It's an act of violence, not out of hatred but out of ignorance.
Of course raising children without ever resorting to violent discipline is not easy and requires great patience and understanding which can be beyond many parents.
There's certainly a lot of evidence to suggest it was psychogenic not neurological. She was originally diagnosed with dystonIa, a fairly uncommon neurological degenerative condition, but that is progressive and cannot appear suddenly. I know this to be true as an ex of mine was diagnosed with dystonIa after about two years of slowly getting worse. The dystonIa diagnosis has now been ruled out and the speculation continues.
Not to mention the Henry Ford exciting at Dearborn.
That's quite a coincidence. I'm just reading Bill Bryson's book....The Lost Continent...Travels in small town America. Even more of a coincidence I've just read his account of travelling through Mitchigan.
Here's a short extract.
"The Henry Ford Museum is a must. From the moment I past through its portals I was enthralled. For one thing, the scale of it is a most breathtaking. You find yourself in a great hangar of a building covering twelve acres of grounds filled with the most indescribable assortment of stuff, one of these being a bottle containing Thomas Editors last breath. I found this item particularly captivating. Apart from being ridiculously morbid and sentimental, how did they know was going to be Edison's last one?"
"The five lakes cover 94,500 square miles, making them almost precisely the size of the United Kingdom. "
"Whilst travelling the chunk of land people call the upper peninsular I kept encountering signs saying 'Pasties'. I had to see if they were real Cornish Pasties or something else altogether but with the same name. The guy who ran the place was excited to have a real English man in his store. He had been making them for 30 years and never seen a real pasty or a real English man, come to that. I didn't have the heart to tell him I originally was from Iowa, the next state over. Nobody gets excited from meeting an Iowan. It did seem to be a genuine Cornish pasty exceptit was the size of a rugby Ball. Eagerly I tucked into it, apart from anything else I was starving."
Not to mention the Henry Ford exciting at Dearborn.
That's quite a coincidence. I'm just reading Bill Bryson's book....The Lost Continent...Travels in small town America. Even more of a coincidence I've just read his account of travelling through Mitchigan.
Here's a short extract.
"The Henry Ford Museum is a must. From the moment I past through its portals I was enthralled. For one thing, the scale of it is a most breathtaking. You find yourself in a great hangar of a building covering twelve acres of grounds filled with the most indescribable assortment of stuff, one of these being a bottle containing Thomas Editors last breath. I found this item particularly captivating. Apart from being ridiculously morbid and sentimental, how did they know was going to be Edison's last one?"
"The five lakes cover 94,500 square miles, making them almost precisely the size of the United Kingdom. "
"Whilst travelling the chunk of land people call the upper peninsular I kept encountering signs saying 'Pasties'. I had to see if they were real Cornish Pasties or something else altogether but with the same name. The guy who ran the place was excited to have a real English man in his store. He had been making them for 30 years and never seen a real pasty or a real English man, come to that. I didn't have the heart to tell him I originally was from Iowa, the next state over. Nobody gets excited from meeting an Iowan. It did seem to be a genuine Cornish pasty exceptit was the size of a rugby Ball. Eagerly I tucked into it, apart from anything else I was starving."
"We should know, that learning to cherish others is the best method for establishing world peace in general and for our own piece of mind in particular. "
For me, the saddest part of all this has been the families that weren't able to be with their loved ones as they slowly faded and passed away. I've seen and heard so many harrowing first hand reports from distraught families who could not be with, or even see thier elderly parents or grandparents for a last time to say goodbye or hold their hands as they slipped away. This has been a truly traumatic time for so many, my heart goes out to them.
Intent is always the starting point, or maybe I should say, examining your intent. From a position of good intention you may decide that to intervene could cause hurt. So, sometimes it can be more helpful to accept we can't always make things better for someone by words alone. But only you can decide that.
The kind of dance sessions I go to usually involves a lot of physical contact and is high energy for over 2 hours. The coming together of sweaty bodies is part of the dance and we usually have at least 70- 100 attending. Social distancing would be very difficult but not impossible if the numbers were reduced drastically I guess. But somehow it would devalue the whole purpose of the dance and change it to something else entirely.
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RE: What's famous in your country?
Bill Bryson's books are really good reading, informative and very funny.The Lost Continent starts with the line.
"I came from Des Moines. Somebody had to."
It kinda sets the tone for the rest of the book.