Month: November 2024

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I am thankful for…

I am thankful for family and friends. I will not share any pictures of them because I think they might want privacy. I am also thankful for the city that I live in. My fellow Waukesha residents seemed to be very caring people.

I am thankful for a decent job and nice co-workers. Sometimes, they giggle or dance to music. They are patient with my questions and requests for help.

I am thankful for God’s love and my church. I have no idea why God came to Earth, lived a hard life and died for me. But, I will always be thankful that he did it.

I am thankful for a warm apartment with a bathtub. I missed being able to take bubble baths for over a decade. I love to take a bath on Saturday mornings while watching/listening to a video on YouTube. I love my window of plants.

As a few of you know, I am working on losing weight. The struggle to count and reduce how many calories that I am eating is reminding me of how yummy food is. I have been craving a brownie with ice cream. I am not hungry but my mouth is watering at the sight of this picture.

I am also thankful for the beauty of this world, the ability to read, lots of books and the Internet that allows me to visit so many places and people in my mind.

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Harriet Tubman becomes a General

My local newspaper, the Waukesha Freeman, had an article about her becoming a “one-star brigadier general in the state’s National Guard.” While I knew that she was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, I had never read about her being involved in a military action.

Wikipedia says,”For her guidance of the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 enslaved people, she is widely credited as the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States.” So, the state of Maryland named her a general during a ceremony on Veteran’s day this year.

While finding the above links and reading them, I was surprised to read that she was injured (traumatic brain injury) as a teenager and developed a disability. She managed to rescue many people from slavery and worked on women’s rights while experiencing painful head aches.

“I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.”

“God’s time is always near. He set the North Star in the heavens; He gave me the strength in my limbs; He meant I should be free.”

“I said to the Lord, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and I know you will see me through.”

and I prayed to God to make me strong and able to fight, and that’s what I’ve always prayed for ever since.”

I think there’s many a slaveholder’ll get to Heaven. They don’t know no better. They acts up to the light they have.”

Here is the website where I found these quotes. Here is a quote of Tubman’s that I found in The Time Is Now by Joan Chittister.

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”