04/30/2007 09:57:09 PM EST

Momcat stories (PS bought Mom's gift yet??)

posted by vikingmother

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived in northwest Chicago (roughly the Logan's Square area) till 13 & then lived in the then-farm country of Chicago's far western suburbs...

And she, then a Sci Fi Fanatic, predicted (in the 1940's mind you) that we'd land on the Moon.

That was my visionary mom, Louise.

She also is at or near a genius level in intelligence. I still remember her smiling her great momcat smile as I the then-recent college grad (with decent grades) was beat out by Louise, the farm town high school grad on some test we took together!!! 

And of course, she did the standard super mom endurance stuff in this less-than mom-friendly times...raising 5 kids with my dad, and all that stuff we take for granted till we (her Baby Boomer kids) wimp out over 1-3 kids!!! 
   But what's YOUR Great MOM story?  
(PS for those of you FORTUNATE to have a living Mom, (like me) have you bought the GIFT yet???)......so...

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... one more MOM story...Young Teen Louise also rode this rather nasty horse my Grandpa had on their newly purchased 1948 farm...."Lucky" the horse threw her, but she learned to stay on.  But "Lucky" was so ornery they sold him to a rodeo... where he could revel in ornery behavior as a bucking bronco.  Maybe that was actually a kind of out-of-the-box prep for motherhood.

So anyone out there have a Mom story?  (Don't forget to call too!)


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Great post I guess. Some people don't come from idyllic backgrounds. Good for you.

Marble laid pie  and tangerine skies!

Not the kind of post I expect to see on a political website. 

by MountainMan on 04/30/2007 10:08:26 PM EST

Yet ANOTHER reason I want real forums (none / 0)
rather than this blog stuff.  Categorization.

by jarett on 05/01/2007 06:15:04 PM EST

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Not a specifically political post (none / 0)
 While this is NOT a specifically political post, I am glad to have a mom whose brilliance and feistiness is not covered up under layers of oppression (I think of some Norwegian relatives in WWII---temporary slaves of the totalitarians).

I also think of her Swedish grandparents, her grandfather a poor woodcutter who was outside in the woods making trunks for the trip to America. (True story here) Great Grandma was hoping the tax collector would would come to collect their significant taxes AFTER they were to leave because they wanted to leave Sweden using their tax $ for their passage. Another kind of oppression if overdone...(too much tax).

Third, Maybe one can judge the freedom AND ethics of a society by...how it treats the women.  Are the women given reasonable opportunities to improve their lives? (Economic, social, etc.)  And (at the same time) Are the women (especially girls) treated with respect? 

Some think that increased economic opportunities cannot coexist with better respect for women, girls.  I think the 19th century Feminists (at least all the ones I've read) were asking for both. 

Our 20th & 21st century Feminists lost sight of economic rights and mutual respect between men and women...and are more like pimps in the services they wish to provide or "protect" for women, girls. They "NOW" (as opposed to earlier in the 20th century) mainly agitate for as many invasive medical procedures on women,girls as they can get thru.
 
(What happened to empowering women, girls to make wise choices, to get access to better jobs???) Again, sounds like NOW is functioning to provide the "services" a madam would provide to her "stable"  of women, girls.

This is all the indirect but serious background to my implied question.  What makes a strong & good woman?

Noone has thrown a burka (yet) of any kind over my mother, and probably the mom of most of us in the US. 

by vikingmother on 05/01/2007 03:58:52 AM EST

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