Date:   11/28/2008 9:21:13 PM ( 16 y ago)
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NO!!!

That euphemism hadn't even been THOUGHT OF when I first heard the term 'Mother Hubbard'...and there is nothing derogatory about a reference to 'Mother Hubbard'!!!

...Except maybe a little old-fashioned...like someone called me 'retro' on another bulletin board. I was somewhat amazed, but I had to agree...my frame of reference came from those days even before I was born...which I believe was long before most of you.

All the music and literature and social customs and schools, and even religious mores, are different now. Many words I use, like 'mores', you may never have heard. I try to keep my words within the realm of reason, but I think, "If I don't use them, who will?"

There is little enough understanding between people that we can't afford to let much go extinct.

And, I so agree about the 'Mother Hubbard', or mu-mu dress. That's even in Michener's famous book, 'Hawaii'...if any here have read Michener.


And 'Hubbard' has absolutely NOTHING to do with anyone's face!!!


Girlygirlygirl, are you breathing? Did you ever? Were you once a baby? ...Because if any of these are true...you are beautiful! You are one of the finest creations of our species ever on this planet...PERIOD!

No and's, if's, or but's.

A neighbor kid was much shorter than my son. I heard him call out to no one in particular, "I wish I was big and tall like Raymond!" (NOT my son's name, just in case.)

So, as a mother, I said, "You get what you get in this world. If you get purple hair and green skin, then you get purple hair and green skin. That doesn't mean that you are different inside."

One of my most basic principles is that kids should NOT have to worry how they 'measure up' against others. They are just fine how they are...thank you very much.

I have stepped in and stopped bullying among children, and, given half a chance I'd do it for adults, too, in a flash.


That person's comment, whatever was meant, was a bunch of hooey!

We have skewed ideas of what we look like, because we see only one person in the mirror.

I came across a picture of myself and my brothers a while back. It was taken not long before I became a mother at age 32...which was a few decades back.

I gulped when I saw the picture...I was beautiful, though I hadn't thought so at the time.

If you don't care for a picture of yourself, put it away for a few years. I guarantee it will look gorgeous, one day!

You'll see.

Enjoy!
 

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