a Little Heart attack

 <p>Presented in a funny lighthearted way  Watch and Enjoy BUT   dont take its message lightly.. to many women are at risk when they ignore these symptoms..</p> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7wmPWTnDbE

RANT RAVE & Impassioned Plea... or just an idea of how to give yourself, your family and your descendants a holiday present:

Isnt the infant in the first photo ADORABLE?? such a beautiful gown - possibly an heirloom...
too bad we dont have a clue who it is..

RAVE: I have been going through an absolute TREASURE TROVE of family photos for the last several days and am Over the Moon about being able to Scan them and enter them into our Family Tree.. thanks to the unknown someone who wrote on the back of some of the photos and THANK YOU to my dear late father in law who sat down with us one day and went thru so many of these photos that have little sticky notes on the back where he was able to tell me who they were. its been nearly 25 years since we did this.. now i can do what i promised him and share with the family.
Sad rant: then there are the other photos with no clue especially the really old ones that even at the family reunion i have grave doubts we can identify.. its just been too long..

 pic of two boys is an example of this - aren't they sweet? Note also the condition of the pictures Luckily they have been stored away from light but many of them are glued to high acid cardboard backings (used to be presented that way)  - am still trying to figure out if there is a way to remove them safely



i have run into this before.. when my grandmother died we found two LARGE cardboard boxes of photos and more than 2 thirds were not identifiable by those still living - two thirds.. we have NO idea who or what we lost

pic 3 is a glass plate in DREADFUL condition.. i cannot say being stored safely in an acid free environment would have helped this very old picture but i DO know it couldn't have hurt. The bad part is that these new acid free things simply weren't available until fairly recently.



Now here is my Challenge to you - all of you.



especially with holidays coming up. drag those photo albums out and dust them off - with Acid free sleeves available in all different sizes - with acid free pens available to write data on the back of the pics with new acid free albums and storage boxes you have more of a chance of keeping those memories alive.

PLEASE give your family the very great and precious gift of their history..

WRITE on those photos. NAMES / Occasions and DATES if you know them

don't make family members  go through deteriorating photo albums sometime in the future to realize they have no clue who these people are and in doing so LOSE their own history/family- I have lived through that frustration and loss - so let me tell you its REALLY horrid

THEN STORE THEM SAFELY.. we have the technology and knowledge now!!!

you Can do as i am doing and scanning them into the computer for another way to preserve them.. Please dont think you dont know how!! and put it off
i have only a minimum skill/program for 'fixing' pics but even that is helping clear the photos to make it easier to see the faces or places to identify them. EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPs
THEN SHARE your treasures!! the more places copies are the less likely they will be forever lost..(dreadful experiences with that problem in our family)
and besides
when you are done making Copies  GIVE them to other members of family - its a Great & caring gift

pic 4 one of our Treasures.. based on other photos i "think" i have identified these two

they MAY be Martha Ellen Rutherford and
Felix Grundy Johnson..

IF i have identified them correctly - id based on other smaller pictures

Pic 5 and identified picture although i have no idea when or the actual occasion still we know WHO they are and that is a treasure unto itself

JOHNSONs & DAVISON'sof Missouri and Iowa - Children & Cousins of Elmer Andrew Johnson and Letha Maude DAVISON

top row Margaret Zora Martha
next row Harlen Sam Lester Orlan
front row Leona Birt

Midnight Musings.....

I fully expect to offend people tonite: I feel a strong Rant coming on – so read it or not, your choice. Don’t expect me to change my mind or even respond to any comments. If you don’t like it – delete it. Doesn’t matter either way. it is what it is.
My page my thoughts.

Rant of the nite: the claim of Modesty (freedom from vanity, boastfulness, regard for decency of behavior, speech, dress) or more accurately the complete hypocrisy in this movement.
I have to tell you I find it one of the most Antiquated irritating annoying inappropriate & superfluous (as in unnecessary or needless. obsolete) comments out there is when someone claims to be dressing “modestly”

Oh I ‘get’ what the poster supposedly “means’ by the comment – they think its supposed to be a compliment but it ISNT-
When this kind of comment is made, It’s the connotations that go with it that irritate me to distraction.

Case in point – a LOVELY well made dress for a lady's daughters prom. It was flattering, well constructed, dress of impeccable design – a dress for the wearer to be proud to be seen in & totally appropriate for the age of the wearer.

& then someone makes the comment of how ‘modest’ it is..
say huh? What has so called modesty to do with ANYTHING?
It was sleeveless which by some antiquated standards means its not modest. It doesn’t cover the neck – so not ‘modest’ and so on and so on.

The point I am making is the commenter was making a Judgement on the wearer’s lifestyle and belief system in that one rather snide comment.

And my particular beef with the whole modesty thing?....those who are the loudest & most virulent about it are the most NON modest people out there.

Case in point – Warren Jeffs' group in Texas – explain to me how an entire compound of women dressed alike in badly fitting dresses that even the 1980s don’t want back with a totally weird stand out hairdo on every single one of them is Not a complete demand for your spotlighted attention?

And like the quiverfull people & their “modesty movement”  which, by the way, is based on the fact that men can’t control their urges, constantly think about you know what, and so, all good decent Christian women in the US must eventually be put into burka style cover-ups. They want that all women must be covered head to toe so those poor pathetic, defenseless men can control themselves.” (oh and these are one of the groups who claim to hate Sharia law- yet that’s what they want to enact!) and of course its only the women who are targeted to dress ‘modest’

gag….

Now re-look at the definition Modesty: freedom from boastfulness:

so going out in public standing out like a camel on an iceberg, making SURE everyone who sees you KNOWS precisely what you are CLAIMING you are… how precisely are you acting modestly ???

Because THAT is what true modesty is… how you ACT. Not what you wear. A woman in a bikini can still be a modest person by how she acts and treats the world around her.
from what i can see, every single woman out there that follows this ‘HAVE to wear Modest clothing thing, is, essentially, SHOWING OFF,

Proclaiming how much better than you they believe they are.
(even when its not done deliberately (because of their own particular brand of brainwashing that they deal with)

That IS what they are doing. Showing off, bragging, making certain they are noticed……
As far as I am concerned that kind of showing off & thumbing their nose at the rest of the world is definitely the exact opposite of my idea of modesty. In ANY definition.

In fact I find it quite vulgar in many instances – certainly completely hypocritical.