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My first social networking site was Blogger. I was just making an online diary at the time and never realized that the site could be used to "network" with anyone. I started getting comments,..which I erased and then,...suddenly I realized that I could "talk" to these people,..who were commenting!! Things took off from there!! :D I got involved in a scifi fandom and met up with some nice people and some real "weirdos!!" The "weirdos" still keep coming around but as I don't take them as seriously as I used to,..I usually just get a good laugh for myself out of them now,..and move on. I just answered this Featured Question; you can answer it too! Rosa Parks, a black seamstress,..was laid in the Capital Rotunda in a wooden coffin this week. She was the first woman to be so honored. She is being so honored because she said, "No!" Heh! And this was before the "Just say no" slogan came into being!! This is not much, but these are my thoughts on this event: "NO!" "I have the right to be here in this place in this time!! I was born in this country the same as you! I have done my day's labor the same as you and recieved my pay!! I am not begging from you! All that I am asking from you is the right to express my human dignity!!! In a city where I pay my taxes the same as you do and work and worship the same as you do,..I can't even sit down on a bench in the park to rest my weary feet!! I can't drink out of a drinking fountain nor can I even keep a front seat on a bus!! I can't even go to the Five and Dime and order a hamburger or a Coke at the grill!! I can't eat at a restaurant nor can I be sure that a policeman will keep me safe in a public place!! NO! I have a right to sit here! No! If you had gotten here first I know that you would NEVER give up your seat for me!! My brothers and sisters fought in Europe and supported Democracy the same as your brothers and sisters did in the last world war!! They shed blood just as red as yours and died for their country and constitution!! NO! I WON'T get up! No! This seat is mine!! I said, "NO! No More! No more!!" Then, you had me arrested and I lost my job and I had to pay a fourteen dollar fine for just wanting to keep that one seat!! Now,...I am dead. I lay here in the Rotunda of the Capital Building. I am the first woman, black or white, to be so honored!! Tell me, sir, ..you who arrested me, and you, who judged me, and you, who fined me and you, who took away my job and let me know that I was not WORTHY to be treated with even plain common curtesy or be given the right to my human dignity, ..tell me, ..where are you resting ......tonight? Wouldn't it have all been simpler just to have let me sit down?" My thoughts on the subject? Rosa Parks shoulda been deaf!! A repost,..requested by a friend, who lost her son to suicide. (The woman request that I use this term to show the seriousness of what happened to her son. "He did it to himself!" says this mother whose boy hung himself with a bedsheet. I am feeling her terms are a bit harsh,..but then,..I'm not walking in her shoes,..am I?): Fear is a thief. It steals our todays by making us fear our tomorrows. If that fear becomes too strong, I can only try to understand why a person like the local young man, who recently took his own life, would do such a thing. Most folks seem to be able to fend off such fears by building up barriers of love, companionship, and material goods, and a sense of order in their lives. We are, for some reason, continually trying to establish a continuous sense of order in an ever changing world, and for some folks like this young man, it just doesn't work. The young man had his own reasons for doing what he did, but I do not believe that I could follow intellectually just why he did what he did. If fear was one of the reasons that he took his own life,..there are antidotes for fear,..such as faith,..in which he could have taken refuge. I have a feeling that if the reason that he committed suicide was fear, that fear was enhanced by chemical imbalances in his brain. Some local professionals would just hand a person like this young man some "meds" and tell him to take them as scheduled. In this specific case, such a regime..just didn't work for this individual. My best friend that I ever had was a young blind woman with whom I was in college. Her name was Sue. She was such a marvelous person!! We were friends for over twenty some years. She drowned in a friend's swimming pool in 1988. My life was never the same!! I just answered this Featured Question; you can answer it too! I was twenty six years old and he told me that I "wasn't a fit woman to become a minister's wife!!" We broke up. I went on to speak in about two hundred or so churches that wanted to hear about my work with a deaf blind woman,........ AND HE FLUNKED HIS COURSES IN STUDY FOR THE MINISTRY!!! IT SEEMS... his professors noticed that .................HE................ ...............................lacked compassion for his fellow man!!.................................. HA! I just answered this Featured Question; you can answer it too!
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Name: Stanelle
Gender: Female
Interests: Writing books, raising cats,..loving small children,..trying to write 'the perfect poem," and trying to put life together in a fashion which will not cause pain to other people and not betray my ideals.
Expertise: I am a writer of sorts, and I am a publicist of sorts.
Occupation: Marketing
Industry: Entertainment
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Member Since:
2/15/2003
What was the first social networking website you ever used?
REPOST for a Deaf Friend, "Carrie A," --Keep on "truckin," girl!!!*****:
Fear And Death!! (A Repost!)
Who's your bestfriend and why? How long have you known them?
I was her reader in college and she was so much smarter than me!! I read to her entire textbooks. She would get an "A" in the course and I would get a "B."
What was your most painful break-up?
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