanakgulian.com/" target="_blank"> Nishan Akgulian</a><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I may not be able to go to the museum or the movies or the theatre, sit over brunch or even poke through holiday sales at favorite shops, but I can close down the laptop and the endless stream of useless emails and try to find ME in the pile of neglected and ignored. The NEW, and oh please the better, year will be here soon enough and with it a world we cannot still make sense of, this week does not solve too much there, but one thing for sure it will be spiraling and we will all need to be involved and CARE! <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The New Year</span> will come with us all walking without a steady road beneath us and with a whole new list, albeit very different from New Year's lists past, of "DO ITS". <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">S</span>o while the phones and email are relatively still, while the world holds its collective breath for what will be, I will be too...No looks back, no projecting forward, just today. 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</tbody></table><p> <span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><i>...and certainly at the very least it is important to dress the part...</i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: orange; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: orange; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; text-align: center;"> Givenchy would work! </i></span><br />
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At every point in her life she was pushed on closed doors in her quiet, often shy, demeanor which left many having never seen her coming! She left an unparalleled legacy of justice and equality with groundbreaking cases that changed the legal landscape and this country<i>. </i>She is responsible for changing women's legal rights and access, but </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ruth Bader Ginsburg did so much more, for every woman, for every little girl, for everyone who has ever been told-"sorry, this isn't your door"</span></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">she blazed a trail in her demure yet tough as nails way-</span></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Women belong,” she said, “</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"> in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and she dedicated her work and her life to ensuring just that.</span></span></span></span></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="820" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguXJbK22wa9fYEpNb_PsczwfCR9y-s_PkUZCkWawkWVUET03IhKCirIHa4pLhj6KiKPLg3LuyFbiCO6qpU3Qy5JzOnGsekjQbGhCGUSq2yVv_t40rphPCEKoh8RELzvmiBzwGhOl9MB0vf/w512-h640/merlin_148320003_c0ca99d9-6bac-456c-8d42-6922c4cd3e4e-jumbo.jpg" width="512" /></span></i></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” </span></span></span></span></i></div><p></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Her own biography is ground breaking. She entered Cornell on full scholarship at the age of 17 after the tragic loss of her Mom. It was at Cornell that she would meet her beloved Marty </span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 17px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span></span><i>"What made Marty so overwhelmingly attractive to me was that he cared that I had a brain,"</i> she said. After college she could not find a job except as typist and when she entered Harvard Law, one of only 9 women in her class of 500, the dean of Harvard Law would bring these 9 women together and ask them outright why they thought it was OK to be taking the place that should be held by a man. She would follow Marty to Columbia Law graduating top of her class but finding she could not get a job. The doors to law firms were closed to a woman, no matter how brilliant or how many recommendations she came with. In 1963 she finally landed a job teaching at Rutgers Law and hiding her second pregnancy by wearing oversized clothes so no one would know she was pregnant and could hold her job. She would begin her fight for equal justice at Rutgers and go on to try cases of discrimination at the supreme court. She would become the first female tenured professor at Columbia Law and became the voice and the designer of the battle for women's legal rights with one goal-to win! </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 17px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"The words of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause — 'nor shall any state deny to any person the equal protection of the laws.' Well that word, 'any person,' covers women as well as men. And the Supreme Court woke up to that reality in 1971," </i>Ginsburg said. </span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1350" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKzijDrAJFuKlrO3zXh5nsCQmjqTesBoCINdQXPD9Tuo_cH4d48AMFI12O0mIM0QaWPmI7a0xf2aAJ6xFBpOyo5Wa9JRKurcccXhfEwpjr8JCxeze9dfW0IxbUBYsa9hU0gITOA5JSGL6w/w422-h640/e70d54fe179d68291609aa3e1e60389e.jpg" width="422" /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-d18b16a4-7fff-a10b-42ee-18c62514697d" style="font-weight: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Fight for the things that you care about,but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”</span></p></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-65fd1fd4-7fff-6e51-b075-ece46afbdecf" style="font-weight: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.047056; margin-bottom: 13pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #050505; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In 1980 President Jimmy Carter nominated her to the D.C. District court of appeals and in 1993 President Clinton nominated her to the supreme court-the second woman to be be nominated She was not his first choice but upon meeting with her he was sold</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">falling for her "hook, link and sinker" and she was confirmed by the senate on a 96-3 vote. </span></p></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="1024" height="421" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd_yAn6eOGvMN9LFNsdzOXJZHk4cuuBMUpbg8ACh0s_C1lnmLkv5V4Q3VE-T5vo5OjIhscf0UEQbEhSM2aTcFCwZw3OsGoXVi5jvtno73VYVGM_tY9iv6KTmyXTesrljh9-owMwJC_A7Fz/w640-h421/merlin_86639557_ba72175d-9231-423a-92fe-9a12782ac68b-jumbo.jpg" width="640" /></div><i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"> </span></i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">“I
pray that I may be all that [my mother] would have been had she lived
in an age when women could aspire and achieve and daughters are
cherished as much as sons.”</span></i><span style="color: black;"></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought in every corner of her life with a steely determination. She said that starting out she had three strikes against her-she was Jewish, a Woman , and a Mother</span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">-all of which meant doors that swung open for men with far less ability were not even available to be seen for her. Cancer would be an incessant presence throughout, from her Mother, to her cherished Marty, to her own numerous private battles... but nothing, not even cancer, stopped her-she worked and battled through pain and loss with a laced glove iron hand and will. She found great joy in her Notorious RBG fame and how amazing that so many little girls would have such an icon to emulate. In her first ever case as a Supreme Court justice she showed she was not there to just fill a chair but would continue her fight for equality.<br /></span><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 13px 0px 16px 40px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"Sex, like race, is a visible, immutable characteristic bearing no necessary relationship to ability.</i></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 13px 0px 16px 40px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Sex, like race, has been made the basis for unjustified or at least unproved assumptions, concerning an individual’s potential to perform or to contribute to society…</i></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 13px 0px 16px 40px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>These distinctions have a common effect: They help keep woman in her place, a place inferior to that occupied by men in our society."</i></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: black; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 13px 0px 16px 40px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In conclusion Justice Ginsburg quoted Sara Grimke:</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 13px 0px 16px 40px; outline: currentcolor none 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-line: inherit; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>"I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks." <br /></i></span></span></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> She showed that it simply didn't matter that you were born a woman-gender was irrelevant and she worked to ensure that justice for everyone would be secure.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Yet,
dare we be at ease? We are part of a world whose unity has been almost
completely shattered. No one can feel free from danger and destruction
until the many torn threads of civilization are bound together again. We
cannot feel safer until every nation, regardless of weapons or power,
will meet together in good faith, the people worthy of mutual
association." </span></i></span><span style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1006" data-original-width="825" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpp7WVsWpK9IKXmz_CIO4wudhq720MwnSiiZBEqqCXeHx_vAmS16vE-YDOYMMx3vkRrvHPHohcW3IYnX7F-iDGnpBaETV8l_zxeoFOQXz7lZXy7-CLYRxhoZ6O-7Vka31Ll7hdpagaEI5o/w525-h640/tumblr_poeqshMlRC1sxxrj0o1_1280.jpg" width="525" /></div><br /><div><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: black; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #262626; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #262626;"><i>"I do think that I was born under a
very bright star...When you think about — the world has changed really
in what women are doing. I went to law school when women were less than
3% of lawyers in the country; today, they are 50%. I never had a woman
teacher in college or in law school. The changes have been enormous. And
they've just — they've gone much too far [to be] going back." </i></span></span></span></i></span></span></h3><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: black; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #262626; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #262626;"></span></span></span></span><br /></span></i></h3><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She left us at the worst time possible, just weeks before the election with time to fill her seat in a lame duck republican session. Her death on the Jewish New Year, on the Sabbath as well. means she is considered a Tzaddik, a person of great righteousness. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">NPR reporter<span> </span></span>Nina Totenberg, a dear friend of Justice Ginsburg, wrote <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span></span>on Twitter: "A Jewish teaching says those who die just before the Jewish new year are the ones God has held back until the last moment because they were needed most and were the most righteous."</span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yet, it is as if she was denied a New Year, and all of us another year of her incomparable gifts and presence. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #303030; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Georgia Pro", Georgia, "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span> In the Jewish tradition when someone dies you say "May their memory be a blessing"...for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg her life was that for us all and her loss is palpable. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She simply changed
how society is for American women, full stop.</span></span></span> She was a
revolutionary at every step of her life who created a revolution, so may her memory be just that, a revolution that fulfills her last wish and in her death may she blaze one last irrevocable trail again for us all. Thank You Justice Ginsburg.<br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h3 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: black; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.2; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." ~Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg<br /></span></span></i></span></h3></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></p>SweaterGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00946638585314299808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187566163863388099.post-91109384062994484122020-09-07T12:32:00.007-04:002020-09-07T12:32:44.134-04:00As the Hydrangeas Turn<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlv0mMrUj1qH59er5mrqiQKZSJ2F66wwCvvQeE6Uw7YH6QoGuhYL8GQqbmgnSzGuDBu_WvbMuMOgW9H07EJgqmSLVUjv5db2903iX29v_8zKoVeFAmVIStNElAQ4lB9MbD1lt0NXxp-7Qg/s2048/fall10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlv0mMrUj1qH59er5mrqiQKZSJ2F66wwCvvQeE6Uw7YH6QoGuhYL8GQqbmgnSzGuDBu_WvbMuMOgW9H07EJgqmSLVUjv5db2903iX29v_8zKoVeFAmVIStNElAQ4lB9MbD1lt0NXxp-7Qg/w625-h469/fall10.jpg" width="625" /></a></div><br /><i> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.” ~Oscar Wilde<br /></span></i><p></p><p> As the hydrangeas turn I find I am totally caught off guard by their decision. I walk right by them everyday. I cannot miss them as they are everywhere around Camp MP. They brush my legs when I walk to the driveway as they have tumbled onto the walkways and they greet me at the front door, back door... The "quick" turn from classic hydrangea blue to "it's time for me to sport my fall flair" pinky-mauve happened in a blink. In a time when nothing is working as it should the gardens at Camp MP do get that it is September...even if the keeper of the gardens has NO clue! </p><p> How is it September? Seriously I missed a month or two or three or...I spy berries bursting forth on the trees, hear the acorns starting to do their fall drop dance on my neighbor's deck, watch as spots of leaves on random trees paint themselves into autumn...but summer? Yes, it was hot, sticky, buggy, but was it summer and if it was where did it go? <br /></p><p>The gardens at Camp MP have always held lessons for me: patience as I plant and wait for the sign of buds and blooms; perseverance as the critters chomp away and I refill all the holes they dig and replant what they pop out to make room for what they feel is more important; persistence and determination as for every one weed I dig out 100 more appear in their place...but always, always, the gardens have whispered hope. </p><p><i> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">“Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them— The summer flowers depart— Sit still— as all transform’d to stone, Except your musing heart.” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br /></span></i></p><p> After winters with hundreds of inches of snow the gardens for the most part do what they are assigned to do-they pop up, they grow green and in as many cases as possible they bloom. This year where the world just stopped, my gardens ignored what was happening around them and simply burst forth. They promised with each bud and bloom that while everything else seems upside down it is OK. They want me to stop. They want me to loo. They want me to pay attention, not just to them, but to all I usually miss when the speed of "normal" time carries me. They tell me they know better and that NOW is what counts and that maybe there is a lot that when the clock starts again for all of us we may not need to care so much about.I have very wise hydrangeas!<br /></p><p> So now, as the seasons turn and I am once again looking for summer as it is waving so long, I turn to my gardens for their wisdom, for answers. What's next? As the hydrangeas turn I may be surprised, but I am also relieved and grateful that they are there for me to look to, to ground me, to guide me, and to say OK girl it is time to move forward-keep moving forward and be well!<br /></p><p><i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Charter, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald <br /></span></i></p>SweaterGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00946638585314299808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187566163863388099.post-83574607364411158352020-07-18T09:08:00.000-04:002020-07-18T09:55:58.604-04:00"A Beacon for All to See" Honoring the Legacy of 'Good Trouble" In Memoriam Rep. John Lewis<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"If not us , then who? If not now, then when?</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">~Rep. John Lewis</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">We are running
out of heroes. Rep. John Lewis stood, and will always stand, as a
singular beacon of determination to speak out, and to work to bring freedom and
justice for all. His history alone shows us it is never easy, often painfully
ugly, but forever necessary to as he said<i>"...be bold, brave, and
courageous and find a way...to get in the way."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">He lived his
life with a dedicated purpose that few can parallel. He believed to his
core that this country not only could do and be better but that it had a moral
obligation to do so. He never wavered in his determination to see that
happen-peacefully, purposefully and permanently, and through his remarkable life
and work he inspired us all to follow his lead.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 20.0pt;">He was
handcuffed, jailed, beaten to near death but the bloodshed and unimaginable
pain and loss he endured did not stop his faith in what he knew to be true that
we all have "...a moral obligation, a mission and a mandate, to speak up, speak out and get in good trouble," and that "You can do it. You must do it. Not just for yourselves but for generations yet unborn. " </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 20.0pt;">He
never stopped believing in the promise of this country. He never showed
bitterness, resentment, anger. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
almost impossible to understand given all he saw, all he stood witness to, all
he experienced and survived that he never lost is hope, his fight, his true belief
that this country could fulfill its potential to see that the promise of the
rights of all to “…Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” would be
realized. He only ever kept fighting for justice and asked us all to do the same.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Standing
this Spring in that infamous spot on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for the
last time Rep. Lewis shared only a message of hope and determination. A plea to
each of us to go <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>forward in his path, to
carry his light of hope and to make a promise to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and
help redeem the soul of America.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Thank
you good sir. May we all follow the beacon that your life created and work to
realize all you fought for.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>"You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone-any person or any force-dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates...Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won. Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don't be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a beloved community that is finally at peace with itself."</i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">~ </span><b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">John Lewis, </span></b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/19225744" style="font-family: "lato", "helvetica neue", "helvetica", sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Across That
Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America</span></b></a></span></span></span></div>
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many of us get to live to see our own legacy play out in such a meaningful,
remarkable way. John Lewis did. And thanks to him, we now all have our marching
orders - to keep believing in the possibility of remaking this country we love
until it lives up to its full promise."</span></i></span>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">~President
Barack Obama July 18, 2020 </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "charter" , "georgia" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "memphis w01" , "times" , serif; font-size: 26px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;">I woke this morning with a stunning thought, well stunning for me anyway, I have lived more of my life without my Dad than with him. How can that be? On so many levels my Dad has never left me, he never could. Yet, the tumult of these months, and years, have me continually searching for my anchor, my center point on which to land and from which to move forward again. On these many days I pull on a thread, a very old tired thread. Sometimes I have to really tug at that thread, it is covered in the dust of disappointment, worry, expectations, dreams and promises. It is that thread,however, that doesn't unravel me as you might think a long thread of memories might, rather it helps me to do what I know well, knit myself back to what I wear best-the love of my Dad.</span></i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Loss leaves craters in your life, and no</span></i><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;"></span></i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;">
it does not get easier with time.</span></i> Though those "potholes" of life can never be filled, and will never be closed, if you have
been enveloped with love when you hit those holes, and you do, the holes are softer to look into and can in fact bring
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">~Marinela Reka </span></span></i></span></div>
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proudly say I am a "Daddy's Girl". There are a lot of negative looks that come with that phrase...spoiled, Princess, indulged...not exactly words you label someone who has always been a feminist and worked to encourage all girls to believe in themselves and their dreams ...but for
me the phrase symbolizes not only the unbreakable bond between a Father
and Daughter but also the foundation upon which I stand... every day.
The insurance, and assurance, that believing in myself,as Daddy believed
in me, will get me through and propel me forward. </i></span></span></span></i></span><br />
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Father's Day weekend may not be my first without Daddy, but like every
year at this time I try to keep the mascara from going by hugging the
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re-opening his many gifts to me. Gifts that I carry with me every day
and always will. Gifts that are sewn into the core of my soul and
especially my heart. Gifts that have given me an umbrella policy for
life, a firm footing even when it feels as if the the universe has sent
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Run your own race,baby. He could have said it a dozen other ways. “Be independent.” “Don’t be influenced by others.” But it wouldn’t have been the same. The words he chose touched my heart and have remained with me all through my life. Whenever I’m at a crossroads, I ask myself, </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>We lost my Dad suddenly. After the shock wore off, and the numbness set in, I felt as if I was living without a safety net, free falling-I still have a whole lot of days I feel that way. It took some time to realize that Daddy had left me the biggest net of all- the knowledge that I do have solid ground beneath my feet at all times, because of the lessons he taught me: be yourself, stand for what you believe, laugh no matter what, show them how it's done!, know you tried your best, believe in who you are! These lessons helped to build my base, grow the roots that sprout from my feet and created my own terra firma, composed of all the love that I was graced to be given. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>That love has taught me to believe in myself and my strengths, and to know that I CAN “run my own race”- even when I have trouble finding the track. My Father taught me to trust my instincts, believe that there is nothing I can’t accomplish and that the worst thing I could do would be to give up, pass on an opportunity or to sit on the sidelines and never try! </i><i>I think the only instances that Daddy was really upset and angry with me is when I gave up, ran home, hid under the covers, didn't try. </i></span></span><br />
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<i>Still on the days when I think…”There is NO way I can do this!” or "What do I do next" I hear Daddy saying “Try!”. I pull on that string that brings him closer, grab a Kleenex for the ride, and know that even in a world that makes absolutely no sense, I can move forward and knit my way through. My Dad lived through the Depression and WWII. These experiences framed him, perhaps left scars that I wasn't shown, but they didn't impede his spirit and I know he would expect me to learn the lessons of now and not let these days stop my spirit, and to move forward knowing I am tied to love.</i><br />
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<i> Happy Father’s Day Daddy…Thank you for my many gifts. Oh how I wish you were here to watch me run my own crazy race,especially when I run the other way :) I love you today and everyday!</i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">"Not everything that has been faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced."</span></b></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">~James Baldwin</span></b></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">OK
2020 clearly you are determined to wake us up in every way you can.
Have not been happy with you thus far but maybe, just maybe, the lessons
you are sending our way might just steer that arc Martin Luther
King, Jr. spoke of over 50 years ago when he said <span style="display: inline; float: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” </span></i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">Justice, however, does not come flying through your cell phone-there is no app for that. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">So</span> how
does change happen? How do you dismantle 400 years of hate, anger,
intolerance, trauma and racism. You can't. Racism will not disappear in a week
or two, a month or two, year or two or decade or two. It does not
leave us with just outrage and protest and prayers-if only it could.
There is no flip of a switch. No instant makeover of a society, or its
residents.</span></span><br />
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Racism
is systemically embedded in every corner of our world. It surfaces in
very high profile and horrifying ways, as we have seen again and again
and again and again... til a nation already exhausted and in fear for
where this society is heading has stopped, moved outside their
lockdowns, and exclaimed collectively, painfully, and with clear
purpose-enough! </span><br />
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Racism,
however, does not begin or end on the streets. Perhaps it is when it
isn't making headlines -when someone crosses the street, when someone is
followed around a department store or has to wait to be served, when someone is walking in a park to be with nature, when someone just attempts to live their life and is threatened for the simplest of acts...all because of the color of skin, this is when racism can be seen for
what it is- normalized. Shopping while black, eating while black,
driving while black... breathing while black-all a "crime". </span><br />
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Over
50 years after Selma and we are still here. The surface may look
different, there may be opportunities there weren't 50 years ago, but
the institutionalization of racism remains and one could argue has
strengthened. With every step forward there is a counter step driven by
ignorance and fear. </span><br />
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Step
back and ask how much sense that makes. We know people who live in
white skin don't get followed, pulled over, denied access, turned down,
let down, shut down. Their children are safe. Their opportunities are
never impeded because of what they look like. Their lives are never in
peril because of the color of their skin. They can live their life-there
has never been a moment when their life was questioned, when their life
didn't matter!</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br />
As
a kid I believed something very simple. If I took a crayon and colored
in my skin I would be just like my non-white friends. Easy stuff. The
only difference, and I never saw it as a difference anymore than liking
different flavored ice cream, was a pigment issue. I continue to walk
through my life that way, but while I still like the idea of raising
kids with this benign "theory" in the hope they will always carry it, as
I still do, it took til I was in college to understand that I am not
the same, crayon or no crayon. I can never be. I have never
experienced life as a person of color. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br />
I
learned this lesson that changed me forever while sitting in a lecture
hall in a course on Women and African Americans in American Cinema. We
screened a film that portrayed a white police officer raping a black
woman while her children were in the next room. Shocking, sickening,
heart breaking...for the women of color in that room it literally left
them torn to their core. Many had to leave in physical and emotional
distress. While I sat and watched friends get up and leave that hall I
sat there. I stayed. I was disgusted by the scene but I wasn't broken or traumatized
by it, it wasn't part of my experience. It was horrific and it haunted me, but it was on a
screen not on my street. I was, and am, a comfortable white woman, with
a heart and a brain for social justice, but not the experience of
personal injustice. From that day I understood that though I can be
infuriated by wrong, fight my heart out for right, study history, try to
teach that history and work to repair that history, I can never own the
experiences I have not lived... and there is the ONE difference I
acknowledge. No one will ever keep their eye on me as I walk through
Bloomingdales. No one will ever ask me why I am sitting somewhere,
going somewhere, walking somewhere. No one will ever question my right
to be. I can go through my life without fear of who I am being an issue
for anyone. I will always be able to breathe.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i>"Nobody's Free Until Everybody's Free...</i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i>It is time for America to get it right"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><i>~Fannie Lou Hamer</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">So
what do we do next in this extraordinary moment. Does a generation of
instant gratification have the patience and the tolerance to sustain the
work that has to happen for change to take hold. There is no magic
wand here, no fairy godmother of racial justice, no Instagram or Tweet that erases and builds for you. 400 years of history
to swallow...but first that history needs to be understood and accepted and then throw the doors open to reveal what that history has left in its
wake. You have to change systems, you have to change the culture, you
have to change people's understanding, their minds, their hearts. You
have to actually stop right where you are right now and look, and listen ,
and talk. None of this will be easy and there are so many you will never
reach but it is the work everyone must do or we lose the moment we have
to influence that arc, to make sure those lives lost mattered.</span></span><br />
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I
believe and always have that change happens from outside in, and my
hope is that is what has begun. This has to start at every level,
institutional and personal. Criminal Justice reform, police reform,
corporate responsibility...in sports, retail, food and hospitality, schools,healthcare...if you
start with systems and institutions you begin to move the needle.
Dismantle the school to prison pipeline. Examine the inside structure of
organizations and then make the changes no matter how simple at first
to be fair and equitable. Ensure that everyone has access to clean
drinking water, nutrition, education, fair wages, safe streets, quality
healthcare and information, and that no one is ever denied the
fundamental right to vote. Overwhelming, perhaps, but if we start under
our own roof, in our own yard, on our own street, in our own community,
in our everyday life...maybe we do have a start!</span><br />
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Will
you change the anger and hate -no, but that comes with a resetting of
the norm and acceptance of what that norm must be. It comes when the
people making decisions, the people who are charged with change and the
implementation of change, reflect that change. It comes when each of us
make the conscious decision to learn, to listen to care and to simply do
better.</span><br />
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So, why be hopeful amidst such ingrained hate and racism that seems to have no end?
Hope I see is the only choice here. Even with hearts and heads in the
right place our generation never got it right but we made promises and
there is a generation that wants those promises kept!</span><br />
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Yes,
I am hopeful, but I am also white so hope is yet another thing that I
am privileged with and I recognize that hope is not something that
anyone of color reaches for easily. Maybe the faces in the streets this
past week will help. Maybe the acknowledgment that there is in fact so
much work to be done and that so many are realizing they have to do that
work will spark the global conversations that implement change. Maybe a world that has been forced by a pandemic to stop in place
can see that we simply cannot go on as we have.</span><br />
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What
do we do? Well, a hashtag alone won't do anything but get you a cool T
shirt. A yard sign on your lawn or a bumper sticker doesn't do it
either, though far be it from me to discourage expression-go for it!
This is going to be a bit more heavy lifting than a donation too-though
go do that as well!!!</span><br />
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Ask
yourself the hard questions-look at your life and your living. Be
uncomfortable with the answers and then be better from what you see and
what you learn and what you can do to move your own needle forward.</span><br />
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Have the hard conversation with your friends, your family,yourself and especially with people of color. </span><br />
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Learn
the history. Know the ugly truth of this country and know the heroic
lives that have worked to push through and break open spaces once
denied. </span><br />
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Listen.
Listen. Listen. It is through listening to the stories and experiences
of those who live the truth of racial injustice as much as they breath
that you can even begin to understand how much ground there is to repair. </span><br />
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Though
my crayon box is always filled with color,and hope, I know a color
blind society may never happen but my belief is at this time, and for every
time, that we can come to a norm that color does not define anyone's
right to live their life. Does this generation that gives us such hope right now have the courage and the stamina this will take? They are a generation that has only known dramatic events, all witnessed on their phones. Yet they know how to use that technology to mobilize, influence, speak up and yell out. They do not want a status quo they want a future. So, they are in charge of the very brave and bold task of realizing this hope. They either understand, or are willing to do the work, and to speak out that Yes! Black Lives Matter, because they know that all lives are connected and that we cannot say all lives matter until in fact, all lives matter! All people of color
have a history, and experiences that must be
seen, acknowledged and recognized and held as sacred as any person's life and experience.
Start there and we start the work to change, and that is my hope.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">"America
changed – and has always changed – because young people dared to hope.
Democracy isn’t about relying on some charismatic leader to make changes
from on high. It’s about finding hope in ourselves, and creating it in
others. Especially in a time like this. You don’t always need hope when
everything’s going fine. It’s when things seem darkest – that’s when you
need it the most.</i></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">As
someone once said – hope is not a lottery ticket; it’s a hammer for us
to use in a national emergency; to break the glass, sound the alarm, and
sprint into action.</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">That’s
what hope is. It’s not the blind faith that things will get better.
It’s the conviction that with effort, and perseverance, and courage, and
a concern for others – things can get better.</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">That remains the truest part of our American story."</i></span></b></div>
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<b><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">~President Barack Obama to the Class of 2020 </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">As a children's media creator I have always believed that one of the best ways to introduce kids to hard subjects, or to have hard conversations, at any age, is to start with a story, a book, a film a play, a piece of music...that centers around lives and experiences that can be shared and discussed. Certainly with young children books can connect the dots and help them see their own world through the eyes of the characters in the stories, and that absolutely can be held true for kids of all ages! Here are some great places to explore and support in their great work to help us all start conversations!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race?__s=1sfibvjd3a5988retg10&utm_source=Client%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Blackout+Tuesday">National Museum of African American History and Culture</a></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><a href="https://www.embracerace.org/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">Embrace Race</span></a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><a href="https://www.tolerance.org/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">Teaching Tolerance</span></a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://eji.org/"><b>Equal Justice Initiative</b></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/app-news-section/cnn-sesame-street-race-town-hall-app-june-6-2020-app/index.html"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">Sesame Street Town Hall on Racism</span></b></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/books-about-racism-and-social-justice">Common Sense Media</a></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><a href="https://www.facinghistory.org/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: medium;">Facing History</span></a></b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/">Brennan Center for Justice</a></b></span></span><br />
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<b><i>"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."</i><i> ~ Robert Browning</i></b></div>
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<b><i>" </i><i>Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." ~Ambrose Bierce</i></b></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Most days during this world upside down moment I can create a "normal" where things don't seem so out of time and space and I can continue to run my life. I can still sit in my office, do whatever work presents itself, and avoid doing the closet cleaning, garage cleaning, drawer cleaning, house cleaning...that everyone else seems to be accomplishing. Shopping isn't happening, theatre is gone, no museums, no baseball, and the kids in the neighborhood are riding their bikes with masks on...that one stopped me in my tracks. Are we really creating a generation that won't know from a smile, a hug, a kiss...nope, cannot go there! I am far too tied to screens like we all are and I do my best not to OD on news while I re-watch The West Wing for the umpteenth time. I can do this! play the supermarket delivery games, make my own masks, go through jugs of sanitizer and put one foot in front of the other doing what you have to do to stay safe and then go on to dig in the garden til the sun goes down. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One thing I cannot rearrange,reorganize, make fit or make work,however, is a Mom in lockdown. I have imposed, OK the world has imposed and I am doing everything in my power to ensure,a fortress around her life. Try as I might to create and cheer- on daily a "Camp Mommy" filled with books, conversations, movie suggestions, lessons on hairstyling when she hasn't done her own hair in 60 years, email links to rabbit hole sites, suggestions for how to play bridge online, book and magazine drop-offs, and grocery deliveries filled with fun food...she is still sheltered, albeit comfortably, in one place-alone. She did "escape" once from my carefully planned fortress and incurred the sheer blinding panic driven overblown wrath of an overwrought daughter, guessing she doesn't want to see that again! Fingers crossed, lesson learned-we can only hope! So I got this-this telling the universe not to come near thing! Taking on a role that she sees as hers and I insist is mine. We play continuous round robins of who is better at protecting whom, and who is really in charge, and whose role is it really?? and through each check in I hear my voice and I hear "The Voice" that has been firmly implanted -that Mom recording that I hit "Play" on again and again and again...</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My Mom and her voice...well, she is a Mom. This is what she
does and it seems it is what I do too. Despite many other roles and abilities, being a Mom is who she is
with every inch of her being..and the root of all of this is love. </span></i></span></span></i></span><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That voice that lectures and reminds and pushes and frets and worries and...all come from a source that was planted through generations. Even though my Grandmother is no longer here she w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ould b</span>e happy to know
that the Muzak she implanted in both her daughter and in me plays
everyday! WWND?-What Would Nana Do? makes us smile,laugh and remember.
By some extraordinary string that will always connect us we do it her way, with our
own twist, but Nana is in there in every high pitched instruction and lecture and reprimand and laugh!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>How lucky I am -I got stereo! There is my Nana's Muzak and there is my Mother's- not surprisingly very similar tunes.</span></i></span><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Of
course it is not just the "do it my way" tunes that I hear each day but
more profoundly the emotional songs that have taken root from the
bottom of my feet. These roots come from knowing without any hesitation
or embarrassment that I keep playing those tunes because I need to hear
that "noise". </span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"My most important title is ‘mom-in-chief’. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the centre of my world."</i></span> - <b>Michelle Obama, Former First Lady</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I need the voice of the person who loves me no matter what! I
may not always get it right but there is no auditioning or interviewing here. Even when
the raincoat is in the car keeping the car dry, I know that if I get
wet there is shelter available.</span></i></span></span></i></span><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> If
you are lucky in this life the bond with your Mom is the simplest, and
many times the most complicated, one you will ever have. I am THAT
lucky! There is nothing more basic or necessary than being loved completely and knowing
that love sustains , motivates and grounds you. The string that runs
from Mom to child is the most powerful and lasting connection there
will ever be. We may walk through different doors painted different colors but we are
usually going in the same direction... together! (much like the time we
discovered we were in adjacent dressing rooms in Bloomingdales!)</span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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definition of a Mom cannot be found in a Hallmark card, in an ad for
cake mix, or on a rerun of a 70s sitcom. A Mom is defined by her life's
work. She can be a Supreme Court Justice or a candidate for President,
but her Momdom is at the core of everything she does. Her success is not
found in material success but in the knowledge that there is a perpetual work in
progress out there that will always hear her music, always need her tune
to be played, and always love her.</span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So this surreal Mother's Day when nothing seems right or as it should, and as I figure out a pretty mask, and a 6' plus tape measure and curbside delivery,and no hydrangeas in pretty baskets, and a Mother's Day like no other... I realize with all that isn't right one thing is...a tradition that may not look quite the same this year but will within my power endure. A Mother and Grandmother will be celebrated! on this Mother's Day and everyday!</span></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> In Egypt 's version-<i>Alam Simsim, </i>a strong and gutsy girl character named Khokha not only teaches the alphabet and numbers but also inspires and educates girls that they can grow up to be anything they want and she wants to be a lawyer and a doctor and an engineer when she grows up! In Bangladesh Tuktuki <span style="font-size: small;">intends to learn to read <span style="font-size: small;">and go to school <span style="font-size: small;">just like the boys d<span style="font-size: small;">o! Supreme Court Justice <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>onia Sotomayor came to Sesame Street to talk to Abby Cadabby ab<span style="font-size: small;">ou</span>t careers. Abby wants to be a Princess but Justice Sotomayor explains that really isn't a career </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"... a career is "a job you train for, or prepare for and plan on doing
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you can go to school and train to be a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer, and even a scientist..." Abby decides to go for the gavel!</span></span></span></span></i></h5>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sesame Street weaves the culture and soci<span style="font-size: small;">etal concerns of each country th<span style="font-size: small;">rough the characters and lessons of every episode</span>. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">On Sesame Street</span> t<span style="font-size: small;">he</span> characters and cast reflect who we are-special, unique and a melting pot of cultures and customs and<span style="font-size: small;"> be<span style="font-size: small;">liefs <span style="font-size: small;">-</span></span></span>mayb<span style="font-size: small;">e </span>the next political candidate<span style="font-size: small;"> should come from a special neighborhood called <a href="http://www.sesamestreet.org/" target="_blank">Sesame Street!</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><i> </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">-Oscar the Grouch used to be orange</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: #ea9999;"> “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”</span> </i>-Charles Bowden</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I know, I know, every Labor Day I fuss and whine, but here it is again-a summer sailed away without me on the boat and all I have to show for a summer lost are some mosquito bites. Today while I flip the calendar pages to September, yes I still do real calendars!, I think </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> didn't I just turn those same pages to June?</span></i> I am struck by time again... the time I never have to sit with summer, the time lost, the time I spend on so many things that just don't have my heart or my head but have to be done, the time to be with summer still. </span></i>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Is it growing older that makes Summertime fly? How often in the past few
days have you heard "Can you believe it is Labor Day?" NO! I CANNOT!
Someone go find me June, July... A blink and suddenly the skies grow
dark earlier, scarecrows and even bags of trick or treat candy are
everywhere,leaves and acorns start to drop...and suddenly September.</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Labor Day weekend of course always feels like an abrupt and an
unwelcome end to summer. For me this year it is particularly unsettling
as summer 201<u>9</u> was just so <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wrong in so many ways</span>. The weather caused my hair to look like a brillow pad , the
news was, and is, a numbing continuous storm of anxiety and horror, and even the gardens of Camp MP lost their bloomin' heads-growing out
of bounds like a jungle or in some spots showing no effort or joyful
blooms where there should have been an abundance,as every critter ruled and burrowed and chomped away...and I
was just plain grumpy along with it. </i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I can't even count on two fingers when I got to
just sit and do a summer day, lazy days with a book-in fact the pile of
books that called in May remain unopened. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Can I get a Do-Over on summer
201<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>9</u></span></span>??? </i></span> </div>
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<i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> I want to slow everything! down and not have to be here on Labor Day saying .."wait, wait, what happened to my summer?" It's a
blur and I just<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> want to sit for a bit and </span> hold to "the best of what might be."</i></span> Summer after all is supposed to be the time of year that everything moves like a snail , nothing much
is scheduled of a serious nature during the summer months- everyone is
away, or going away, or just coming back from being away...and in
summer it is not only perfectly acceptable, but also fashionable, to be
lazy and just sit with a book. Nights are slow in coming and have a
special air with sounds that open windows welcome in-dogs barking, kids
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> September in New England should not to be dismissed, the skies are glorious and the weather rides the change toward sweater weather. This weekend, however, is a marker, closing the
door on "true summer" the season that gives us permission to Go Play
Outside. With Labor Day we have to come in, toss the flip flops aside
and put on "practical shoes" --we have to Go Back to School and back to
our desks piled high with all the things we said we would get to "after
Labor Day".</i> Just this week there have been subtle signs of the season changing ... dry leaves turned on the trees, Mums filling the nurseries, Halloween cards on the racks and my favorite-the "plunking" of acorns as they fall and hit my neighbor's deck. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mother Nature is serious about her calendar even if I am not. I cling to summer well into November! when you will still see my flip flops by the back door.</span></i><br />
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Day, however, means we have to be grown ups again, not something I ever enjoy! OK, maybe September is not such a bad thing, but you
sort of get used to wearing your summer brain. The new season does
means a new start-we all remember what the day after Labor Day always meant-new shoes, new outfit, a fresh box of crayons, a new teacher, a clean chalk board and a
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<i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> So I suppose there is </span></i></i>no reason Fall can't welcome in a whole sparkling start-I sort of like the idea!---after this very grumpy summer how welcome hitting restart would be-if only!! but if its OK with
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"><i> “All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those
summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of
beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a
fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and
delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in
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<i><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> After a rainy but hopeful spring where everything popped up magnificently, my hopes for a summer in bloom has been thwarted. The peonies were MIA this year but the roses came in gloriously and then left as quickly as they could. Lavender is rather sad along the walkways and bed upon bed in the gardens at Camp MP have grown in leggy and floppy and there is an insidious vine that wants to strangle the joy out each and every resident, and like a bad movie every tug brings it back stronger. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Oh and then there are these kids...my lawn and containers have become the Whole Foods of the neighborhood. I love having them greet me as I pull into the drive each night and it is nice that they have selected my gardens to make their home...but-they don't listen!!! and their behavior this year is not playing by the rules of the house. Every inch of lawn is chomped on and every flower has been beheaded. Come on kids learn some garden etiquette!</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;"> There was a time I ran from this day, as far as I could. A day filled with memories so strong that 29 years later I can still be sent back in a flash to all those big family Father's Day cook-outs, in all types of weather...the piles of gifts left in front of my Papa who preferred to have all his grandchildren around him rather than packages and left the presents for Nana to open, the clumsily wrapped cans of tennis balls and Izod polos that populated Daddy's stack of gifts... </span></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.32px; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></span></i></span><i><span style="color: blue;">Yes,
this is yet another Hallmark day. A day designed for card sellers and
tie makers. Of course we should celebrate Dads beyond a Sunday in June,
but to have a day set aside on the calendar to stop and hug the man or
the memories I have to come to feel is a good thing.</span></i></span><br />
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it does not get easier with time. Loss leaves craters in your life.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>We lost my Dad suddenly. After the shock wore off, and the numbness set in, I felt as if I was living without a safety net, free falling-I still have a whole lot of days I feel that way. It took some time to realize that Daddy had left me the biggest net of all- the knowledge that I do have solid ground beneath my feet at all times, because of the lessons he taught me: be yourself, stand for what you believe, laugh no matter what, show them how it's done!, know you tried your best, believe in who you are! These lessons helped to build my base, grow the roots that sprout from my feet and created my own terra firma, composed of all the love that I was graced to be given. </i></span></span><br />
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<i> How very lucky I am to know that being a “Daddy’s Girl” means that I carry the extraordinary gift of unconditional love with me wherever life takes me. That love has taught me to believe in myself and my strengths, and to know that I CAN “run my own race”- even when I have trouble finding the track. My Father taught me to trust my instincts, believe that there is nothing I can’t accomplish and that the worst thing I could do would be to give up, pass on an opportunity or to sit on the sidelines and never try! </i><i>I think the only instances that Daddy was really upset and angry with me is when I gave up, ran home, didn't try. </i></div>
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<i>Still on the days when I think…”There is NO way I can do this!” or "What do I do next" I hear Daddy saying “Just Try”. Happy Father’s Day Daddy…Thank you for my many gifts. Oh how I wish you were here to watch me run my own crazy race,especially when I run the other way :) I love you today and everyday!</i></div>
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<b><i>" </i><i>Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly." ~Ambrose Bierce</i></b><br />
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consider myself to be a pretty independent woman....known for my strong
will with my own opinions and vision of the world. Yes, even
headstrong and truly stubborn at times. "My Way" or "Don't Rain on
My Parade"could be my personal anthems...but there are in fact other
voices in my head...an endless playlist of Dos and Don'ts, How Comes and
Why Nots, rights and wrongs... from which shoes to wear,
to how to fold a bedsheet, roast a chicken or walk into a crowd-the
voices on my playlist will show the way. </span></i></span></span></i></span><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That Playlist recording comes straight from the my Mom's hit parade</span></i></span></span></i></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>"My most important title is ‘mom-in-chief’. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the centre of my world."</i></span> -<span> </span><strong>Michelle Obama, Former First Lady</strong></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> No
matter what else a Mom does with her life her JOB is her children. For
our Moms our "end result" is the product of their career, their life's work...so of course
we have been asked to get it right!! Our success is their success and
for more than one generation of women that reflected "glory" or
"failure" defined the women who raised us. We are the personification of
their life's work-if we messed up...well, for them so did they. I may have my days when I
wonder if I will ever do it right, get it right, but I am a woman who
cares a great deal about doing it right<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">,</span>and getting it right<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, b</span>ecause I
was taught by the women whose thumbprints are all over me that it
matters. Sure, I have picked my rebellions to drive them nuts...I never
learned how to properly fold that bed sheet which drove my Nana up a tree. I
consistently neglect to wear a raincoat on a potentially rainy day
leading my Mother to exclaim that I truly don't know when to come out of
the rain.</span></i></span></span></i></span></div>
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have to come to realize,however,that I am put
together not with a selfishness or interest in making her mark, but
with a complete commitment to her job. She is a Mom, this is what she
does. Despite many other roles and abilities, being a Mom is who she is
with every inch of her being..and the root of all of this is love. </span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If I can stand back and look at the woman
who raised me with any objectivity I will see that not every woman who
wears the label Mother does it so completely. </span></i></span></span></i></span>It
isn't that other Mothers don't love their children, or that they didn't
do a good job, but that somewhere along the growing up line they
declared an end game. OK, so a professional might say that is
healthy-forget it! Maybe I can't see how it is possible to "retire" from
the most important job any human can have because my Mother, and her
Mother before her, never put their feet up on the job-thank goodness!
Even though my Grandmother is no longer here she w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ould b</span>e happy to know
that the Muzak she implanted in both her daughter and in me plays
everyday! WWND?-What Would Nana Do? makes us smile,laugh and remember.
By some string that will always connect us we do it her way, with our
own twist, but Nana is in the building!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>How lucky I am -I got stereo! There is my Nana's Muzak and there is my Mother's- not surprisingly very similar tunes.</span></i></span><br />
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more profoundly the emotional songs that have taken root from the
bottom of my feet. These roots come from knowing without any hesitation
or embarrassment that I keep playing those tunes because I need to hear
the noise. I need the voice of the person who loves me no matter what! I
may not always get it right but there is no auditioning here. Even when
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also have the innate comfort that my Mom's job is far from done-her
daughter is a product in development and will continue to be, as <a category="books" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=711023849754382273" search="Anna Quindlen" type="amzn">Anna Quindlen</a> wrote-<span style="color: black;">"</span>A
finished person is a boring person." I'm not finished, and only a
person who does not need to be loved, does not hear the Muzak or
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you are lucky in this life the bond with your Mom is the simplest, and
many times the most complicated, one you will ever have. I am THAT
lucky! There is nothing simpler than being loved completely and knowing
that her love sustains , motivates and grounds you. The string that runs
from Mom to child is the most powerful and lasting connection there
will ever be. We may walk through different doors sometimes but we are
usually going in the same direction... together! (much like the time we
discovered we were in adjacent dressing rooms in Bloomingdales!)</span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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definition of a Mom cannot be found in a Hallmark card, in an ad for
cake mix, or on a rerun of a 70s sitcom. A Mom is defined by her life's
work. She can be a Supreme Court Justice or a candidate for President,
her Momdom is at the core of everything she does. Her success is not
found in material success but in the knowledge that there is a perpetual work in
progress out there that will always hear her music, always need her tune
to be played, and always love her.</span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i> Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident
there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor. The Tale of Peter Rabbit</i></span><br />
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<i> </i><span style="color: magenta;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Happy Mother's Day Mummy...job well done,but never finished! I love you!</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> <span data-offset-key="9r1u0-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">There is something forever elegant, magical, charming and always marvelous about a </span><span class="_5zk7" data-offset-key="9r1u0-1-0" spellcheck="false" start="65" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(88, 144, 255, 0.15); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(88, 144, 255, 0.3); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">#StanleyDonen</span><span data-offset-key="9r1u0-2-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> film. He changed the movie musical with his innovation and distinctive style and his list of iconic films will leave you curled up with popcorn and a smile for days...</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span data-offset-key="9r1u0-2-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">On the Town, Royal Wedding, Singing in the Rain, Funny Face, Indiscreet, Charade,Two for the Road...all on my Best List! yet he was never nominated for an Oscar, </span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span data-offset-key="9r1u0-2-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">think of that on </span><span class="_5zk7" data-offset-key="9r1u0-3-0" spellcheck="false" start="260" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(88, 144, 255, 0.15); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(88, 144, 255, 0.3); font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">#Oscars</span><span data-offset-key="9r1u0-4-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> night! RIP </span></span></span></i></span></div>
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What I got,
unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what
he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was
making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain
unseen on the screen.<br /> Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/stanley_donen</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-offset-key="9r1u0-4-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> "</span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. </span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen." </span></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Stanley Donen</span></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
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from admiring Fred
Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult.
What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so
effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.<br /> Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/stanley_donen</div>
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from admiring Fred
Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult.
What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so
effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.<br /> Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/stanley_donen</div>
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from admiring Fred
Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult.
What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so
effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.<br /> Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/stanley_donen</div>
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SweaterGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00946638585314299808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4187566163863388099.post-32590535897697605882018-12-16T10:35:00.001-05:002018-12-16T10:35:58.545-05:00What Was Wrong with My Princess Phone?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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(Audrey Hepburn by Mark Shaw)</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Is there ANYTHING more annoying, short of car shopping, than buying a new phone!? I would rather sit in a dentist's chair.</span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">H</span>ere in my opinion is what a phone should do...You dial my number, my
phone rings, I answer it...we talk! REALLY Simple! Been working well
since about 1876. </span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is what a phone SHOULD NOT do-it should not keep me up til 2:30 in
the morning trying to figure out how to stop the annoying beeps it
makes...it should NOT dance, sing, whistle, show me cute pictures of
kittens, refuse to let me answer a call or at any point YELL at me! Can you tell I bought a new phone!</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Honestly, I'm not being a dinosaur here! I NEED my phone and I actually
need my phone to deliver more than a conversation. I gave up having a
land line years ago so this little annoying piece of equipment- with no wires
except when charging which it seems to need every 5 minutes- has in fact
become for most of us not only a phone but also my traveling
office. </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">(Audrey Hepburn,Charade)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At last count I have no fewer than 10 email boxes that need to be checked and
"on my old phone" there they were with mail flying in all day everyday
365 days a year. I don't ask a lot of a phone--I need my emails to arrive in
real time and when the phone rings there should be an
easy way to answer it.</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Grace Kelly)</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But this new thing...I cannot even find the answer button!!! I am an educated, sophisticated, capable woman...How did this happen? Why am I so reliant on a piece of cold metal that doesn't even know how to knit, I know how to knit! HA! Take that foolish phone! I used to have a sweet little pink phone in my
bedroom growing up--you picked it up there was a dialtone you dialed and
off you went...Seriously, I'm going to look for it but it won't fit in my bag.</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Doris Day, Pillow Talk)</span></span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">OK so the cords could go, and speed dialing and voicemail are good, but really do I need a $950 phone with a 2 year contract
and a $60 case and...Really??!!! They saw me coming! No, really they saw me coming! I envy Wilma's phone.</span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Wilma Flintstone)</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: purple; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The smart phone world moves really fast-sort of like
the second you drive a new car off the lot it loses half its value... with
a new smart phone when you wake up the next morning there are 6 new
ones all better than the one you haven't even learned how to use yet. </span></i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Change is tough- especially when you can use your phone literally in your
sleep and never even have to look at where you are tapping...but even I
had to admit it was time for a new phone. </span></span></span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Betty Rubble)</span></span></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I love</i></span><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> my old
Blackberry Buddy, knowing full well "NO ONE" -or so I have been told-uses a
Blackberry anymore. (Hey, I still have AOL accounts so don't start with me!) It sort of became embarrassing, like wearing things
from WAY back in the closet. Yes I was tempted by all the bright shiny new
thing at the phone store and that my friends use. Thin, slim, light, sleek and big screens sparkled at me...but...</span></i></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At this point I miss my pink silicone covered dinosaur, the one I have nearly thrown in the trash with frustration over the past months as it died again,and again, and again... I feel like Andy in "Toy Story" who tossed his best buddy Woody away when the new toy with the blinking lights came along. Sure, I want a new phone, but I need a reliable friend who will do what I ask when I ask over any Buzz Lightyear. By the end of the day my BB (Blackberry Buddy) was back home with me! and there is the promise of "...another new phone coming out in just a week or so that might work better for you Maam..." on the horizon. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So in another couple of weeks I get to do this all over again!</span></i></span> <span style="color: purple;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They said they would call me and let me know !</span></i></span> :)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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