tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14125976989096587532024-02-24T02:16:35.026-08:00The Red Boapokettigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15873328065978997841noreply@blogger.comBlogger311125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1412597698909658753.post-32597932924922727812015-06-21T19:32:00.000-07:002015-06-21T19:32:31.811-07:00Mojo Monday ~ The Conclusion of Lizzie's Life<div class="mceTemp" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16.5200004577637px; line-height: 24.7800006866455px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since February I have been sharing the story of my maternal second great grand aunt Elizabeth Talmer Roberts Shepherd. She was the sister of my maternal great great grandfather Abel Roberts. I chose Elizabeth “Lizzie”, because in delving into family geneology I had come across a comprehensive written story of her life. I was impressed by this young woman’s courage and strength. If you want to start at the beginning click <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/">here</a>. If you have been following her journey scroll down for the next and final installment of Lizzie and her family’s journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Valie took Grace with her and went up on the train to be with Addie for a couple of weeks. Thelma and Grace had a lovely time together in the fall of 1914 when things became quiet for the winter. Lizzie rented out the hotel and took an extended trip. They went first up to Burley, Idaho where Claude and also Edna were living. They then took the train down to Salt Lake City and to southern Utah to visit Lizzie’s brother Will and Ben Roberts. Following that they traveled to Olathe, Colorado to get acquainted with some new family members that had been born there; James Earnest Louise Wiggett (DOB 11/28/1912), Rollins Don Carlos Shepherd III (DOB 02/07/1913) and Agnes Prettyman (DOB 03/01/1913). The family stayed with Carl until about the end of January and then returned to Burley on the train. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When they returned they found George and Edna Hanna had a new son, Calvin Grant Hanna (DOB 01/12/1915). Carl and Annie Shepherd also had a son born that spring, Lyman Shepherd (DOB 03/28/1915). Annie was not able to leave her bed after the birth of this child. The doctor diagnosed her problem as enlargement of the liver, but Valie believed she have had cancer. Annie (Mary Anna Abercrombia Shepherd) suffered a great deal and died about three weeks later on April 18, 1915 in a hospital in Montrose. She was buried on April 21<sup>st</sup> at Olathe, Colorado.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lizzie and Valie took the train and returned in order to help Carl with the young family. It became apparent he could not work and care for seven children. Annie’s son, Ira Caldwell, was sent off by train to his sister Brazilla in Green River, Wyoming. Electra and 11 and Bertha 9, and they stayed with their father on the ranch at Olathe. Lizzie took the four smaller children back to Denton, Montana. Lora was about 7, Clara about 5, Carlos just past two and Lyman was a new baby only a little over a month old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Claude and Francetta remained at Burley, Idaho that year and had their first son, Claude Albert Shepherd, born there on August 6, 1915. Over in Colorado, Earnest Wiggett and Carl Shepherd lived on East Mesa at Olathe. Mary Wiggett has a younger sister named Hattie May Kinnaman, who lived with their mother Ellazia York Kinnaman Marley in Delta. Hattie often came to Olathe to visit Mary. Carl took a job on Ash Mesa and boarded with the Markley’s while he worked on the canal. During this time he fell in love with Hattie. They were married at Mrs. Markley’s home in Delta, Colorado on January 16, 1916.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile back in Denton, Montana, little baby Lyman Shepherd was ill all that spring. Although he was past a year old he could not stand on his feet and was ill until he died at age 14 months on May 1916. Lizzie asked the elders to have President Melvin J. Ballard come and conduct the funeral. He came and preached a very powerful sermon to the large crowd of towns people who came out of curiosity. Sometime later in the summer, Lizzie took the other three children back to Colorado. One cannot begin to understand the feelings of these young children who had lost their own mother, then just as they were getting settled into a life with their grandmother, were then taken back to begin life as members of a new family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometime in 1916, Claude Shepherd decided to go to the Uintah Basin of Utah. According to history regarding Joseph Prettyman an Uncle Tom Roberts was running the post office at Cedar View, Utah. The Prettyman family arrived in Roosevelt about this same time and took jobs fencing land for the government Indian reservation in this area. About this same time Jim Peacock inherited $4,000.00 following the death of his father in England. He took this money and invested it with Claude on a piece of land near Red Cap, Utah. Claude build a small frame house for his family and Jim had a tent nearby. The following year another son, Robert Bartley Shepherd, was born to Claude and Francetta, on January 11, 1917.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Early in the spring of 1918, Lizzie rented a farm near Roosevelt, Utah. Both the Hanna family and the Huffman family, came up to the area. Two little cousins, Thelma and Grace, enjoyed walking to school together. Sometime early in April, as the girls came home from school, they waded in rain puddles and got very wet. Grace developed a case of croup and became very ill. The croup took her life in a few days and Grace Esther Shepherd died at the age of 6 on April 14, 1918. Bill Tubbs made the casket for her to be laid to rest in. The loss of this dear little girl was very hard for the family to accept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Late in that same summer, George and Edna Hanna had another son, Harold Raymond Hanna, born at the ranch near Roosevelt, Utah on August 25, 1918. Also that same year Scott and Addie Huffman suffered a loss of twins. Addie had been having labor pains for about a week and was very ill. When the babies came on September 6, 1918, they were stillborn. The twin girls were given the names Adeline and Valie. They were buried at the foot of Grace’s grave in the Roosevelt Cemetery. Addie was very sick for about three weeks. She had always wanted twins and took the loss very hard. Valie stayed with her and took care of the family until Addie recovered and became stronger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Late in the fall, most of the Shepherd family moved to Grand Junction. Addie became very ill. Valie went to the druggist to ask what they were using to help and he just shrugged and said “Nobody knows what to do.”, so she went to the grocery and bought a bag of onions and a bag of lemons. She made a big pot of onion soup and kept everyone drinking hot lemonade. Everett had a high fever and went out of his head talking about Grace. This alarmed his mother and the family very much. Many people were dying each day during this epidemic of flu. Everyone worried for several days that Addie would not have the strength to survive. Finally she and the others began to improve. However, when Francetta Shepherd got the flu in February, she was not so fortunate. This strain of flu seemed to be especially violent for young children and for women who were expecting. Francetta was one of these women, and after many days of being very ill she died. Francetta Kelsey Shepherd, only 23 years old, was buried at Roosevelt, Utah beside her daughter Grace on February 14, 1919.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Early in the spring of the same year, Claude moved his family to Grand Junction. It took him eight days to travel with his wagon from the town of Wellington in Utah, to Colorado. Both Bart and Claude went to work for the irrigation company in the area known as the Redlands South of Grand Juncton. Lizzie and Valie took care of the young boys. It was Grandma who raised Claude and Bob from then until manhood. Late in the fall , the family went to Olathe and spent the winter of 1919-1920 there. It proved to a be a pleasant winter as all the young people would get together at different homes for Saturday night dances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About the middle of May, Valie returned to Grand Junction to be with Addie when her baby arrived. She and Addie were very close and she always looked forward to spending time with her family. She was there with them when the baby, Glen Huffman, was born on May 31, 1920. Early in June the rest of the family returned to Grand Junction. Scott and Addie were just getting ready to move out into the Redlands where Scott had taken a job with a ditch company. The company had a house for them. The Shepherd family moved into the house that they had been living in. Soon after this, Valie and Thelma were going downtown one day when they met John Garrett on the street. He had gotten a piece of steel in his eye, and had been to the doctor. He was wearing dark glasses to protect his eye for a few days. Soon he and Valie were going together again. He took a job irrigating on the Redlands too, and became a frequent visitor at the Huffman’s house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That spring there was an epidemic of whooping cough. Florence, Nellie and Agnes Prettyman all had it. So did Marie Wiggett when her family came for a visit at Addie’s house. The older children would survive it, but a tiny baby did not have enough strength to endure the endless coughing. When Glenn began to get very sick, Addie called the doctor, He came and left a prescription slip. Valie walked out in the fields and asked him if he would take his care and get the filled for the, which he did. However, the baby died before the medicine could help him. Baby Glen Huffman passed away on June 31, 1920. Addie took the loss of this baby very hard. This was the third baby she had buried in less than two years. Claude stayed at Olathe until he had the crops all in. Then in the summer he traveled down to Grand Junction. He and Bill Tubbs got a big carpenter job over at Gateway, Colorado and they worked there until the last of August.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometime during the year before, when they were living in Grand Junction, Valie had met a girl named Maude McGovern. She had first met her at church. Later Valie went with Edna and George, and a group to a dance at Maude’s house. When Valie came home from this dance, she had told Bart that she had met his wife. Bart really laughed at this idea and said he was not very interested in girls and the idea of a wife was far from his mind. Valie had almost forgotten about this incident, since it was almost a year later. Soon they met up again with Maude following their attendance at the family wedding of Sarah Prettyman and Loren Craig on June 12, 1920.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the wedding, Loren and Sarah were taking a group over to the store for a treat. In the group was Valie, John and Bart. On the way they met Maude. Valie introduced her to everyone else, ignoring Bart. Bart kicked his sister in the shin saying “Sis, aren’t you going to introduce me?” Valie responded “No, this is the girl you didn’t want to meet.” Then she said, “Maude, this is my brother Bart.” Maude talked for a few minutes, congratulations were expressed to Loren and Sarah Craig, then Bart and Maude linked arms and walked off together. They were together from that moment on throughout the rest of their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was not many days after this that John Garrett purchased a ruby engagement ring and presented it to Valie. When they announced their plans to be married soon, Bart and Maude thought it such a good ideas, that the two couples began to make plans for a double wedding. The wedding date was set for July 31, 1930, however, just a few days before the wedding Maude's step-father died, and her family convinced her she should wait until a later date. John and Valie went ahead and were married as planned at the home of Scott and Addie Huffman on the Redlands. They moved into a little house on Main Street and began housekeeping. John was working on the Redlands where he did irrigation work. The following Sunday afternoon, August 8, 1920, Bartley and Maude were married at the home of Maude's mother. In a few days they moved to a small house in West Camp of the Redlands, where Bart became an overseer of this irrigation camp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About this same time, Claude and Bill Tubbs came back to Grand Junction from the job at Gateway, where they had been building houses. Just a month later the family had another wedding when William Tubbs married Lizze Shepherd on September 8, 1920. They were married at the elders place on Rude Avenue. John and Valie stood up with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After this group of marriages, there remained only person left to be married in the family, and since Gilford was only sixteen years old, he had a few years before he met and married Detta Arhea Norwood on May 5, 1924.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In December of 1934, George and Edna Hanna were coming to Salt Lake City, Utah to go through the temple and Lizzie decided to join them. They left Grand Junction, but somewhere out in the desert the old car broke down. They had to wait quite awhile in the cold before Bart was able to come from Helper and get them. Lizzie got chilled and became sick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was not long after Christmas that her cold turned to pneumonia. She was weak and tired, and her hip injury pained her a great deal. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Talmer Robert Shepherd Tubbs died on January 5, 1935 at the home of her son Bart in Helper, Utah. She was buried at Price, Utah on January 10, 1935.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since February I have been sharing the story of my maternal second great grand aunt Elizabeth Talmer Roberts Shepherd. She was the sister of my maternal great great grandfather Abel Roberts. I chose Elizabeth "Lizzie", because in delving into family geneology I had come across a comprehensive written story of her life. I was impressed by this young woman's courage and strength. If you want to start at the beginning click <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/">here</a>. If you have been following her journey scroll down for the next installment of Lizzie and her family's journey.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was in about December of 1909 that Valie, one of Lizzie's daughters, began to feel ill. Her first symptoms were rheumatic pains in her joints which ached, so that she slept many nights with her feet propped up on the oven door for warmth, as she sat in a larger rocker. Early in April while on an errand for her mother Lizzie, she was caught in the rain and became thoroughly chilled. She spent several days in bed but finally was allowed to go back to school. On the last day of school there was a picnic and they were caught in a heavy rain. She became soaked and for the next few days was very ill. She had improved some when it was time for her mother to go into the mountains to cook for her brother and another man who were building homestead houses. Lizzie took Valie along thinking that the mountain air would do her some good. After a sold week of an earache while in the mountains Valie was returned home to the care of her sister Adaline, who was sixteen. Valie was fourteen at the time. Lizzie then went back to the mountains to cook for the men.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The third day Valie was home she began to feel worse and when her sister brought her lunch, Valie began to hemorrhage from the nose and mouth. Adaline was frightened and sent for the doctor and send Douglas Spencer to the mountains for Lizzie. It was almost dark when he started out and had about fifteen miles to ride on horseback over unfamiliar trails. Adding to his troubles, a blizzard came up and he became lost. Lizzie had already gone to bed in the camp when she heard someone calling out. Claude, nor anyone else could hear the calls, but nevertheless Lizzie had the men get up and light a lantern. They went outside and called out into the darkness. A nearly frozen Douglas Spencer heard the shouts and located the camp.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As soon as it was light enough for them to see they started back to Laurel. The doctor had been to see Valie who was still having violent hemorrhages. When Lizzie arrived he told her that he did not know what the problem was but thought that Valie should be taken to Billings, Montana to a hospital. Lizzie asked him if he thought an operation would be necessary to save her life. He told her he didn’t know since he could not diagnose the problem, but that it might be the means of saving some other life. Valie had lost so much blood that the doctor admitted he had little hope she could withstand the trip to the hospital. Lizzie told the doctor that if it was the Lord’s will that she die, that she wanted her to die at home. Early the following morning Valie had another hemorrhage, this being the eighth one. The doctor returned but said he had done all he could. He told Lizzie that she was dying and pulled the sheet up over Valie’s face as he left. Lizzie stood in the kitchen praying for her daughter, when a knock came on the door. There on the porch were two Mormon missionaries. They came in and talked to Lizzie and held a prayer circle in the kitchen. They then entered Valie’s bedroom. Valie who had been only semi-conscious for three days and unconscious all that day responded when one of the elders took her hand and asked if she would like to be administered to. She was able to respond that she would. In the blessing she was given it was promised that she would recover and become a mother in Zion.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Valie ended up recovering from her unexplained illness. The same missionaries who had visited her on her “death bed” returned one day and marveled at Valie’s recovery. They shared their story of how they had come into town the night before and had planned out their route for the next day. They had planned to go to the opposite end of town, but the next morning one of them had a strong feeling that they should go the other way. They had only gone a short distance when a neighbor told them that there was a Mormon family nearby and how the daughter Valie was very sick. They were the only Latter Day Saints family living there at the time. The doctor who had told several people that Valie would not live through the day later stated that he believed a higher power must have restored her health. Valie had no further symptoms of that mysterious illness. In later years after a few years of marriage and after several doctors told her she would never have a child, she went on to eventually raise a large family.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Edna and George Hanna lived for a while at Red Lodge, Montana, during this time. Addie came up from Laurel and visited with her sister. It was here she became acquainted with Scott Huffman. Later Scott came down to Laurel to visit her. It took them awhile to realize how much they cared for each other, but when they did, they became a very devoted couple. When Valie began to feel better in the fall, the Shepherd family moved to Red Lodge. They were there when Scott and Addie’s first child, a daughter named Thelma Huffman was born on October 11, 1910.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The following year her sister Edna and husband George Hannah had a son named Milburn Minor Hannah on July 21, 1911. Brother Claude and his wife Francetta Kelsey were also living at Basin City and their first child, a daughter named Grace Esther Shepherd was born on August 25, 1911. Francetta was a very young wife and mother, only fifteen years old. Her parents Benjamin Franklin and Bolettie Vance Kelsey encouraged her to remain with them that year while Claude worked at Thermopolis on a sewer line and later at Crosby, Wyoming in the coal mines. It was at Thermopolis that Valie met Jim Peacock. Claude invited him to join the family for Thanksgiving dinner. Jim had been born in England and enjoyed hearing the soft English spoken words of Claude’s family. Jim also found himself attracted to Valie and the whole Shepherd family. He spent the next ten years near and around the family, even as they moved about. While Lizzie was at Thermopolis in 1912 she decided to sell the ranch in Burlington. She sold the 160 acres homestead that the family had worked so hard to pay off for $4,000.00.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earnest Wiggett, Lizzie’s oldest son, had taken his family to Olathe, Colorado and was farming there. After the ranch sold, Carl and his family also went to Olathe, as did Burton and Florence Prettyman. A man named Bill Tubbs who was an artist, architect, carpenter and wood craftsman also entered the picture about this time. He had many talents, but didn’t always put them to use and too often sought solace in the bottle. There was much good in Bill though and Lizzie could see this in him. She chose to accept him as he was. There was sometimes resentment in the family when it seemed Lizzie put Bill before her own children. Yet they also recognized that he treated all her children with respect. He taught Claude the carpenter trade, and Bart and Gilford also learned craftsmanship from him as they grew into manhood. Lizzie was past fifty years old when Bill came into her life, and they stayed together until her death.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the spring of 1912 the Shepherd family went north to Lewistown, Montana. Lizzie rented a café on Main Street called the Lewiston Dining Parlor. Lizzie did all the cooking, while Laura Clark and Helen Bolden helped Valie wait on the tables. They ofte had fifty men to serve for meals. Claude was working with his tems for a steam shovel outfit. Bill Tubbs was building some homestead houses. Scott and Addie Huffman were living in Red Lodge, Montana. Scott was doing bookkeeping at the coal mine at Washoe. Their second child, a son named Everett Roland Huffman, was born on August 23, 1912.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the spring of 1913 the family went up to Denton, Montana. This was a new town about sixty mile northwest of Lewistown. The railroad was just being built into the town and plan were being made to build two large grain elevators. Lizzie felt there would be a lot of work there so she bought a piece of land that had a small old building on it and began to feed boarders.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Claude took a job hauling freight from Stanford where the railroad ended at that point in time. It was a muddy wet spring. The heavy mud on the unimproved roads rolled up around the wagon wheels and made it hard to travel very fast. Claude hauled lumber from Stanford to build the Denton Hotel. Bill Tubbs drew up plans which included a gas lighting system, which he planned, built and kept operating. He and Claude did most of the work. They moved into the hotel just before Thanksgiving, and it became the family’s source of income for the next five years. They had a pump house behind the hotel with a nice well. They had six bedrooms upstairs to rent. There was one bedroom downstairs. The old majestic range stood in the kitchen. Bill built a long convenient counter in the kitchen to serve from and made shelves above it for the dishes. He build a sturdy table on the other side of the room where the pump was located. They were always heating water for some purpose. There was a large reservoir on the old stove. Each room upstairs had a pitcher for water and a basin for washing in, but the wash tub had to be used for a weekly bath. The toilet facility was located on the back of the property, but each bedroom had its own covered convenience tucked under the bed.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While they ran the hotel Lizzie enjoyed the luxury of having someone else do the washing. She sent the sheets out weekly to be done. Lizzie was too busy feeing about a hundred men three meals a day. They served the food family style at five big table. Lizzie cooked big meals of meat, potatoes and gravy, and some kind of vegetable. She always made pie for lunch. In the early afternoon, Valie would bake two great big sheet cakes for supper, one white and one chocolate. Valie and Katie took turns waiting on tables. In 1914 Claude brought his family up to Denton and his wife Francetta also helped with serving. Valie and Francetta became close friends and little Grace, at about 18 months was the darling of the family.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Young Gilford, as a small boy, built a play house and a garage under the back stairway and put a neat fence all around it. These were good settled years for the family. Lizzie bought two other pieces of property here. Bill Tubbs built a five room house on one of these lots which they rented out for income and later sold to the blacksmith. He built a smaller two room house on the other lot where the family lived later for a short time. Edna came down and stayed with the family during the summer and George came down in the fall and worked on the construction of the bank building. Scott and Addie Huffman’s son Wilfred Scott Huffman added to the family when he was born on October 14, 1914.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16.5200004577637px; line-height: 24.7800006866455px;">Elizabeth "Lizzie" Talmer Roberts is the sister of my maternal great great grandfather. In the process of doing genealogical research I came across a story written down about her. Her story begins in when Lizzie was born on June 10, 1861 in Headless Cross, Worchestershire, England. I have been sharing her story here in Mojo Mondays and if you want to start at the beginning you can do so by clicking </span><a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" style="background-color: white; color: #cf7071; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16.5200004577637px; line-height: 24.7800006866455px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16.5200004577637px; line-height: 24.7800006866455px;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...Meanwhile back at the ranch in Burlington, both of the young wives had recently given birth to baby daughters. The children born at the time were daughter of Carl and Annie, Bertha Adaline Shepherd, born on October 30, 1906 and daughter of Earnest and Mary, Mary Ella Wiggett, born on October 31, 1906.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earnest and Carl brought their father by wagon from Burlington up to Belfry. That night the weather changed, a strong wind came first ahead of the storm. Claude and Edna spent most of the night trying to hold the ridge-pole steady to keep the tent from blowing away. The next day they went by wagons in a snowstorm to Bridger, Montana, about ten or twelve miles north. Here Laffe was laid to rest. His grave was marked with a large rock slab with the letter “S” painted on it. In 1973 his sister Valie would make a trip to Wyoming and Montana and she was able to locate a very efficient caretaker at the Bridger, Montana cemetery. He searched his records and located the grave site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The storm continued very strong. Lizzie took the girls, Bart and Gilford, and traveled back to Belfry on the train. Later the boys brought Rollins Don Carlos and the teams and wagons back to Belfry. When Earnest and Carl were ready to travel back to Burlington they left their father with his family. The family lived that winter in a tent on the bare ground. It was remarkable that those in the family made it through the winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That winter and the next spring was a very hard time for the family. In the summer, Claude and Burton Prettyman were able to get gobs on the railroad near Billings, Montana. When the Ringling Brothers Circus came to town, the kids saw the first circus they had ever seen. When the job was finished in the fall, the Shepherd family went back to Chance, Montana and the Prettyman family, to Red Lodge. In a short time, Burton Prettyman and three of the young boys had thyphoid. They were very ill and were taken to the hospital. The family recalled how during that summer Forrest Prettyman, who was just past five years old, had said to his grandmother Lizzie on several occasion, “When I die, will you bury me by my uncle Laffe?” Forrest died on September 18, 1907.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lizzie and her family came for the funeral and stayed with Florence until Burton and the other boys were better. Later that fall the Shepherd and Prettyman families went down to Worland, Wyoming to work on the big Hanover Canal. The children did not go to school that winter. Joe and Earnest with Valie and Addie, would take the big cross-cut saw and with a couple of kids on each end, they would cut wood for both families. One day the four of them were playing down by the river and taking turns being pulled on a sled on the ice along the bend of the Big Horn River. The rope slipped out of Joe’s hand as Earnest and Addie, on the sled, headed for the swift open channel. Joe quickly slid out on his stomach to grab the end of the rope. His quick action saved them from plunging into the freezing icy river.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the family moved to Laurel, Montana in the spring of 1908, Lizzie rented a house which the family called “The Coffee House.” The railroad was building a big ice house there and Lizzie took one room where she served family style meals to a few boarders. These were very hard times and work was hard to find, but there were quite a few men employed in building the big ice house. One of these was a young man named Douglas Spencer, who became very fond of Addie. When the ice house was about half built, it collapsed. One man was killed. Douglas Spencer dove into a ditch under the flowing, which saved his life, but his foot was caught and badly broken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another of the men who worked on this job and came to board with the Shepherd family was William Tubbs. William Tubbs had been born August 29, 1878 in Omaha, Nebraska. According to family stories, he had married there and was the father of two small children, a boy and a girl. The story goes that he came home one evening to find another man loading his household furniture and his family into a wagon. When he asked what was going on the man bluntly told him that he was in love with the wife and that they were leaving together. A fight followed and the story continues in that the other man was knocked backwards over the wagon tongue and died of a broken neck. Ill Tubbs left Omaha that night. Were he went on his westward journey, nor how long it was before he came to Laurel, Montana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Later that year the family moved to a smaller house and Lizzie still continued to cook for a few men. Claude worked at the livery stable and there he met a man by the name of George Hanna. After George met Edna he became a frequent visitor of the family. Early in 1909 George and Edna went to Billings, Montana to be married. They moved into a small place of their own not far from where the family lived. It was here that they had their first child Mildred Fay Hannah on September 24, 1901.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometime in 1908 Earnest and Mary Wiggett left the ranch and went to Olathe, Colorado. Their daughter Millie Wiggett was born on January 1, 1909, but sadly she died the next year on December 22, 1910. Carl and Annie were still living on the homestead. Two daughters were born to them during this time, Lizzie Lora Shepherd on October 13, 1908 and Clara Shepherd on August 20, 1910.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many people were out of work and the winter of 1909 and 1910 found many people facing very hard times. Claude and George worked at the liverly stable. Addie worked for a lady who ran the section house. Addie helped with the cooking and in the kitchen. Valie suffered from pains in her legs and her joints all that winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earlier in the year their father used to take a couple of coal buckets and would follow along the railroad tracks to pick up coal. There was a curve in the railroad tracks a short distance from the house. Sometimes coal would fall off the train as it rounded this curve. Often the firemen would toss a few shovelfuls of coal off the train for people to pick up. One day in the summer father had gone for coal, but had become tired and sat down on the track where he proceeded to fall asleep. Addie notices that her father was gone just about the time she heard the train whistle. She ran out and pulled him off the track. She then gave him a lecture and asked him to stop going after coal. This was about the only time he ever left the house. He seemed more and more tired as winter and cold weather arrived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Often the family was without good food that winter. As Christmas approached they were very bad off and had very little to eat. When their father got up on Christmas morning he went to Lizzie in the kitchen and told her he was going to die. He went over to a couch-like bed which they kept in the kitchen. He laid down, went to sleep and then died in his sleep. Rollins Don Carlos Shepherd died at age 79 on December 25, 1909. A heavy winter snow storm came up the day of his funeral, just as it had when Laffe was buried. Valie remembered the teams that pulled the hearse, and how several of the men stood on the side of the hearse to add their weight to keep it from tipping over in the heavy snow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The family remained in very destitute conditions that winter. One of their boarders, a man by the name of Ezra King brought the family a twenty-five pound sack of flour, which was all the food they had in the house at that time. Malnutrition may have contributed largely to compounding the problems which beset Valie at this time, for it was in the sprint of 1910 that she suffered an illness which almost took her life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elizabeth "Lizzie" Talmer Roberts is the sister of my maternal great great grandfather. In the process of doing genealogical research I came across a story written down about her. Her story begins in when Lizzie was born on June 10, 1861 in Headless Cross, Worchestershire, England. I have been sharing her story here in Mojo Mondays and if you want to start at the beginning you can do so by clicking <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a time of change for Lizzie too, and while these things affected her, it was in a different way. She was just past forty-three years old and still a strong and vigorous woman. She had fought with William Packard over the irrigation water. Packer insisted that Carlos had given the water right to him, and Lizzie insisted that he was not going to have it. She had used the water to irrigate five acres of wheat and had seen it come to a good harvest under her care. She would stand up for herself, so in the Spring of 1904, when the crop was coming along, she rented out the ranch land as pasture. Then she took the livestock and her six children and moved from the ranch into a house on the Prettyman place down by the river. She stayed here for a few months. Her husband was left in the care of Earnest Wiggett and his wife Mary. They moved back to the ranch and their first son Leslie Wiggett was born there on September 3, 1904.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Early in the Spring of 1904 Lizzie decided to leave Burlington. She had a covered wagon to carry a few belongings. She took a horse for Claude to ride and a pony, which Edna rode. They helped to drive the cattle and milk cows, which they also took. Lizzie’s son Carl was also very restless and perhaps hoped for a better start somewhere else or perhaps he felt his mother needed his help during this time. Lizzie, Carl, and Annie with her three young children, left Burlington together. They traveled across Wyoming that summer finding work where they could. Somewhere along Lander, Wyoming the children found lots of wild berries growing along the creeks and river. They picked large quantities of the berries to use fresh and Lizzie and Annie made jelly as well. They moved on southward to Atlantic City, which was a very rough frontier town. They lived in a tent and the wagon that summer. Lizzie sold milk and butter. She baked bread to sell and took in washing from the miners there. Carl and Laffe took a job with their teams cutting and hauling cord wood and railroad ties. The man who leased them the land for cutting did not own the land and they were ordered to get off or be shot. The boys had the wagon loaded but were afraid to drive it out because of the threats. Edna at age twelve was not about to let that load be left there. She climbed up and drove the wagon down to the mill without incident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once again that summer, Edna kept the family from having trouble. Lizzie had been carefully saving the money she made so she could pay the mortgage on the ranch. She has nearly a thousand dollars and was keeping the money in a large trunk. One evening two very rough men came to buy break and she went to the trunk for change. When they got outside the tent, one man said to the other, “That old lady has plenty of money in that trunk. We will come back after dark and get it.” Edna happened to be standing where she heard them. As soon as they were out of sight she told her mother. Lizzie put the money into two small sacks and pinned them to the inside of Addie and Valie’s clothing. She told the girls if she was caught that they were just to keep on walking. The family went to the home of the Marshall for the night. When they returned to the tent in the morning, the trunk had been kicked open, the contents scattered about and the place torn up, but the money was safe. Lizzie took it to the bank that day and sent it off to Burlington to apply on the mortgage of the ranch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another story to add here is how Bart, who was not yet five years old, liked to dig through the trash near their tent, which happened to be near a saloon. One day he picked up a round object, but his sister Valie told him it was just an old poker chip and to throw it away. Bart was convinced it was as good as money and sure enough earned one dollar for it. He gave it to his mom to go with the other mortgage money and he liked to tell everyone how he found the last dollar to pay on the ranch mortgage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The family stayed in Atlantic City until the fall of 1904. Carl and Annie’s first child, a daughter names Electra Shepherd was born there on September 20, 1904. Carl gave her the name of his beloved little sister who had died as a child. In the later Fall of that year, Carl and Annie went back to Burlington to the ranch. Earnest helped Carl build a two room house on the upper forty acres. The two young men, with their growing families, lives and worked together on the ranch for about five years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lizzie moved to Thermopolis, Wyoming that Fall. All the children went to school there that winter. Lizzie’s last child William Gilford Shepherd was born there on December 18, 1904. In the spring of 1905, Bart was ill with large abscesses on his legs. There were no miracle drugs in those days and infections were common. Lizzie could not cure them with home remedies, so she took him to one doctor who wanted to lance them. She was not satisfied with his quick diagnosis and took him to another doctor. He told Lizzie if they were lanced, the boy would never walk again. Lizzie took him home and made homemade poultices of soap and sugar to gather the infection. Finally they broke and drained. Bart was in bed most of that spring. When the family left Thermopolis in the spring, they made a bed in the back of the wagon for Bart. Valie had just completed a most satisfactory full year of school and enjoyed being Bart’s teacher. She taught him to write all the letters and when they ran out of paper they wrote on the side of a wooden box. They had some little “Buster Brown books” they had received when they bought shoes. The read and reread these stories, and also anything that had printed letters written on it. Valie was evidently a successful teacher for when Bart started school he was put right into the third grade where he could read with the best of the class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The family returned to Burlington for a short time that summer, then Claude and Carl took a contract to bale hay on the Y.U. sheep ranch some distance west of Burlington, at a place called Pitchfork. The boys used a baler that was driven by horsed. They hooked the team to the baler, and then the team went around in a circle. The hay was put into the baler which pressed it into the shaped of a bale. A wooden block was dropped into the baler to regulate the length of each bale. Edna and Addie had the job of dropping the blocks between the bales. The bales were then tied with baling wire. They worked long hard hours, and one night Addie, who was very tired, dreamt that they were still working. She shouted out in her sleep, “Block Carl, block! This bale is a mile long now.” They baled a good many tons of hay that season. They piled the bales into long stacks. There were six or eight long stacks of these bales.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lizzie spent several weeks of misery that summer with a big abscess under her arm. She could hardly mix bread or take care of the cooking for the hungry workers. Later that summer the family went to Bear Creek where Lizzie established a little store in part of their home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the summer of 1906 her son Claude went to Chance, Montana to work on a ranch. It was here that he first met Scott Huffman. Scott was recuperating from lung problems following pneumonia. His family had sent him to the farm of his uncle Onie Hall, to do light work and breath clean air. Claude and Scott became friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Early in September Laffe took some time off to go on a fishing trip. He went with a fellow named Ross Nixon. (Ross Nixon was married to Rose Clark, who had a sister named Laura Clark. His brother Claude would marry Laura many years later.) Laffe and Ross took the spring wagon and were gone several days. When Laffe returned home he was very sick. He asked Valie and Addie to unhitch the team and take care of them as he was too sick to stand up. He went right to bed and was very ill for many days. He had caught typhoid fever. After a while, he began to feel better. Lizzie decided that the water at Bear Creek was adding to Laffe’s problem, so they packed up and moved down to Belfry, Montana. Laffe did feel better for a while and would sit outside in the sun, but his strength did not return and he continued to feel ill, which gave cause for concern to his mother Lizzie and family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The weather stayed open and quite warm until late into the fall. Laffe would feel better for a while, then would take very ill again. One day he was sitting up and a neighbor brought over a plate of food. It looked and smelled good to him and he ate it all, seeming to enjoy it very much. In a short while he began to cough. His cough became worse and he began to hemorrhage. Soon he became violently ill and he died that evening. (Marcus De Lafayette Shepherd died at age 20 on November 14, 1906.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Belfry, Montana was a very tine place with neither stores, nor a cemetery. Lizzie had to send Claude and Edna to Red Lodge, a trip or ten or twelve miles up over the mountains, to get a casket. When they got to Red Lodge, the store keeper sold them a coffin and clothing for Laffe to be laid away in. He also included a black veil for Lizzie to wear as was the custom of the day. When they got ready to start back, the stubborn old horse Kate balked as she often did. Claude was just about at the end of his patience. He picked up a 2 x 4 and gave her a beating. This caused the horse to kick wildly and Edna held the reins praying Claude would not be kicked in the head by the flying hooves. Finally the got the mare under control and made the trip back home safely. Lizzie notified the family at Burlington, and they began to prepare Laffe for burial.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The story of my maternal great great grandfather's sister Elizabeth Talmer Roberts Shepherd continues…. (The beginning of Lizzie’s story can be located <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" target="_blank">here</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now at a time when things are going along quite well for the new community and life has become a bit easier for most of them, it is sad to report that things were not going that well for the Shepherd family. As Lizzie's husband Rollins Don Carlos Shepherd advanced into his seventies he became more and more irritable and unpredictable in his behavior. One evening Florence and Burton Prettyman stopped by the Shepherd Ranch and were caught there in a heavy rainstorm. They moved a straw tick from their wagon and prepared to stay over night. Sometime during the night, father got up and was going to set the house afire. When Burton took hold of him and spoke to him he did not even remember that Burton had been there earlier. Burton put him back to bed and talked quietly to him for awhile. Often after this, the children would carry their straw ticks out and sleep in the haystack during the summer weather.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About this time Carl had a very bad attack of boils. He had three or four large boils on the back of his neck. They were very sore and made him hurt all over. He had stopped work and come into the kitchen and sat down in a chair feeling very ill. In the meantime the calves got out of their pen and in with the cows and were nursing all the days supply of milk. When father saw this he became enraged and rushed into the house to get Carl. He was carrying his irrigation shovel. Carl saw him raise the shovel, mother yelled, and he jumped out of the chair just as his father brought the shovel down with such force that he split the chair in half.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another day Rollins Don Carlos came into the house from the fields and went to the water bucket for a drink, but the bucket was empty. Lizzie was sitting at the sewing machine and did not get up. He took the bucket and went to the irrigation ditch for water. When he came back he sat the bucket down and took a drink. Then he took the heavy water dipper and began to beat Lizzie over the head with it. Her cries brought Carl on the run from the barn with the pitchfork. He told his father to quit or he would use the fork on him. Rollins Don Carlos knew that Carl meant it. Carl and his father got along well for the most part. It was Carl who stayed and cared for him longer than anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Late in the summer of that year Lizzie's son Laffe and a man by the name of Will Hawkins went over near the Yellowstone area and worked on a cattle ranch for that fall and winter. Laffe got very homesick and wrote a poem, which he mailed home, to his mother.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wish I had a clean shirt<br />I wish I had some shoes<br />I wish my little grey horse was fat<br />and I didn't have the blues.<br />I would go back home again<br />and there I would remain,<br />I never would punch cows<br />for the old L.C. Ranch again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With two of the older boys away and only Carl to help him with the ranch work, Rollins Don Carlos became very discouraged in the fall of 1903. He arranged to mortgage the ranch for a thousand dollars and decided to make a trip back to Beaver, Utah where his brother was living. Before he left he went to a lawyer in Burlington and had a legal paper drawn up conveying all the personal property, farm equipment and livestock to Lizzie. Their daughter Valie also believed that he had a formal bill of divorcement drawn up at this time. Lizzie sewed the money into his underclothing and the boys took him by wagon to Basin, where he took the train to begin his journey to Beaver. Rollins Don Carlos was happy to see his brother again and remained with him for several months. He was still in Beaver when his brother Marcus Lafayette Shepherd had a heart attack and fell from a load of logs on February 5, 1904 at the age of nearly 80 years. From a book on Beaver history, J. F. Tolton said of him "Marcus L. Shepherd: Philanthropist, Church Man - One who loved God adn served his fellowman."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When their father returned to the ranch in the early spring of 1904, he brought a velvet bonnet for each of the little girls and a China doll. Edna got a brown bonnet, Addie a red one and Valie a blue one. Not long after though Edna's had her taken by some older boys to tease her and they dropped it into the outdoor toilet. The China dolls that Edna and Addie had, each had back hair that was painted on. Soon Claude ran one of these through the cog wheel on the wringer of the washtubs. Claude was always full of mischief. he loved to get the key to the big eight day clock that hung on the wall. he would change the alarm and set it to go off in the middle of the night. Mother tried to keep the key hidden and often scolded him for his pranks, but he did not change. The doll that Valie had was a smaller doll with real blonde hair. She cherished this doll until she was past twenty year sold. Then one day while she was cleaning out her trunk and had laid it on the bed, Claude came into the room and up to his usual mischief picked up a marble and flicked it at the doll. The marble struck the doll's head, causing it to break all to pieces. Valie felt very bad about it for she had kept it for so many years and it was the only keepsake she had from her father.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometime early in the year of 1904 Carl Shepherd, age 19, married Marry Anna Montana Abercrombria (Caldwell) who was born December 18, 1876. She was 28 years old. Annie had come to the area with her parents, but she was living in a small house on the place just below the Shepherd placed. Annie had been married to James Caldwell and had four children. They were Melissa Caldwell (who had died prior to their marriage), Brazilla Caldwell, who was about 8 year sold, James Caldwell, who was about 6.5 years old and Ira Caldwell, who was still a baby. Carl left the ranch and moved to a small house with Anie and her family sometime in the early part of 1904.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rollins Don Carlos Shepherd was now past 74 years old and he was tired in body and spirt. He had been saddened by the passing of his brother and could feel that his own years were limited. He did not have a great deal to show for all his years of hard labor. He had mortgaged the ranch and signed away the livestock and all the farm equipment to his wife. The two boys, Earnest and Carl, who had worked so hard with him on the ranch for ten years had left to establish homes for themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">**It is believed that if the Shepherd families had combined their resources and gone ahead to homestead and to acquire more land in this fertile area, that their lives might have been very different.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However it was a time of change for Lizzie too. She was just past 43 years old and still a strong and vigorous woman. To be continued......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The story of Elizabeth Talmer Roberts Shepherd continues.... (The beginning of Lizzie's story can be located <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" target="_blank">here</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One humorous story concerning the three little girls happened about this time. In their Sunday school attendance they had been hearing much about the power of prayer. The greatest hope of these three little girls was to have a fully equipped playhouse of their very own. They knew that their folds did not have any way to provide them with such a luxury, so they decided to make it a matter of prayer. They swept and cleaned a place under a large tree for the playhouse to be placed. Then they set about to pray. They prayed and watched, and often got up real early to see if their prayers had been answered during the night. They even imagined that each cloud might have a playhouse hidden away inside it. One afternoon the folks went to town for groceries and the girls were left with an older brother. They wanted until earnest had gone about his work, (or so they thought), then they knelt down around the big wood box in the kitchen and prayed for the playhouse. They each took a turn praying in a most fervent manner. When it was Addie's turn to pray, she brought her fist down on the wood box and said, "And I pray that our playhouse will come down, plunkety, plink, flunkety, plunk." Outside, Earnest and his friend, who had been listening to them, were doubled over with laughter. And of course the story got passed around the family. Soon the girls decided that a playhouse was not the thing to pray for. But in later years, they enjoyed telling and retelling this story on themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But Edna did have one of her childhood prayers answered in a very dramatic way, and it always strengthened her to remember it. One day the family was getting ready to go to town. The children were not often taken along, but this day they were told they could go. So everyone hurried around to get ready, but they could not find the baby's shoe. After looking everywhere else with no success, Edna decided that it must be in the bed covering so she carefully shook them out but to no avail. Not knowing where else to look, she crawled in under the quilts and began to pray that she might be able to find the shoe there. In a few minutes she crawled out to look on the top of the covered, but there was no shoe. Then she dived right back down under the covers again, and began to pray that much harder. They next time she came out to look, there was the shoe, as she had prayed that it would be, on the top of the quilts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Edna had a firm testimony that prayers could be answered. One summer day about this time the girls were amusing themselves at a game. Lacking toys for fun, they had turned a wash tub upside down in the yard. They would take turns crawling under it while the other two beat a good drum rhythm on the top of the tub. The noise soon became very annoying to their father and he shouted for them to stop the banging, but they were having such sun, they paid little attention. Valie was under the tub and Edna and Addie were beating good strong strokes, when their enraged father came around the corner carrying his pitchfork. The girls were fearful of their father's temper. Valie stayed right where she was under the tub, Edna ran as fast as she could and hid between the house and the cellar. Addie took another route and sneaked through a hollow log and into the house where she stayed under the bed until her mother got back home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another day soon after this, Addie and Valie decided that they would run away from home. They had crossed their own fields and gone through the fence down on Corn's place and were hiding in the sagebrush. When they saw their mother running towards them with Bart under her arm, Valie said, "Oh, we better run. If she catches us she will give us a good whipping." But Addie felt differently, "No," she said "We had better go back, something is wrong." And something was wrong. Lizzie had been scrubbing the floor with lye water. She had set the can and measuring spoon on the table and Bart who was just beginning to crawl had gotten into it. Lizzie quickly washed out his mouth again and again. Although the lye had burned his lips and the inside of his mouth quite badly, he was not seriously harmed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Valie can remember going to visit her sister's family one summer day. Florence had taken a large empty wooden box and spread a quilt onto it for a playpen for baby Burton. As Valie bent over to say hello to the baby, she saw there was a large snake in the box with him. They quickly scooped the baby out and were relieved that it was only an old blow snake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The family of Florence and Burton Prettyman also continued to grow. The following children were born to them in the next few years: February 11, 1902 ~ Forest Mansford Prettyman Burlington, December 27, 1903 ~ Sarah Talmer Prettyman, April 13, 1905 ~ Leonard Murrel Prettyman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Crops continued to be good on the ranch. After the spring planting was done, Earnest and the other boys would take jobs hauling freight to bring in extra money. They hauled the first telegraph wires, cross arms and insulators from Cody down to Thermopolis, Wyoming. Claude went along with earnest on this job. In the Spring of 1903, Earnest hauled freight quite frequently to Thermopolis and began to save most of the money he was making. For Earnest had decided to get married and he needed the money for a wedding stake. One June 8, 1903 Earnest Wiggett married Mary Golda Kinnamin, daughter of James Aaron Kinnamin and Eliza York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Earnest was twenty-two that year and Mary had just turned fifteen, having been born June 3, 1888. They rented a small place further north of Burlington and went there to live. Valie can remember a small tin trunk that Mary kept clothes folded in. They had no closet, but Mary always kept her house very neat and clean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the highlights of the year for all the populations of the Burlington Ward was the 24th of July Celebration. (Pioneer Day is an official holiday celebrated on July 24 in the state of Utah, with some celebrations in regions of surrounding states originally settled by Mormon pioneers.) The youngsters looked forward to this for weeks. It was a full day of fun. There were horse races, foot races and for the boy, sack races and three legged races. They had a ball game going all day and other games for everyone to enjoy. A long table was set up under the shade of the bowery and the lunches the ladies had brought were put all together on this big table at noon. There was fried chicken, potato salad, corn on the cob, slices of tomato, and the ward furnished a large barrel of lemonade, which was a treat for the young children. There there were all kinds of cakes and pie for dessert. It was a great day of good food and good fun for all. Later in the afternoon when everyone was resting from the games, Claude and Eugene Praetor began to fist fight. As Eugene was to remember years later, "Not because we were mad, we were the best of friends, but just to entertain the group." Valie remembers that one of the ladies looked up at the boys and said, "Who is fighting?" Mrs. Praetor replied, "Oh, it's my Gene and that Shepherd kid."</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The story of Elizabeth Talmer Roberts Shepherd continues.... (The beginning of Lizzie's story can be located <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" data-mce-style="color: #000080;" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" style="color: navy;" target="_blank">here</a>.)</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was in 1897 that Lizzie's children got their first chance to go to school. The people of the community donated logs to build a 16 x 32 feet school house. Reverend L.D. Thompson donated two acres of ground on which to erect the building. It was covered with a dirt roof and was used not only for school purposes, but for other purposes by Mormons and gentiles alike. In the winter of 1896 Elder William Packard called a meeting of the Mormon people to discuss the proposition of building a meeting house. This building was completed by 1897.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this period when the Mormons were still in very poor circumstances, the chief engineer of the Burlington Railroad came to A.O. Woodruff and told him that he would like to give the people of this area twenty miles of railroad to build. This section of railroad ran from Pryor Gap on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana to Frannie, Wyoming. Contracts were signed for twenty miles of grading, the price being 13 1/2 cents for earth, 24 cents for solid rock, and 50 cents per ton-mile for pipe haul. Charles A. Welch, who wrote a history of the Big Horn Basin, was selected to do the railroad work and look after the commissary. This was an answer to a prayer as it supplied the settlers with a source of income during the winter.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next three years were quite good years on the ranch. They continued to clear more land, to improve the canals and to plant more each year. The crops of hay and grain were good, the family had a small garden, which Lizzie took care of. The children picked wild berries along the river. Some jelly was made and preserved. The children would collect old beer bottles and such. The tops were cut off the bottles by dropping a hot harness rind down over the bottle neck. Then they were filed smooth across the top. After they were washed and the jelly was poured and set, they were sealed by coating a piece of tablet paper with egg which and sticking it securely over the top. Lizzie was a thrifty woman and made use of all the items of produce. She made tomato preserve and a large stone jar was made full of pumpkin butter. The children love the green tomatoes that Lizzie used to slice and fry. After their lean years it now seemed that they had a very comfortable life.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lizzie's daughter Florence gave birth to her second son on July 12, 1898 and named him Earnest John Prettyman, after her brother. In the winter of the following year on December 18, 1899, Lizzie and her husband Rollins Don Carlos had another son and named him Bartley Roberts Shepherd. Lizzie's oldest son Earnest Wiggett was now nineteen years old, son Carl Shepherd celebrated his fifteenth birthday on January 1, 1900, and Laffe was fourteen. </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Son Claude wrote in a story, "I was big enough then to go with my brothers to get timber." The boys cut and hauled many loads of logs and started to build a four room house. They laid logs up to the square (ready for a roof) at least two different times, the took the logs down to use for fences and corrals. One day while they were working on the fence, Carl picked up a new hatchet that one of the neighbors had carelessly left. New tools were rare, and Carl was pleased with his new find. Lizzie saw him hide it in the sagebrush and knew it did not belong to them and made him return the hatchet to the rightful owner.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the early spring of 1900 Florence and Burton Prettyman had their third son. Burton Hazen Prettyman was born in Burlington on March 27, 1900.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the fall of 1900 there was a lot of illness. A man by the name of James Aaron Kinnamin came to Burlington. He had left his wife and small child in Colorado, but had brought his four oldest children with him in a covered wagon. Lon and Willard were in their early teens, Mary about twelve years old and Howard about ten. When they arrive Lon was ill with diptheria. Lizzie took in the washing for this family and although she used carbolic acid as a disinfectant in the wash water and in the dish soap, soon Earnest, Valie and Lizzie each had diptheria. They were all very sick. Lizzie sent Carl to buy a bottle of pure grain alcohol at the saloon. She would pour a few drops of this onto a teaspoon with sugar and have the ill ones take it to cut the phlegm in their throats to keep them from choking. Addie was then about seven years old and was very afraid of getting the illness. She told her mother, "If I get it, I'll die." So she ate sugar and alcohol, and also threw all the used spoons behind a chest of drawers. Fortunately she did not get sick.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rollins Don Carlos Shepherd had his seventieth birthday in the winter of 1900. He continued to work on the ranch with the help of Earnest and Carl. They were still clearing sage brush and still extending the canal system across their land. In the year of 1901 they had a good crop of alfalfa that grew as tall as a horse.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the fall Laffe and Claude walked about three miles to school. Enda, Addie and Valie also walked to school with them. Valie can remember taking a short cut through the fields and down along the big canal. Sometimes they would go over to the Kinnamin house with Mary for lunch. They had rented a small house in Burlington. Although they had no woman to care for them, the house and the children were neat and clean. The children enjoyed these growing up years, and many family stories come from this time.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the family's return trip from Billings, Montana the older children were walking along the roadside picking flowers. Five year old Electra who was riding in the wagon decided she wanted to pick flowers too and while climbing down, slipped and fell. Her dress caught in the brake block and threw her under the wagon. The heavy wagon rolled over her body and her back was broken. The family went back to Billings for a doctor, but he said he could do nothing for her. Her father, Rollins Don Carlos, wanted to get back to the ranch, so they made a bed for her in the wagon and started out. Their travels took them through the Crow Reservation at Pryor, Montana. The Crow tribe did what they could to ease her suffering, but after a few days she died on June 27, 1894. She was laid to rest there on the reservation with a service spoken by a Catholic priest. Lizzie did not feel good about the rosary beads and the cross he put into her little coffin and she removed those before she was buried.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The family finally returned to Burlington in the month of July. Young Earnest, who at twelve years old, had been left behind to mind the ranch, had almost given up hope of ever seeing them again. The sad events of the trip and the poor conditions of the family made it hard for them to accomplish much that summer. Lizzie's husband, Rollins Don Carlos, continued to work for other others. They moved onto the Thorn Ranch and lived in a small cabin. It was another hard winter for them. In the Spring of 1895, Rollins Don Carlos chose his land and began to clear some of the sagebrush. While they were still living at Thorn's Place another daughter was born. Valie Shepherd joined the family on June 5, 1895. (Valie in later years would share how her father wanted to name her Roxalana Ray after his mother, but what of the neighbors had a dog named Roxie, and that is why she was not given that name.)</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In 1895 Mormon settlers located in the region permanently and named the place Burlington. They decided to build another ditch to cover the land lying along the river valley and it could be down for much less than the Bench Canal. Things were looking blue, but the settlers came together and elected Richard L. Proctor as Superintendent and through his untiring effort rallied the people. That land had to be homesteaded so that every man had to build on the place he had selected for a home. The ditch was sufficiently finished and some crops were raised the same season that the work began. The group of families that were among those who built homesteads included the Shepherds, Packards, Bakers, Rigtrup, Corns and Dobson families. </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Young Earnest and Carl hauled logs from the Narby mountains and a one room cabin was built. A story by Claude states that they moved to the homestead in the Fall of 1895. They hauled logs to build a fence so cattle could be kept out. The first year they put in five acres of hay and grain. They continued to clear more land each season. The following years they had a good crop of wheat and Lizzie had a large bin built in one corner of the cabin. She filled it with wheat and a bed was made over it. She traded three bushels of wheat for a small pig. The pig had the scurvy and she put it into a wash tub and gave it a good lye soap bath and then fed it well. She was rewarded with a nice littler of pigs the following spring. Claude's story tells of pulling salt grass during the winter to feed the pigs. </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The family continued to clear the land. The earliest memory that Valie recounted was of sitting on a blanket of sagebrush while the older boys, Earnest and Carl, hauled more logs from the mountains. Times were still very hard for the settlers, but romance entered the picture too when eldest daughter Florence Wiggett, at age seventeen married Burton Jackson Prettyman on August 3, 1896.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Shepherd family was able to get a cow and some chickens the next year. This added milk, butter and eggs to their diet. The children picked berries down along the Greybull River in the summer for fruit. Sometime during the year of 1897 Lizzie suffered a late term miscarriage. That same year she also became a grandmother. Lizzie was thirty-six years old the year her daughter, Florence Wigget Prettyman had her first child on May 12, 1897, a son named Josephus Prettyman.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The continuing story of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Talmer Roberts Shepherd. The first installment began <a data-mce-href="In%20a previous email you brought up Trish and I being able to contribute somehow to the weekend. " href="https://weareallmeanttoshine.wordpress.com/wp-admin/In%20a%20previous%20email%20you%20brought%20up%20Trish%20and%20I%20being%20able%20to%20contribute%20somehow%20to%20the%20weekend." target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the spring of 1893 Lizzie's husband Rollins Don Carlos Shepherd decided to move the family into the Big Horn Basin area of Wyoming. The Church of Latter Day Saints had encourage the settlement of this area and Rollins Don Carlos has heard that there were good opportunities to be found in the area. The family, which included 7 small children, loaded their belongings and supplies into a covered wagon and set out on a journey of about 550 miles to the north. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the family stories mentions that a small pony was purchased for Earnest Wiggett, who at twelve years old, helped to drive their cattle. The family started off with 75 head of white face cattle, which would have given them a good start on a herd, but due to feuds between cattle and sheep men of the west, a significant number of their cattle were killed during the journey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lizzie, expecting again during the trip, cared for the small children, including six month old Edna, who was ill almost the whole trip. Their son Laffe (Marcus de Lafayette) had trouble with an injured eye all the way and for years following. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The area that the settlers moved into was a large fertile valley abut 25 miles east from either Basin or Greybull, Wyoming. Earlier settlers had been trying to establish an irrigation system, but the undertaking had proven too great for their small numbers. Many of those settlers grew discouraged and sold their interests to a man by the name of Wiley. He enlarged the irrigation ditch and settled the area with German settlers and in turn became know as Germania Bench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lizzie and Rollins Don Carlos located their wagons, when they arrived, along a bend in the Greybull River and it became known as Mormon Bend. Others in the group were the Bill Clark family, Tom Jones and William Packard. The Shepherd family had arrived too late into the summer of 1893 to begin clearing land. That year Rollins Don Carlos worked for other farmers in the area. They moved their wagon from Mormon Bend on to the small ranch owned by Jim Goodrich. It was here that their third daughter, Adeline Shepherd was born on September 7, 1893. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a very hard winter for Lizzie. She had a newborn baby and little Edna, who was not yet a year old, was ill a great deal of the time. After the new baby was born both of the babies were breastfed. The entire family lived in, around and under the covered wagon. It provided little shelter and food was very scarce. Rabbits and other wild game was used as meat when they were available. Wheat was ground in a small hand coffee mill. The wheat was used as cereal, toasted and brewed as a warming drink, and twice ground for bread. An old man living alone in a wagon down near the river starved to death that winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the spring someone sent word that they had one of the whiteface cows with the family brand. Rollins Don Carlos went to get it, but the man insisted that he could not take it home alive, so the cow was killed and taken home as much needed beef. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a very hard and discouraging year. By spring all the supplies had been exhausted. Rollins Don Carlos decided to make a trip to Billings, Montana, a journey of about 200 miles. Young Earnest Wiggett (12 years old) was left to take care of the camp. Many years later daughter Edna Hanna wrote a story about this journey titled "Never Marry An Old Man" It was on the return trip from Billings that an accident occurred.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What are your thoughts about the challenges and hardship this family faced? </span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know it gives me pause and perspective regarding what I might consider challenging and difficult in my own life today.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have you come across any daunting stories in your own family history?</span></strong></div>
pokettigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15873328065978997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1412597698909658753.post-39494603579365635152015-02-17T12:30:00.000-08:002015-02-17T12:30:32.625-08:00Mojo Monday ~ Lizzie's Adventure Continues<div class="mceTemp" style="font-size: 16.5200004577637px; line-height: 24.7800006866455px;">
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The story of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Talmer Roberts continues from the <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2015/02/03/mojo-monday-getting-to-know-your-ancestors/" target="_blank">previous Mojo Monday</a>...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When they reached New York on April 23, 1883 Lizzie's son was still very ill and she began to fear that they would be quarantined by the immigration and custom service. She had him wrapped up in a blanket and as the line moved slowly forward they didn’t stop her and instead barked at her “Pass on lady, pass on.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lizzie, her two children Florence (age 4) and Benjamin Earnest (age 2), sister Lucy and brother-in-law Fred Fields, after arriving in New York, continued their journey west via train. They rode in boxcars on rough wooden benches with other immigrants to the Salt Lake Valley. Later they took another train to Milford where they were met by members of the Roberts family from Beaver, Utah. A small house was found for Lizzie and her children and it was here, on October 22, 1883 that she gave birth to another son that she name John Wiggett after his father. Lizzie delivered the child herself and the child lived only a few days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During the fall and winter Lizzie received several letters from her husband John Wiggett, who had remained in England. She kept the letters in a coffee can for many years. Copies of the letters were preserved by her family. Below is the first page of a letter John Wiggett wrote to Lizzie in October 1883. It was four pages long. This is followed by a typed version a family member prepared.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It soon became necessary for Lizzie to find work to support herself and her children. She went to work as a housekeeper for a man named Rollins Don Carlos Shepherd who lived in Beaver, Utah. He had been born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 8, 1832. He was thirty years older than Lizzie and already twice a widower, having been married to Sarah Smithson and then to Sarah Harris. About 1870 he lived in San Bernardino, California where he acquired property which was lost through lawsuits. He then moved to St. George, Utah where it is believed he worked on the building of the temple.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lizzie and Don Carlos were married at Minersville, Utah on February 16, 1884. He was </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">53 years old and she was 23 years old. On January 1, 1885 their son Rollins Don Carlos II was born in Beaver, Utah. Although it is believed that Rollins Don Carlos Sr. had children from a previous marriage, it is thought this was his first son. On December 16, 1886 their second son was born. He was named Marcus de Lafayette after his uncle, the brother of Rollins Don Carlos. His brother Marcus was also a resident of Beaver, Utah during this time and had established a store and mill. From 1869 Marcus served many years as Bishop of the Beaver First Ward. Marcus was six years older than Rollins Don Carlos and they were very close.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During these years the church was still colonizing in many areas. Families were often asked to volunteer to go into new areas and open them up for future expansion. Early in the spring of 1888 Rollins Don Carlos Shepherd, Lizzie and their children moved to Vernal in the Uintah Basin of Eastern Utah. The family spent about five years farming in this area and accumulated quite a few cattle. During this time three more children were born to Lizzie and Rollins Don Carlos, Claude Ashley Shepherd born June 18, 1888, next Electra Shepherd born November 23, 1889, and then Edna Shepherd born December 9, 1892. They established a good home and had cattle and horses.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As I have come across written stories and biographies of some of my ancestors I have found them to be fascinating. It becomes so much more real and I gain this sense that people are people, no matter the era. Reading about them takes them from being just names or photographs to real living individuals who experienced joys, love, hardships, loss, and adventures. The historian and story lover in me wishes I had more time to devote to genealogy research. I have been doing most of my research using Ancestry.com and thanks to other participants who are taking the time to upload photos and stories, my own ancestral background has been enriched immensely.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me share with you a little of the beginning story of Elizabeth Talmer Roberts, also know as Lizzie, sister of my great-great-grandfather. Lizzie was born on June 10, 1861 in Headless Cross, Worchestershire, England. Her father Abel was a blacksmith. Her mother Ellen Ross Roberts had been a school teacher before her marriage. Child education was not required in England at this time so Lizzie benefitted with her siblings from some education from her mother.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Children were expected to begin working very young. When Lizzie was about 5 years old, one of her jobs was to sit on the fence stiles and chase the birds from the growing crops. When she was about 7 years old she was hired out by a distant cousin. She ran away and came home crossing a pasture where a very mean bull was kept. She managed to get through the pasture safely, but this bull later gored her brother Thomas very badly.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At one time the family lived near a large needle factory and for some years she worked with her mother by bringing home needles to inspect and to package. They would return the finishes work to the factory once a week. When she was a young lady she worked on a darm and spent spent several hours a day working in the hay fields. According to a story written by her daughter Edna Shepherd Hanna, she later worked as a maid in a home on one of the large estates. It was here that Lizzie met and fell in love with a young man named John Wiggett.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Neither her mother nor her employer were very happy about this, so they tried to keep them separated. This only made them more anxious to be together. They did their courting through a small window and during walks to church. One day her mistress told here to go home until she could forget this young man. When she returned home her mother was very cross because of her behavior, and because her wages were needed to help support the large family.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One night soon after this incident her father wanted her to go to the public well for water. It had grown dark and the path led through a very narrow alley, which was a hangout for a group of very rough boys. Lizzie refused to go unless her brother would accompany her. Her father may have been drinking, for her refusal angered him very much, and he refused to let her brother William go. When she told her father again that she would not go alone he took a heavy blacksmith belt and gave Lizzie a severe beating. Then he made a bed for her on the floor by the side of his bed. In the night, after she was sure he was asleep, she ran away and went to the home of John Wiggett's mother. </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She did not return home and instead her and John appeared in church for three Sundays before they could be married, a custom posting the bans. Their marriage was solemnized at the Parrish Church in the rectory of Headless Cross, County of Warwick on August 5, 1878.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">John and Lizzie began their married life and were happy for awhile. They both worked stamping needles at the factory. In 1879 Lizzie quit work to prepare for the birth of their first child. Their daughter Florence Wiggett was born December 7, 1879.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the early spring of 1880, Lizzie's brothers William Roberts (my great-great-grandfather) age 17 and Benjamin age 16, were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They began making plans to emigrate to Utah and departed England on June 4, 1880. Lizzie and John, still together, had their second child, a son, on May 1, 1881. They named him Benjamin Earnest Wiggett.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About this time her husband John began staying away nights and was spending more time and money in the ale houses. Lizzie's brothers had written urging the family to join them in America and offered to pay the passage for those that wished to join them. Abel and Ellen Roberts (Lizzie's parents), with their younger children Thomas, Harry, Sadie and Alfred, left England in 1882. Lizzie had wanted to join them and held hopes that a change might improve John's habits. John did not seem to want to go and since Lizzie was expecting their third child they both stayed in England. Their third child, Lizzie Wiggett, was born October 17, 1882, but died a few days later.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The loss of her daughter, together with John's drinking, saddened Lizzie very much. Lizzie had been receiving letters from her mother telling of their new life in America. A letter took somewhere between a month and six weeks to arrive. Lizzie always had a neighbor read these letters to her. One day a letter arrived and Lizzie was so anxious to read it she attempted to read it herself. Later when she had the neighbor read it she confirmed that she could read well enough for herself. Lizzie make up her mind that was going to emigrate to Utah and believed that her husband John would follow her. She had hopes of creating a new life together. It was a difficult decision as she was also expecting again.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The necessary arrangements were made for her and her husband, along with her sister Lucy and her husband Fred Fields. Stories say that John Wiggett went to the ship with them, but that his sister clung to him and begged him not to go. Whatever the reason John did not board the ship, yet Lizzie and their two children Florence age 3 and Ernest age 2, along with her sister Lucy and brother-in-law Alfred, departed on April 11, 1883 from Liverpool on the ship Nevada.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During the voyage her young son Earnest was very ill. The stories are that the captain of the ship told Lizzie that if the child died he would have to be thrown overboard. Lizzie prayed fervently that he would live. When they reached New York on April 23, 1883 Lizzie son was still very ill and she began to fear that they would be quarantined by the immigration and custom service. She had him wrapped up in a blanket and as the line moved slowly forward they didn't stop her and instead barked at her "Pass on lady, pass on."</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In my next Mojo Monday on February 16th I'll share more about Lizzie's adventures. Just in writing this post I also discovered a web site called <a data-mce-href="http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/" data-mce-style="color: #000080;" href="http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/" style="color: navy;" target="_blank">Mormon Migration</a> and there are multiple written accounts of the ship voyage. In a future post I also plan to share how a family mystery that dates back to 1946 was solved.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">* I have truly been fortunate to discover that stories and photos have been uploaded to Ancestry.com by distant relatives. I have also branched out at times and have found that opening up a search based on an emigration date, birth date, marriage date, or death date can sometimes lead to new discoveries.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have you spoken to any grandparents, great aunts or uncles about their lives or the lives of their parents?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once upon a time (around September of 1996) a stray can showed up on my front porch. He was adorable with a little round head, bright green eyes and the softest short coat of fur ever. The little guy adopted me and basically took up residence at the house. Here is a photo of adorable Oscar with those bright green eyes joining in the pumpkin carving fun at Halloween.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next spring I suddenly noticed some behavioral changes in Oscar and quickly realized that Oscar was a female cat and was indeed pregnant. Now being called Oscarina I took good care of the expectant mama. One day while at work I received a call from a roommate stating she thought Oscarina was going into labor. I left work early and arrived to find her in labor. From what I had heard most cats tend to seek out private and hidden areas when it came time to deliver. Not Oscarina. She was in the bed I had prepared for her but she didn't want to be left alone. She even rolled on her back and I rubbed her belly a little. She had me right there by her side as she delivered four kittens into this world on April 8, 1997. It was amazing to watch as she birthed all four and then went into mama mode, cleaning and caring for them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Each of the kittens had a unique appearance. One kitten looked like he had the Phantom of the Opera mask across its face and was named Phantom. A little black and white kitten had a cute little white goatee type look and we named it Foo Man Chu. The third looked a bit like a racoon with a mask around the eyes and we named it Bandito. The fourth didn't really get a name that stuck and as it would happen she was the one adopted by a friend of a friend. If I remember right after all these years I think the plan was to name her Daisy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As it worked out only one of the kittens was a boy, that being Phantom. Foo Man Chu a little girl kitten, ended up being nicknamed Fooey. Bandito, also a girl , continued to be called Bandito. About 6 weeks or so after the kittens were born a friend found an abandoned kitten and brought it to me to add to the family. This new kitten dubbed Cracker came with some issues but mama kitty and the other kittens took her in. Mama would turn on her once or twice when Cracker would become aggressive about food with her other kittens. Sadly one day mama kitty came limping into the house and proceeded to die. All we could think is that she had been side swiped by a car and had sustained internal injuries. We gave her a proper burial and mourned her passing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The kittens continued to grow into healthy young cats. Bandito was the kitten I chose to keep for sure. One of my nieces ended up adopting handsome Phantom. Cracker, the step-sister, also found a new home. Little Fooey stayed with me, but was always a skittish, so unlike her confident and friendly siblings. I now think Fooey was just waiting to find her human soul mate. She did finally find him when she met my dad. That little thing claimed him as her person and my dad fell in love with her in return.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The years passed and it was nice that most had gone to family so I could stay up-to-date on how they were doing. As these things happen eventually my niece's Phantom developed a cat illness and passed away. About two years ago my dad's precious Fooey showed signs of illness. He took her into the vet and learned she had some serious mouth issues going on. They recommended mouth surgery and my dad proceeded with the treatment. Fooey had a couple of teeth extracted and the vet thought there might be a mouth cancer at play. Fooey never fully recovered and passed away three months later.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My matriarch Bandito has been the ruling kitty queen in our home for many years. When we added our dog Shanti to the family in 2003 she begrudgingly accepted the new addition, but made it clear that she rules. Shanti to this day will roll over and be submissive to Queen Bandito. When our twin daughters were born I wasn't sure how Bandito would respond. She ignored them for a few years, but when they developed good petting skills she finally gave them stamps of approval. She used to jump up on the bathroom sink for her food and water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bandito turned 17 years old in April of 2014. A few years ago she began to develop a cloudy cataract in her one eye. We have also made various adjustments in the home over the years and recent months to make accommodations for her. As a strong cat she used to jump up onto the bathroom counter to eat and drink her water. This kept the dog from scarfing down the cat food. Eventually she didn't want to jump high anymore, so we put a kitty door in the bathroom door for her. In recent months she didn't want to use her cat box with the lid on, so I removed and then bought a smaller box with a lower lip for her to step over. We also took off the kitty door flap because it seemed to be bugging her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About a month ago she appeared to have an episode of some sort. Maybe a seizure or min stroke. Yet after a short pause she was back to normal. Except for losing some extra fur around the house. Then this last week things turned suddenly. She wanted to hide in a closet and I finally noticed a strong disagreeable order coming from her. I googled a few things and grew concerned it might be renal kidney failure. Just this past Friday we took her to the vet. The examination of her mouth revealed a couple bad teeth and a horrible mouth infection. They took blood and urine to test, gave her an antibiotic shot that would last for two weeks to help with the infection, and suggested having her come back in when she was a little better for surgery to extract some teeth. We left the vet unsure of the outcome. When they called with the lab results it was surprising for a cat her age that there wasn't anything significant to be concerned about. Yet it also became clear that at her age the infection and tooth issues could be very serious. When I heard about her sister's results after mouth surgery I grew more worried. I was questioning whether to put a cat her age through such an ordeal. My dad recommended to not do it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yesterday and today I have watched my beloved Bandito grow more listless. She has been refusing food for about 48 hours now. I have been able to get her to drink some water by bringing it to her bed. I hold her for stretches of time. She purrs and cuddles in tight with me. She lets me pet her all over and brush her. She doesn't indicate she is in pain, even if I pet her near her chin and mouth, which is good. She just looks so tired and listless. She has tried walking, but is wobbly. I wonder if the time has arrived for her to pass on. Every couple of hours I tear up and cry. Like right now. In finishing up this posting I just want to go and get her and cuddle her close. Not knowing if it will be the last time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bandito has been in my life for nearly 18 years.<br />I have been her person since the day she was born.<br />This fur kid has been such an important part of my life.<br />She will be forever in my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong>Are there fur kids who have passed on</strong><br /><strong>that will remain in your heart forever?</strong>(I had a cat named Holly who lived to be 18 years old too.<br />She holds a special place in my heart too. I still have photos of her.)<strong><br /></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><strong>We track the lineage and ancestry of humans. </strong><br /><strong>What would it look like if we tracked the<br />lineage of our furry family members?</strong>(I know for me it feels very special to have know Bandito's mama<br />and to have been there when she was born.)</span></div>
pokettigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15873328065978997841noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1412597698909658753.post-75105530686239410292015-01-05T10:04:00.000-08:002015-01-11T08:47:10.971-08:00Mojo Monday ~ Looking Back & Looking Forward While Staying Present<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24.7800006866455px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">In light of this theme there will be more exploration of ancestry in the coming months, yet it won't be entirely focused on genealogy per se. When I think of lineage in broader terms, beyond my own family tree, I think of honoring the wisdom of all women (and men) that came before. I think of a <a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1bZe7bdXMw" data-mce-style="color: #333399;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1bZe7bdXMw" style="color: #333399;" target="_blank">video</a> I recently watched of Bill Moyers interviewing award winning writer Ursula Le Guin who is about 85 years old now and the wisdom she shared.</span> <span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"> I think of suffragists, feminists, women historians, activists, artists.....and onto the legendary work and impacts we are leaving in our wakes for the women and girls to follow us. There is much to explore in the coming months. </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the beginning of a new year most of us not only look back at year we just wrapped up. We also look forward to the new year, perhaps with dreams, goals and resolutions in mind. Here are brief introductions to several articles that offered some thoughtful ideas for looking forward to the new year ahead. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">1. A restful sleep<br />2. Play, Sing, Dance </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">3. Love the One Who Is With You </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">4. Be In Nature</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">5. Ban Perfection (though I might tweak this one to <em>Embrace Imperfection</em>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A number of years ago I got into doing some genealogy. Maybe it is the history lover in me. Maybe it is my curious nature. My last foray into delving into the history records was before I had twins. Plenty of things fell to the wayside after I became a mom. Recently though as my husband delved back into his genealogical research I too decided to sign up for a month of access on Ancestry.com. It is a fascinating journey to find the connections and the mazes of my family tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A week into it, sometimes obsessively tracking and connecting the dots of one generation to another, I found myself asking "Why am I spending my time doing this? Does it really matter if I find out the names and birth dates of the people who I share my DNA? Does that have any bearing on the present and my life today?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What I find myself contemplating is how all of these people who I am related to were once alive and walking on Earth. They were born, grew up, got married, had children and eventually died. I am perplexed at times how quickly memories and historical information in a family can fade away. So many stories and the history of a family can be lost in a generation. I consider how after I die and my daughters grow old and die that I too could fade away. I consider that this too is just how things are, and yet at the same time I think about keeping the stories alive and doing my part to preserve some of the family history for future generations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are moments such as when I discovered the death certificate of my paternal great grandmother Eva Lavendar that she and her life story becomes more real to me. My paternal side of the family I new the least about. More of her life story began to unfold as I discover census documents, a marriage certificate, and her death certificate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yet let me start at the beginning to give great grandma Eva Lavender a moment in the spotlight. This is a woman who could fade away if descendants, like myself don't keep her memory alive. Eva Lavendar was born on July 28, 1880 in Menard Co., Illinois. She married Thomas Franklin Higginbottham on January 1, 1901 in Weiser, Idaho. They moved to Missouri and their first child, Howard Higginbottham was born on October 19, 1901. Their first child Howard sadly died the following July. Their next child Jesse Ray was born on July 20, 1903. The third child Annie may have died at birth as the records only estimate she was born in 1903, though I am guessing it had to be more like 1904. Their fourth child, my paternal grandmother Lula, was born on June 9, 1905. Following the birth of my paternal grandmother Lula, my great grandmother Eva would go on to have seven more children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I read on the death certificate filed in August 1914 that Eva died from childbirth, a postpartum hemorrhage on July 18, 1914. She was only 34 years old. The child she gave birth to died too. I discover this as I look at the birth and death date of her 11th child. As I contemplate her life I do the math and figure out she married at age 21 and had her first child that same year. In the course of only 13 years she gave birth to 11 children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are many women in my family who had this many children or more. My maternal great great grandmother Sarah Roberts (Maiden name Briggs), was born March 17, 1868 in England. She emigrated to the United States with her parents and siblings and married her husband in Beaver, Utah on April 16, 1884. Her husband William Roberts had also been born in England and had emigrated to the USA. Together they had 16 children. Her first child was born when she was only 17 years old and her last child was born when she was 44 years old. My great grandma Ida was her 10th child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In my research I came across a short written biography about my great great grandmother Sara Briggs parents and family. Her father James was a Methodist Minister in England. He ended up converting to Mormonism and married his wife Betsy Fielding who converted with him. They left England on the ship "Idaho" on June 30, 1875 with four of their children Betsy Alice, John, Alma and Sarah. They arrived in New York City on July 14, 1875. They then arrived in Utah by rail on July 22, 1875. They were received in Salt Lake City by Bishop Jacob Wheeler. Two of their older sons had come to Utah two years before. In my searching I come across some journal accounts of those two sons. In with the biography I also discover someone wrote a poem about the Briggs family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was Robert, Alma, John and Joe<br />Finest of men you would ever know.<br />Bob, a shoe maker, the best they say,<br />Made many a shoe without any pay.<br />Joe lived in Frisco, for a long time,<br />Was superintendent of Horn Silver mine.<br />Alma and John owned a big her of sheep,<br />And would tramp o'er the hills, till they got sore feet.<br />The girls were Sarah, Alice and Nancy,<br />Lovely and charming as girls could be.<br />Sarah, blue eyes with blond curly hair,<br />When she caught the eye t'would make folks stare.<br />Nancy, brunette and brown hazel eyes.<br />And a shy little way that took folks by surprise.<br />Alice was small, dainty, gentle and sweet,<br />As pretty a lassie as e're walked down the street.<br />The Father and Mother were Betsy and James.<br />They reared this family a credit to their names.<br />James lived the gospel and knew it by heart,<br />And in every way tried to do his part.<br />'A very good family', folks would say,<br />Now may years have gone, since they passed away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> My explorations will continue. It feels like a treasure hunt and when I find photos and stories posted it feels especially exciting. Getting a glimpse into reading my ancestors life stories is interesting. There are other people on Ancestry.com who have created their own family trees and they show up as links and hints because we share relatives. I have yet to reach out to any of these long lost relatives. I came across an article called <a data-mce-href="http://www.tmgenealogy.com/2012/11/my-top-7-tips-to-finding-old-photos-i.html" href="http://www.tmgenealogy.com/2012/11/my-top-7-tips-to-finding-old-photos-i.html" target="_blank"><em>My Top 7 Tips for Finding Old Photos of Ancestors</em></a> on a website called Teach Me Genealogy that offered some great ideas too.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Have you done any exploration into your ancestry?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Do you still have great grandparents, great aunts and uncles, cousins, who you could talk to about your family history?</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are their family photo albums, bibles, or other records that could provide details about your ancestors?</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In addition to genealogy sites that require you pay like Ancestry.com which I am using, I came across a list of sites that offer free resources. I haven't looked into all of these, but feel free to explore for yourself:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Family Search <a data-mce-href="http://www.familysearch.org/" href="http://www.familysearch.org/">www.familysearch.org</a> (For research, historical records and<br />volunteering to help index)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Find a Grave <a data-mce-href="http://www.findagrave.com/" href="http://www.findagrave.com/">www.findagrave.com</a> (Millions of online memorials, from transcribed headstones)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">World GenWeb Project <a data-mce-href="http://www.worldgenweb.org/" href="http://www.worldgenweb.org/">www.worldgenweb.org</a> (Genealogical data per country)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">US GenWeb Project <a data-mce-href="http://www.usgenweb.com/" href="http://www.usgenweb.com/">www.usgenweb.com</a> (Genealogical data per state)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">National Archives <a data-mce-href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm" href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm">www.nationalarchives.gov</a> (Archived Genealogical data from the US Government)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Genealogy Today <a data-mce-href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/" href="http://www.genealogytoday.com/">www.genealogytoday.com</a> (Genealogical Data)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Google <a data-mce-href="http://www.google.com/" href="http://www.google.com/">www.google.com</a> (Genealogical data, images, maps, and more)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Access Genealogy <a data-mce-href="http://www.accessgenealogy.com/" href="http://www.accessgenealogy.com/">www.accessgenealogy.com</a> (Online Genealogical Data)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Family Tree Searcher <a data-mce-href="http://www.familytreesearcher.com/" href="http://www.familytreesearcher.com/">www.familytreesearcher.com</a> (Online family trees)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">GeneaBios <a data-mce-href="http://www.geneabios.com/" href="http://www.geneabios.com/">www.geneabios.com</a> (Genealogy Biography database)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cyndi's List <a data-mce-href="http://www.cyndislist.com/" href="http://www.cyndislist.com/">www.cyndislist.com</a> (Online genealogical data)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Roots Web <a data-mce-href="http://www.rootsweb.org/" href="http://www.rootsweb.org/">www.rootsweb.org</a> (Online message boards and genealogical data)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Genforum <a data-mce-href="http://genforum.genealogy.com/" href="http://genforum.genealogy.com/">www.genforum.org</a> (14000 forums devoted to genealogy)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jewish Genealogy <a data-mce-href="http://www.jewishgen.org/" href="http://www.jewishgen.org/">www.jewishgen.org</a> (Jewish Genealogical data)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Billion Graves <a data-mce-href="http://www.billiongraves.com/" href="http://www.billiongraves.com/">www.billiongraves.com</a> (online memorials with gps tracking to each headstone)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">Sometimes I can be really serious. I am sensitive to world events. My heart hurts when there are painful</span> <span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">and sad things happening. I struggle with the big issues regarding injustice, violence against women and children, as well as hurtful actions against animals, which is why I adopted a vegan diet 6 years ago. I also happen to be in my fourth year of writing for Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine and while the first years leant themselves to me writing about inspirational uplifting topics, we as a collective group have dug deeper into more challenging topics, especially this year where the theme is Taboo. I have now tackled the topic of <a data-mce-href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/06/17/naked-vulnerability/" data-mce-style="color: #800080;" href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/06/17/naked-vulnerability/" style="color: purple;" target="_blank"><em>Naked Vulnerability</em></a>, "Death" in <a data-mce-href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/08/12/we-are-all-going-to-die-poetry-can-help/" data-mce-style="color: #800080;" href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/08/12/we-are-all-going-to-die-poetry-can-help/" style="color: purple;" target="_blank"><em>We Are All Going to Die. Poetry Can Help</em> </a>, "Ambiguity" in <em><a data-mce-href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/10/07/shades-of-fucking-gray-or-delicious-ambiguity/" data-mce-style="color: #800080;" href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/10/07/shades-of-fucking-gray-or-delicious-ambiguity/" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Shades of Fucking Gray or Delicious Ambiguity?</a> </em>and the most recent, sexual abuse of children, in <em><a data-mce-href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/12/02/the-bogeyman-under-the-bed/" data-mce-style="color: #800080;" href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/12/02/the-bogeyman-under-the-bed/" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">The Bogeyman Under the Bed</a></em>. Goodness I sometimes feel like this series is putting me through the proverbial wringer.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In my off time from contemplating and writing about topics like death and abuse I can also get caught up and focused on chores, to-do lists, keeping my car clean, organizing my emails and hanging up my clothes according to color scheme. (Oh dear, I am revealing my idiosyncrasies.) Yes, there are aspects of my moderate OCD personality that likes everything in a certain order. It is the last trait that can trigger my irritation about towels hung up haphazardly, the bed not made, books and homework strewn across the dining room table, too many things cluttering up the house, jackets thrown on the floor...well you get the idea. It is something I feel I have to tame regularly if I am to avoid the true grumpy grumps and grumbles about wanting to live alone, so I don't have to clean up after other people. I love my children and my hubby. It is terrifying to consider a life without them, so obviously moving out or moving them out really isn't the answer. What I aim to focus on instead is making peace with things I cannot change. Not always so easy, but when love trumps everything else, you do what you need to to make it work.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a data-mce-href="https://weareallmeanttoshine.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues.jpg" data-mce-style="color: #800080;" href="https://weareallmeanttoshine.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues.jpg" style="color: purple;"><img alt="Even Cowgirls get the Blues" class="alignleft wp-image-2724" data-mce-src="https://weareallmeanttoshine.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues.jpg?w=138" height="207" src="https://weareallmeanttoshine.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/even-cowgirls-get-the-blues.jpg?w=138" style="float: left;" width="191" /></a>So in consideration of how serious I have been feeling, and in all honesty, the blues I have been struggling with for months now (yes even Cowgirls get the blues), it was timely to receive a newsletter that reminded me of the importance of <em>Play</em>. It also seemed appropriate for the magical month of December. I laughed, but related especially to the description of FDD ~ Fun Deficit Disorder. Let me share with you the inspirational message from Kathy Tyler of <a data-mce-href="https://www.innerlinks.com/about" data-mce-style="color: #800080;" href="https://www.innerlinks.com/about" style="color: purple;" target="_blank">Innerlinks</a> that struck a chord with me.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maximize every moment of liveness. Experience </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>pleasurable involvement in all your activities and enjoy what you are doing. Have Fun!</i><i></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Play is at the heart of our creativity and animates our being in our most carefree moments. It helps us live with absurdity, paradox, and mystery. It feeds our childlike joy and wonder. It keeps our search for meaning grounded and on to earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is so much going on in the world, and within us, that our stress levels have adjusted upwards to a new 'normal' creating a hidden epidemic of fun deficit disorder (FDD). Play is an antidote to stress. It can totally absorb your attention and cause a cascade of feelings that greatly impact your happiness quotient.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Play engages us with the imaginal realm and supports and enriches our metabolization of life. It is integral for generating insights and effortless realizations. Play literally gives us a 'breather' – restoring our vitality at a core level.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This month find a fun activity that totally captivates your attention to the point where time seems to slow or even stop, and the voice inside -- (the one giving constant commentary on what you’re doing, have done, or will be doing) -- ceases. Laugh heartily at jokes, situations, and yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wishing you playful, joyous moments throughout December. And, transformed FDD to F:):)....</span></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Prepared the annual family holiday letter <br />with photos and news about our 2014.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Getting creative with our Elf on the Shelf named TwinTweety.</span></span></strong></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Delighting in putting up lights, including a new heart and star<br />on the porch that make me happy.</span></strong></span></div>
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<strong><span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As one who loves finding and giving that oh-so-perfect gift<br />I'll delight in wrapping and preparing gifts for loves ones.</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;">Before I head off for the fun task of<br />plotting the next adventure<br />for our Elf on the Shelf<br />I encourage you to consider how you </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;">can make this a Season of Magic.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #008000;" style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'll also close with another<br />inspirational message from Innerlinks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">You are important.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">Your thoughts create.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">Your actions matter.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">Your presence changes everything.</span></span></div>
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<span class="style9" data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the beginning, now is when you start. It is time to awaken to your presence, to be inspired in your actions, and to hold the highest and best outcome for the planet, humanity, and all life on earth. You make a difference and you decide what that difference is. What you think about yourself affects how you feel and how you act. What you think about those you meet affects how they view themselves. We all create each other. I am cannot be a teacher if there are no students. I cannot be a student if there are no teachers.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is not a question of whether what you think matters. It absolutely does. Your participation is mandatory regardless of your perception. You are here, you are a part of life, and you make a difference. You are a participant in the creation of our future. So, the only question is; what kind of difference do you want to make? It is up to you to decide to be a conscious or unconscious participant. Non-action, to do nothing, is a choice and one you are ultimately accountable for. And, sometimes, non-action is the most courageous choice. But, to do nothing because you do not want to get involved is an excuse to stay disempowered and unaccountable. So, make choices with intent. Be willing to learn, grow, and evolve in your ability to discern what to do and what not to do.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As you go about your daily activities, you touch numerous people most of which you do not even meet. The woman or man behind a cash register who serves you at the counter, your interaction adds or subtracts from their day and how she/he then interacts with the next customer or co-worker. Your interaction with them may tip their inner balance point in the direction of kindness or anger. What kind of influence do you want to be? What is the ripple your energy is creating?</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Become a beacon of intention. Intend kindness, peace, grace, appreciation, and recognition of the spirit of the person who is in front of you. You do not need to 'know' them to extend your good will and good heart. It is not the receptivity of the other that prevents you from extending your best to each moment.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Practice goodness, become an intentional butterfly that lights upon each interaction with the blessing of the true reality that is our shared humanity. Add your presence to the love and compassion that are the healing agents that free our spirits and open our souls to the knowing of our true selves.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Each interaction is an opportunity to start a chain reaction of caring. Of giving the moment a magic touch that reverberates and carries out like a ripple on a pond. Endless in possibilities to affect an outcome many steps down line from your initial incidental action.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a way to contribute to the phase shift where change can happen. Like water heating to the boil, there is a moment before it reaches the temperature to start to boil, but if the heat remains at that point or drops, the water never makes the phase shift to actually boil, to become steam, to change its frequency. You can be that moment; you can choose to add to the phase shift of another. You can be the butterfly with the gentle touch that contributes to the phase shift, to the change. You may just be the difference that changes everything. Don't miss your opportunity.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Join the circle, become an Intentional Butterfly. Make a difference. Start now, be a conscious, caring, human being. You are part of a larger picture, a much grander plan then what you may perceive. What you give to one gives to the whole and ultimately gives back to you.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Keep your acts of intention simple.</span></span></div>
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<li><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let in front of you the driver who is waiting to merge.</span></span></li>
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<li><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Give specific appreciation to your children.</span></span></li>
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<span class="style9" data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Build on simple acts increasing in frequency. Frequency meaning both: more often and increase in vibration. Upping your intentional actions. Extending your loving presence to touch that in another.</span></span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then, ask for more opportunities to be an intentional butterfly. Keep your heart open. Stay alert to the seemingly incidental moment that can change the outcome of someone's day.</span></span><br />
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pokettigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15873328065978997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1412597698909658753.post-26993586723283081362014-11-10T20:27:00.000-08:002014-11-10T20:27:17.481-08:00Mojo Monday ~ Impermanence<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Impermanence expresses the Buddhist notion<br />that everything is constantly in flux. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cultivating an acceptance of the transitory nature<br />of our current situation helps us deal with change and loss.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On January 8, 2010 Sharon Marroquin received a phone call that informed her she had breast cancer. Twenty-six months, three surgeries, sixteen chemotherapy treatments and thirty radiation treatments later, she wanted to make sense of the journey. Confronted with her mortality, angered and frustrated over her inability to handle the disintegration of her body, Sharon Marroquin begins to consciously deal with it through art and decides to create a dance called “Materiality of Impermanence”. Through the creation of the dance, Sharon escapes to another realm that is not confined by physical limitations, disease, childrearing, teaching and running a home. “Foreign Puzzle” is a visual testimony of the transcending power of the human spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">“When I saw the photos they were beautiful,</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">it was a turning point because I realized that this horrible</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">thing happening to me had some beauty in it</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">and that’s when I started thinking I could make a</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">dance about this so that people outside of myself</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">could see both the ravages of what one has to go through</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">but also the beauty that’s within the human spirit”</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">~ Sharon Marroquin</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I have to learn to surrender to this journey<br />and to use it as an opportunity for growth, for learning..."<br />~ Sharon Marroquin</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mary Anne is ready to inspire future generations with fresh work and delightful new energy (because evidently a quarter century of art and verses and a dozen books later she hasn't even scratched the surface). So, she's creating a new studio and artistic space in her home where she can host retreats and workshops and artists (oh my!), and where she can birth another glorious array of ideas and insights, art and words, to inspire generations to come.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She calls the new space "The APRON-AERIE," where she dons boldly-colored aprons (often polka-dotted in nature) to create and inspire and to support others in doing the same. THAT's what Kickstarter will help her do. One of our fabulous Kickstarter rewards levels gives you and a friend a 5-night, 6-day opportunity to spend uninterrupted time in the APRON-AERIE with customized artistic guidance from Mary Anne, enjoying rest, relaxation, creativity, and million-dollar views from her lovely studio and home on Whidbey Island. But there are so many more ways you can enjoy and celebrate her work.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Because while she's doing all of that, the Applied Insight team will be busily bringing all of her inspiring new work to the world. In the form of cards and journals, art and affirmations--whatever touchstones will help people remember to act boldly, embrace courage, and live with intention. To do this, our Kickstarter campaign will help launch an exquisite new line of wall art, journals, stationery, and quote cards that people have been asking for (ok, demanding) for many, many months. Mary Anne creates. We bring it to the world. You love it (and live it) every day. Everyone wins.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Those who have followed Mary Anne's career know that she is far more inclined to ask for help for others (and often does so with grace and compassion). Applied Insight knows this about her and we are asking for help on behalf of this whole endeavor.</span></span></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It takes courage to let go</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of the weighty parts of your past.</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It takes courage to find your own voice.</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It takes courage to reinvent joys,</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to reinvent opportunities,</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to reinvent dreams,</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to reinvent connections...</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are only 7 days left to reach</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the Kickstarter fundraising goal</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and they are over half way there!</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">The goal is $43,700 and they have</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">reach $25,755 as of November 1st.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">They must reach the goal by 4:52 pm next Saturday, Nov 8th</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">Giving is easy and a joyful experience.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">Be a part of making dreams come true</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">and ensuring that Mary Anne Radmacher's </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">inspirational words continue to be </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;">spread far and wide.</span></span></h4>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can also receive beautiful gifts<br />in return for your giving,<br />come learn more by visiting<br />the Kickstarter page <a data-mce-href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1279672343/courage-doesnt-always-roar" href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1279672343/courage-doesnt-always-roar" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></h4>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of your assumptions</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and fly you dreams as a </span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">soaring invitation to become the best</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It takes courage to stand for your convictions.</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It takes courage to give up control</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and it takes courage to recognize</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Change of any sort, requires courage...</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Courage to write a new story of your life</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with the pen of each day...</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of every moment.</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tell yourself this little story when you need it - </span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and understand that everything is washable.</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everything is fixable</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and everything is replaceable</span></span></em></div>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">but by time and breath."</span></span></em></div>
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pokettigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15873328065978997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1412597698909658753.post-74250053653415031612014-10-26T20:17:00.000-07:002014-10-26T20:17:26.279-07:00Mojo Monday ~ What Every Salmon Knows<div class="mceTemp" style="color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 19px;">
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This past week I used a vacation day so that I could be a parent chaperone for a field trip for my twin daughters 3rd grade class. It turned out to be a rainy day, but seeing as how we desperately need the rain here in California there weren't too many grumblings. Instead we wore hats, jackets and carried umbrellas. The first portion of our outing was to the Coleman National Fish Hatchery. The hatchery was established in 1942 to help curb the loss of natural salmon. Our guide was soft spoken Jack Blanke who had many interesting facts and figures to share with us during our tour through the hatchery and the two mile nature hike that followed along Battle Creek.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We observed the Chinook Salmon, as well as Steelhead Trout in the various holding tanks. The fish start out as tiny eggs and are fed and cared for until they are released. While they are young they have their adipose fin clipped and a wire clip is embedded into their nose. When such fish return to the hatchery years later they can be identified and it will provide biologists with useful information.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An unexpected part of the tour for myself and my daughters was the spawning room. Male and female salmon die naturally after they lay their eggs. The fish actually quit eating during their journey to the spawning pools and their bodies absorb their own intestines to survive. At the hatchery they speed up and mechanize the fertilization process. The process begins with an elevator full of water and fish rising up so that staff can more easily grab them. One of the workers then jams the fishes heads into a box with an automated hammer, that is intended to kill them quickly. A number of the fish do not die from the hammer and instead have to be beaten over the head with a club. All of this took place while we watched. It was after they were "dead" that a pair of workers would pick up both a female and a male fish and essentially force out the females eggs and the males milt. One worker injects the female fish with a device that blows air into her, forcing her eggs to come flowing out, while the another worker presses on the male to eject his milt. The eggs and milt mix in the tub. The dead fish were then dropped down chutes, and then routed to a refrigerated trailer sitting outside the building, which would later be transported to a processing plant. The meat is primarily distributed to food banks and prisons. Local Native American tribes in the area also have rights to put in requests to transport whole fish from the hatchery free of cost.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I personally was relieved to leave the spawning room. As a person who gave up eating meat and adopted a vegan diet six years ago, seeing animals, even fish killed, was not a pleasant experience. My daughter Maya was especially sensitive to it too and her teacher tried to explain that the fish would have died anyways. That sound reasonable, though iI kept thinking about the difference between laying ones eggs and dying peacefully in a river or being killed by a slam to the head with a hammer or a club. I tried to make some peace with it by looking at the bigger picture and how the hatchery is responsible for hatching over 13 million fish, and in doing so helps to ensure the populations of salmon and steelhead continue to thrive.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If I haven't bored you to tears with the account of the salmon tour and you are still bravely reading on I want to share with you an essay from <i>The Book of Awakening</i> by Mark Nepo. Not having read from this book in awhile I opened it and flipped to the latter dates of October. I have to wonder if it is synchronicity or coincidence that is just so happens his essay for October 30th called <i>The Art of Facing Things </i>is about salmon. Maybe this particular essay wouldn't have caught my attention if not for the recent outing, but I decided there might be a message in it that I should take note of more closely and I wanted to share it with you. </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Salmon have much to teach us about the art of facing things. In swimming up waterfalls, these remarkable creatures seem to defy gravity. It is an amazing thing to behold. A closer look reveals a wisdom for all beings who want to thrive.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What the salmon somehow know is how to turn their underside-from center to tail-into the powerful current coming at them, which hits them squarely, and the impact then launches them out and further up the waterfall; to which their reaction is, again, to turn their underside back into the powerful current that, of course, again hits them squarely; and this successive impact launches them further out and up the waterfall. Their leaning into what they face bounces them further and further along their unlikely journey.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From a distance, it seems magical, as if these might fish are flying, conquering their element. In actuality, they are deeply at one with their element, vibrantly and thoroughly engaged in a compelling dance of turning-toward-and-being-hit-squarely that moves them through water and air to the very source of their nature.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In terms useful to the life of the spirit, the salmon are constantly faithful in exposing their underside to the current coming at them. Mysteriously, it is the physics of this courage that enable them to move through life as they know it so directly. We can learn from this very active paradox; for we, too, must be as faithful to living in the open if we are to stay real in the face of our daily experience. In order not to be swept away by what the days bring, we, too, must find a way to lean into the forces that hit us so squarely.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The salmon offer us a way to face truth without shutting down. They show us how leaning into our experience, though we don't like the hit, moves us on. Time and again, though we'd rather turn away, it is the impact of being revealed, through our willingness to be vulnerable, that enable us to experience both mystery and grace."</span></span></div>
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<li data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="text-align: left;"><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In recalling this, try to focus on three things; the way that opening yourself caused you to unfold, they way that being hit squarely changed your life position, and where leaping like a salmon landed you.<br /></span></em></span></li>
<li data-mce-style="text-align: left;" style="text-align: left;"><span data-mce-style="color: #000080;" style="color: navy;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Breathe steadily, and invite the lessons of opening, being changes, and landing into your heart.<br /></span></em></span></li>
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Suggested reading - <a href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2013/11/11/mojo-monday-the-ten-things-to-do-when-your-life-falls-apart-2/" target="_blank">Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart</a></b></span></div>
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<br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">You know that when it is only Sunday morning</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">and you are already dreading</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">going to work the next day</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">and you then begin to cry</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">that things have grown much too stressful.</span><br /><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">This photo and quote Mojo Monday</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">is in response to the </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">incredible overwhelm and anxiety</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">I am experiencing at this time.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">I found transforming my feelings</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">into visuals and succinct quotes</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">was helpful and almost therapeutic.</span><br /><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">Then to look for images and ideas</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">for helping one cope and deflate</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">the stress and overwhelm</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">also helped to bring</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">some present peacefulness</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">to the forefront of my mind and spirit.</span><br /></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">When you feel overwhelmed or </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">overcome by anxiety what do you do?</span><br /><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">If you are struggling with someone</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">or something in particular</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">try turning the situation into a visual collage.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">Look for images that reflect the problem.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">Then look for images on how you would either </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">like to resolve the situation or at the very</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">least how you would rather be feeling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Come read my latest article called<br /><a data-mce-href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/10/07/shades-of-fucking-gray-or-delicious-ambiguity/" href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/10/07/shades-of-fucking-gray-or-delicious-ambiguity/" target="_blank">Shades of Fucking Gray or Delicious Ambiguity?</a><br />in Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine</span></h4>
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<em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Doubt is not a pleasant condition,<br />but certainty is absurd.”<br />– Voltaire</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you have come to read about obsessive love and kinky sex you have landed on the wrong article, though I am quite certain that via a Google search you can find references to <em>that book</em> or its new movie trailer. This article is about something far more down and dirty. I am talking about <em><strong>righteous certainty, black & white thinking, and arrogant belief systems</strong></em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of the words I chose are provoking and have negative connotations ~ words like righteous and arrogant, but I did so intentionally since we are exploring the terrain of that which is <strong>Taboo</strong>. This is also why there is profanity in the title of this article. I am not one to drop the F bomb in public, well not often, but those really close to me know that given the right set of circumstances I can swear like a sailor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Honestly, I almost faltered on including that particular word, but I use it with intention. This is not the first time I have been drawn to write about the world of mystery. Two of my previous articles, one entitled <em><a data-mce-href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2013/01/08/do-you-trust-the-mystery/" href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2013/01/08/do-you-trust-the-mystery/" target="_blank">Do You Trust the Mystery?</a></em>and another entitled <a data-mce-href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2013/11/26/the-sacred-space-in-between/" href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2013/11/26/the-sacred-space-in-between/" target="_blank"><em>The Sacred Space In Between</em></a> have touched upon the topics of uncertainty and doubt. I have shared about both my fascination with faith and the beauty of doubt, but also my struggle with trusting ambiguity. In the past I have taken a softer approach in my explorations of these topics. This time I am pulling off the gloves and taking to task those things that make my fists clench, for you see when I look around I am finding much to agree with in Voltaire’s conclusion that “<em>Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd</em>.”</span></div>
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pokettigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15873328065978997841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1412597698909658753.post-44289995348595784192014-09-27T08:04:00.000-07:002014-09-27T08:04:48.982-07:00Mojo Monday ~ Love and Loss<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a data-mce-href="https://weareallmeanttoshine.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/img_1697.jpg" href="https://weareallmeanttoshine.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/img_1697.jpg"><img alt="IMG_1697" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2584" data-mce-src="http://weareallmeanttoshine.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/img_1697.jpg" src="http://weareallmeanttoshine.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/img_1697.jpg" data-wp-imgselect="1" height="640" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></a>I know a few things about love and loss.<br />I know a bit about grieving,<br />for I have danced with death on more than one occasion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As I begin to write this post about a death, a birth and two heart surgeries my quirky mind jumps to thinking about the film called <em>Four Weddings and A Funeral</em> or those jokes that start off with "A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into a bar..." Perhaps it is not in my best interest to share how ADHD my thoughts can be, and may I add, how they exhaust me at times. Yet it is true that these past two weeks have included the death of a great uncle, the birth of a great niece and two heart surgeries, an aunt's and that of a very dear member of my creative Cosmic Cowgirl community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My auntie's heart surgery went smoothly and she is on her way to recovering. The heart surgery of Sue Hoya Sellars, a master artist and matriarch, on Thursday, September 18th also appeared to be successful. All the monitoring during the long procedure indicated things went well. There was a beautiful video live stream post surgery, where those present and those of us miles away could touch base and share in wishing Sue a speedy recovery. However things didn't go quite as expected because Sue didn't wake up. As the hours and days rolled on vigils began and still family and friends held onto hope that she was simply healing in "Sue time."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As more time has passed the shadows of doubt have grown. The community has circled around sending waves of love from around the world, while writing poems, drawing and painting, in honor of she who has taught many how to wield a paintbrush and how to mix her unique blend of black paint. In the midst of tears that I shed multiple times a day I am inspired by all the creativity and love that abounds. There is the 30 day Committing Art with Sue that launched. I have seen so many beautiful drawings and paintings posted by those who have been touched by her and this community. I have fallen head over heals for the quotes that artist <a data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/FormsOfJoy" href="https://www.facebook.com/FormsOfJoy" target="_blank">Christina Gage</a> has been creating from close ups of her paintings and the wise words of Sue herself. I have been moved by the poetry and written words of so many who wish to share their experiences with Sue and offer words of comfort to one another. I have loved hearing how many have visited the hospital, sitting and talking to Sue, singing to her, drumming for her and certainly praying for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even as I write this on the evening of Thursday, September 25th, Sue is alive, blood flowing through her veins, and her heart pumping. Actions were taken earlier today though to remove all the tubes and wires, so that family and friends could move her to her beloved Terra Sophia homestead. The latest update was that she remains unresponsive and it is expected that she will transition from life to the great mystery called death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every day since the surgery I have awaited the announcement that she has awoken. I have expected to hear accounts of her waking to joyous reactions and great relief. I have imagined her look of surprise to learn she has been <em>sleeping</em> for a week. Many have suggested she has been soul traveling and will return with stories of visiting the cosmos and spending time with ethereal beings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I reflect and find irony in how my most recent taboo article for Cosmic Cowgirls Magazine is entitled <em><a data-mce-href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/08/12/we-are-all-going-to-die-poetry-can-help/" href="http://cosmiccowgirlsmagazine.com/2014/08/12/we-are-all-going-to-die-poetry-can-help/" target="_blank">We Are All Going to Die. Poetry Can Help.</a> </em>The day my article was published is the day I learned Robin Williams was no longer with us and not long before that one of my all time favorite human beings, Maya Angelou, had passed away. In the here and now of grieving for the very real likelihood that Sue transitions in the next hours or days, the title of my own article feels more real than ever. Yes, we are all going to die and yes, as I continue to witness, poetry can help. So can painting, singing, drumming and writing as we transform grief and loss into expressions of love and beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sue believed strongly in the power of art to heal and to connect with our consciousness. As a part of fulfilling her deepest wishes and the legacy of her vision a Barn Raising has been initiated. Sue's longtime homestead is called Terra Sophia and an invitation has been extended to be a part of Sue's vision for her property to become a sanctuary for <em>committing art</em>. Please visit the <a data-mce-href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/terra-sophia-sanctuary-legacy-of-sue-hoya-sellars/x/7760750#home" href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/terra-sophia-sanctuary-legacy-of-sue-hoya-sellars/x/7760750#home" target="_blank">"Barn Raising" site</a> to learn more on how you can participate. On this site is also a beautiful video that offers a peek into Sue's world at Terra Sophia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been a part of the Cosmic Cowgirl community since October 2008. This tribe of creative women has impacted my life significantly. Sue intimidated me a little the first time I met her and I joke that it was the "toilet paper lecture" that did it. Those who have heard this same detailed instructional guide from Sue can nod knowingly and then giggle. It was the second time I met her that I was struck strongly by the depth of her love and kindness. I saw in her eyes the wisdom and the generous heart that poured forth. I admired her deep contemplative mind and her gentleness. I also loved her humor and wit. That second time upon preparing to depart from an amazing weekend spent with Cosmic Cowgirls I went to say my goodbye to Sue and found myself spontaneously announcing "I love you Sue." I saw the glisten in her eye as she took in my heartfelt words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some people affect us more deeply than we know, especially when faced with their departure from our lives. Sue was at the heart of the Cosmic Cowgirl community. She is beloved to us all. I pause while typing this to hold my hands to my face while stifling a sob. I wipe my nose and dab my eyes and return to sharing written words for comfort and a way to process the grief. Later I will turn to the paintbrush and a canvas to transform tears into expressions of art. Always I will turn to this community of creatives for connection, friendship and support. We are bound by the red thread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If memory's worth saving<br />I'd savor the feeling<br />of knowing love and loving</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some say upon that mountain<br />there is many a raven</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From those we've loved<br />that have flown<br />on</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even if you are feeling blue or overwhelmed have you<br />identified beacons of light that can<br />brighten up your day or offer a breath of fresh air? </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you turn to nature, art, uplifting quotes and words,<br />music, writers, websites, or perhaps a combination of all of the above? </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The course <em>Hello Soul Hello Mantras</em> by <a data-mce-href="http://kellyraeroberts.com/" href="http://kellyraeroberts.com/" target="_blank">Kelly Rae Roberts</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">or mentioned in posts <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2011/06/23/be-lated-mojo-monday-artist-kelly-rae-roberts/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2011/06/23/be-lated-mojo-monday-artist-kelly-rae-roberts/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2014/04/28/mojo-monday-i-want-p-s-happy-4th-birthday-to-mojo-monday/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2014/04/28/mojo-monday-i-want-p-s-happy-4th-birthday-to-mojo-monday/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2014/01/06/mojo-monday-whats-the-word/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2014/01/06/mojo-monday-whats-the-word/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2013/03/31/mojo-monday-personal-mission-statement/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2013/03/31/mojo-monday-personal-mission-statement/" target="_blank">here</a> and also <a data-mce-href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2011/07/11/mojo-monday-art-to-make-you-swoon/" href="http://weareallmeanttoshine.com/2011/07/11/mojo-monday-art-to-make-you-swoon/" target="_blank">here</a></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">because I have felt a kinship with her social worker soul </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">and her creative mixed media artistry. Her class was something</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">I decided to treat myself too after simmering in the blues.<br />The on-line course kicked off on September 8th and I am feeling very inspired.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">I visited the flagship store in</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">Ashland, Oregon in July and again at the end of August. </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">The store fills the senses with scents, colors, texture, </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">deep dark chocolate and so much beauty.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">While one won't get to taste the chocolate, feel the fabrics </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">or smell the perfumes and lotions one can visit their</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">website to explore the hundreds of inspirational images.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">I recently did some late summer cleaning in my artist room. </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">Partly in preparation for the Hello Soul Hello Mantras course. </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">It felt good to dust and do a little rearranging and clearing out.<br />Having a beautiful-to-me inspirational sacred space is important to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">I receive via email every single day an uplifting and positive article</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">from the good folk at <em>Daily Good ~ News that Inspires</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">Some articles I read that very day. Others I read at a later time. </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">The team that gathers the articles from near and far, </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">as well as research and writes about the </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">wide variety of topics and people, do an amazing job. </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">I am impressed that it all began with a single person.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><em>"DailyGood was born in 1998, when <a data-mce-href="http://nipun.charityfocus.org/" data-mce-style="color: #333399;" href="http://nipun.charityfocus.org/" style="color: #333399;">one</a> college student </em></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><em>started sharing inspiration with a half a dozen of his friends </em></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><em>by sending them an enriching quote every day.</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><strong>Do you subscribe to a regular newsletter </strong></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><strong>or email subscription that inspires you?</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">If you have yet to check out <a data-mce-href="http://www.ted.com/" data-mce-style="color: #333399;" href="http://www.ted.com/" style="color: #333399;" target="_blank">TED Talks</a></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">I encourage you to do so.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">I receive regular email updates for their latest videos.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">This week I was particularly moved </span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">by the video by Zak Ebrahim entitled</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><em style="color: #333399;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.ted.com/talks/zak_ebrahim_i_am_the_son_of_a_terrorist_here_s_how_i_chose_peace" data-mce-style="color: #333399;" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/zak_ebrahim_i_am_the_son_of_a_terrorist_here_s_how_i_chose_peace" style="color: #333399;" target="_blank">I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace.</a></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><strong>Are you already familiar with TED Talks?</strong></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><strong>If yes, do you have any favorites to recommend?</strong></span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The last topic that has been on my mind has to do with the heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">On Thursday I learned that one of my aunts was</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">to undergo heart surgery on Friday.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">The good news is that the surgery appears to have been very successful</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">and she is recovering very well.</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">Then on Saturday I learned that a matriarch in my creative community</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">is also very unexpectedly scheduled to</span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">undergo open heart surgery this week.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This past weekend I had my annual get together with my long time friend Karin. We have met in a variety of places throughout the years, but for four years we have met in Oregon. Back in 2010 we both drove six hours to meet in a coastal town called Florence. But ever since I suggested we meet up in Ashland, Oregon in 2011 and Karin fell in love with this town, that I have long loved, it has become our meeting place. She flies down from Seattle and I drive up from California and pick her up at the airport in Medford. We then hang out in Ashland and sometimes nearby Jacksonville, where the Britt theater offers up concerts and sometimes comedy. This year we saw comedian Bill Maher perform Friday night, while divine timing made it possible for us to see my favorite band Gypsy Soul perform on Saturday evening at an intimate fan concert at the Eden Vale Winery. It was a beautiful location and evening and such a small venue that we concert goers even had time to visit with the band. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;">As my friend Karin and I caught each up other on the happenings of our lives we reflected on the many years that have passed since we met back in 1993. We were two young Americans studying in Aix-en-Provence, France and ended up in the same class. We eventually became roommates for about half a year. All these years later we are still in touch and making the time to get together. Months often pass without talking, emailing or texting, but the friendsh</span><span style="color: #333399;">ip is always alive and we pick up again easily when we do get in touch. </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She and her husband have been married 15 years; me and my husband 11 years. She has two children, a son who is twelve and a daughter who is about to turn eight. I also have two children, twin daughters who turned eight back in May. In returning from our wonderful weekend get-away and visit I pulled up an old Mojo Monday post I shared back on July 19, 2010 that was about friendship and my visit with this same friend four years ago:</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I drove six hours north on Friday to meet with an old friend in Florence, Oregon. She drove six hours south from where she lives in Washington state. We spent two nights in a comfy cabin and had approximately 24 waking hours to talk and catch each other up on our lives and what is happening in our respective families and children, she has an 8-year-old son and a 3 1/2 year old daughter and I have 4-year-old twin daughters.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have been friends since 1993 when we met in Aix-en-Provence, France. I was studying French as part of a University exchange program. Already fluent in Spanish, she was independently studying at the same institute to improve her French, as she was working for a British publisher there in France. We were in the same class and became friends. I had come with a large posse of Californian college students. She was there essentially on her own and while she originally came from Texas she had already lived in Mexico and Spain. I immediately admired her independence and her gift in speaking languages.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I decided to extend my stay in France past the standard one-year commitment I had to find a new apartment and roommate and my friend Karin was also seeking a new place as she was staying on in France too. We became roommates and spent another half year living in France together. We witnessed one another’s falling in love, her with an Italian and myself with a Moroccan. She was incredibly supportive when my Moroccan fiance died in a car accident and I tried to be supportive when she and her Italian parted ways.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our life journeys continued in other parts of the world. I returned to California and she moving to Baltimore, Maryland. She came to California to visit me and then entered an MBA program in Italy where she met her husband who is Colombian. She moved with him to Argentina and then to Miami after they married in 1999. I flew to visit them in Florida when she was pregnant with her first child. They moved to Tennessee and then eventually to the state of Washington. Both of us being on the west coast now has made it easier for us to see one another once a year these past three years.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #800080;" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This past weekend we talked about our friendship and reminded each other what we admire about one another. We are the same and yet different. We have shared international experiences and a love of travel. We have both dated foreign men. We are both now married and have had children. We have both had our struggles with adjusting to being a mommy and have supported each other with our understanding and supportive words and nods of knowing. We also share certain social values, views on parenting and life in general that continue to fill out the nuances of our friendship. We also always remember one another’s birthday, and the birthdays of one another's children." </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I smiled as I read through the account of our visit four years ago and felt happy from our recent reconnecting. Time continues to roll along, changes happen, we grown older and perhaps a little wiser. We witness for one another the various joys, celebrations, milestones, as well as challenges and hardships that may present themselves. As we parted at the airport we agreed to try and touch base more regularly, though we are both understanding about the demands of our daily lives and know that even if aren't in touch all the time our friendship ties remain strong.</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who showed me the ways to go and ways not to go,</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em>Whose strength and compassion held up a torch of light </em></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em> And beckoned me to follow,</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em>Whose weakness and ignorance darkened the path and </em></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em> Encouraged me to turn another way,</em></span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To the women on my journey</span></em></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who showed me how to live and how not to live,</span></em></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whose grace, success and gratitude lifted me…</span></em></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To the women on my journey</span></em></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who showed me what I am and what I am not,</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em>Whose love, encouragement and confidence held me </em></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em> Tenderly and nudged me gently</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em>Whose judgment, disappointment and lack of faith called </em></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em> Me to deeper levels of commitment and resolve.</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em>To the women on my journey who taught me love by </em></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em> Means of both darkness and light,</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em>To these women I say bless you and thank you from the </em></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em>depths of my heart, for I have been healed and set free </em></span><br /><span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em>through your joy and through your sacrifice.</em></span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #3366ff;" style="color: #3366ff;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rev. Melissa M. Bowers</span></em></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are some interesting books that touch upon women’s friendships and relationships:</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em>The 7 Aspects of Sisterhood</em> by Debra J. Gawrych</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em>Sacred Circles: A Guide to Creating Your Own Women’s Spirituality Group</em> by Robin Deen Carnes and Sally Craig</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em>Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-Up Woman’s Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve </em>by Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff</span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333399;" style="color: #333399;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em>Best Friends Forever: Surviving A Breakup with Your Best Friend</em> by Irene S. Levine, PhD</span></span></div>
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