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Get to Know You Part 2
I have to say I am really enjoying this "series" as there are some vibrant ladies out there that I am getting to know a little better or just meeting in the first place. I have to admit I am a little nervous! I mean yes my children are older and I HAVE been away from them before but this coming weekend has a lot going on. I mean it will be the first time I won't be there for the ISSMA regional marching band competition. This is big for me.... you see this might be our last year as Sean is undecided about band in his senior year. I love watching him perform, the smile it brings to his face, and add to it that I won't be there for this weekend's competition (hubby is on crutches due to foot injury) well it makes it hard for me. But I know in my heart this is what I need to do.... (so pray for me because this is really big.) Add in the fact that I may actually end up staying down at the conference instead of driving home each night is something even bigger. Crazy! but I really am a homebody who truly enjoys being surrounded by her family, even if they are in a different room. I know that this time next year our eldest will be away at Liberty University studying to be an aviation missionary (yes there have been some great changes since graduation!), our middle will be a senior contemplating his future (possibly helicopters in the Army), our youngest will just be starting high school and my sweet hubby will be either starring retirement from active duty in the face (or within 3 years of it.) So change is here for me... and I'm not too sure how I'm doing with it. But the Lord is truly my strength and I am learning more and more how to lean on Him daily.
So enough of the heavy stuff... lets take a look at today's questions.
What was your favorite food when you were a child?
When you have 30 minutes of free-time, how do you pass the time?
Have you ever had something happen to you that you thought was bad but it turned out to be for the best?
What is your favorite body part?
If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what age would it be?
When you have 30 minutes of free-time, how do you pass the time?
Have you ever had something happen to you that you thought was bad but it turned out to be for the best?
What is your favorite body part?
If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what age would it be?
1. My favorite food as child??? Wow, that is really hard because I have always liked pretty much everything... and to be honest, childhood was a few years ago and honestly my Mom is a great cook and I LOVED all of her food. Maybe it would have to be spaghetti with my Mom's homemade sauce because it is the one thing that I can remember asking to eat for my birthday... otherwise it would have to be my Mom's pizza. Mom always made our pizza from scratch and as far as I was concerned there was nothing better than homemade pizza and a night of playing board games. (they always seemed to go hand in hand!)
2. 30 minutes of free time? Yes, I have to admit our boys of an age now that 30 minutes of free time is pretty common place. and what do I do? read! whether it be a blog post or one of the many books I always have checked out of the library, you will find me reading. (once the family room is complete you will find me crafting once again!!)
3. Have I ever had anything bad happen that turned out for the best? Yes, meeting my husband and getting married. Okay that sounds weird but you see I was in a really bad time in my life. I was angry with God but wouldn't admit it or couldn't admit it... so I was living life my way.... and was miserable. When I met Chris I was not following the Lord in any way, shape, or fashion. But the Lord was working on me, bringing people into my life... one of which was Chris whom He was working on as well. You see Chris accepted the Lord as his personal Lord and Savior within 6 months of our getting married. It was during that time that I realized how wrong I had been and turned back to the Lord. Do I regret the life I lived for a number of years... yes because I wasn't serving my Lord but I am so thankful for the husband I have and the man Chris has become in the Lord!
4. Favorite body part? Eyes.. hands down! Mine are hazel but they change from brown with a ring of dark grey with gold flecks to green depending on what I am wearing or my mood or how tired I am. Its kinda funny looking at our family though... my husband has dark brown eyes but our boys' eyes are dark brown, blue, and green. but then if you saw the guys together you would think that they were cousins at the most or maybe friends as they have different color eyes, hair, and complexions! I have to admit even though the nose isn't my favorite body part on others it is something that I always notice... please don't ask me why because I seriously can't tell you! :) I just notice noses....
5. a certain age forever? Sorry but I just couldn't pick... I think every age has had its good and bad. I loved being a child, a teenager, a young adult, and now middle aged (ugh, did i actually admit to being middle aged? did you feel the earth move? i sure did, ha ha!) So picking just one certain age is almost impossible... but maybe when I was really young and my parents were still together and we got to spend time on my grandparents farm or on the beaches in southern california.
So what are your answers? Let me know... I would love to read your responses in the comments section and have the opportunity to get to know you just a little better!


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Pretty exciting week coming up. Peter Tomasi is taking over Detective Comics, then fucking Batman Eternal is back. WEIRD, right? I know.
- Batman and Robin Eternal #1: Man I really hope I like this book more than I did the first volume. I really, really do.
- Detective Comics #45: I like Tomasi, I like Batman... this should be good I think?
I'm still sort of weirded out that Batman Eternal is back.

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So extremely overwhelmed with all kinds of crazy emotions this week.
Yes I can't believe I get to complete in this years gallery idol. I have tried out for the open auditions for three years and I guess the third times the charm because here I am.
This years audition theme was washi. When it comes to washi my stash is small and well loved so I had to make what I have W.O.R.K.
Here's the card that made it. Washi plaid!
I used a Tim Holtz ruler to help me lay down the washi tape evenly on a paper panel.
SO fun!
I also adored the other card I made for open auditions.
A washi bow card.
I'm taking this saying with me today as I take on the next challenge round...Die-Cutting!
I have ideas but feeling nervous about so many things. Will I chose the right card to make? Will people like it? Is it innovated enough? SO many thoughts running through my head.
Today I make the card. Tomorrow the world gets to judge it.


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This weekend I watched a CNN documentary, "What the Pope Knew" about the never-ending child sexual abuse scandal. I was hoping I would learn something new, but they didn't have much original reporting, other than tracking down some victims and letting them express outrage. The rest of the show rehashed what I already knew from The New York Times, while packaging it with a dark, dramatic soundtrack and lots of pictures of crucifixes, flickering candles, statues of saints, confessionals and guys in vestments. The story of the abuse is riveting, complex and international, but this report was fairly superficial. It did, however, spur me to do some more searching and thinking, as well as imagining a conversation tomorrow night, when I'm hosting a very small house Mass and dinner party with my spiritual director, her husband and a new friend, an Episcopal priest from New Jersey by way of Toledo.
I fantasized that if we discussed this horrible issue (not exactly dinner party-thrilling), they might press me to say what I think is really going on. I'll tell you in just a sec, but more important is what the research shows, what the facts are.
I imagined telling my friends something like this. "We know that clergy pedophilia has been going on for decades; there are cases that go back to the 1950s and even earlier. My suspicion is that it's been going on for centuries, in a somewhat systematic way, aided and abetted by underground friendship networks of priests, such that the pedophiles tended to know each other and advise each other on how to keep out of trouble."
I base this not on any knowledge of pedophiles, but some first-hand experience of Gay Catholic priests. Child abuse and Gayness within the clergy aren't in any way the same, except that Gay Catholics, and especially the clergy, are also driven underground by the Vatican. And we all know that people in the closet develop their own ways of finding each other; for centuries this was the only way of finding a safe Gay friend.
You drop a hint one day, quickly change the subject and wait for the other guy's response to your hint; he might be outraged, neutral or enthusiastic, and then you go on from there until you're out to each other.
I can't believe that male pedophiles worldwide each independently came to the notion that becoming a Catholic priest was the perfect cover for plying their trade. But it is; an all-male priesthood, an official vow of celibacy whatever the reality turns out to be, clergy put on a pedestal by the faithful (and taught to build those pedestals by the priests), all backed by an authoritarian hierarchy that considers a culture of secrecy essential to its mission.
Catholic ordination is the perfect setup for pedophiles' criminal enterprises.
Protestant clergy abuse children and adults too, but the institutions backing them up aren't nearly so rich, powerful and impermeable from the outside. An Episcopalian has a bishop, vestry and diocesan convention to answer to; Baptists and others have a board of deacons to keep an eye on them. Nearly every Protestant group has some kind of accountability system (whether it works well or not) that the Roman Church not only lacks, but rejects.
"So the issue," I'd tell my dinner guests, "isn't the criminal infiltration, it's the secrecy."
From this little adventure in Walter Mittyism, I actually Googled "Catholic secrecy," and ran across a brief but fascinating article by a former Benedictine monk and priest – published in the National Catholic Reporter, "Secret Sex in the Celibate System." It's a gem of concise clarity.
Ratzinger's (2001) document demands that all canonical cases of clergy sex abuse of minors be sent to his office under the requirement for strictest secrecy.
And this is considered a reform, that there's now an office to receive such reports. No one in the hierarchy has challenged the secrecy demand, because the benefit of the doubt always goes to the priest, not the accuser.
Unlike CNN, which wanted to gain ratings by trying to assess Cardinal Ratzinger's (now Pope Benedict 16's) personal culpability for covering up decades of child abuse throughout the world, I think it's more helpful to focus on the secrecy and why it's in place; how it both shields the innocent and operates as a mutual protection racket.
Ratzinger had to wait until John Paul 2 was dead before he could take down Fr. Marcial Maciel, the serial abuser who founded the Legionaries of Christ, a protegé of the late pope's who raised millions of dollars and used to pass out money, cars, tickets and apartments to his Vatican friends.
What did Fr. Marcial know about John Paul? And does it seem likely to you that the pope didn't have informants inside the Legionaries? Wherever you have secrecy, you have spies.
But before we get lost in the many hallways, reliquaries, catacombs, museums, libraries, archives, nooks and crannies of the Vatican, let me clearly say: It's to Benedict's credit that he did take control of the Legionaries once he got Peter's keys. That little bit of intrigue is now effectively over.
Instead, let's restage this drama on a lesser scale, in a small obscure diocese somewhere.
The bishop has served respectably for 20 years; people like him, or at least respect him, and he's done some good here and there; he's hoping to retire in peace. One of his priests on the far rural fringes of the diocese serves three rural parishes that once were served by their own local priests; now this guy is doing the work of three men. The bishop has had some minor success in scaring up new vocations, but the current generation doesn't believe in priestly celibacy anymore, so clergy are at an absolute premium; the bishop appreciates what that local pastor has done. Meanwhile the pastor is Gay and has a lover, another priest who works a few miles away. They both have official residences, but they keep an apartment together in the see city away from their prying parishioners. The bishop doesn't approve of this arrangement, but if he were to try to punish these two priests, he'd end up with six churches needing new pastors that he hasn't got. So what does the bishop do? He pretends not to know what he knows; he keeps the secret.
When the bishop keeps the secret, those two lover-priests have no reason not to open the reality of their lives to all their brother priests in the diocese – many of whom have similar situations; a male lover, or a longtime girlfriend, or a wife and a couple of kids.
The lack of vocations ties the bishop's hands; thousands of Catholic men would love to be priests, but they get stopped by that celibacy rule, so the bishop has to scratch and claw for every seminarian he can find. God only knows what happens to the small rural parishes if Fr. NN gets sick or drops dead; the bishop needs every priest he can get.
So he keeps the secret. It isn't even that much of a secret anymore; all the clergy know, and a quarter of the laypeople, who would worry too if Fr. NN got sick or dropped dead.
Now multiply this scenario times a billion Catholics in 200 countries; and you can see why secrecy is how the Church keeps going. It doesn't take conspiracy theories. It isn't necessarily a matter of good people doing bad things; the issue is personnel management.
Is the celibacy requirement one of the villains here? I think so, but I'm an Episcopalian. Read what the ex-Benedictine wrote in NCR.
Celibacy was a voluntary ascetic practice of early Christian monks and some clerics, but not universally required of Roman Catholic priests until 1139.
Roman Catholic priests now are mandated to make a promise or vow of celibacy before they can be ordained. Clerical celibacy precludes absolutely any willful sexual release.
Questions about mandated clerical celibacy have bombarded general consciousness in light of the onslaught of reports of clerical abuse and its cover-up by church authority. It is fair to ask: What is the connection between the demand for cultic purity and abuse of minors?
The current crisis poses a serious challenge for church authority to answer that question.
"Poses a serious challenge for church authority" means in the vernacular, "Is totally nuts and may destroy the church."
This is why every Western church that has broken with Rome – Lutherans, Anglicans, Old Catholics, Baptists, Quakers, Huguenots, Presbyterians, everyone – has quickly abolished clerical celibacy. It's untenable, unsustainable, it isn't Biblical (St. Peter was married), it's historically dishonest (you think popes weren't married and screwing around?) – and it isn't what God requires.
I'm in favor of it when people can do it, but celibacy is a gift of God dispensed to very few; meanwhile the Church needs priests.
Still, I think it's wrong to blame clerical celibacy first, or even the all-male priesthood. (I'm an Episcopalian, I favor women's ordination.) The celibacy requirement contributes greatly to the problem; pedophiles wouldn't have such perfect shelter if normal people could be priests. But secrecy and authoritarianism – how the Church is governed – is the problem.
The Roman Church operates as if the autocracy and divine right of kings is still viable. It isn't; thinking, educated people won't put up with it. But Catholics are still kissing bishops' rings like serfs groveling before the lord of the manor.
When the Church is governed by a czar – whether that's "Bishop Eddie" Long or Benedict 16 – without a self-correcting mechanism, you're guaranteeing yourself trouble. Somebody has to be able to tell the emperor he's naked.
More to the point, someone has to tell the emperor that if he doesn't cover himself in two minutes flat, he's going to be out on his fat and naked behind.
Checks and balances; you can't run a church without them.
But Rome doesn't see it that way, and indeed it completely misunderstands its mission; feed the hungry, heal the sick, proclaim freedom to the captives and justice in the year of the Lord's favor.
Rome believes its mission is to teach what Jesus taught, and "the Church has always taught" (though it hasn't; celibacy came in 10 centuries after Jesus) against all dissenters, ignoramuses, fools and enemies. Indeed, dissent has become the enemy – and Benedict is as bad at that as any pope ever has been.
I wouldn't cross the street to set foot on St. Peter's Square. I approve of Catholic people (including priests), but I wouldn't give you five cents for all the bishops put together.
It's all one gigantic con!
And Rome knows it; our correspondent says half the priests are screwing around, and it starts at seminary.
Although the church propagates the myth that bishops and priests are celibate, this is not based on fact. Several modern studies have used various methods to measure the degree of celibate observance. No researcher so far has assessed that more than 50 percent of Roman Catholic clergy at any one time are in fact practicing celibacy.
He doesn't give citations, but the National Catholic Reporter isn't the Journal of Secret Catholic Social Science; it's the mainstream magazine for educated people in the pews.
Sexual abuse of minors is only one type of clerical sexual activity. The 2004 John Jay Report concluded from a survey of church files that 6.5 percent of priests ordained between 1960 and 1984 were involved in sex abuse of minors. My study from ethnological data concluded that 6 percent from that same period were abusers.
It is nonetheless a significant symptom of pathology within clerical culture.
Pathology is right, buddy. Six percent of Catholic priests are pedophiles? Maybe so, but that sure sounds high; it may be evidence that child molesters gravitate toward positions of authority and power.
Now read 'em and weep; emphasis added.
Is mandated celibacy alone causal to sex abuse of a minor? As the single factor the answer is no. Vowed celibacy does not drive a bishop or priest to have sex with minors. The answer, however, is also yes. Required celibacy in concert with the clerical culture of entitlement and secrecy is a prominent element for some clergy seeking out minors as sexual partners.
Many priests who abuse minors were themselves abused as special friends of older priests or others. These kinds of liaisons are frequent in seminaries where solitary or mutual masturbation is looked upon as an "innocent" failure. Secrecy about all clerical sex is sacrosanct within the system.
Roman Catholic clerical culture favors doctrinal rigidity, conformity, obedience, submission and psychosexual immaturity, mistaken for innocence, in its candidates. These are the personality elements that lead to advancement and power in the clerical system. Single men are more easily controlled if their sexuality is secret. Double lives on all levels of clerical life are tolerated if they do not cause scandal or raise legal problems. Sexual activity between bishops and priests and adult partners is well known within clerical circles. The secret system forms a comfortable refuge for unresolved gay conflicts. There is a new emerging awareness of the systemic nature of sexual/celibate behavior within the Roman Catholic ministry that is increasingly destabilizing to the church.
Dire consequences will follow the exposure of this sexual system embedded in a secret celibate culture. Authorities who are or have been sexually active, although not with minors, are hard put to publicly correct clerics who are abusing minors. The need for secrecy, the cover-up, extends beyond defending criminal activity of a sex abuser.
The easiest way to control a man is to grab him by the balls. And that's what the celibacy policy does – of every priest.
St. Peter was married!
But the popes knew exactly what they were doing when they made celibacy mandatory 1000 years after Christ. The control issues – thought control, primarily – dominated every other consideration. And secrecy is the result.
When Rome defined itself as the only defender of "orthodoxy," Catholicism, Christianity and Christ himself – and not the whole world's bishops meeting in council, considering that Eastern Orthodoxy walked out in the Great Schism after getting sick of control freakery out of those Romans – it set in motion everything that's followed, including the Protestant Reformation, worldwide pedophilia scandals, bankrupt dioceses and the almost complete loss of Europe.
The power and control that holds the Roman Catholic church together depends on preservation of the celibate myth. The Vatican and Pope John Paul II declared its inviolability.
Well, it's tragic to watch but I'm not sorry. A church more worried about its power, authority, control, secrets and approval ratings than it is about 200 deaf boys in Milwaukee abused by Fr. Murphy deserves whatever it gets. (CNN did a good job talking about the deaf boys tonight.)
The NCR author, A.W. Richard Sipe, a mental health counselor and former Benedictine, closes with this.
If celibate violations beyond minor abuse and cover-up are exposed, will the church fall like Humpty Dumpty? Or will the truth about clerical celibacy and its systemic corruption lead to a needed reformation?
I would never underestimate the cunning and skill of the Vatican to resist its own destruction; after all, they've learned how to do this for 2000 years, and if need be (considering their warped mission of the Church's survival at all costs), they'll lie, cheat, steal and worse to ensure their own power, which they mistake for Jesus Christ's.
But what I sense will happen – probably not soon – is that they'll fall like Humpty Dumpty, who couldn't be put together again.
We are after all talking children here, all over the world. So let a little child lead them.++
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Tickle (ticka ticka ticka ticka)
Dad (dad, dadadada)
Mama (mamamamama)
Drake (deck)
Jo (jo)
Birds (buz)
Hot (hot)
All Done (ah-dun)
Ball (bow)
Diaper (depends on which time he said it!)
These are the words Gavin can say (or has said). Some words seem to have come and gone. For example, one day about a week ago on the way to daycare, I told Gavin he was going to Jo's. He clearly repeated after me, "Jo's?". He said "Jo" and "Jo's" the whole way to her house, but hasn't repeated it since then. We're sure he said Christmas several times as well while pointing to our Christmas tree, but we can't get him to say it on cue or to repeat it. We also think he has said Grandpa, but again, we're not positive. He's a learning machine! He usually understands the gist of what we're saying when we talk to him, even though he doesn't always acknowledge it.
He's a little chatterbox. It doesn't matter that we don't know what he is saying, he can talk non-stop for an hour. If you hand him a telephone, he will hold it up to his ear and begin chattering away, complete with facial expressions... as long as there is no one on the other end talking. If there is, he just sits quietly and looks at the phone.
I wonder what his next word will be!?!?


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The gloss and MAC (it's fake, so don't go all "woah ~*~MAC~*~" on me kids) lippie were gifts, and the two L.A. Girl lipsticks were from Eastwood's tiangge. They were P150 each, and that's pretty cheap 'cause I saw the exact same tubes at Watsons and the price was hiked to about double the amount.
Aaand a swatch of all four! The gloss is pretty sheer (well, sheer enough for me; it looks weird on the lips on its own) so I like to wear it with another dark lip and just make everything darker and glossy when I feel like it. The MAC faker (I'm sorry if you have issues with buying fake MAC but not everyone can afford that brand MYSELF ESPECIALLY I WANT TO OWN MAC PRODUCTS BUT I CANNOT BRING MYSELF TO SPEND SO MUCH ON IT OKAY) is a nice everyday kind of color. The L.A. Girl lippies are nice and bright and obnoxious and I love it.
NYX eyeshadow bases! I FINALLY HAVE THE JUMBO EYESHADOW PENCIL IN MILK I HAVE BEEN HUNTING THIS DOWN IN FOREVER OKAY OKAY I MEAN
Forever 21 eyeshadow palette that I got as a Christmas gift last year. AAAAH DOESN'T IT LOOK SO PRETTY???
Concealer palette that I got from Terry's mom. It used to be hers, but she tried it out and basically it just burned on her face. Then she gave it to me since I could use it for shoots and whatnot; the note on the palette cover is a reminder of what happened to Terry's mom's face which means a similar effect could happen to Terry should I decide to use it on her for a shoot. Thanks for the reminder, Ted. In any case, these are pretty good concealers! I've actually already hit pan on my shade huhu.
Loose face powder from Nichido. I think it's a bargain because it's cheap but you get a ton of product!
ELF goodies! I don't have that many bronzers (I usually skip any bronzing because I kind of struggle with sculpting my face, but now I've gotten the hang of it!) and ELF's pretty affordable so I thought why not? Also, I've been needing a good face primer and I've heard ELF's is pretty good. I've been really liking it so far. (Later on I compulsively got Maybelline's Baby Face pore eraser and it works just as good and I even heard it was a good dupe for the Benefit primer? Idk. It was compulsive buy because I already had the ELF face primer but the Maybelline one was on sale so it just got to me.)
Lippies from Nichido and Ever Bilena + swatches. I'm sorry for my blotchy hand; I must've been swatching the hell out of stuff the day I photographed this hahaha.
THESE MAKEUP BRUSHES OHMYGOD THEY ARE MAGIC AND SO AFFORDABLE OKAY I MEAN WOW YOU GUYS SHOULD GET THESE They're from Landmark. As in, department store. Go on. Go. Go. Go get 'em. GO.
And then I found out Beauty Bar carried brush guards and then wow. They're not as sturdy as the originals (it can't support your brushes if you're drying them upside down in a cup or smthn) but they do the job and FINALLY I've just been needing brush guards for when I clean my brushes.
Speaking of, I am the WORST at cleaning my brushes. I just find them to be a chore, so my mom got me this brush cleaner from Japonesque. A bit of a splurge, really, considering how pricey the brand is, but the price difference between this and Beauty Bar's wasn't much so my mom went with this one instead.
And then I stocked up on makeup remover wipes because I was running out and these things just make removing your makeup so much easier really.
A beauty blender dupe from Etude House. Isn't the packaging so adorbs? This makes applying face makeup a DREAM.
A silver pigment we got from... James Cooper? Fanny Serrano? One of the two. It's a magical silver and I had never owned any pigments until this one. It's the same silver I was wearing in these pictures.
Goodies that I got in Macau but are actually available in Hong Kong as well. I wasn't really going to get these shades from Maybelline as I wanted the taupe, orange, and emerald ones, but the shades Macau and HK carry are only these two, the blue, purple, silver, and white and I tried these two and actually liked them and since the Philippines does not carry this for some strange reason, my mom pushed me to get them. (Not pictured is the blue shade that we got when we got back to HK because I caved lol.) I'll save you from any swatches because there is enough of that on the worldwideweb.
ALSO GUYS MY FIRST EVER CANMAKE PRODUCT!!! I find Canmake to be really expensive actually, so this is prolly a one-time thing. It's a cream blush that feels like it could go on to a powder finish and it has these pretty gold sparkles. It's a light pink and it's a shade that I don't have yet so yay!
So I was curious about the whole snail face mask fiasco and decided to try it out, along with another face mask for oil control and stuff. These are from Sasa, by the way. I really liked the snail mask so my mom and I went to Bonjour (some of their products are cheaper than Sasa) and stocked up on a couple more.
AND THEN I GOT MY HANDS ON TOO COOL FOR SCHOOL AND DIED AT EVERYTHING. I'm pretty sure the major appeal of this brand is its packaging because wow did they match their packaging to their brand name.
I got this pink multi color paint and it's a nice, bright pink. I swatched it and it looked so good. More than anything I'll be using this on the eyes because I already have several pinks for the lips. It looks like... a small pot of poster paint. So cute.
This lipgloss thing has a stain on one end and a gloss on the other. I saw this on a model on the brand's website and I think it's meant to make your lips kind of jelly-like and I just really liked how it looked. The gloss is pretty thick so it really does look like jelly when applied. *__*
OF COURSE, THESE STUPID LIP CRAYONS. I COULDN'T NOT GET THESE. THEY ARE THE EPITOME OF MY OLD BLOG USERNAME ("crayoneyeliner" -- alright so these aren't eyeliners but they look like crayons and CAN YOU NOT SEE THE CONNECTION?? PLEASE FREAK OUT WITH ME???) AND HOW CAN YOU NOT GET THEM
They're like tinted lip balms so the color payoff is pretty sheer. I think they're sheerer when applied on the lips, especially the pink one. I actually wanted to get the yellow crayon because it's my favorite color, but it hardly had any color payoff. Out of all the shades I think the orange one was the most saturated. Originally the pink one was my mom's, but she ended up not liking how it looked on her (she's used to more opaque pinks lol) so it ended up being mine mwahaha. I have orange lippies here and there, but nothing as subtle as this one. Overall I really like these for everyday, wala lang kind of things.
This eyeshadow is from Forever 21 and it's a duochrome. A FLIPPING DUOCHROME EVERYBODY!!! There is not enough of duochromes in makeup stores I step into, be it in Manila or HK; I think I own about two, but they're really old The Body Shop eyeshadows from my mom that I crushed into pseudo-pigments because they were already busted in the pot. SERIOUSLY THOUGH, DUOCHROME. I love duochromes and I barely have any of them in my life so I kinda freaked out at this also it was dirt cheap and it's actually pretty big and the packaging's pretty swanky too and AAAAHHHH
Seriously, I am obsessed with duochromes. Partially because they are so absent in my life.
One rainy day I was going around Causeway Bay and randomly decided to go into a Maple store. And then I found these colored mascaras by Collection 2000 (the only time I ever hear about this brand is from this one YouTuber and it's only about their concealer; I have never heard about the brand outside of this YT-er) and well I really love colored mascaras okay. There's not enough of them in the market either, though I guess that's understandable since colored eyelashes aren't everyone's kind of party. The liquid liner is this turquoise shade and looks really pretty.
When I got home though, I suddenly realized I had an extra mascara tube (the one that says "LONGER LASH" in the picture.) I was like, "NO I DIDN'T BUY THIS DON'T TELL ME I SPENT MONEY ON SOMETHING I ALREADY HAVE NO NO NO" because it's a dark brown and my Ever Bilena brown mascara's similar. And then I checked my receipt and I wasn't charged for it, but it was on the list of items purchased, so I think they just threw this one in for free? It was the only item without a price sticker on it, so I really do think they gave it for free. Score.
Here's a swatch of all of them. The green mascara's more opaque than the purple one, but both are still pretty saturated. The mascara that came for free is a little darker than my brown EB mascara, but boy does it sure live up to its 'longer lash' claim because one coat of it is enough to lengthen my lashes.
Eyebrow pencil + nude-colored pencil from NYX. The nude one can act as a nude lipliner, and a spot concealer, and a liner for the waterline. My mom and I use it for the waterline, although hers is about a shade up.
AND SO THAT IS ALL. Man when I continue to push blog posts further back they just accumulate into one big post. Whatevs. I am sorry if you come across posts like this one and think that the author is shallow and materialistic; I don't think of it that way at all but there's a possibility that others do. I just... really love makeup okay. =)) I know Terry likes posts like these so at least I know I'm not the only one who enjoys them.


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May I present you my first Toe-Up socks. It took me long enough, since June 09, but what made a difference was the Cat Bhordi book, Personal Footprints for Insouciant Sock Knitters: Book Two in the New Pathways for Sock Knitters Series (Perfect Paperback)~ Cat Bordhi
I love this bamboo - super wash merino combination of yarn and the yarn is beautiful. Tornasol is a word in Spanish synonymous to iridescent.The word iridescence is derived in part from the Greek word iris (pl. irides), meaning "rainbow", which in turn derives from the goddess Iris of Greek mythology, who is the personification of the rainbow and acted as a messenger of the gods. Goniochromism is derived from the Greek words gonia, which means angle, and chroma, which means color.This where made on US 1 , 2.5 mm addi turbos. The yarn feels fantastic as I walk on them. Now to keep on perfecting the making sock techniques which will help me master making gloves eventually.
Next time when I finish the socks I will be using this neat JSSBO that you can watch in this video. Thanks for stopping by, now to my next pair lol.
I am hoping that this blog will help you and me experience the craft of crochet as well as knitting. During times of silence or turmoil, crochet and knitting continuously help me quiet my mind at my own pace, enabling me to find my center. I have patterns for sale in PDF Format, you can find them at their own Pages at the top menu. The posts are classified By labels which are at the far right, all the way down. We are the Borg! I think it will bring Order into Chaos!
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Jamalco, UWI take aim at Supreme Ventures netball title
IT should be a humdinger this evening as two of the top netball teams in the country, Jamalco and UWI Pelicans, meet in the final of the Supreme Ventures Limited Major League at the Leila Robinson Court at 7 p.m.
Preceding this game at 6 p.m. will be the Minor League finals, where Global 'B' will oppose Tantrum.
A classic battle is expected in the feature game as both teams will be meeting for the third time this season, with each scoring a victory.
Earlier in the season, Jamalco defeated their opponent by one goal in the Open League, while a few weeks ago, it was a two-goal win for Jamalco in the preliminary round of the Major League.
Both coaches, Conrad Parkes of UWI Pelicans and Winston Nevers of Jamalco, are very cautious and confident going into this mouth-watering clash.
Despite injury to influential centre court player Carla Lee Tingling, who was a tower of strength in their semi-final win over Mico, Parkes is banking on the likes of goal attack Rebekah Robinson, goal defence Shameera Sterling, and the experienced goalshooter Trishana Harewood to see them through.
Jamalco is no stranger to this stage of the competition. This will be their 19th in a row.
The Clarendon-based team, who lost the final a year ago to Mico 'A', will be hoping to make it title number 15.
Despite their impressive record in the competition, Nevers is wary of a very talented UWI Pelicans team.
"One thing I know is that today's game will be a very good one as UWI is a quality team and so are we, and it will be a grudge match," he said.
Jamalco will be banking on Elaine Davis, Althea Byfield, and Nicole Aiken-Pinnock.


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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Home Before and After: Stairs
stairway inspiration. I knew I wanted to do something with my stairs, as you can see from my "Before" photos, the white risers don't do too well against shoes and dogs in our house. Even when I scrubbed them they would never truly be clean. The railings were also a wierd bulky shape and the paint was peeling off regardless of frequent touch ups. I taped off the risers and painted them a mid-tone grey, it's a nice contrast with our wall colors and the wood steps all while remaining neutral in the very likely situation that I decide to change the color of the walls at some point. To keep them from staying TOO neutral, I bought new banisters (you can have them cut to length at Lowes, and are only a couple of dollars a foot) and painted them a lovely mint color. Banisters like mine are so easy to repaint or replace since they are strait, so I figured why not? I also took down the rod iron railings to the basement and spray painted them white so they would look a little cleaner and blend better with all the white trim. I'm so happy with how they came out, our house looks cleaner already!
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Project was early years from beginning patronaged by Douglas Pearce of Death In June and his label Twilight Command under his well known New European Recordings (NER) and World Serpent Distribution, later Tesco Distribution. There released 1996. with some of their friends the first album "Despiritualisation of Nature". After it only TeHôM with Siniša and Miljenko remained. 3 years later they realeased 2nd album "Theriomorphic Spirits" and then Siniša died of cancer. He was a front line soldier during the Croatian war of Independence. Speculation as to the cause of the death generally assumes that it was almost certainly the result of a war-related illness, but it was never confirmed. Their two albums "Despiritualization Of Nature" and "Theriomorphic Spirits", heavily influenced by the occult arts of which Očuršćak was a practitioner.
His musical exploration was ritualistic and esoteric and pretty original, he promised a lot but unfortunately he died. This project comes from the fog, the cutting wind of the mountain cliffs, the misterious silence, from the mythological dream. Ancestral landscapes evoked by hypnotic, abstract and organic soundscapes. Siniša died of cancer '97 and Miljenko Rajaković aka Mary (his long year friend and co-member) reactivated TeHôM + Principia Audiomatica projects 2007. Start working on new materials for 3rd long awaited TeHôM album.


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Ballet at the Bowl
The Australian Ballet, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, March 11
The Australian Ballet delivered a crowd-pleasing performance on Friday night in front of thousands of dance enthusiasts. The rather conservative program featured excerpts from famous ballets, each more loudly applauded than the previous.
The nominees for the 2005 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award, won last year by rising star Amber Scott, were also announced. Marc Cassidy, Gaylene Cummerfield, Lana Jones, Paul Knobloch, Danielle Rowe and Leanne Stojmenov are all in the running to win the $20,000 prize, with another $5000 going to the People's Choice Award winner.
In a warm-up for the opening of La Sylphide this week, we saw snippets of three Bournonville works, which were all danced with the stylistic lightness and accurate footwork required.
Cummerfield and Adam Bull gave an enchanting rendition of a pas de deux from La Sylphide, their playful characterisations sparkling as much as their polished technique.
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Scott and Matthew Lawrence glided through the Nutcracker pas de deux, looking as regal and graceful as Prince Frederik and Princess Mary of Denmark on their recent visit. With suitable dazzle and strength, Stojmenov and Cassidy justified their nominations in a divertissement from Don Quixote.
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About Me
- TamsinP
- London, United Kingdom
- A mythical beast - a female wargamer! I got back into wargaming in the summer of 2011 after a very, very long break. My current interests are Ancients, ACW, 30YW and SciFi gaming.
Saturday, 5 November 2016
Saturday Workbench
I had high hopes for getting lots done today, but things didn't pan out quite as well as I'd hoped. My intention had been to get the airbrush out and prime as many figures as possible. It started out OK, but then I hit a major snag. I'd noticed that when cleaning between colours/fills there were a lot of bubbles coming out of the nozzle cap threads which is an indication that the nozzle is either too loose or too tight. So, I removed the needle and went to unscrew the nozzle...
...and it snapped with most of the thread still in the body of the airbrush. And too deep to get it out with the tools I have. Not that getting it out would help much as I don't have a spare and they seem to be out of stock everywhere. B****r! As I'm going to need a 0.5mm airbrush and I don't see any way of getting the broken nozzle thread out, I've had to order a new one. It should be delivered next weekend.
In the meantime I'll have to use my other airbrush which has a 0.35mm needle which means I'll need to add thinners and probably flow improver to the primer, not to mention cleaning even more regularly to prevent blockages.
One thing I did do in this session was to test out my Vallejo red primers to see if I could use them instead of spray-cans for priming the SYW Russian infantry.
The Pure Red seems to be pretty close so I'll go with that. I lightly re-primed the ones I'd done in German Red Brown (they're slightly darker in the pic above).
Anyway, here's what I did get primed:
The Soviet women also got primed, as did two more choppers I bought this morning (£1.50 each from Wilko). Having learnt from last week how annoying the rotor was when airbrushing, I removed them today for painting these two. I'll be trying out some alternative camo schemes tomorrow using the mini-hexocam stencils.
Apart from the new airbrush, I've ordered a few more things this week. Last night I ordered a few more stencils and some paints/primers from SnM Stuff. I also did a restock of bases from Tiny Tin Troops ready for the Challenge - nothing worse than running out and having to wait for more to arrive.
This evening I've placed an order with Timecast for some Old Glory 15s - the additional Koreans I need to complete that army, some SYW casualties and two ancients armies for ADLG. I foresee a lot of figure prep at work in the weeks after they arrive!
I've got a couple more orders still to place - the limbers and wagons from Essex and some more ACW infantry from Baccus when I finally work out how many more regiments I want/need.
Plans for this week:
1. Do the basing on the Salutesville figures. Lots of messy Milliput action!
2. Camo scheme test on the choppers.
3. Start painting the Mongol cavalry I started a long, long time ago.
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Lots of exciting progress Tamsin, great job.ReplyDelete
That does sound like a messy situation with the airbrush Tamsin - puts me fumbling a loaded paintbrush into my shirt in perspective! Hope the replacement arrives promptly.ReplyDelete
I just bought a new can of spray primer today myself - weather's holding up here so I'm trying to get as much primed and ready to go as I can! The red looks brilliant - I haven't yet been able to bring myself to give the colored primers a go; feels like I just figured out painting over a white primer!
More Russians ready to go!ReplyDelete
WE all have setbacks, I seem to anyway! however you do seem to have some exciting projects on the go. No Challenge prep for me as I am still sorting out what I will do.ReplyDelete
But if you want a 6mm side challenge I would be up for it!
The days when you just had to worry about plonking your brush in a cup of coffee pale into comparison to 'modern' set-backs.ReplyDelete
Red primer is an interesting thought though.
Great progress even given the airbrush disaster!ReplyDelete
I like the 'Red Army' - and the Russians too!ReplyDelete
You can never have too many sheep!
Well, airbrush disasters apart you seem to be progressing well on many fronts. I was tickled by the concept of 'sheep and Soviet women'. Beterr than sheep and Welsh archers, I suppose...ReplyDelete
@ Michael A - thank you m'Lord! :)ReplyDelete
@ Bill - weather here is a bit cold for spraying outside (and wet this afternoon when I might have risked it) which is why I like to use an airbrush for priming where I can. Besides which, my flat is 2nd floor (3rd floor for the Yanks) which makes it even more hassle to use spray cans :)
@ David C - one can never have enough Russkis! ;)
@ Clint - cheers! I might be up for a 6mm side challenge - Ian has already suggested one. It will depend on which figure batches take priority :)
@ Zabadak - the reason for the red primer is that I found it gives a good base for the Russian infantry and artillery :)
@ Herbert - cheers! :)
@ Herkybird - thanks! The sheep are for a running gag hopefully :)
@ Legatus - cheers! "Sheep and Soviet Women" could be a very niche interest magazine ;)


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|This prayer was given to us by our Lord Jesus Christ Himself when the apostles asked Him to teach them how to pray (Mt 6:9-13) and thus the prayer has been a part of the Church since the very beginning. The Didache (1st-2nd century) commends the prayer to be recited by the faithful three times during the day. In the latter part of the 4th century it became an official part of the Mass and was recited after the breaking of the bread. Later, Pope St. Gregory the Great, influenced by St. Augustine, moved it to just before the breaking of the bread where it has been ever since. Today, the Didache's tradition of reciting the prayer thrice daily continues in the Church with the Lord's Prayer being recited at Mass and then twice more during the Liturgy of the Hours, at Lauds and Vespers.Prior to the Protestant Reformation, the Our Father was universally recited in Latin in the West by clergy and laity alike. The rather curious English translation we have today is due to Henry VIII's efforts to impose a standard English version across his realm. Catholics, not wishing to be overly conspicuous in a place very hostile to the Catholic Church at the time, adopted the translation in order to remain inconspicuous.
|PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
|OUR FATHER, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.


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I haven't posted for a while but I have some great excuses plus I have accomplished a lot during this time. One excuse is that CHA {Craft and Hobby Association} trade show is coming up and work has been extremely busy. Another excuse is that I have been doing a lot of freelance which makes me happy. And my third excuse is that I have been busy crafting which left very little time for posting.
So now I can share everything that I've crafted during the month of December.
My favorite decoration this year was so fast, easy and cheap. I used one large and one small vintage, thrifted, drum-style fish bowl filled with recyclable packing peanuts to create a totally California Snowman.
here but I just love how cheerful all of the vintage ornaments look.
gift guide. This year the Traditional gift suggestion is Cotton and the Modern gift is China. So I used cotton yarn and crocheted a "China teacup". I found the pattern at TurtleDoveCoo.
Paper/Clock ornament I made for her last year.
As a gift for my coworkers, I made a batch of crocheted snowmen.
The Dapper Toad. I sat and crocheted these in my truck during my lunch hour and a few were made while sitting in the Target parking lot waiting for the rain to stop. Everyone loved these little guys.
Finally, I made a burlap wreath with vintage Christmas ornaments for my wonderful neighbor.


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Club Miami
1299 Camino del Rio South, San Diego
Friday Nights: salsa night with Live Band
Saturday Nights: hip-hop/reggaeton
Saturday nights have a much younger crowd than Friday nights, which is to be expected with the different types of music.
FREE parking. Doors open @ 8:30 pm. Food served all night.
Call for more info: (619) 843-7400


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A Weekday Days Access membership is a great way to get started at SHARED. You will have access to all shared spaces and tools M-F 6AM-6PM. Membership also includes the use of a locker to store your equipment, supplies, tools, and projects (15″W x 18″D x 36″H). Includes three hours per month of complimentary meeting room time.
This can be combined with the Evenings and Weekend Access membership so you have access throughout the entire week for $350.
Membership includes: shared work space, shared kitchen and lounge, creative community … See some photos here.


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The picture below is something interesting. One of the children wanted to give me something special. He knew I didn't want him to spend money, and he knew I liked pink. He made me a pink laptop. Notice how he spelled "internet." It is probably more appropriate ;-) He even included Bollywood discs for me to watch. I guess if children have paper, they think they can have anything!
This is just a piece of pink paper folded in half, with the screen on the upper side and the keyboard on the lower side.


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By Andrew Stewart, originally published December 9, 2009
What lies beneath tells the hidden history of the Fort
The place near the foot of Bathurst Street that we call Fort York was known for most of its history simply as the Toronto garrison or the Old Fort (as distinct from the New Fort, which was built in 1841 — the only structure of which survives being Stanley Barracks). The walled fort we see today within Fort York National Historic Site contains one of the largest collections of War of 1812 buildings in North America. It is this brief period of investment in military infrastructure that Fort York's seven original buildings, dating to 1813-16, recalls today (other buildings from this time of war and its aftermath, built to house hundreds of soldiers, are gone). Many other buildings, built inside and outside today's walls throughout the nineteenth century, also did not survive.
Some of them burned down, like the handsome 1815 Georgian brick house that dominated the Parade Square until 1869. Others like the Rebellion-period barracks (built 1838) were, astonishingly, torn down in the early 1930s, following the rationale of returning the site to its "historically correct" appearance as a War of 1812 fort. This decision ignored the site's later history – more than a century of building and engineering in tune with the crises and alarms of especially the 1830s and 60s, described in Carl Benn's Historic Fort York: 1793-1993.
Blame it on progressive vision – seeing the fort as a "period piece" rather than the honest mess of barracks, cookhouses, guardhouses, gates (and messes) that it was. To be fair to the visionaries, by the 1920s the fort was being mauled to oblivion by transit, railways and industry. A strong, simplifiying vision of what the fort could be was probably required to rescue it. Ironically, it may have been a burst of modernism that, in the 1930s, propelled the fort towards the clean lines and walls of its War-of-1812 future. A will to rid cities of their Victorian accumulations was gaining momentum. It's a pity that an unprogressive conservative policy of inaction, which had characterized much of the fort's previous hundred years of history, could not have prevailed a short time longer.
Fortunately, not all is lost. Much of this history, unloved in the 30s, went to ground – where it remains safe today. Fort York is one of Canada's largest urban archaeological sites, its valuable potential mired in clay. The inhospitable substrate on which the fort was built – waterlogged, even salty, making it hard to find drinking water – led to an unremitting campaign to improve conditions. As drains were laid, fill was continually added to the ground surface, never subtracted, thereby allowing the past to remain safely buried. The commandant's house, later a soldiers' bararcks, that was destroyed by fire in 1869 happily collapsed in on itself. Undisturbed to this day, its site represents an archaeological vault.
This fall, an archaeological investigation was carried out west of the fort, on the proposed site of the new Fort York Visitor Centre. The exploratory dig produced evidence of another forgotten episode in the fort's history. From 1868 until the great cleansing of the 1930s, the Ordnance and Supply Yard complex of buildings stood in what are today's parking lots at the south edge of Garrison Common.
A set of enormous wooden sheds for artillery and military supplies (see historic photo) and an office building were set around an open yard on the south side of Garrison Road, the whole enclosed by a stockade-type fence. The road itself, leading to the New Fort, was described as "totally impassable" in 1841 because of its "stiff yellow clay" when wet. The problem was solved by macadamizing its surface (stone was reduced to two-inch pebbles and rolled into a clay surface, canted precisely to effect proper drainage). Our archaeological investigation showed this problem was solved differently in the Ordnance and Supply Yard. Here, the ground enclosed by buildings on three sides was paved with split boulders (the local, soft shale) and then covered with Lake Ontario beach gravel. This "engineered surface" was exposed in a few places during the exploratory dig, enough to establish the fact of its survival and integrity (see recent photo).
With this much known, I can conceive the possibility of exposing the yard completely – recovering it as a landscape feature. Archaeology need not always be a technical recording exercise leading to a dusty shelf. Buried features that are intact (surfaces, foundations, even entire structures) may be uncovered and used creatively in the revitalization of brownfield sites. The opportunities lurk just beneath the surface – we only need to seize them.


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I've had Bonnie Hunter's book, Scraps & Shirttails II for a while and have wanted to make something from it for as long, so I'm happy to finally begin one of the projects.
I've selected Smoke Mountain Morning with its stars and modified log cabin blocks.
This fabric line from Windham Fabrics is one I've been saving, so now it's been cut into and is living up to its potential.
I have two stars done and am trying out one log cabin. The stars are a 54-40 or Fight star and the log cabin is the Chimney and Cornerstone log cabin version. My takes are a little bit different from Bonnie's but that's okay.
What is really cool is that I used my Sizzix to make this block. That might be why I was able to get two blocks done in a few hours.
I will link up with the Let's Book It group at Vroomans Quilts when that post comes up.
God Bless You.


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Divine Intimacy (starting around #250) have been amazing! All the meditations are on fraternal charity and are so inspiring, renewing my resolve to give my full presence to my children and respond to them with gentleness and joy. I wish I'd been underlining all the wonderful thoughts Fr. Gabriel has included in the last month's meditations so I could go back to them easily and share them with you. Instead, I have only a few:
"Everyone [even a child] has some burden, more or less heavy, to bear: physical or moral weakness, the press of duties and responsibilities, fatigue or other troubles which weigh on his shoulders. Everyone feels the need of a friendly hand to help him carry this weight. This hand should be held out to him in fraternal charity, which for love of God, knows how to be all things to all men. 'Bear ye one another's burdens, and so you shall fulfill the law of Christ' St. Paul exhorts us (Gal 6,2). A Christian knows that he is not isolated, but is a member of a unique body, the Mystical Body of Christ. 'So we being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another' (Rom 12,5). This knowledge of his solidarity with the brethren [secure attachment] makes a Christian live, not enclosed in the tiny circle of his own interests, but with his heart open to the needs and interests of others."
So it is our knowledge of our incorporation in Christ that should remove our anxiety and enable us to give generously of ourselves to our neighbor, beginning with our spouse and children; and this in turn, will open their hearts to the needs and interests of others.
"Charity always believes in the good will of others, even though it may be accompanied by faults; it always hopes in the good which it knows how to discover in every creature, although it may be eclipsed by many deficiencies [the flight from vulnerability]. What is more important, charity supports everything, never finding any burden too heavy. To support, according to the etymology of the word, means 'to place oneself under a weight to carry it.' Charity feels that it must stoop with love to take up the burdens of others, particularly those burdens which all avoid because they are troublesome."
"Behold the charity which, instead of fleeing, seeks out those who are suffering through natural and moral imperfections [rather than sending them to their rooms to suffer alone!], and busies itself with them so lovingly that they never guess how painful the effort is, nor how troublesome their defects are to others. Charity bears all things, endures all things with a smiling, serene face, never showing itself annoyed or crushed by the burden it bears."
How sensitive children are to perceiving that they are a burden to their parents! I cringe at the memory of so many times when my reactions to their requests have lent themselves to the impression that my children were a burden to me. And even though the memory of their sad expression is punishment enough for me, still the consequence of my sins afflicts my children and often tempts me to recoil from yet another burden I have laid upon them, perpetuating this awful cycle. What a horror and plague is sin! And what an awesome responsibility is parenthood. While lay Catholics stand in outrage over the recent scandals in the priesthood, we may do well to become more mindful of how our own actions offend the innocence of our children.
"Attention to the needs and sorrows of others, with a constant readiness to give one's help, is no justification for expecting a like return... Charity does not give an order to receive; it gives without counting the cost and without measure, for it knows that the honor of serving and loving God in His creatures is ample reward. Charity loves, serves, gives, and spends itself lavishly, solely for the sake of loving and serving God in others, for the joy of imitating His infinite generosity, for the joy of feeling itself the child of the heavenly Father who bestows His favors upon all without distinction. What greater reward can there be than to be able to call ourselves, and to be in all truth, children of God! To enjoy this [intrinsic] reward, charity seeks to fly from every [extrinsic] earthly recompense and hides the good it does... It seeks by preference to benefit those from whom it can expect nothing in return..."
Wow! There's an awful lot about punishments and rewards in that thought that I think even Alfie Kohn would agree with!
"Sometimes, just when one of about to perform an especially delicate act of charity for another, a strong feeling of antipathy toward that person arises from the sensitive part of the soul because of the absence of some sign or token of respect or consideration. This is manifestly a temptation which must be overcome as soon as it appears, that it may not take root. Anyone who would yield to these feelings and act accordingly, under the pretext of justice or of teaching a lesson, would soon become very exacting to the great detriment of charity."
How true this is in parenting! The devil wastes no time at all tempting us to start a tally of who deserves what based on his own contributions! But what a fatal error this is, especially within the family, undermining secure attachment to its foundation. If it were even possible to make a tree bear fruit before it was fully mature, it's roots having spread deep and wide enough to support the weight of its fruit-laden branches, it would topple over and die, its fruit rotting on the ground. But this is exactly what so many of us expect of our children, forcing the flower and stealing young fruit from the branches, not waiting for it to ripen and be offered freely. And what is our excuse? That we ourselves are starving. And why? Because we have still put off the Cross and the imitation of Christ. If we are not living up to the precept of fraternal charity in our own homes, it is because we are only in a casual, on-again-off-again relationship, if at all, with the source of all charity Who is Jesus. Only He can fully affirm us so that we will be empowered to affirm our children; only He can satisfy all our needs so that we will be empowered to fill the needs of our children; only He can satisfy our heart's desire so that we will be empowered to satisfy the desire of our children's hearts; so that having arrived one day at full maturity, our children will be empowered to rest in Him and be affirmed by Him, and fulfilled, and satisfied.
Fraternal Charity in the Home
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with tears running down my cheeks I thank you for this post. It touched my heart.
- November 17, 2010 at 5:28 PM
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Catholic Attachment Parenting
A philosophy of parenting modeled after the self-donative love exemplified in the relationship between Mary and Jesus.
1 Jn 4:18
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