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HELPING THOSE WHO CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES
Blog: Finding My Voice
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I am the voice of the voiceless
Through me, the dumb shall speak;
Till the deaf world's ear be made to hear
The cry of the wordless weak.
From street, from cage, and from kennel,
From jungle and stall, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
Of the mighty against the frail.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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PLEASE NOTE:
I am still discovering what I can and can’t do with this blog. I would like to add a side bar with a list of all the blog posts, but I haven’t figured out how to do that without adding a sidebar to the website - which I don’t want to do.
People who are members of the website can make comments, but I don’t know how to add the membership sign up to the blog page...but it must be somewhere on the website (hidden from me) because 89 people are members of the website!
Below is the list of blog “Topics." Until I add a sidebar, please search the subjects to find previous blog entries that might not appear on the page. Thank you!
~ MUSINGS ~ RANTS ~ REMEMBRANCE ~
~ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER ~ SIMPLE PLEASURES~
~ TRANFORMATIONS ~ THE FORMATIVE YEARS
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Living With Hope
| Posted on September 12, 2012 at 9:45 AM |
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An Inconvenient Truth
| Posted on July 24, 2012 at 8:25 AM |
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Several years ago I was a guest at a Christmas party at a neighbor’s home. During the evening the host’s mother, who obviously had never heard that you shouldn’t discuss religion and polit...
LEARNING NEW TRICKS
| Posted on June 28, 2012 at 12:45 AM |
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Last night Ballantine played w...
Read Full Post »Mortality and Remembrance
| Posted on June 10, 2012 at 1:35 PM |
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This past week has been a roller coaster of emotions for me. On Monday ...
Failing Foster 101
| Posted on November 14, 2011 at 7:15 PM |
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Six years ago, after our two elderly dogs died ten days apart, my family adopted two Scottish Terrier puppies. Ballantine and Pinch had been rescued from a puppy mill. Nine...
Be Thankful
| Posted on November 12, 2011 at 9:05 AM |
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For many years, when my daughter was still living at home and then when she came home on breaks from school, we had a nightly ritual - we would watch the Jay Leno Show...
Changing Minds & Lives One Step at a Time
| Posted on November 8, 2011 at 6:25 PM |
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Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters". ~James Marcus
A Failure to Communicate
| Posted on October 26, 2011 at 11:55 PM |
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Unseen they Suffer, Unheard they Cry, in Agony they Linger, in Loneliness they Die! ~Author Unknown
The Crying Game
| Posted on October 25, 2011 at 8:55 AM |
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My daughter and I are criers. We cry at sad movies, we cry when we are stressed, and w...
First Do No Harm
| Posted on October 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM |
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The world is a dangerous place....especially if you are a child, an elderly person, someone with a disability, or an animal who has n...
Grave Matters
| Posted on October 20, 2011 at 10:45 PM |
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In our garden repose the remains of those that possess beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and the virtues of man without his vices: our pets. ~Lord Byron
The Bully Syndrome
| Posted on October 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM |
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First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and t...
Read Full Post »Eaters of the Dead
| Posted on October 16, 2011 at 7:00 PM |
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A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
~John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.
Revelations in Black
| Posted on October 14, 2011 at 10:45 AM |
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I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, / Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, / I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, / But is there because he's a victim of the times. ~Johnny Cash
Expecting the Unexpected
| Posted on October 12, 2011 at 1:40 PM |
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What can we take on trust in this uncertain life?
Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
~Euripides
Haunted By Ghosts
| Posted on October 10, 2011 at 6:45 PM |
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One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
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House of Horrors
| Posted on October 8, 2011 at 9:35 AM |
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Imagine not ever being able to walk freely, touch the ground, enjoy a kind word and caring caress. Now imagine this lasts your entire life. The only contact you have is to be removed from your cage, ravished, then nothing more. When you’re no longer able to conceive, you’re thrown in...
Read Full Post »Paint It Black!
| Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM |
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My dining room table was old and worn, a nightmare to look at and an embarrassment when we had visitors. It was originally part of a set owned by a second cousin...
Real Monsters
| Posted on October 4, 2011 at 8:50 AM |
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~GILLIGAN ~ R.I.P. This pitiful old boy was horribly abused, punctured, beaten, thrown over...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
| Posted on October 2, 2011 at 12:00 AM |
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On a Sunday morning three years ago, I sat at my computer and read my emails, as is my usual morning practice, and discover...
