Theresa

In Rememberance
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  1. Don't worry, you'll like you when you meet yourself.
  2. Thank you! That was a beautiful ritual you described. I think my kids would like it now that they're a little older and, we will try it. One of the things we try to do is keep that childhood wonder going into adulthood, just as Christians are to try to maintain a childlike faith.
  3. It brought back alot of old memories. I kept thinking of the conversations you (Murph) talked about and the personal as well as spiritual growth I've watched in so many people. Brought back silly memories too like the word games we used to play - with me doing everything I could to try and make Murph blush, and that my dears is nigh unto impossible. Isn't it my little garterner?
  4. I usually start one but I haven't been here. The military is our family business and way of life. Has been forever. The guys usually tell the kids war stories and we go have a picnic at one of the family members gravesites, and while the kids play frisbee we clean it up and make it look nice. We all tell the kids stories of our travels and exotic places we've been. They come away appreciating the family more as a unit for actually working towards our beliefs in this country and maintaining the family closeness that we see so lacking in many other families that all live in the same geographical area. It helps to give them roots and pride and the knowledge that goodness is a real goal that you must work at your entire life.
  5. You know how I am with my kids.....Well we just finished the Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer they were hooked from book 1. Now the boys want to start reading The Charlie Bone Series by Jenny Nimmo.
  6. Couldn't stop giggling. Murph needs to read this one. He did a post years ago about a stolen Krispy Kreme truck. LOL
  7. Wow, I love the things you've all written here. Our children are lucky to have people willing to share their faith filled artistic talents.
  8. Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats; There we've hid our faery vats, Full of berrys And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And anxious in its sleep. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. Where the wandering water gushes From the hills above Glen-Car, In pools among the rushes That scare could bathe a star, We seek for slumbering trout And whispering in their ears Give them unquiet dreams; Leaning softly out From ferns that drop their tears Over the young streams. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. Away with us he's going, The solemn-eyed: He'll hear no more the lowing Of the calves on the warm hillside Or the kettle on the hob Sing peace into his breast, Or see the brown mice bob Round and round the oatmeal chest. For he comes, the human child, To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.
  9. Heart of Fire and a jar of caramel sauce.
  10. Remember that we love you. I told Muriel about it, I hope you don't mind, we both have you in our prayers. Theresa
  11. My roommate and I drove down to Tusla and she brought me to a bookstore there. I bought 2 books I haven't read yet and thought my be interesting, "WiccaCraft" for Families by Margie McArthur and "Sexy Witch" by LaSara Fire Fox.
  12. And my answers in that thread are as follows: "If you are the subject of racism, then that becomes the lens through which you filter other situations," said teacher Laury Scandling "In this matter of racial prejudice we of the Caucasian race are more guilty than any other. Wherever the white man has gone the natives of another color have suffered at his hands. Alaska is no exception. The present generation of native Alaskans is keenly aware of the unjust discrimination and exploitation of his race by unscrupulous white men. Many young Eskimos have been educated in the higher government schools or in the mission schools of the Territory. Many have served creditably in various theaters during the recent war. They have lived with whites of their own age. They have seen the outside world. Theoretical democracy has been a part of their indoctrination. Can they be expected to return to their native villages to resume again a position of dumb acceptance of the white man's word or wish as the law of their village? I think not. These young natives are now fully informed of their rights as American citizens. For the first time in the history of Alaska, the native vote is something which political aspirants must reckon with." Exerpt from: Men of the Tundra: Alaska Eskimos at War by Muktuk Marston Copyright © 1969, 1972 October House Inc, New York Chapter 11, paragraph 2 The Alaskan Eskimos in World War II (Muktuk Marston was white.) "Many times people respond to the destruction of Native American languages and cultures by pointing out that European languages were also attacked in the United States. How are these circumstances different? If the immigrants gave up their languages and cultures in the United States, at least somewhere those languages and cultures continued in the "old country." For Native American societies THIS is the old country and if the language and culture is wiped out here, it is wiped from the earth. Many Native languages and cultures were so destroyed. A second difference is that European immigrants chose to come to the United States while for Native American Nations the United States came, saw, and occupied much of our lands. There is not point in guilt about this but neither should there be any lies of "manifest destiny." Manifest destiny deserves to be tossed on the dust bin of racism disguised as history." To thinking differently. ...Paul Ongtooguk The colorization is mine. Caucasians tend to forget that they made the laws that decide degrees blood quantum and how it affects the lives of those they are aimed at. Yes these laws are no longer on the books. But the actions and reactions of the citizens of this country still reverberate to these laws. I am 49 years old and I remember the Jim Crow laws that were a major part of life when I was young. Disobeying them could have resulted in death!
  13. Correct. Family is who raises you and supplies all the emotional support you need growing up. All I got from the European/American side was that in their opinion the KKK are the good guys.
  14. 5/8 But at least I know that we're not illegal immigrants like someone here implied.
  15. My people were nomadic until the Euros came and put up borders. We traveled the entire circumpolar north and have grave sites in Alaska going back 20,000 years. How long has your family been here?
  16. Men and boys played snow snake in long grooves made in the snow. The players would take a short run, then bend and flip the snake so it would race along the top of the ice or snow. Wagers were made on whose snake could travel the farthest. The snakes were made of polished hardwood sticks and ranged in size from two to eight feet in length. .................................................................................................... .......... This game, still being taught to Indian kids, even my older kids played this one when they were younger, in the past it was played by two groups of men. The players sat opposite each other on a blanket. Four moccasins were placed in a row between the two groups. One of the groups watched as a token or ball was hidden under one of the moccasins by the other group. The players made pretenses of hiding and removing the token in an effort to make it more difficult to discover the actual location of the token. The group watching then guessed under which moccasin the token had been hidden. The Ojibwa, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee used a "striking stick" to turn over the moccasin where they thought the token was hidden. If the player guessed the correct shoe, four points were scored while four points were subtracted if the wrong shoe was picked. Sticks or twigs were used to keep track of the score. .................................................................................................... ............. Just because something is wrong or sinful in one culture does not make it wrong or sinful in another. Eskimo women used to run around topless in the summer until the caucasians came, and decided it was an invitation to rape.