tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post5612462338223908309..comments2024-03-28T12:12:29.813-07:00Comments on The Burrow: The State of The UnionAshleigh Burroughshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-67412507714249366132011-01-31T15:19:21.549-07:002011-01-31T15:19:21.549-07:00Let me be the 147th person to say take care of you...Let me be the 147th person to say take care of yourself first... then totally use and abuse the media for your own personal agenda, because it's way more noble than their own. I love that your husband was shifting the focus to the right thing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11145627510439227985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-21385512017100344092011-01-29T16:24:36.859-07:002011-01-29T16:24:36.859-07:00Just wanted to say thank you for not stopping your...Just wanted to say thank you for not stopping your gift... at this time, at yesterday, tomorrow and beyond, thank you.One CrustyMom-Ehttp://www.crustybeef.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-22224748416926579932011-01-28T00:17:04.384-07:002011-01-28T00:17:04.384-07:00I echo those who say take care of yourself. Many o...I echo those who say take care of yourself. Many of us can speak personally to the folly of rushing back after a serious illness or accident. Yours is neither accident nor illness, but a greater wound still. Please be good to yourself. <br /><br />As to a commitment, I've been playing with an idea for a while. Alright, almost a year and a half. So often our time is so limited we don't make/find time for action, for engagement. Many of us feel ill informed and foolish about issues and so don't speak out. If, organized in the safe environment of friends, we could form juntos where friends could gather each month to talk, to learn and to act with regard to one positive targeted message we could affect change.<br /><br /> So perhaps my commitment is this, to move from thinking about forming such a junto to actually emailing friends and asking if they would join me in such a venture.Teparyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18185795159993871901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-33987828547177669212011-01-27T22:53:46.251-07:002011-01-27T22:53:46.251-07:00The Ballerina and I are gorgeous and I feel semi-r...The Ballerina and I are gorgeous and I feel semi-revived. I'm no longer anonymous (in the blogosphere or in the real world... my face has been everywhere and strangers smile and wish me well.)<br /><br />I love the commitments to civility and kids. My readers are really special.<br /><br />Next time you are doing something you love, why not bring a youngster along? Christina would love it, and so would I.<br />a/bAshleigh Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-40200644462833916492011-01-27T20:12:22.649-07:002011-01-27T20:12:22.649-07:00Yippee! Love getting my nails done...and look forw...Yippee! Love getting my nails done...and look forward to reading your thoughts went they come...Beverlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691830042960318152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-11782066747833479222011-01-27T13:41:55.313-07:002011-01-27T13:41:55.313-07:00So glad you're getting your nails done tomorro...So glad you're getting your nails done tomorrow, and in the company of love. That bit of normalcy will certainly be therapeutic. <br />I am joining the public pledge to increase civility and respect, regardless of levels of agreement. I will do this in my relationships, my actions in the world, in my writing. <br />Thanks for the challenge, AB.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12460881702249079009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-50209568161236282252011-01-27T13:32:57.091-07:002011-01-27T13:32:57.091-07:00Dear Suzi, Yes I look for you at 9am and will cont...Dear Suzi, Yes I look for you at 9am and will continue. Please write,talk,and share your journey,good and bad it is theraputic for us all. A burden shared lightens the load. I did look for you in the gallery at the state of the union,maybe next year. Keep talking and writing, love your "voice".Fambbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-28663097122425869382011-01-27T08:49:43.416-07:002011-01-27T08:49:43.416-07:00Suzi, my commitment is to honor you and Christina ...Suzi, my commitment is to honor you and Christina by speaking out against hate. I saw an image recently at: http://madeleine-writingthewrongs.com/2011/01/25/a-moral-obligation/<br /><br />that says, "Silence is Acceptance". I will not let you being hurt and Christina's death be for nothing. We have to speak-out against hate. We need to stand-up for what's right in this country. Obama's speech also made me realize that we aren't doing enough in this country to encourage our children to explore and innovate. In your descriptions of Christina, I see that she was trying to make the world a better place. My commitment is to encourage that in all children. <br /><br />Thank you for encouraging us all to be better citizens. <br /><br /><br />Megan xxxMShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622415628314992252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-86205299614882570002011-01-26T20:50:55.181-07:002011-01-26T20:50:55.181-07:00Oh, my dear friends, I love you so! I am remember...Oh, my dear friends, I love you so! I am remembering that "healing is job #1" and I am doing my exercises and napping and staying still. I can't really pick up a book.... or watch an hour tv show.... my mind wanders and it's not a pretty place. So I plunge into my get well cards and my blog writing and my emails and I distract myself with your good wishes. I know a crash is coming .... I'm trying to put it off until my body hurts just a little bit less. Tomorrow The Ballerina and I are getting our nails done; a small step to return to normal.Ashleigh Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-32772620380580489942011-01-26T20:23:39.041-07:002011-01-26T20:23:39.041-07:00Lynda, Me, too. Find me at my blog, The Dassler Di...Lynda, Me, too. Find me at my blog, The Dassler Diaries. <br /><br />Suzi, I practically leaped out of my seat when POTUS said we should celebrate kids winning science fairs! I spent yesterday afternoon with the Science Olympiad team I coach shooting off water bottle rockets here in Phoenix. <br /><br />I have enjoyed your blog even before I knew you were Suzy and I love it even more now. My best (and nearly only) friend here in my new home is Jewish and from NY and she and this ex-nun have great times together!katiekonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828662584321512745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-73763795810878005932011-01-26T19:01:28.000-07:002011-01-26T19:01:28.000-07:00Consider me enrolled.Consider me enrolled.Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166865250789996825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-48721569445424882322011-01-26T18:48:12.192-07:002011-01-26T18:48:12.192-07:00Suzi, I learned of your blog through my good frien...Suzi, I learned of your blog through my good friend, Vicki (who helped organize your high school reunion this past year), and so I have been following your recent posts. Today's post inspired me to share a commitment I want to make: to help in uplifting the quality of public discourse in America's politics but also, in the culture. <br /><br />I first felt a call to this issue during the 2008 presidential primaries when, as a supporter of Hillary Clinton, I watched that quality sink to a new low. (Who knew that it could sink even lower, as evidenced by this past year?) In 2008, I felt that it would need to be women who took the lead in changing this, and that it had to start with women politicians. I was longing for a woman with national standing to come forward and take it on so I could get behind her and help. <br /><br />That didn't happen, and life did what life does, and I was given other "divine assignments" to fill the next two years. Then the shooting in Tucson happened, and I heard about this remarkable congresswoman fighting for her life ... and that she cared deeply about this issue of the divisive and hurtful political discourse and wanted to do something about it. Am sure she did not have getting shot on that list of possible things she might do, but here we are. And, while we cannot know what she may decide to do around this when she is recovered, those of us who also care deeply about this issue can decide what each of us can do - and offer it as a tribute to her. Her example can lead and inspire us.<br /><br />And so I, Lynda in Ohio, make a commitment to reach out and find other women who also care about this issue and begin the conversation. I do it in honor of Congresswoman Giffords. And I do it for my grandchildren, who I want to grow up in a culture where people are kinder to one another, where public role models speak and write in ways that heal and affirm rather than wound and alienate.<br /><br />Thank you, Suzi, for inspiring me to say yes to this. And anyone reading this comment who would like to join me in this conversation, please leave a comment to that effect so I can connect with you.Lynda in Ohionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-62561947602241987992011-01-26T18:36:03.357-07:002011-01-26T18:36:03.357-07:00I agree with Nance. You are to be applauded for yo...I agree with Nance. You are to be applauded for your desire to get past this horror. I know I would not be as strong as you, but, in order to keep going forward, please think of yourself....rest, sleep, lounge about, eat chocolate.I have to admit, you inspire me....Beverlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691830042960318152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-48905035494702914242011-01-26T18:11:26.199-07:002011-01-26T18:11:26.199-07:00Nance is right--though I hate to quote Nancy Reaga...Nance is right--though I hate to quote Nancy Reagan, I am repeating her advice because it fits the situation--"Just say NO." Take care of yourself first right now. Laura xoxoLauranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-44630586963906695462011-01-26T17:52:40.810-07:002011-01-26T17:52:40.810-07:00Read the AP piece and you spoke so well for me, to...Read the AP piece and you spoke so well for me, too. <br /><br />A link: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_state_of_the_union_america_watches" rel="nofollow">State of The Union Stirs Current of Hope, Doubt</a>Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166865250789996825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2546626959391412613.post-13195990072249967312011-01-26T17:44:56.938-07:002011-01-26T17:44:56.938-07:00My perforated friend, in your place I would be won...My perforated friend, in your place I would be wondering when, in this unprecedented and unrehearsed state of affairs, it would be considered disloyal, ungrateful, unpleasing to say No. And then I would weigh that against just what one small and wounded woman should rightfully be required to do. And I would want to beg--whine, even--, "Let me be for just a little while."<br /><br />Susan U. says to tell you it is okay to crawl into your bed and pull the covers up to your eyebrows. To stay there as long as you need. <br /><br />I don't mean to disparage your remarkable strength and will and purpose; I mean to say that an injured animal needs to make use of its bolt-hole to heal. <br /><br />The Burrow is so aptly named on this occasion. I know you will get the recommended exercises done and more. I know that you will be gracious for as long as you have an ounce of strength. And I know that you will honor your commitments and your goals. I know. <br /><br />But, oh, I would wish you could curl into a warm safe place for a bit, let all the effort relax, let gracious be damned for a day. I wish that you could be just you again soon, with no occasions to rise to. Another pancake and Greg Iles day. A good-enough, ordinary day.Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166865250789996825noreply@blogger.com