Comments - Memories and Stories about growing up In a Place Called Normal - Warrior Nation2024-03-28T21:12:45Zhttps://warriornation.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=6193495%3ABlogPost%3A113086&xn_auth=noOur past moulds us into what…tag:warriornation.ning.com,2011-08-10:6193495:Comment:1166072011-08-10T18:05:58.990ZMs. Down-to-Earthhttps://warriornation.ning.com/profile/MrsDowntoearth
Our past moulds us into what we are today...whether good or bad. Thank you for your post and also to the responses that I've read.
Our past moulds us into what we are today...whether good or bad. Thank you for your post and also to the responses that I've read. Life in those days seemed pre…tag:warriornation.ning.com,2011-08-09:6193495:Comment:1155052011-08-09T03:19:48.177ZTsoi Tawodihttps://warriornation.ning.com/profile/TsoiTawodi
Life in those days seemed pretty much the way you share yours. We left Oklahoma in '54'...I was 7. All us kids left home as soon as possible...I was 17. Went into the service in 66...did a year in Viet Nam as a Corpsman with the Marines (medic)...drank my way through 70...and then went to my elders and knew I needed to follow their directions. I have seen the best and worst of humanity through war and experience and each day is an opportunity to see the real beauty that surrounds me...I just…
Life in those days seemed pretty much the way you share yours. We left Oklahoma in '54'...I was 7. All us kids left home as soon as possible...I was 17. Went into the service in 66...did a year in Viet Nam as a Corpsman with the Marines (medic)...drank my way through 70...and then went to my elders and knew I needed to follow their directions. I have seen the best and worst of humanity through war and experience and each day is an opportunity to see the real beauty that surrounds me...I just have to make that decision. All things are learning lessons for me...and as you have spoken...boy some of them lessons were really tough and yet still I climb toward the top of the sacred mountain I have chosen to reach one day. It is stories like yours that help us appreciate what we can have if we just make the effort. Your story is reality and as our Earth Mother teaches us through stringent laws of her own, so your story will help others along the way. I do not know what tomorrow will bring and I have no guarantee I will awake in the morning, but one thing I am most assured of.....I have had a tumultous earth walk, lined with flowers, beauty, all my earth relations and even some good people along the path and what our world of humans call normal today is a far cry from the ways of the old ones who taught me to care for our Earth Mother, all our relations and when my earth walk is due to end,to look over my shoulder and perhaps flowers will be growing in the footprints I leave behind.<br />
Wado for sharing your life with us....an honor for me to be sure.<br />
Aisv Nv Wadohiyado (walk in thankful peace) That's alot of grief to go th…tag:warriornation.ning.com,2011-08-08:6193495:Comment:1146042011-08-08T01:42:43.149ZLadyHawkღhttps://warriornation.ning.com/profile/LadyHawk
That's alot of grief to go thru at such a young age. What society seems to view as normal is the Ward and June Cleaver household. LOL, I think we know life is not all sunshine and roses all of the time. I think every family has their ups and downs and at times the dysfuncional streaks but it is something to learn from. We learn and grow everyday.<br />
I do consider myself one of the lucky ones, I grew up with good parents. My parents were married for 57 years before my Dad passed away. I guess at…
That's alot of grief to go thru at such a young age. What society seems to view as normal is the Ward and June Cleaver household. LOL, I think we know life is not all sunshine and roses all of the time. I think every family has their ups and downs and at times the dysfuncional streaks but it is something to learn from. We learn and grow everyday.<br />
I do consider myself one of the lucky ones, I grew up with good parents. My parents were married for 57 years before my Dad passed away. I guess at times I was a bit of a hel_ raiser because I came 10 years after the youngest so I was considered spoiled by my brother and sister. I eventually got into a bad marriage with a man that verbally and physically abused me. I finally got up the courage to leave after my oldest son was 6 months old. Best move I ever made because 3 years later I met a great man that I married and had 3 more kids with. 23 good years with him but there isn't a happy ending here. I lost him almost 8 years ago to cancer.<br />
There has been alot of hardship that has come my way since but we learn to survive, adapt and continue to do what we think is normal.