tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post3310084925531096878..comments2024-03-29T03:43:45.977-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: Sadie, Sadie, Little LadyDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-52963588129475078852009-09-29T12:56:19.808-04:002009-09-29T12:56:19.808-04:00What a sweet wish for a new oneWhat a sweet wish for a new oneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-62950406210577809642009-09-26T11:39:18.403-04:002009-09-26T11:39:18.403-04:00BeautifulBeautifulmariannenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-62334279093849676812009-09-26T10:51:12.130-04:002009-09-26T10:51:12.130-04:00That is the best ever benediction for a baby. Sadi...That is the best ever benediction for a baby. Sadie is blessed to have you in her life to guide, enrich and to play with!Belindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09251920708783268740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-88924024143813675152009-09-25T20:42:56.991-04:002009-09-25T20:42:56.991-04:00This story is a bit off topic, but the "rainb...This story is a bit off topic, but the "rainbow in our eyes" bit, and the follow on comment from someone wishing he'd known someone with rainbow eyes as a kid, reminds me of a sweet story I read some years ago. This was, I *think*, maybe somewhere in Alice Walker's autobiography or a book of her essays or something.<br /><br />Apparently, when she was a little girl, she had an accident with a bb gun that left her blind in one eye and with an obvious mark in her eye (a round scar or something similar). She did retain her sight in the other eye. But she grew up ashamed of the new appearance of her blinded eye. She was sure that everyone could see that new scar in her eye and thought it ugly or unacceptably unusual. For a long time, she walked about without raising her eyes (though apparently people didn't remember that when she asked them years later).<br /><br />Then she had a small child and wondered what she ought to tell her child on the day the child noticed (I forget now if a son or a daughter). One day, she happens to be talking with her child about the world, showing him/her a globe or pictures etc., so now for the first time s/he has a notion we all live in a spinning ball in space that is a pretty marbled green and blue.<br /><br />Not long after that they are talking and for some reason s/he suddenly notices that scar in his/her Mommy's eye for the first time and takes Mommy's face into his/her hand looking at it in puzzlement. Now the moment has come. How DOES she explain this scar to her child? Will her child be frightened by it or upset or horrified or disgusted?<br /><br />After a long moment of studying her eye, the child exclaims in awe and wonder, "You have a world in your eye! However did you get a <i>world</i> in your eye?"Andrea S.http://wecando.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-10135511498082141982009-09-25T15:04:44.680-04:002009-09-25T15:04:44.680-04:00how beautiful, bless youhow beautiful, bless youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-64109992537769631502009-09-25T14:55:48.865-04:002009-09-25T14:55:48.865-04:00Hey guys, it's mike Marissa and Sadie ... I r...Hey guys, it's mike Marissa and Sadie ... I read your blog out loud to Marissa while she was breast feeding Sadie and I broke out in tears. Thank you for being so loving and such good friends (family) we can't wait to leave hospital.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-381390570560005272009-09-25T14:52:22.861-04:002009-09-25T14:52:22.861-04:00She is beautiful, Uncle Dave. And a blessed to ha...She is beautiful, Uncle Dave. And a blessed to have you and Uncle Joe looking out for her...Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12527926041729913404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-47356033604643897822009-09-25T13:43:46.511-04:002009-09-25T13:43:46.511-04:00Oh, Sadie--you could never ask for a finer blessin...Oh, Sadie--you could never ask for a finer blessing. Welcome to the world! <br /><br />SueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-215699561297842542009-09-25T13:29:24.744-04:002009-09-25T13:29:24.744-04:00Beautiful baby, beautiful postBeautiful baby, beautiful postLiz Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09469435277058701080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-4673447002977603862009-09-25T12:59:41.743-04:002009-09-25T12:59:41.743-04:00Oh Dave, what a beautiful post and what wonderful ...Oh Dave, what a beautiful post and what wonderful wishes for Miss Sadie.Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10791317184998122691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-78127014706422591642009-09-25T11:10:47.687-04:002009-09-25T11:10:47.687-04:00Oh my, how I would have loved to have someone in m...Oh my, how I would have loved to have someone in my life with rainbows in his eyes when I was young.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-41427816825118839632009-09-25T10:00:50.771-04:002009-09-25T10:00:50.771-04:00What a beautiful baby! Happy New Sister Day, Ruby...What a beautiful baby! Happy New Sister Day, Ruby!FridaWriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03321658097813377806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-66299674730479711592009-09-25T08:44:50.888-04:002009-09-25T08:44:50.888-04:00Hello Sadie,
Welcome to the world, to your loving...Hello Sadie,<br /><br />Welcome to the world, to your loving family and a great adventure called life. A big hello from far far away, nevertheless with a real smile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-80676062527501070672009-09-25T06:24:01.920-04:002009-09-25T06:24:01.920-04:00What a beautiful, new little person. And what a be...What a beautiful, new little person. And what a beautiful post, Dave. <br />Welcome to the world, Sadie!wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14790763688701278823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-6414571643821484712009-09-25T05:01:18.196-04:002009-09-25T05:01:18.196-04:00I did some digging and found that the last poem wa...I did some digging and found that the last poem was wirtten by Dorothy Louise Law Nolte. (if you're interested)Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08056130892964755141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-5595117281647933952009-09-25T04:50:52.679-04:002009-09-25T04:50:52.679-04:00Your post brings to mind two poems that were hung ...Your post brings to mind two poems that were hung on the wall of my parents house.<br /><br />If, by Rudyard Kipling<br /><br />If you can keep your head when all about you <br />Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; <br />If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, <br />But make allowance for their doubting too; <br />If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, <br />Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, <br />Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, <br />And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; <br /><br />If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; <br />If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; <br />If you can meet with triumph and disaster <br />And treat those two imposters just the same; <br />If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken <br />Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, <br />Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, <br />And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; <br /><br />If you can make one heap of all your winnings <br />And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, <br />And lose, and start again at your beginnings <br />And never breath a word about your loss; <br />If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew <br />To serve your turn long after they are gone, <br />And so hold on when there is nothing in you <br />Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; <br /><br />If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, <br />Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; <br />If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; <br />If all men count with you, but none too much; <br />If you can fill the unforgiving minute <br />With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - <br />Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, <br />And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! <br /><br />And,<br /><br />If a Child, by Unknown<br /><br />If a child lives with criticism, <br />he learns to condemn.<br />If a child lives with hostility, <br />he learns to fight.<br />If a child lives with ridicule, <br />he learns to be shy.<br />If a child lives with shame, <br />he learns to feel guilty.<br />If a child lives with tolerance, <br />he learns to be patient.<br />If a child lives with encouragement, <br />he learns confidence.<br />If a child lives with praise, <br />he learns to appreciate.<br />If a child lives with fairness, <br />he learns justice.<br />If a child lives with security, <br />he learns to have faith.<br />If a child lives with approval, <br />he learns to like himself.<br />If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, <br />He learns to find love in the world.Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08056130892964755141noreply@blogger.com