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Stand by me, as my equal in freedom March 29, 2009

Here’s the feeling:

And here are the ideas:
Stand by me. Side by side. Free from coercion, as equals before the law. Free from a moral claim upon each other requiring acts of self-sacrifice. Free to follow our dreams. Free to work and trade to promote our self-chosen values. In good will, and peace, sanctified and protected by the recognition of each other’s right to live as an end in himself.

What’s in a name? March 24, 2009

HowManyOfMe.com

There are
61
people with my name in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

Only 5 people have the same first and last name as my son, even though 413,130 have his first name.

5 for my husband and 3 for my daughter.

Who would have thought?

My daughter has a friend over right now, and there is only one person in the US with her name.

I wonder how many other “uniques” there are?

(HT Rational Jenn)

My CPL in a Poem March 21, 2009

Saturday morning. Grey, cloudy, cool, contemplative. My family is all still tucked away between their warm, flannel sheets. I browse through the news and my favorite blog commentators. So hard not to become discouraged by the barrage of statist measures spewing forth from our new administration and Congress (no party is exempted.)

Mindless blame casting. Mangling and misrepresenting economic principles. Belligerent self-righteousness empty of any pretense of responsibility. I want to crawl back under the sheets and ignore it all.

So let me give thanks to LB over at 3 Ring Binder for her gentle reminder of what my life is truly about.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

A Woman Reasons

Four reasons prompt her choices of the day;
There are four reasons in the woman’s mind:
She has her Home, clutter to keep at bay
Safe for living, even for the dirt-blind:
She has her Children, oh sweet young being
Whose righteous growth she must attend
And remind herself that daily overseeing
Is about the means and not the end:
Her Husband is part of her ageless plan
That halves the sorrow and doubles the joy
Remembering that while she married the man,
She remains the girlfriend to the boy:
She has her Self and about this she is wise;
Knowing Self is that on which all the rest lies.

No apologies required.

Inspired by and with apologies to John Keats’ The Human Seasons

No apologies needed.