as some of you might have read last week, my mother had extremely low hemoglobin and without it, she would have died.
i have somehow managed to bring her to reason and accept the transfusion.
it saved her life.
This is the kind of creepshow shit (the elders' conduct) that I want the outside world to see and hear. It's time for this cult to take some responsibility and accountability for its abusive, bullying nature.
Please send your mother our love and give her a big hug from all of us. She is a living celebration of life!
i've been lurking on the board for almost a year now and i think i'm ready to come out of hiding (although, i'm so nervous as i type this).
i'm not ready to share everything about my story, but the basics are that i'm a born-in, elder's kid, baptized as a teenager because i was tired of hearing people ask me "all your friends are baptized, when are you going to get baptized?
", married an unbeliever (was df, but came back shortly after) and we have two kids.
gardening is my physical activity thing.
i like to have a productive garden but dot it with a bit of pretty.
the front lawn is around 40m2 and i am converting it to potager this year.
This group of rocks symbolizes a waterfall where the water flows from the corner on downward into the riverbed, emptying into the area around the water basin. It's called "karetaki" or dry waterfall cascade. The stones hopefully give depth and visual appeal to the garden. I installed the bamboo fence behind it to cover the ordinary walls and give the garden an Asian feel to it.
gardening is my physical activity thing.
i like to have a productive garden but dot it with a bit of pretty.
the front lawn is around 40m2 and i am converting it to potager this year.
This is a stone water basin (tsukubai) that I put in at the end of the dry river bed. It was traditionally used for rinsing ones hands before engaging in the tea ceremony. No tea garden is complete without it and a stone lantern hiding shyly in the ferns.
gardening is my physical activity thing.
i like to have a productive garden but dot it with a bit of pretty.
the front lawn is around 40m2 and i am converting it to potager this year.
This is the Kyoto style inner courtyard garden I made at the back of the
house. It is surrounded by four walls and is about 10 meters by 5
meters. before it was nothing but a space with pea stone laid down.
Bringing in the plants, trees, river stones and stone water basin was
hard work! I planted in a cherry blossom (sakura) tree as well as a bay
leaf, Japanese maple and camphor tree. Getting the moss to take took
time and patience as well. The rocks glisten beautifully on a rainy day.
new here but looking forward to joining in some of the discussions with you all.. a small bit about me: i'm shane.
was raised as a jw in the uk by my mum (single parent family) from about 2 years of age.
got baptised at 15 for all the wrong reasons.
portrait of a girl and her dog.
(a true story by terry edwin walstrom).
her name was cheryl ann draper and she was about 11 years old the day she begged her daddy, who worked at a gas station, to let her go with him to work.
Your writing style is similar to that of my favorite author, Stephen King. Although it was a horrible event, you skillfully and honorably find the good in it - in this case honoring her memory. The older I get the more I realize that life is unfair. No girl should ever have to die that young.
Somewhere, in some other universe or parellel dimension (even if it's only in our minds), she is running around in a field, playing with her dog and laughing forever.
few realize just how wicked some of the most revered people in history were.
helen keeler (1880 to 1968) was a wolf in sheep's clothing, no hero.
keller was a communist.
Imitate the Filthful and Discrepant Slave.
