This day in History...My most unforgettable Character
Flashback of an article 10 years old today. It's been an amazing 10 years and it's so sad so many don't realize the history being made all around them that they ignore for their Ipod.
This day in History...My most unforgettable Character
TheTownCrier Editorial
July 29, 1909, Searcy County, Arkansas, my mother was born.
Those are the first words my mother taught me to memorize. She defended the weak and innocent and respected the honorable among us and believed first, above all things, that all men are created equal, that they deserved respect, but only when it was earned.
Until I was about 7 years old, before television came to our community, we listened to the radio.....Edward R. Murrow and the Great Gildersleeve, Inner Sanctum , the Korean war. When TV came to the West Coast, I watched the civil rights movement of the sixties sitting beside her, watching her sorrow that in parts of her beloved South such discrimination yet existed. Mama told the story, with horror in her voice, of the hanging of a black man during her childhood in Arkansas. Together we watched the first televised images of the death camps of the holocaust as tears streamed down her face.
She lived through the poverty of the South, the depression, W.W.II rationing, and unimaginable personal sacrifice and physical hardship as she admonished,
She was proud of her Irish immigrant ancestors, who came to this land before it was a nation and fought in the Revolution and as Union soldiers in the Civil War and her brothers and uncles who entered World War I.
She was an original ‘ feminist’ , leaving her Ozark home for California, a single woman who dared to wear slacks and smoke cigarettes and teach her daughters they had value as long as they earned the respect they received. She dreamed of being a teacher and a nurse, while she spent every day of her life teaching and healing without pay or appreciation.
She was a true ‘environmentalist’. The greenie radical enviros could have learned a great deal from Mama. She hung her clothes out to dry. She walked to town to do her shopping. She raised the chickens, chopped their heads off, stuffed our pillows with the feathers and made the best southern fried chicken in an iron skillet that anyone ever tasted. She sewed our clothes and never wasted anything, thanking God before each meal for our bounty. I slept on a feather bed made by my mother. It was as close to heaven as I'll ever get.
She never learned to drive a car, but never forgot to vote and often walked miles to never miss an election, warning us to never vote by party, but by character and never forgetting that she was the first generation of women to be born with the right to vote in this country.
When I was about 5 years old we lived near the railroad tracks. My father, too often abusive, who she ordinarily dutifully obeyed, warned her to stop giving the Hobos food. But when he was at work, she still fed the hungry with homemade biscuits and watered the thirsty. She also warned them to not enter her yard or get near her children, she had a gun and knew how to use it. She gave freely, but despised those who decided what they could take from others things that didn’t belong to them or never earned. They knew to not abuse her good nature and that her home was sacred ground.
I will leave you with her favorite poem, still on a tattered sheet of paper nearly 75 years old.
'Mama’
July 29, 1909, Searcy County, Arkansas, my mother was born.
“Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, Red or yellow, black or white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world”
Those are the first words my mother taught me to memorize. She defended the weak and innocent and respected the honorable among us and believed first, above all things, that all men are created equal, that they deserved respect, but only when it was earned.
Until I was about 7 years old, before television came to our community, we listened to the radio.....Edward R. Murrow and the Great Gildersleeve, Inner Sanctum , the Korean war. When TV came to the West Coast, I watched the civil rights movement of the sixties sitting beside her, watching her sorrow that in parts of her beloved South such discrimination yet existed. Mama told the story, with horror in her voice, of the hanging of a black man during her childhood in Arkansas. Together we watched the first televised images of the death camps of the holocaust as tears streamed down her face.
She lived through the poverty of the South, the depression, W.W.II rationing, and unimaginable personal sacrifice and physical hardship as she admonished,
“There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us”.
She was proud of her Irish immigrant ancestors, who came to this land before it was a nation and fought in the Revolution and as Union soldiers in the Civil War and her brothers and uncles who entered World War I.
She was an original ‘ feminist’ , leaving her Ozark home for California, a single woman who dared to wear slacks and smoke cigarettes and teach her daughters they had value as long as they earned the respect they received. She dreamed of being a teacher and a nurse, while she spent every day of her life teaching and healing without pay or appreciation.
c. 1937 Lena Kimbrell, Pomona, California
She was a true ‘environmentalist’. The greenie radical enviros could have learned a great deal from Mama. She hung her clothes out to dry. She walked to town to do her shopping. She raised the chickens, chopped their heads off, stuffed our pillows with the feathers and made the best southern fried chicken in an iron skillet that anyone ever tasted. She sewed our clothes and never wasted anything, thanking God before each meal for our bounty. I slept on a feather bed made by my mother. It was as close to heaven as I'll ever get.
She never learned to drive a car, but never forgot to vote and often walked miles to never miss an election, warning us to never vote by party, but by character and never forgetting that she was the first generation of women to be born with the right to vote in this country.
When I was about 5 years old we lived near the railroad tracks. My father, too often abusive, who she ordinarily dutifully obeyed, warned her to stop giving the Hobos food. But when he was at work, she still fed the hungry with homemade biscuits and watered the thirsty. She also warned them to not enter her yard or get near her children, she had a gun and knew how to use it. She gave freely, but despised those who decided what they could take from others things that didn’t belong to them or never earned. They knew to not abuse her good nature and that her home was sacred ground.
I will leave you with her favorite poem, still on a tattered sheet of paper nearly 75 years old.
The Monkeys Disgrace
Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they're said to be.
Said one to another, "Now listen, you two,
There's a certain rumor that cannot be true,
That man descends from our noble race -
The very idea is a disgrace.
No monkey ever deserted his wife,
Starved her babies and ruined her life;
And you've never known a mother monk
To leave her babies with others to bunk,
Or pass them on from one to another
Til they scarcely know who is their mother.
And another thing you'll never see -
A monk build a fence around a coconut tree
And let the coconuts go to waste,
Forbidding all other monks to taste.
Why, if I put a fence around this tree,
Starvation would force you to steal from me.
Here's another thing a monk won't do -
Go out at night and get on a stew,
Or use a gun or club or knife
To take some other monkey's life;
Yes, Man Descended - That ornery cuss -
But, brother, he didn't descend from us!"
- anonymous
Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they're said to be.
Said one to another, "Now listen, you two,
There's a certain rumor that cannot be true,
That man descends from our noble race -
The very idea is a disgrace.
No monkey ever deserted his wife,
Starved her babies and ruined her life;
And you've never known a mother monk
To leave her babies with others to bunk,
Or pass them on from one to another
Til they scarcely know who is their mother.
And another thing you'll never see -
A monk build a fence around a coconut tree
And let the coconuts go to waste,
Forbidding all other monks to taste.
Why, if I put a fence around this tree,
Starvation would force you to steal from me.
Here's another thing a monk won't do -
Go out at night and get on a stew,
Or use a gun or club or knife
To take some other monkey's life;
Yes, Man Descended - That ornery cuss -
But, brother, he didn't descend from us!"
- anonymous
original https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Lena
And my Father......."YOUR RIGHTS STOP WHERE MY NOSE STARTS"
And best of all, she had a sense of humor. Something sorely lacking today.
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If you don't consider this story (Sparks FRIGGIN' Nevada, for God sake!) disgusting and WRONG for any kids view, your soul is BLACK and you are the problem in this country!) Wake up! It's my right to not have YOUR perverted lifestyle pushed on our communities!
Jul 26, 2019 - 1:48 pm EST
Bruce Jenner....the only human being in the history of the world who volunteered to be a 67 year old woman.. C'mon....tell me this isn't a mental illness! People need help and compassion...turning the world into their own private distorted vision fixes NOTHING....Jenner isn't even happy with his....oh...my.. CHOICE!!!! All clinical studies prove there is more mental illness in the gay population. Discovering one's 'gayness' in old age (NOT BORN WITH IT YOU MORONS!)often occurs in the Bipolar manic phases of mental illness.
GOOGLE IT! I'm tired of doing your work for you lazy fools.
(5). Further, non-heterosexual orientation and non-conforming gender identities have a long and troubled history in psychiatry with extensive conflation of sexual and gender identities with psychiatric symptomatology https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936529/
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Trump is right because he LISTENED!!!
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DON't be a fool! Plenty of traitors who pretend to be conservatives or even patriots are out there. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, you sold out!!!
And my Father......."YOUR RIGHTS STOP WHERE MY NOSE STARTS"
And best of all, she had a sense of humor. Something sorely lacking today.
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If you don't consider this story (Sparks FRIGGIN' Nevada, for God sake!) disgusting and WRONG for any kids view, your soul is BLACK and you are the problem in this country!) Wake up! It's my right to not have YOUR perverted lifestyle pushed on our communities!
Jul 26, 2019 - 1:48 pm ESTMayor tries to stop drag story hour: ‘Why would you have transgender people talking to kids?’ link
Bruce Jenner....the only human being in the history of the world who volunteered to be a 67 year old woman.. C'mon....tell me this isn't a mental illness! People need help and compassion...turning the world into their own private distorted vision fixes NOTHING....Jenner isn't even happy with his....oh...my.. CHOICE!!!! All clinical studies prove there is more mental illness in the gay population. Discovering one's 'gayness' in old age (NOT BORN WITH IT YOU MORONS!)often occurs in the Bipolar manic phases of mental illness.
GOOGLE IT! I'm tired of doing your work for you lazy fools.
(5). Further, non-heterosexual orientation and non-conforming gender identities have a long and troubled history in psychiatry with extensive conflation of sexual and gender identities with psychiatric symptomatology https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4936529/
Higher rates of depression, anxiety disorder, substance use in lesbian and ...
YOU lefties are ALL about science, right????
GO LIVE YOUR LIVES...NO one wants to hurt you, we want nothing from you except to be LEFT ALONE! GET your gay FAD lifestyle out of our way of life.
Our customs and family have as much right to exist as you do!!!! LEAVE MY GRANDCHILDREN ALONE!!! Gay teachers are a hazzard because they are socialists, another mental illness! And they fill academia.....people who have no kids teaching mine...NONSENSE!
Jan 28, 2016 - There are higher proportions of gay men and lesbian women working as postsecondary teachers in comparison with other jobs, a new study ...
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Other fields in which both lesbian and gay workers are overrepresented include psychology, which the researchers found is the occupation with the highest proportion of both gay and lesbian workers, as well as counseling, law, and social work.
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2016/01/28/study-academia-attracts-more-gay-men-and-women
THESE ARE THE PLACES OF INFLUENCE over your kids!
A NOTE about FACEBOOK censorship and the group of militant gay lovers who make sure I am always in FACEBOOK jail.......when they aren't doing that they post huge bright yellow banners proclaiming "TTC is a ClOSETED LESBIAN!"
...ya better be ready to prove THAT in court you dishonest sickos. Facebook has NO problem slandering a conservative. Those posts are still up! FB may get sued as well if I live long enough.
I had to discontinue the comment feature of this blog..the BEST part...because of their two year campaign of disinformation.
...ya better be ready to prove THAT in court you dishonest sickos. Facebook has NO problem slandering a conservative. Those posts are still up! FB may get sued as well if I live long enough.
TTC was reaching over 10,000 people a day before you SOLD out 'conservatives' chose $$$$ over patriotism and sided with the enemy...It will be YOUR undoing. You might think about that since you care NOTHING about your fellow Americans who will have to defend your simple sorry ass.
When they Tyrants come after the gays, and they will when they are done using them, WE CONSERVATIVES WILL STAND TO PROTECT YOU! Something NONE of you EVER did for one of us! I had to discontinue the comment feature of this blog..the BEST part...because of their two year campaign of disinformation.
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Trump is right because he LISTENED!!!
Mentions of Immigration as Top Problem Surpass Record High - Gallup!
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- 27% identify immigration as the most important U.S. problem
- Surpasses record 23% naming the issue in June
- A small number of issues have ever eclipsed 27% mentions since 2001
- WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After hitting a new high last month, mentions of immigration as the most important problem facing the U.S. increased further to 27% in July. Since Gallup began regularly recording mentions of the issue in 1993, immigration has been cited by an average of 6% of Americans, though it has been higher in recent years. There have been occasional, typically short-lived, spikes when major immigration events were occurring.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/261500/mentions-immigration-top-problem-surpass-record-high.aspx
DON't be a fool! Plenty of traitors who pretend to be conservatives or even patriots are out there. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, you sold out!!!
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