I know Kitty! What is with WOW? How can they allow stuff like this? We should be celebrating things like suffrage because hasn’t even been 100 years yet!

I know comestic surgery and all it stands for shouldn’t bother me by now… when we live in a society that openly advocates selling “magic miracle wrinkle removing” creams to women in their late teens and 20s. We have time and money to augment our faces when other parts of the world are starving and have no decent standard of living. I’d rather take the thousands of dollars it costs for these procedures and donate it to my favourite charities or put it toward making a REAL difference in the world other than just MY outward appearance.

Dear Edith, Your blog posting made me think about something else. There is this one boy in our class who was really shy and everyone talked about him under hushed tones - they said he is “starving”. But not the kind of starving like “I am hungry”…. His parents work long hours so he hardly sees them. Most of the time when they are at home they are too busy hosting big fancy parties for grownups and don’t want to be bothered with him so they make him go to sleep really early. Being an only child he is passed from nanny to nanny and they’ve all lost their patience with him. I didn’t know what to say or do so I sent HUGS home with him to keep him company. They get along well. They travel around everywhere having lots of fun going on various after-school and weekend adventures, digging holes and getting messy. We noticed he is always smiling and laughing now. It’s great they help take care of each other! I heard on the news the animal shelter has more pets to be adopted than ever before so I got the idea to pair up all the abandoned pets with deserving children. One thing lead to another and now all the kids from the neighbourhood want to pitch in and build a gigantic tree house where we can socialize with other kids and their treasured pets! We are having a lemonade stand and bake sale to raise funds but even these never ending inflation rates are affecting us! I guess that means we may only be able to build a ladder that reaches halfway and a roof that only covers half of the tree house…

… on vacation in paradise (wherever that may be)! LOL

TINA TURNER! Love the hair, flair, outfits and her attitude. She OWNS that stage. She’s quite the Rockette :)

I often wonder.. if we were really to “have it all” wouldn’t life become very oblique and dull? Nothing to hope/wish for, work toward, nothing to improve and also nothing to complain about! Or perhaps the ones who really feel they have it all are really delusional…

Right on Serena! I was going to write something similar but I waiting for 24 hrs to pass because I didn’t want it to look like I was flooding the blog HA Oh well.. too late. The media continually spews out messages or stories that I wouldn’t want children let alone adults watching or hearing. You, and your Aunt Jane & Aunt Lily are the silver lining to the youth/adults along with a few others, but those others are few and far many. And about getting your feelings hurt. I so hear where you are coming from. I’ve had my feelings hurt so much - there isn’t a Band-Aid big enough to cover them (and I’m sure if you ask many WOWers they’ll tell you the same). Anyway, TV station or no TV station we’re really glad you are here blogging! “And that’s the truth.. pthhhhhh” PS. HUGS thanks you for his name suggestion! He sends an “arf” to Buster! How is Buster by the way?

I Wish By Jacqualine Williams Rippy I wish there was a place for me Where all the flowers grow And life was treasured as a valuable A price far more than gold. Where children played and sang of joy Of what love meant to each A mountain higher and steep to climb But not far out of reach. And in this place the days were as infinity The nights crept by unnoticed For happiness was an abundant reservoir And peace was its caretaker and hostess.

You’re welcome EA! Thanks for YOUR insight and getting us to think about the world around us. Say, you don’t think the local Edgetown news station would give you a segment or two? I think more parents need to hear what you have to say. ~Little Fefe

Dear Edith, I know the world can be a very complicated place most of the times. There are so many things going on simultaneously it’s hard to take it in all the time without feeling dizzy or getting an upset tummy. There are some people who take an instant liking to us and we don’t know why they just do — and there are others who when they see us fill with rage without us even having done anything and we cannot understand why. It’s scary when Mommy and Daddy yell at each other because I worry for the family. And I worry about that big D word I keep reading about in the newspaper. I hear it happens a lot.. about 40 something percent. I just want everyone to get a long and that is hard sometimes. Before when Mommy and Daddy started yelling I’d plug my ears and start humming really loudly but it didn’t really help because then I really didn’t know what was going on since I couldn’t hear what they were saying. Now you know what I do when two people I love very much start yelling? I walk over to them and I give them a great big HUG! And you’d be surprised how powerful hugs are. It is almost as if they silence the hate and tension immediately. Now when I walk around everyone I meet I try to bring positivity and warmth. And most people respond well. I think the people on the TV and the people who write in the papers put too much focus on the negative. Just last week my best friend’s brother rescued a dog from drowning and they didn’t even put it in the papers or mention it on the 6 o’clock news! Here is something that didn’t make it in our local paper: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

Edith, do you have any advice to help get rid of nasty headcolds? It’s been four days now (and I’ve probably only slept for 14 hours), I’m on my third tissue box and I’m tired of mint and lemon (don’t ask). I promise to look for another awe-inspiring poem!!! xo Little Fefe

We won’t tell! And the others don’t know what they are missing. It’s a lot of fun playing in the WOW sandbox! Ekks, next to Edith I must be one of the youngest here — numerically speaking!

Why thank you my dear. That’s what we are here for. We all need a little kind reminder once and a while :)

Awww thank you very kindly Serena! I am going to add all of this to my reading list. I hope they add a feature where we can directly contact members because I think that would be great too! Heheh yes back to work! Don’t let us keep ya from it sweetie :)

Serena, think of us as your WOW family! We spend way too much of our life being silent. A person’s gotta be allowed to speak their mind more than just once and while :) If we stopped - how would human beings ever reach some form of enlightenment?