I’m glad she said good-bye to her baby. And said it by saying, “Be good.” I think my elders used to frequently exhort us children thus, back then. In reaction to the current advice I hear constantly, to Have Fun, and/or Be Safe, I have started telling my grandchildren to Have Courage and Be Good.
I do hope this is a true story. It's wonderful in its own way. The down side is giving up the child. The upside is that the child went into the home much like the one that her mother grew up in, "bringing," or making real, some strange supernatural continuity into her life. And as the unworthy father testified, any child of ours would have to be special and they wouldn't know what to do with her. Surely that was true. And it was guys like him that *her* mother warned her about, to protect her and not squelch or oppress her, as former fundamentalists often opine. How such a vibrant soul would find out about the dangerous world without being in danger, I have no idea. Thank you for the memoir.
I think of my own great-grandmother. Her mother likewise had her out of wedlock after a short-lived affair, and options then were not great. My great-grandmother was at least raised within the family, albeit with cousins on a farm far enough away to avoid gossip. She went on to marry very happily, but her mother moved far away, married, and rarely had much to do with her first daughter. My great-grandmother made up for that neglect by having 7 children, and assiduously memorizing every single birthday of every grandchild and great-grandchild, never missing one. What ancestry was cut off from behind her was instead given to her as progeny. She died when I was only 2, but my mother and her cousins adore her loving memory.
Beautifully told. It conveys the wonder of motherhood. A man only experiences a brief moment in the creation of a baby, none of the hormonal changes, none of the nine months of feeling a new person growing inside, and none of the pain of separation; in this case, of permanent separation.
The Progress Flag is the flag of the faith of transhumanism, aka techno-gnosticism. It flies on the White House. It's posted every 50 feet or so in Seattle. Defacing one is a crime and there's a dedicated blasphemy unit to investigate such crimes. All school curriculum must conform to doctrine and commissars stand ready to enforce it.
When WoLF had a speakers panel at the library discussing the virulent misogyny of the faith, they received death threats and rape threats. There were sufficient credible threats to blow up the library that the event was moved to after hours so that the building could be cleared with bomb sniffing dogs. Two women outside the event were thrown to the ground and beaten for the crime of blasphemy: they carried signs that said "biology matters". Such heretics were greeted the way religious fanatics always greet heretics: with violence.
And yet they STILL wail that they're a helpless and marginalized minority. Nothing less than absolute totalitarian control will do, apparently.
I'm in Seattle. There's a Progress flag every 20 feet, and commissars are being installed in the schools to enforce compliance to ideology. To assert the existence of two sexes is "hateful". Translated more accurately as "blasphemous". Deface a church and people giggle. Deface a progress flag, it's called a hate crime. There's a special police unit to investigate and prosecute blasphemy.
I'm not Christian, but I'm living in a totalitarian theocracy of Critical Pedagogy. When WoLF held a speakers panel at the library, protesters threatened to beat, rape, and murder them. Oh, and there were credible threats to blow up the library.
What is your god, precisely? If it supports blowing up libraries and threatening to rape and murder women, you might want to reconsider your allegiance.
Thanks so much Mary! Also, a brilliantly chosen painting!
I’m glad she said good-bye to her baby. And said it by saying, “Be good.” I think my elders used to frequently exhort us children thus, back then. In reaction to the current advice I hear constantly, to Have Fun, and/or Be Safe, I have started telling my grandchildren to Have Courage and Be Good.
Thank you for a Good Story ❤️
I do hope this is a true story. It's wonderful in its own way. The down side is giving up the child. The upside is that the child went into the home much like the one that her mother grew up in, "bringing," or making real, some strange supernatural continuity into her life. And as the unworthy father testified, any child of ours would have to be special and they wouldn't know what to do with her. Surely that was true. And it was guys like him that *her* mother warned her about, to protect her and not squelch or oppress her, as former fundamentalists often opine. How such a vibrant soul would find out about the dangerous world without being in danger, I have no idea. Thank you for the memoir.
I think of my own great-grandmother. Her mother likewise had her out of wedlock after a short-lived affair, and options then were not great. My great-grandmother was at least raised within the family, albeit with cousins on a farm far enough away to avoid gossip. She went on to marry very happily, but her mother moved far away, married, and rarely had much to do with her first daughter. My great-grandmother made up for that neglect by having 7 children, and assiduously memorizing every single birthday of every grandchild and great-grandchild, never missing one. What ancestry was cut off from behind her was instead given to her as progeny. She died when I was only 2, but my mother and her cousins adore her loving memory.
That's a mother who stands her ground. She will always have that good-bye moment as will her baby.
That was beautiful!
as a single mother myself who is religious, this is really really moving and lovely. thank you for sharing it.
Lovely. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful... Thank you.
Touching. Thank you for sharing.
Beautifully told. It conveys the wonder of motherhood. A man only experiences a brief moment in the creation of a baby, none of the hormonal changes, none of the nine months of feeling a new person growing inside, and none of the pain of separation; in this case, of permanent separation.
I would like people who haven't lost children to know that something like this could save many women's weekends if it had a trigger warning.
Who did the Painting of Moses ?
The Progress Flag is the flag of the faith of transhumanism, aka techno-gnosticism. It flies on the White House. It's posted every 50 feet or so in Seattle. Defacing one is a crime and there's a dedicated blasphemy unit to investigate such crimes. All school curriculum must conform to doctrine and commissars stand ready to enforce it.
When WoLF had a speakers panel at the library discussing the virulent misogyny of the faith, they received death threats and rape threats. There were sufficient credible threats to blow up the library that the event was moved to after hours so that the building could be cleared with bomb sniffing dogs. Two women outside the event were thrown to the ground and beaten for the crime of blasphemy: they carried signs that said "biology matters". Such heretics were greeted the way religious fanatics always greet heretics: with violence.
And yet they STILL wail that they're a helpless and marginalized minority. Nothing less than absolute totalitarian control will do, apparently.
I'm in Seattle. There's a Progress flag every 20 feet, and commissars are being installed in the schools to enforce compliance to ideology. To assert the existence of two sexes is "hateful". Translated more accurately as "blasphemous". Deface a church and people giggle. Deface a progress flag, it's called a hate crime. There's a special police unit to investigate and prosecute blasphemy.
I'm not Christian, but I'm living in a totalitarian theocracy of Critical Pedagogy. When WoLF held a speakers panel at the library, protesters threatened to beat, rape, and murder them. Oh, and there were credible threats to blow up the library.
What is your god, precisely? If it supports blowing up libraries and threatening to rape and murder women, you might want to reconsider your allegiance.
So the baby in this story is the author's aunt?