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From Hate To Respect
I never thought I would see this day. But I am so glad I lived to see it.
I have watched every inguration since I was a kid. They are all special in thier own ways. You see a man (so far only men) full of hope and energy. Then four or eight years later, you see them being spit out by a mostly ungrateful country. And you can see the burden on their faces. I didn’t vote for George Bush, but I don’t think he is the village idiot and I think he did what he thought was best. It may not have been the best, but it is easy to look backward and be a Monday night quaterback . So we have spit George Bush out, and have a new one to feed on. I hope fate is kind to him.
Try to remember they are all our fellow Americans and human and fallible.
I wish my father had lived to see this.
Sugar Rush
Yes friends, it is cooking baking time again. Not me, I didn’t spend my time in High School working at a bakery after school. No, it is the boss who the cookie baking nut. I just sweep up after and take the trays of cookies out of the oven when the buzzer goes off. You don’t have to eat them to go a little weird. Just being in the kitchen with all that sugar takes its tole. This isn’t pretty, but consider it a warning before you crank up the ole oven
Eleventh Hour
On the eleventh hour or the eleventh day of the eleventh month, World War I ended. The war to end all wars crashed on until the treaty of The Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28th 1919. 20 million deaths both civilian and milatary occured.
Try to remember them all at 11:00am. It may not have been the war to end all wars, but it was certainly the war that changed the world.
On other fronts, the afghan for Afghan mittens are chugging along.
Politics
I don’t like to talk about politics. Because it seems even normal people can’t discuss what they think or believe without it turning into a hate fest.
What is wrong with us? You may differ with our president and I do. But he is not some demon from hell. He is a human being and an American. There seems to be a lot of hate and nastiness going on in this supposedly Christian nation. 
When we dislike a politician’s actions, we elect a new person. We do not drive a stake through their hearts. And dance about in the dark enjoying their pain.
Every president elected has done the country wrong in one way or another. Do the words Vietnam, Watergate, Iran Contra, Monica strike a chord in your memory. All politicians come from us. And if they turn out to be slime balls, then we had better take a hard look at the society that elected them, instead of hurling mud at the other side.
I live in a so called “battleground” state. I have watched the politics get nastier and nastier. Are we proud of ourselves yet? People with political signs in their yards have had them ripped up, stolen and burned. Racial slurs sprayed on their cars and homes. Now we have the FBI investigating possible voter intimidation. I hope they catch the little shits and give them the scare of their lives. Because this is being done by kids. And just where did these idiot kids get these ideas from ?
This is how I feel about politics
Welcome
First I would like to thank my dearest friend Paul aka Jasidog for helping me to set this up. While I run in tight circles yelling helppp. He goes “Suzann, push the green button.” Suzann? c-l-i-c-k t-h-e g-r-e-e-n b-u-t-t-o-n NOW An extremely patient man. 
I have wanted to combine my tatting site and my knitting blog for a long time. There is more content to be added. But this is a start. You might notice some of the tatting pictures look a bit strange. When I created these web pages, the only way to get images onto your computer was to scan them. Yes they are that old. Those items I still have, I will take new pictures of.
I want to thank everyone who has encourage my efforts in knitting. You cheered me on, when I wanted to throw those 2.00mm at a dart board. Thank you all for being such good friends.
Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mothers Day To All the Moms out there
My daughter took this picture of Zola and her cub Gramby. Zola had two cubs which was a real surprise to the zoo keepers at the Norfolk Zoo. I love how the picture captures the cubs attachment to his mother. I take pictures that record a thing exists. My daughter takes pictures that record the soul of a thing.
If you would like to see more of her lion and animal pictures please visit her divantart gallery Dawn’s Gallery
Mother’s Day is a little sad for me, because all the Moms are gone. But I remember my own mother with love and more then a small bit of laughter.
I hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Martin Luther King
I think I mentioned before that sometime ago my brother and I were driving one evening to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Atlanta. He was driving the car. And for some reason the drivers were very discourteous that night. They didn’t dim their lights; hardly any driver that passed by dimmed his lights. And I remember very vividly, my brother A. D. looked over and in a tone of anger said: “I know what I’m going to do. The next car that comes along here and refuses to dim the lights, I’m going to fail to dim mine and pour them on in all of their power.” And I looked at him right quick and said: “Oh no, don’t do that. There’d be too much light on this highway, and it will end up in mutual destruction for all. Somebody got to have some sense on this highway.”
Somebody must have sense enough to dim the lights, and that is the trouble, isn’t it? That as all of the civilizations of the world move up the highway of history, so many civilizations, having looked at other civilizations that refused to dim the lights, and they decided to refuse to dim theirs. And Toynbee tells that out of the twenty-two civilizations that have risen up, all but about seven have found themselves in the
junkheap of destruction. It is because civilizations fail to have sense enough to dim the lights. And if somebody doesn’t have sense enough to turn on the dim and beautiful and powerful lights of love in this world, the whole of our civilization will be plunged into the abyss of destruction. And we will all end up destroyed because nobody had any sense on the highway of history. Somewhere somebody must have
some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.
Martin Luther King
Loving Your Enemies
November 17 1957