The Synergistic Pen

ok...so someone sent this to me... I actually have been holding it for seveal days, wasn't in the mood for another silly video. The title on it was "the most disturbing video you'll ever see"... yeah, ok...

so I finally watched it...

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I'm not sure what to say here.... I am worse than appalled, I'm afraid. What is happening in this video is indicative of the illness that has overrun our community...our people... our lives....

why was it ok for some adult to stand there and videotape this...?
why was it ok for the other children to watch and cheer and emulate...?
why was it ok for someone to push the little girl back into the boy so they could continue the dance?

She has been watching hip hop videos and porn....she's a child.
He's been watching his older brothers, uncles and dare I say it... father (ha) bumping up against women in this way...

I can almost guarantee you... neither of them can read or write...
but, wow...can they dance...or have sex...or...whatever they're doing...ugh....

this is how we will die, isn't it?
people ask me why I gave up my nice career and great job with excellent pay to teach...

this is why... THIS... is why...

keep praying yall...

I dropped my daughter off at her dorm today. She's a sophomore at the University of Illinois... Education Major... like her moms...and grandmoms... and several cousins, aunts, uncles...

This time last year, she was nervous and talkative and wondering if she had everything she needed to live away from home and if she'd be able to cut it at a big university 150 miles from home...

she did fine... great even...

so why when I dropped her off this year, she was calm and I was a wreck? She has a new roommate who she knew from last year. She pre ordered her books and I only spent $75 at walmart on the stuff she forgot...

yet, I sit here wondering if she'll be ok, if her sophomore year will be fruitful... I hope she enjoys the social aspect of her college experience... last year, she focused so on school...she missed a bit...

Maybe, I'm just feeling MY age...and watching her be what I was more than 30 years ago.. and doing it so much better than I did...

I did work hard to make her an independent, self reliant woman. I wanted that for her. I love her and want nothing but the best for her. Yet, she's my baby... and I'll miss her. So will her father and brother (who baked her blueberry muffins (her favorite) for her before she left.

Another school year... and to think...this is what I've been waiting for all her life... my life back...lol

My 19 year old daughter came to me Sunday morning as she prepared to attend church with a friend.

"Are the girls too visible? Should I wear a cammy?"
"Yes, cover the girls up. Thank you."

She came back 5 minutes later with both a cammy and a sweater on.

"Ok, I'm going to church...later moms!"

I have always tried to set an example of the importance of "having a bit of mystery" about oneself. I'm glad it has rubbed off on her. Its amazing how its "ok" for girls to dress or not dress as the case may be and become immature examples of sexuality. It sends the wrong message...it results in behaviors and encounters that the girls end up regretting....

I found an article on just this subject today. "Girls Gone Mild"... is an attempt to get media, retail and our culture in general to back off the need to make everything female a grand sexual experience. Apparently, its working. This pleases me.

This group tells girls its ok to be a virgin, to put some clothes on that aren't cutting off their circulation and to use their brains. This is a fantastic thing indeed. Our girls need this... our girls want to be "good"...

for more info on the group and their work, click here..