I don't claim to know anything but will say I'm on a constant quest to learn as much as I can..

Men and women learn from each other and are opposites for a reason.. I don't want to know everything about you, I prefer the challenge of learning about you each day..

Just as I will not share everything with you because I want you to want to know me better each day..

I don't care to know how to do all the things you do, I'm content knowing you can and when needed you will get it done.. Just as I know you don't care to know the things I know unless and until you need my help...I will never know all you do nor will you know all I do, Thank the good Lord, hallelujah, let's just keep learning..

We are different for a reason and I happen to love our respective roles...

I wondered as I typed those words. I assumed, my apologies. Goes to show my "idiocy", yet again!!!

That is most exceptional work. I believe it is rampant in our society. I do not know the statistics, but I would bet well over 50%, if truth be known. A child's home should be safe from harm and many are not. It runs across the entire spectrum of our "classes" in society. This diabolical pedogate is yet another issue and I am not including it here.

I can't even imagine, much less fathom this atrociousity to experience as a child. It's horrendously grievious to me and quite obvious in the eyes of a child, when one takes the time to see it.

These boys are your children, and their children your grandchildren. Parents are caregivers for the entire well being of a child, regardless of blood relation. Forty years worth of lost children saved gives me a bit of insight as to the origins of SWMBO's most appropriate nickname. Your home is truly blessed indeed!

While my daughter was growing up, I pulled two girls out of bad situations. One, the new girl in town with a blatantly apparent life time of sexual abuse, came to spend the night and stayed for two weeks and anytime thereafter. The first girl, a most remarkable child, took me two weeks to pull into my home until her mother could find a more permanent place of their own. The evil these two girls had lived under was palatable, in proximity.

The first girl, the remarkable one, was smart enough and strong enough to fend off her attacker (not related) she later told me. He didn't mess with her again. Several years later he was found guilty on at least 17 counts. I can only assume he is still alive, in jail.

She is marrying into a hunt and trap family, and has taken down at least 2 deer, last I heard, and learning to bow and arrow. Her parents were two messed up alcoholic junkies from well to do "good" homes, both dead by the time she was 19. Yet, she inherited the best of both, her dad's smarts and her mom's spirit. Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if both were of genius level, or at least gifted. I know their daughter certainly is, a remarkable child. Or rather, a remarkable young woman now.

I don't know what became of the other girl. Other than she had a baby and named her after me, only with an "ie" on the end. That's just what I only think, anyway.

In my opinion, children are not resilient, they simply have no other options. It is a difficult task to fix children, once grown into adults.

TexaCan~~~Hello you wonderful soul and light of graciousness..I have really missed you and just wanted to say, don't be gone so far, please~~~

Thank You for your kind words...I am sure you feel much the same way..Men are better at some things as women are better at other things..We should let each be who they are in the gender world...How they are with you or I is what is important...
Just because one gender can't do what the other gender does or thinks does not make either superior it makes them equals...

Anyway, its a topic that never ends because we're too caught up in proving our point when there really is not a point other than we're different...
Self respect and self esteem is all you need..The rest just comes.....

Are you well?? I hope you had the most joyest of holiday's since I last saw you here..Im going to be watching for other posts so I may reply~~`hugsssss to you...