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CHRISTMAS GIFT ALERT!!!
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS…75% off!!!!
You guys, jump on this deal!
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Pass this on, too, if you don't mind!
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Heart,
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LOVE KEEPS US HUMAN.
Dear friends —
Longtime followers of this page have heard me sing the praises of the American midwife and activist Robin Lim, whom I met in Bali years ago at her natural birth center. She is one of the most brave, compassionate and remarkable women I have ever met (and I am not alone in my admiration of her: CNN recently named her HERO OF THE YEAR for her tireless global work on behalf of the health of mothers and babies.)
Robin is currently in the Philippines, working to protect some of the most vulnerable people in the world right now — the pregnant women, nursing mothers, and newborn infants who have endured the trauma and horrors of the recent Typhoon.
She sent me this photo yesterday, and the letter below.
If you are looking for a way to help, or want to make a Christmas offering, I can't urge you strongly enough to help Robin's foundation in its efforts to save women and babies in one of the most suffering places on earth at the moment.
Here is her letter, and the donation information:
"Dear Liz: I am currently doing disaster relief for the survivors of Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan. It's rough here… as bad as the Tsunami, but many many more hungry, homeless, thirsty people. I am in and out of Tacloban, most of the dead are buried now, but not all. The burning of garbage, in an attempt by Filipinos to clean up the huge mess, makes air quality most of the time, unbearable. But even now, less than a month after disaster struck, and stripped the coastal areas and the mountains of all foliage, even bent and broken trees are popping out tiny green leaves. And hopping from broken electric cable to bent branch a tiny bird, a survivor was singing.
Mostly I run around trying to find food liaisons for the midwives to feed the mothers and children. Wanted to share with you a photo I took on my phone: A breastfeeding mom in the street, because there is just nowhere else cleared yet, the city is twisted iron and busted up cement, broken dreams of people who lived their lives quite simply in these fishing villages. No homes, no boats…But here a baby nurses, a toddler shows signs of malnutrition, while the big brother stays happy. Please post this photo, as it says so much about Love and Hope, in the center of Suffering… Love still keeps us Human!
If your Family of Fans want to give to the Philippines, there are a couple of ways to give to Bumi Sehat/Wadah Foundation Philippine Disaster Relief:
We have made a brief post on the website regarding donations for Philippines, linking from the home page:
https://bumisehatfoundation.org/
to this page: https://www.bumisehatfoundation.org/donate-to-philippines/
Or
https://www.amillionmothers.org/<https://www.amillionmothers.org/>
Love, Ibu Robin"
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SOAT in Vegas!!! Definitely a place I never imagined Miss Alma Whittaker venturing!
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SOAT in Vegas with chips and tequila. Would like to be on a beach or in Bali but happy to be sitting at a bar laughing and crying while I worry the neighbors. Thankful to be born in the 20th century and as always Liz you amaze me. Wonderful book. Thank you!
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SOAT and a happy reader…I love it when a 500 page novel leaves someone wishing for more! Thank you, Lilly!
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Not five minutes ago, I finished the last page of this masterpiece. I have been side by side with Miss Whittaker for quite some time now, it seems. Now, I cannot help but wish for more.
Thank you Liz, for this adventure.
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Is your home a museum to grief?
About nine years ago, a dear friend called me one morning in a state of joy, to inform me that she had spent all night throwing out old letters, photographs and diaries. She sounded so free and light, it was amazing.
My jaw dropped.
Letters and photographs and diaries???!!! Who throws out letters and photographs? That's the stuff you're supposed to run back into the flaming house to rescue during a fire, right?
But she had thrown away several garbage bags of it, she said. Because many of those letters and photos and journals, it emerged in the conversation, were relics of her sad old failed relationships, or documents of bad times. She had been holding onto them the way we often do — as some sort of dutiful recording of her complete emotional history — but then she said, "I don't want my house to be a museum to grief."
The historian in me balked at the idea of this — you can't throw away letters, photos and diaries!!!
But I took her words to heart. I couldn't shake the sense that she was onto something. I couldn't forget how joyful her voice had sounded. I couldn't stop thinking about what miseries I had stored in my attic, literally hanging over my head.
Later that week, I took a deep breath. Then I took two big black garbage bags and did a MAJOR cleansing. Divorce papers. Angry letters. Tragic diaries of awful times. (YEARS of them: the chronicle of my depression.) Vacation photos of friendships now severed. Love letters and gifts from men who had broken my heart. All the accumulated evidences of shame and sadness. All of it: IN THE TRASH.
What was left were only items that made me feel light and lucky and free when I saw them.
That was nine years ago. I have never missed one single piece of it since.
So I ask you — are you holding onto anything that spurs memories of shame, of abandonment, of loss, of sorrow? (I don't mean healthy sorrow, like photos of a beloved friend or relative now deceased. I mean items like the letter where your ex-lover explains why it's all over, why you aren't good enough. That kind of stuff.)
Throw it away. Trust me.
See what happens when you stop hoarding sorrow.
Don't be a museum to grief.
All love,
Liz
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