tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post1634564850571002859..comments2024-03-28T19:29:04.400-04:00Comments on Bless Our Hearts: I Don't Know What We've BecomeMs. Moonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-88796278519488255212018-06-22T23:59:36.569-04:002018-06-22T23:59:36.569-04:00Very nice post really ! I apperciate your blog Tha...Very nice post really ! I apperciate your blog Thanks for sharing,keep sharing more blogs.<br /><br /><a href="http://rodbigbike.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">ดูหนัง</a>vaiyborahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05095754542895387700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-78640908133077461152018-06-20T17:26:10.547-04:002018-06-20T17:26:10.547-04:00Someone said in the media that we mustn't comp...Someone said in the media that we mustn't compare this border event with what was happening in the German concentration camps, which was so much more horrendous. And that's true. I'd like to add, though, that many years ago I asked my grandfather, a Saskatchewan farmer, how much he and other people knew, at the time, about what was happening in Germany. He said "We heard stories, but we didn't believe it. It seemed too far-fetched."<br />Just sayin.<br />-KateStubblejumpers Cafehttp://stubblejumperscafe.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-91351460492990821842018-06-20T12:35:08.825-04:002018-06-20T12:35:08.825-04:00Thanks for explaining the origin of the header and...Thanks for explaining the origin of the header and including that incredible poem. I do remember that article about Warsan Shire, I think...? I hope this disgraceful situation comes to an end soon. It is intolerable.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-49727871105367095722018-06-19T22:56:27.655-04:002018-06-19T22:56:27.655-04:00Thank you for this, all this. You’ve managed to ex...Thank you for this, all this. You’ve managed to express much of what I’m feeling but am too enraged and upset to say coherently. I’ve never before been seriously worried about our nation’s future, but I sure am now. Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00689105159583465606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-18115519076712761962018-06-19T22:53:50.657-04:002018-06-19T22:53:50.657-04:00Thank you for this, all this. You’ve managed to ex...Thank you for this, all this. You’ve managed to express much of what I’m feeling but am too enraged and upset to say coherently. I’ve never before been seriously worried about our nation’s future, but I sure am now. Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00689105159583465606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-30336295447545154462018-06-19T19:01:37.077-04:002018-06-19T19:01:37.077-04:00I'm going to borrow Angella's perfect desc...I'm going to borrow Angella's perfect description of raging humanity. We need to be sanctioned for human rights abuses.<br />Xoxo<br />BarbaraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-50063474414264469222018-06-19T16:36:18.629-04:002018-06-19T16:36:18.629-04:00Mary, you know how to eloquently convey every emot...Mary, you know how to eloquently convey every emotion, from sublime joy to devastating sorrow and pain. Thank you for sharing this gift and expressing the despair so many of us are feeling and unable to put into words. <br /><br />That poem should be required reading for republicans.lulumariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951594259193037282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-134069781841199762018-06-19T14:55:33.037-04:002018-06-19T14:55:33.037-04:00After reading the comments in some online local ne...After reading the comments in some online local news articles about what's going on at the border, I'm more discouraged and dismayed than I can tell you, Mary. People are hateful and wicked and just...evil. Despicable. I can't think of words bad enough to express how I feel about them. They don't care one little bit about the lives of these children. Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512800812290518552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-73559011437839024652018-06-19T14:46:17.189-04:002018-06-19T14:46:17.189-04:00I'm with Allison and not very optimistic about...I'm with Allison and not very optimistic about the outcome. we have become a cruel and hateful nation.ellen abbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00535475792150335186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-19846233446983250722018-06-19T09:34:23.031-04:002018-06-19T09:34:23.031-04:00Thank you for this, too, Mary, from a previous pos...Thank you for this, too, Mary, from a previous post, which could be applied to nations of abuse:<br /><br />"This is a common theme in the families of abuse. Some children are able to block things from their memories. Some adults are too. And then they accuse the one who does remember of making things up. Of remembering a dream, not a reality. Of...being crazy."<br /><br />Sending love to you, Mary. While thanking you for this post that Elizabeth linked to today, I noticed "childhood sexual abuse (22)" in your labels list in my peripheral vision and began reading what you shared about your experiences. Your story is moving and powerful. Your writing has helped me profoundly on two levels today. Speaking the truth about national dysfunction and family dysfunction must continue. No action too small. No voice too small to be heard.<br /><br />When I stood up for my nephew because he was being emotionally and sexually damaged in a covertly sexual way by my sister and her husband, my sisters and her husband insisted that I had a "dirty mind" and was trying to destroy their family. Child Protection Services agreed that an educational intervention was warranted. Nevertheless, my sisters continue to insist that there was no problem and that the only problem is my "dirty mind." It horrifies me that my own sisters are so blind and that our family is so broken in this way. I am certain that this pattern of sexual abuse has come down through countless generations on both sides of my family. The fact that there was an intervention for my nephew and that my sister and her husband stopped their damaging behavior, despite the fact that they didn't see it as a problem, gives me hope. As it stands now, though, my only nephew has been turned against me. He wants nothing to do with me. <br /><br />All I can do is send love to him and his 4-year-old son whom I have never seen and hope that my nephew does not repeat the family pattern of inappropriate sexual boundaries between parents and children. May it be so.<br /><br />May all of us be healed. May we continue to speak out.amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212213177713917828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-84963337211209380232018-06-19T08:47:58.677-04:002018-06-19T08:47:58.677-04:00Mary, thank you. Mary, thank you. amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212213177713917828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-40810374813702318632018-06-19T08:41:17.449-04:002018-06-19T08:41:17.449-04:00Doesn’t look good. House maybe but the Senste is m...Doesn’t look good. House maybe but the Senste is more importantly and it will take a huge uptick in voting Rebecca yourighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280799506632923546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-75735690555715026932018-06-19T05:15:26.320-04:002018-06-19T05:15:26.320-04:00Oh Mary, you are so very right and that Poem, I ha...Oh Mary, you are so very right and that Poem, I have Shared it with all of my Friends.Bohemianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03743017084098726581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-2079341161618697602018-06-19T04:56:08.674-04:002018-06-19T04:56:08.674-04:00Mary, thank you for the raging humanity in this po...Mary, thank you for the raging humanity in this post. And for sharing that poem. What Kate said above has been haunting me too. 37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-72975983288806112412018-06-19T00:22:14.210-04:002018-06-19T00:22:14.210-04:00You can still write and so clearly, thank you...I ...You can still write and so clearly, thank you...I can not get the lump out of my throat to speak nor am I capable of putting a sentence together, the horror , the trauma which will last lifetimes - for WHAT!! for the GOP agenda- me- sputtering and weeping and utterly useless- so thank you again , Mary , you address so well what most of us are incapable of expressing. Even chickens are better at life/love - it is clear.Linda Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070050388987072100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-19549706012489915992018-06-18T23:22:25.852-04:002018-06-18T23:22:25.852-04:00Magnificent post. I'm going to post the poem o...Magnificent post. I'm going to post the poem on my own blog and quote from you as well.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-14469804217158938182018-06-18T22:47:01.435-04:002018-06-18T22:47:01.435-04:00Your header is incredible. I feel incredibly sad a...Your header is incredible. I feel incredibly sad about what is happening now.Joannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015888228309968515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-42906908109405514752018-06-18T22:30:34.276-04:002018-06-18T22:30:34.276-04:00I couldn't help thinking, though I didn't ...I couldn't help thinking, though I didn't want to: are we SURE there are no ovens? Because I wouldn't put anything past the people who are doing this to children. In Germany, too, the concentration camp arrivals were told they were just going to bath, just like these children and their parents are being told when the kids are led away. It's too awful. It CAN'T happen here. Right? Too awful a thought to take seriously. But ... we've had shock after shock after unbelievable shock since fall 2016, and it just keeps on and on and on. <br /><br />I don't know about chickens, but I have seen cows mourn when their calf dies. They'll stand off alone for days and hang their heads and look sad, sad, sad. Just breaks your heart. <br /><br />-KateStubblejumpers Cafehttp://stubblejumperscafe.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-82231019556258130452018-06-18T22:06:14.052-04:002018-06-18T22:06:14.052-04:00Amen, Mary Moon.
If hundreds of thousands of wome...Amen, Mary Moon.<br /><br />If hundreds of thousands of women could march on Washington in 2017, why couldn't there be a march for this, too? I live in Canada and can't change anything by voting. All I have are words.jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-124435544428705102018-06-18T20:45:42.685-04:002018-06-18T20:45:42.685-04:00If these people are not voted out at the mid-terms...If these people are not voted out at the mid-terms, we're done as nation, just flat out done.Allisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02475433199308666648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-59748567666045381882018-06-18T19:43:12.230-04:002018-06-18T19:43:12.230-04:00Not one single republican senator would join in re...Not one single republican senator would join in rebuke of this. Not one. And all the Democrats can do nothing because they’ve been castrated by last election. It comes down to Congress and the midterms elections. Democrats have the numbers—Clinton did win popular vote but the Democrats have no good strategy and too many of those who support them simply do not come out to vote. Midterms are low turnout so it won’t take much to change the tide if enough people in key places got out and vote. Rebecca yourighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280799506632923546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2086296370004835655.post-77835895051026019312018-06-18T19:30:20.441-04:002018-06-18T19:30:20.441-04:00Your new header leaves me at a loss for words. Thi...Your new header leaves me at a loss for words. This horrible shitshow we are in does too. Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06671446238805535547noreply@blogger.com