Nancy

    Gender: Female
    Relationship: Married
    Children: Proud Parent
    # of Kids: 4
    Height: 8'11"
    Religion: Christian - other
    Ethnicity: Undead
    About Me: knitter, nature lover, songwriter,Medical Assistant,married 14 years. I'm undead since I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but He lives in me.
    5th year of home schooling- eclectic-leaning toward Charlotte Mason
    God makes me feel like I'm 10 feet tall, but there wasn't a 10 feet tall choice:)
    Music: SKILLET is my favorite band
    Also like bluegrass, some country, and Celtic, and harder Christian music.
    Movies: The Pursuit of Happyness,
    Lord of the Rings trilogy,
    The Prince of Egypt,
    Ever After,
    Much Ado About Nothing,
    Spider Man (anything,
    The Last Sin Eater,
    TV: Our TV is only used for movies and games.
    Books: I love the Xanth series,
    The Bible,
    dictionaries,
    Taber's,
    Francine Rivers books,
    Liz Curtis Higgs books,
    Little House
    Likes: chocolate,
    shades of purple,
    pajamas,
    coffee,
    kites,
    butterflies,
    MUSIC,
    Little House,
    YARN,
    anything that sparkles,
    cats,
    little critters
    Dislikes: people playing video games for hours,
    people who use name-calling instead of discussing the issues.,
    Political Correctness.,
    Being lumped in with the stereotypical Christians.,
    People squabbling over unimportant things,
    Destruction of human life or spirit.
    Vices: knitting
    internet
    Heroes: Jesus,
    Rosa Parks,
    Persecuted Christians,
    Job,
    King David......

    Do we Cherish what so many have suffered for?

    Thursday, August 28, 2008, 06:52 PM CST [General]


    A Message for all women


    (I copied this from an email.... thought it was useful)

     

    THIS IS MOVING.  HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET.....IF WE EVER KNEW...... 
      
    WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE

    This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. 



    Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.



    The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. 



    And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. 
    Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.' 



    (Lucy Burns)
    They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the 
    night, bleeding and gasping for air. 



    (Dora Lewis) 
    They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her 
    head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, 
    beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

    Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because 
    they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right 
    to vote. 
    For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. 



    (Alice Paul) 
    When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a
    hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a 
    tube down her throat and poured liquid into her 
    until she vomited. She was tortured like this for
     weeks 
    until word was smuggled out to the press. 
      
    So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote 
    this year because- -why, exactly? We have carpool 
    duties? We have to get to work? 
    Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

    Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening 
    of HBO's new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a 
    graphic depiction of the battle these women waged 
    so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and 
    have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the 
    reminder.

    All these years later, voter registration is still my 
    passion. But the actual act of voting had become 
    less personal for me, more rote. 
    Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation 
    than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient.

    My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied 
    women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When 
    she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she 
    looked angry. She was--with herself. 'One thought 
    kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' 
    she said. 'What would those women think of the 
    way I use, or don't use, my right to vote? All of 
    us take it for granted now, not just younger 
    women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' 
    The right to vote, she said, had become valuable 
    to her 'all over again.'

    HBO released the movie on video and DVD . I wish 
    all history, social studies and government teachers 
    would include the movie in their curriculum I want 
    it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere 
    else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual 
    idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the 
    numbers that we should be, and I think 
    a little shock therapy is in order.

    It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his 
    cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare 
    Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently
    institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the 
    doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and 
    brave. That didn't make her crazy.

    The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in 
    women is often mistaken for insanity.' 

    Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all 
    the women you know. 

    We need to get out and vote and use this right 
    that was fought so hard for by these very 
    courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, 
    republican or independent party - remember to 
    vote.

    History is being made.
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    I had trouble customizing mine at first. I found that it is easier to only use 1 or 2 pictures, and to add other features 1 at a time.

    Sonshine
    May 06, 2008
    05:28 PM CST

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    Teri
    April 21, 2008
    03:37 PM CST

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    nen4jc
    December 07, 2007
    10:43 AM CST

    Your "Spooky" post really gives us a lot to think about. Hopefully everyone on the site can take the time to really understand the meaning of what this message is. WOW! That sums it up for me in one word.

    Kelley
    November 28, 2007
    01:38 PM CST