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Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Q is for Queens Consort
Monday, April 19, 2021
P is for Prokofiev
My Theme will be Capitals. Due to the random nature of my blog, and specifically my mind, each entry may only be somewhat related to the capital mentioned. For example, it is entirely possible that Friday April third's entry will feature the Krispy Kreme themed love song I wrote in 1995 because I wrote it while living in Columbia, South Carolina where I encountered my first Krispy Kreme.
I mention that here. because today's post about Sergei Prokofiev will tell you probably a lot more about me than Prokofiev. But let's at least start with Prokofiev.
Sergei Prokofiev
Saturday, April 17, 2021
O is for Oskar.
I don't know a lot about cancel culture, but I seem to hear and read a lot about it. My best understanding of it is that with cancel culture people can be reduced to the worst thing (or most recent bad thing) that you've done and other positive achievements are overlooked or forgotten in light of the bad.
Oskar Schindler was not a product of cancel culture. He seemed to be more of the opposite. Nazi, serial philanderer, spy, war profiteer are labels that could easily mar any good you could otherwise accomplish. But in Schindler we find an extremely flawed man remembered and revered for his greatest accomplishment.
I personally was raised thinking that life was like a moral bank ledger where you hoped your black ink outweighed your red. I no longer feel that way. In some ways like the hundreds of Jews that Schindler saved from death in concentration camps I was saved by a conscious choice not of a flawed man but by a perfect God.
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Friday, April 16, 2021
N is for Nevins: Guest Post
My youngest daughter when she heard about my a to z challenge theme this year asked if she could write about one of the Radium girls. Since I don't know very much about the radium girls I asked her if she's be willing to write a guest post about one of them. She chose Charlotte Nevins Purcell who she will be portraying in her high schools spring play, These Shining Lives.
Radium Girl
Charlotte Nevins Purcell was one of the dial painters who worked at the now infamous Radium Dial company in Ottawa, Illinois. She was one of the many women working at the company (now known as the 'Radium Girls') who painted watch faces with radium powder, which wasn't widely known to be harmful at the time. Because of this, she was also one of the many women who suffered from radium poisoning as a result of their work. Charlotte had to have her arm amputated because of the radium, which allowed her to live longer than many of the other women whos poisoning had taken effect in more vital areas.
" A relative said: ‘She was pretty outspoken. She told people what she thought about things ... she spoke her mind about a lot of things.’ That perhaps explains why Charlotte played such an important role in the Illinois lawsuits. She and Catherine Donohue were ‘spokesmen for the other women’." - Kate Moore, author of The Radium Girls, wrote about Purcell
Charlotte Purcell was evidently the kind of person who would not give up and would not stand for injustice. According to family members, she once tied one end of a jump rope to a fence in order to be able to jump rope with only one arm, because of her amputation. This shows how she never let anything stop her, which is truly inspiring.
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
M is for Merman
A TO Z Easter Eggs
These Blogs Are So Last Year
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Does Grief Last Forever?1 year ago
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Growing Up1 year ago
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