Comments on: Thinking About Being Sick for About 10 Years http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:30:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: PatientsLikeMe: A different sort of website for chronically ill people « Elizabeth’s Little Blog http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-14591 PatientsLikeMe: A different sort of website for chronically ill people « Elizabeth’s Little Blog Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:12:05 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-14591 [...] is more than your typical online community for people with particular illnesses. As someone who struggled with chronic illness for a long time, I am all too familiar with the affirmation that comes with [...] [...] is more than your typical online community for people with particular illnesses. As someone who struggled with chronic illness for a long time, I am all too familiar with the affirmation that comes with [...]

]]> By: LaReinaCobrehttp://lareinacobre.net http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-229 LaReinaCobrehttp://lareinacobre.net Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:52:53 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-229 This is a really unique post. Thanks! This is a really unique post. Thanks!

]]> By: Anonymous http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-102 Anonymous Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:07:46 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-102 Your meditation on your sickness is a reminder to me of how spiritual and amazing you are. The ability to get outside your ego needs and bodily needs and see this thing as a message is really transcendental. On the mornings when I feel healthy and happy and whole, I am reminded of how lucky I am , in a world full of pain and death and uncertainty, to have my little corner of the world with my small emblems of truth and love all around me. Your meditation on your sickness is a reminder to me of how spiritual and amazing you are. The ability to get outside your ego needs and bodily needs and see this thing as a message is really transcendental. On the mornings when I feel healthy and happy and whole, I am reminded of how lucky I am , in a world full of pain and death and uncertainty, to have my little corner of the world with my small emblems of truth and love all around me.

]]> By: Clyde Grubbshttp://justworld.typepad.com/perspectives/ http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-100 Clyde Grubbshttp://justworld.typepad.com/perspectives/ Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:02:58 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-100 Check out the health, spirituality and healing courses at Andover Newton....good stuff, liberal basis....<br/><br/>and there are many people looking for a wholistic relation between healing and spirituality<br/><br/><br/>this might be your ministry? Check out the health, spirituality and healing courses at Andover Newton….good stuff, liberal basis….

and there are many people looking for a wholistic relation between healing and spirituality

this might be your ministry?

]]> By: Elizabeth http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-99 Elizabeth Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:29:47 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-99 Ha. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. This should go up on my fridge as my motto. Along with other nicer, more upbeat mottos I could think of. Thanks for the comment. I became aware of FLH when I was doing research for a book and part of it was to research the ethnic makeup of schools named after civil rights activists. Almost inevitably, the Rosa Park Elementary or the Fannie Lou Hamer High School or the zillions of MLK schools were at least 90% minority. It was almost as if one could name the school a good name, maybe no one would notice that the school was still segregated de facto. Anyway. Off the subject, but glad to konw that FLH and I have something in common. :) Hope you are well, Charles. I'll send something to the UFETA listserve that you might like. In fact, I'll do that now. Ha. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. This should go up on my fridge as my motto. Along with other nicer, more upbeat mottos I could think of. Thanks for the comment. I became aware of FLH when I was doing research for a book and part of it was to research the ethnic makeup of schools named after civil rights activists. Almost inevitably, the Rosa Park Elementary or the Fannie Lou Hamer High School or the zillions of MLK schools were at least 90% minority. It was almost as if one could name the school a good name, maybe no one would notice that the school was still segregated de facto. Anyway. Off the subject, but glad to konw that FLH and I have something in common. :) Hope you are well, Charles. I’ll send something to the UFETA listserve that you might like. In fact, I’ll do that now.

]]> By: Charlie Talbert http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-98 Charlie Talbert Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:15:03 +0000 http://elizabethslittleblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/09/thinking-about-being-sick-for-about-10-years/#comment-98 Your post reminds me of the inscription on the Ruleville, Mississippi tombstone, a humble memorial alone in an open field with her husband's, of Fannie Lou Hamer: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."<br/><br/>Vicky and I saw it a few years ago on a car trip through the South to see sites important to the civil rights struggles of the 50s and 60s.<br/><br/>As you may know, FLH was a poor black woman whose family was kicked off their sharecropper property when she attempted to register to vote. She overcame this and other adversities to lead the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party to the 1964 and 1968 Democratic conventions, challenging Mississippi's all-white "official" delegation.<br/><br/>I admire her words of resolve. In the newsclips from those days she sure doesn't seem sick and tired. Neither do you! Your post reminds me of the inscription on the Ruleville, Mississippi tombstone, a humble memorial alone in an open field with her husband’s, of Fannie Lou Hamer: “I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

Vicky and I saw it a few years ago on a car trip through the South to see sites important to the civil rights struggles of the 50s and 60s.

As you may know, FLH was a poor black woman whose family was kicked off their sharecropper property when she attempted to register to vote. She overcame this and other adversities to lead the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party to the 1964 and 1968 Democratic conventions, challenging Mississippi’s all-white “official” delegation.

I admire her words of resolve. In the newsclips from those days she sure doesn’t seem sick and tired. Neither do you!

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