Another’s view

  • Celebrate by Refusing!

    Today is "International Women's Day" and one of their themes is "Be Bold For Change". I looked up the word Bold, to see what its expectations are. "(of a person, action, or idea) showing an ability to take risks; confident… Continue reading

  • I love this question!

    "What is most important to you, is a good first question to start learning about who you are." Jonathon Fields Some may not even know what is important, for we are so busy just living a repeat day from the… Continue reading

  • To Be

        I loved this conversation.   The tone and its ideas.   I too, knew it.  And I could really relate to this segment about the three responses when something is crumbling or broken.  And, agree about the crumbling of… Continue reading

  • What will you tell your daughters…

    I listened to this poem on Ted Talks and it's the backbone question "What will you tell your daughters…" that motivated me the most to change.   She is speaking about a year, and I, a lifetime. When something happens in… Continue reading

  • Be where your feet are!

    I am not sure if the FALC would consider themselves "Fundamentalist" but the article below certainly helps explain a lot of what I have experienced.  It explains how anyone outside of their religion is wrong.  Period.  http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/the-dark-rigidity-of-fundamentalist-rural-america-a-view-from-the-inside/ Here is a… Continue reading

  • Standing Firm with Pete Rollins…Robcast

        Above is a podcast that echoes some of what I have been thinking about since the results of our latest presidential election. What is interesting about this conversation is it is with a gentleman who was raised in Ireland…so,… Continue reading

  • Tribal shaming

    There seems to be a disconnect in our minds about the statistics of abuse; that 95% of the crimes are with someone we know and of that percentage, 50% is with a family member.  We are not sitting with, and… Continue reading

  • I know me best.

    I was listening to "On Living" by Kerry Egan in my jeep today.   It is about a chaplain who works in Hospice.   She speaks that we all are broken or cracked. That most of us have secrets we… Continue reading

  • Deny Nothing

      http://windsorstar.com/tag/ben-johnson Above are links to the news story about a "fallen hockey player". What is amazing to me, is how an act of rape is dealt with – in what is known as the rape culture. What is rape… Continue reading

  • Music of her soul

    I have been listening to Jewel's book, "Never Broken" and her life story is quite amazing. She understands, that you can't see reality UNLESS you have clear eyes.  I love this. It isn't reality that changes and transforms; but our vision,… Continue reading