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Raising the Hope For America’s Future
Look for it online or
ask for it at your favorite bookstores. For anyone who has the
propensity to influence children. (This is as commercial as
I get.) Another in the exclusive
series of articles that further explore the subject of parenting. What’s In A Birthday? Deborah Venable 06/27/09 Today is the anniversary of the birth of my oldest child. Her birthday is replete with memories for me
because I became a parent for the first time while her father was in route
from an overseas eight month deployment in the U.S. Navy. He left immediately after she was
conceived – first stop, Vietnam. In those days, they did not hurry new mothers out the door of
the hospital as soon as possible like they do now, especially not when there
had been complications at birth. My
daughter was fighting for her life after having been resuscitated from a
stillborn birth. I was fighting for
my sanity at not being able to hold her or even see her, except through the
glass of the neonatal nursery, only when I was able to walk there on my own
the next day. Things were a lot
different back then – especially in a military hospital. Throughout all that frightening day I was in a fog of emotions
and I felt the new weight of responsibility – parenthood. I was pretty much on my own with that
feeling because the Red Cross would not notify my husband since they could
not tell him that we were both fine.
That, I was told, was SOP back then whenever sailors were in the
middle of the ocean. I was discharged from the hospital four full days after she was
born, but I could not take her home with me.
I still had not held her or even touched her, and I could not make the
long drive to the hospital to even see her.
My daily calls to the hospital were met with negative news until a
week after she was born when the second miracle happened. (The first had been her resuscitation in
the delivery room.) The long awaited
positive answer came when they said, “she will be fine.” They had detached her from life support
and were discharging her. Since she had arrived ahead of schedule, and I had spent almost
everything I had to set up a new home in the ship’s homeport for us, I could
not even afford a bed for her. I
brought her home to a large dresser drawer as a bassinet, but I had made sure
that I would be able to nurse her, and my mother had carefully washed and
ironed an entire layette of hand-me-downs that friends had contributed. I cannot express the sheer joy of holding
my baby and taking care of her for the first time. It was pure magic! My husband arrived in homeport just days before my daughter’s
actual due date, and I met the ship at the pier with her in my arms. I will never forget the look on his face
as I saw him seconds before he had picked us out of the crowd. He had his buddies helping him look for a
very pregnant wife because he still did not know she was born. The first thing we did that day was go shopping for a “proper
bed” for our daughter. We had four more children during the twenty years after that,
and my husband was present for all their births. Each birthday was miraculous and each one was magical, but the
birthday of Shannon Elizabeth, June 27, 1970 was the birthday of this
Professional Parent and the beginning of my greatest achievement. Birthdays are a big deal.
They deserve celebration for the continuing miracle of life, which
they represent. That is in our
culture and our American heritage. We
celebrate life. If you’ve done the math, you will realize that my daughter came
home from the hospital on July 4, 1970 – a full week after her birth, and
less than two hundred years after the celebrated birth of our country. We celebrate both events in our family. Happy birthday, Shannon!
You are a shining example of the best promise God ever gave a mother!
This is a picture of Shannon with her father, shortly after her
third birthday. I took it from the crown
of the Statue Of Liberty with the newly completed Twin Towers in the
background. What’s in a birthday? For one thing, an awful lot of history, and a big reason to celebrate each and every stage of life. Children truly are the Hope For America’s Future, and it is a parent’s job to make sure that they are full with it. Recently, Conservative
Times published one of these “Professional Parenting” articles also. It is not archived on this site, but you
may click this link to read it. Raising the Hope –
Safeguarding the Family Professional Parenting Articles ARCHIVES Do not follow where the
path may lead. Go, instead, where
there is no path and leave a trail. Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you,
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©2006-2009 Latest DebV Rants What’s to Love? – 06/20/09 Exploring the only
natural enemy of hate. Three Icons In One Week – 06/27/09 How do you like the
media’s handling? Short Stuff Obama
Implores Senate
– After the House of Few Representatives passed the behemoth Cap and Trade
bill on Friday, Obama hit the airwaves to pressure the Senate to follow
suit. The funniest thing about this
story is that Nancy Pelosi has a new name for all those citizens who tried to
have their say in our Representative Constitutional Republic by contacting
our actual representatives with our opinions: “the entrenched agents of the status quo.” Yep, that’s what we are, lady – entrenched
in our rich history of freedom under a government that is supposed to allow
us to keep it in check! Please do
your homework on this thing, folks, and keep those lines “jammed” with your
opinions, or we won’t have a very bright future! This is truly a government out of control! Legislating the climate is like killing
the goose that laid the golden eggs. Video Attack on Marriage – Short but
effective. Janet Porter’s recent
article, The
President's Tasteless Jokes is also another winner.
Thanks Janet! There
is a lot of sense in Thomas Sowell’s latest, Republicans
In the Wilderness
– as people are floundering around for a way to defeat the takeover of the
left. It reminds me of when I was
first learning to type, (on a typewriter), yes, I’m THAT old! The first exercise I learned was not about
a quick sly fox jumping over a lazy dog – rather, it was simply: Now is the
time for all good men to come to the aid of their party. Later, strangely enough, the exercise was
changed to: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their
country. Could it really be that
simple? However, as Mr. Sowell said,
and I’ve always believed: “Unfortunately, the only political party
with any chance of displacing the current leadership in Washington is the
Republican Party.” Video explaining why our rights
evaporated
– Take the sixteen minutes to watch this and then do the digging for
yourself. What this guy lacks in
oratory ability, he more than makes up for in fact! The Politically
Incorrect Guide To the South - by Clint Johnson This
is a book well worth reading. This
link will let you read a chapter to give you a taste. Now, you Yankees might not be too
comfortable with the facts contained in this meticulously researched book,
but get over it and allow yourself the pure learning experience. Keep in mind the way things are going now
within our corrupt government, which is seeking to destroy the last vestiges
of individuality, heritage, and birthright as it ignores this important part
of American history. “American by birth – Southern by
the Grace of God.” Her Name Was Neda - This is but one story
about the Iranian woman who is becoming the symbol of Iranian resistance, but
it tells of the threats to her family not to memorialize her death. Iran is ruled by religious theocracy – not
by that pompous little figurehead.
Neda and her family wanted a funeral in a mosque – not a Catholic
church or Jewish temple – yet these supposed “holy” men of Islam said
“no.” Why would America ever bow to a
religion like that? Another
Iranian Family Told Not To Honor Their Child With Funeral – This one tends to bring
out the “bottom line” of this “peaceful” version of theocracy in Iran. In order to claim body of their son, there
was a “bullet fee” of $3,000! Why
would anyone want to live under this stuff? Video
- Inspector General of Fed Questioned – Dubbed, “There Are No Words” this is one to watch! By the way, that’s a Dem doing the
questioning. If only there were more
willing! Mr. Obama,
Show Us Your Birth Certificate – by Pat Boone Another
“Birther” – and I feel like I’m in very good company! If
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updated may be found on the archives page I love to point out as
often as possible that there are still some pretty extraordinary young people
in America. You know, young folks
with their heads on straight, who appreciate good stuff when they see
it. Recently, my young friend,
Andrew, sent me a poem that he said had made a positive impression on
him. Here is the kicker, it was
written and first published in 1934!
I think you will agree that the positive message cannot be denied: The Guy in the Glass by Dale Wimbrow, (c) 1934 When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf, And the world makes you King for a day, Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, And see what that guy has to say. For it isn't your Father, or Mother, or Wife, Who judgment upon you must pass. The feller whose verdict counts most in your life Is the guy staring back from the glass. He's the feller to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with you clear up to the end, And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test If the guy in the glass is your friend. You may be like Jack Horner and "chisel" a plum, And think you're a wonderful guy, But the man in the glass says you're only a bum If you can't look him straight in the eye. You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years, And get pats on the back as you pass, But your final reward will be heartaches and tears If you've cheated the guy in the glass. In grateful memory of our father, the author, Dale Wimbrow
1895-1954 From his children's website, I found another poem: My Religion by Dale Wimbrow MY CHURCH, AND MY CREED You ask me "what is my religion"? Now what if I say I have None? You'll be wrongly impressed, And unduly distressed So wait - I have only begun. My creed in the sense that you mean it, Has no single symbol, or sign. Big, impressive, or small, There is good in them all, So perhaps Your religion is mine. My doctrine is any that stands for The honor and virtue of men. For whatever we preach, We're all striving to reach A mutual goal in the end. My church is the one that is nearest Wherever I happen to be. The place where men go Their devotion to show, Is good - and sufficient for me. What matters the Name on the mileposts That stand by the path you have trod? If the pathway leads UP Then at last you shall sup With the infinite army of God. Quick Links For News & Commentary – MainstreamUPI AP ABC News
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