Posts by Mommie Dark

My first year out, my employer gave me a poinsettia with tiny white lights in it 'to keep it alive while I'm out of town.' Then she took the kids shopping and bought oodles of gifts to put around the plant. SHe sort of eased us through the weirdness of our first Christmas since my childhood. Her joy and goodness were infectious and the next year we managed without 'help'.

Since then I have gotten set free of any rank superstitious reasons NOT to celebrate the joy of family so we do whatever we want and can afford to celebrate any old occasion. Christmas is symbolic of hope and light and love in the face of the longest coldest winter nights. It's a good excuse to cook good food, visit with folks we are too busy to see during the working year, and renew our family ties with some good clean fun. My house gets it annual turnout cleaning and the tree is decorated with things that are meaningful to us (Sissy's handmade ornaments and other stuff given to us with love). People give me new Santas every year so my house is stuffed with them.

Spending lots of money is NOT the object, and when we are broke our kids are as happy with homemade treats and new socks as they are when we have $$$ for big ticket toys. Love is the reason for celebrating isn't it? Maybe we're just incredibly lucky to have nice kids but having no money has never put much of a crimp in our joyous Yuletide Solstice parties.

My advice is to do what you feel good doing. Find your personal comfort level and don't be pressured into 'celebrating' when you don't feel right about it. You have the rest of your life to figure this stuff out; meanwhile enjoy every day and don't let any holiday become a chore.

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Help & What are the blessings in YOUR life?

by Billygoat in

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these thoughts have been triggered by one of esmerelda's posts about the lesson she learned from her daughter.

if you haven't read it, please do.

it is beautifully written!

Mommie Dark

Andi, honey, my heart goes out to you.

What happened on 9/11 was a horror that will resonate through the world for a very long time. Of course you as a sensitive and decent soul are affected by it; I would question the humanity of anyone unaffected or gleeful in the face of such iniquity.

Horror and fear and tragedy and pain are old acquaintances of mine; hell, I've lived cheek& Jowl with some of 'em for long stretches of my life. You never get used to them but you can arm yourself against lasting ill effects from them by counting your blessings and NOT hoarding them...blessings only grow if you broadcast them and share them wildly. (Not saying you gotta lie down and TAKE the rotten, oh HELL NO but you do have to acknowledge that sometimes they are bigger and stronger than you and when you can't change them, at least you can mitigate their effect on you by blowing bubbles of happiness for yourself and others.)

Tiny blessings count as much as great big horrors, so count every one!

Here's some of mine:
I have a darling wonderful husband who loves me madly and sticks with me through chronic illness. He takes care of me when I am too crippled to manage the stairs and takes care of the household when I am unable to function.

I have an incredible little son who is growing up free of fear and guilt. He's one of those treasuretroves of kid wisdom, a source of happy tears only, my unalloyed joy in life.

I have a grown alcoholic son who is clean and sober for the first time in his adult life, and am about to become stepgranny to his fiance's brood.

Although we are poor as the mice that infest our cellar, we have more love and laughter in a day than many American families have in a year.

It's a gorgeous cold sunny day and the birds outside my window sing with mad rampant joy at the world around them. Who am I to complain about my hardships when these little creatures find such satisfaction in their simple pleasures?

So what if my alleged Green Cross dealer ripped off the money all us sick people gave him for herb? So what if I have to go back on the morphine next week? So what if my middle son won't get a job or my MIL is trying to manipulate our lives? These are small petty things.

Even in the face of genuine tragedy, life burgeons. There is wonder and terror every day. It's our choice which we store in our hearts.
We can't always stop the horrors, but we can gird ourselves against them. That's what you're doing right now...and bless you for it dollface!

Love
MD
collecting every smidge of happiness ammunition available

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Good Kharma? Bad Kharma?

by bboyneko in

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i found some ladies purse at the local shopping mall parking lot tonight, it had her entire life in it, her social security card, her cell phone, her cash, her credit cards, even her daughters social security card.. from looking through the contents, me and saffron were able to find out many things about her:.

1)she had recently moved from way out in the country to columbia maryland... 2)she was probably divorced from a man of middle eastern origens.

3)she was white.

Mommie Dark

I don't know from karma, honey, but you done GOOD anyway.

My kids get exasperated with me because I always go for the 'right' thing even when it would be easier to just keep what I found. Don't know if it's a stupid optimism or just ingrained training from my dear momma, but I always believed that eventually your good deeds return to you. Even though I haen't really gotten proof of that belief, it still sticks with me. Besides the look on folks' faces when you return their goods intact is usually enough reward for me. Funny how some people seem really peeved at ya for rockin their preconceptions . As Wendy experienced, not everyone is grateful; oh well it's all a part of Life's Rich Pageant as INspector Clouseau once said.

Score one for the ethical atheists. Right on son.

Love
MD

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It sure is hard being your lord

by Jehovah_God in

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my login session .

--------------------- let there be light!

:let there be light!.

Mommie Dark

JESUS IS COMING AGAIN!
So give him a towel...

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Forgiving the Governing Body

by Derrick in

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as a baptized jehovah's witness, i have been tested over the years by those very ones who claim they are entrusted with my soul.

i'll digress a moment to state that one strong theory that has deeply troubled me over the years, centers around their transformation over a century into a caricaturistic representation of christendom.

(refer definition of caricature at http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=caricature for clarification.).

Mommie Dark

Der...RICK, it sure is taking you a long time to admit that the old farts in Crooklyn are in fact filthy demonic criminals!

Geez you're finally letting it seep in after all this time!

And you're still as longwinded as ever aren't ya honey? But I'm glad you're finally letting some facts seep into that impenetrable skull of yours. I wondered if you would ever really get a clue. Nice to know even the diehards are now facing the facts. Congrats. And it's about time!

Wottsamotta, is Waterworld getting stagnant now that its waters have receded so far? Well, enjoy playing in Simon's wading pool but remember... NO PEEING IN THE POOL pal.

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What Do You Do?

by hillary_step in

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i link to this board a couple of times a day, sometimes in the early hours and there is always a flurry of activity, often from an enclave of veterans.

i wonder, are you all in prison?

i understand the pc's are allowed in some facilities.. do you all work?

Mommie Dark

Mommie Dark is a domestic goddess. She sits in the center of her delicate web, sensitive to every vibration of every strand, and she knows and manipulates everything that goes on in her domain via those vibes. It's a wildly chaotic web but astonishing in its intricacy and terrifying wonder.

Although she is now too crippled to move fast enough to paralyze and larderize every intruder, she still garners the loyalty of a legion of faithful offspring (including a vast horde of adopted Darklings) to fulfill her every intention. They are overseen by her loyal mate (who sweetly supports, feeds, comforts, massages, and titillates her whenever he is not busy providing for, chivvying and marshalling all those Darklings).

It's tough job but she does it with aplomb.

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SEMINAR ON BIBLICAL GREEK Taught by Dr. Firpo Carr

by VM44 in

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while surfing the net, i came upon this annoucement.. a seminar on biblical greek to be taught by dr. firpo carr!!!.

who wants to sign up?.

< http://www.stirinc.org/seminar.htm.

Mommie Dark

When reading Jason BeDuhn's fulsome praise of JW translations, be be aware that the Society DONATED the books for his class. Have you ever heard any teacher give anything but praise to publishers who give textbooks for a whole college class? Of course he said niceyface things that looked good when blurbed on what amounts to an advert... mutual backscratching is part of the whole incestuous academic bullshit experience.

In this as in all things, CAVEAT EMPTOR and remember, if you keep your mind open enough, your ability to reason will fall out on the pavement to mingle with the gum & dogshit.

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Mommie D and others beliefs on creation?

by cindy in

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from most of the topics and replies i have come to believe that most everyone here still believes in god and jesus and the bible.

recently on a thread i've been on i've discovered many do not.

i want to know what mommie dark and others believe on the subject of creation and jesus.

Mommie Dark

That's MRS. Mommie Dark TommyPoo. YOu really DON'T pay attention to the details at all, do you?

And no, I really don't like you at all. I tnink you are the worst sort of opportunist, evidenced by your seeking to prey on the depressed and the confused in your trolling for Godbait.

My granny taught me to step on pissants before they stink up the yard. Just tryin to keep the tradition alive...