As I have said in past posts, now you can read about Walking Free: The Nellie Zimmerman Story in Russian. Here's the link:

www.workersforjesus.com/dfi/955rus.htm

I found it a few weeks back and then,..I lost it again and the FOUND it and finally kept it long enough on the "puter" so I could get the link down here and at my other blog at

www.xanga.com/Stanelle

Heh! Another funny,.."Please autograph my book!" story! Decoration Day is coming up on Monday,..so the hubby and I got flowers for the graves and went to the local cenetary here in town and put flowers on his parent's graves with little or no incident. We, then,..went to my home church,..which is known in local circles as the "Friendly White Church on The Hill" and put flowers on my parents graves and on my family graves.

We had just finished putting out the flowers..when a car came speeding up to the front of the cemetary where my people are all buried. A flush faced lady stopped the car and rolled down her car window and blurted out, "I know you! I know you! You spoke at our church once!! You're Emily,..the lady in the book!"

My husband raced off to camp out in our car as I turned to face the woman and smiled at her and asked, "How did you ever guess!"

She looked quite seriously at me and said,.."I was told your family was buried in tis setion of the cemetary so I've been watching it! I knew sooner or later that you would show up to put flowers on the graves! Oh my God! So now I've met you!! Oh my God! And I forgot to bring my book with me!!"

I smiled at her and listened to her story of how I must have gone to school with her sister's husband's brother's best friend when I went to the little grade school up the street from where I grew up. We parted with friendly words.

The people that I've met in the last three years..have given me a LOT of things to think about!

The lady sat and watched this section of the cemetary so that she would be able to met me?

Why didn't she just try and call us on the phone and talk to my son or even me..(under the right conditions.)

Why didn't she just come to the May 13 Book Signing in the village that Rosezelle and I had during the World's Largest Yard Sale days? That book signing was very well advertised!

Human nature,..I guess! I really don't know!

After a wonderful weekend with a lot of chatter and fun with my own friends,...I was saddened to read in the news about the death of two young girls,..not even ten years old,..by the hand of one of the childrens' father! How cruel! The little girls' lives were taken away because this man's daughter told him,.."I will not leave the park with you!"

The brute was not satisfied with killing the one little girl but also took the life and innocence of the other little girl, his daughter's playmate,..because SHE had the courage to come to the aid of her little friend. Picture this in your mind as I do,..there must have been a reason that child did not want to leave the park with the man, who a few second later, stabbed her to death. Was that what the child was afraid of? Why couldn't the other people in her life see what she saw at that moment and do something about it?

The death of the second child, victim of her own selflessness,..is what really strikes me the ultimate cruelity and failure of our society to protect its' weakest members: the second little girl,..intentionally gave her life for her friend. She tried to protect the man's daughter..even as he knifed to death his own flesh and blood. She..watching him,..brutalize her little friend,...came to her friend's aid against him. For that,..this little one paid with her life.

Don't adults have better things to do in this life than kill and brutalize their own children? Does innocence have any value in this life any more? Why do we not value innocence? Is it because we cannot put a price tag on it?

I wonder!!

Mississippi, so I hear,..is going to be all right!! (Jumps for joy!!) There was more to Sippi's story than I knew. I was stunned to learn that she was going through some of the same things that I went through.

(No elaboration at this present time! I'm staying out of this one!!)

Quote: "If there were world and time enough..."

Sippi,...I'm glad that you are back among us all.

I guess that I am not done with this blog just yet. I was ready to sign off of it and hang it all up. There seem to be a few interesting clouds on a distant horizon....

"Krockzac dumnie,"....that is what the Hungarians call my deaf blind friend, Nellie Zimmerman,..and the thought fills me with wonder that her story has been translated into so many different languages. I wonder in this wide world how a deaf child,..reading the story of this deaf blind American woman,..will feel about what he or she can do with his/her life? I wonder about how a deaf lady, sitting at her computer and reading Nellie's story, in Canada will react when she reads about the fearless hearing impaired Senior citizen, who went to college at age seventy one and made good with a career? I wonder about how other deaf folks, who have access to computers and have read even the book review of Nellie's story,..will redefine themselves in relation to the "little deaf-blind lady, who could...!"

Online,..I have certainly met a lot of people. Some quite strange.

I have met some folks, whose existense is based on what they can get for themselves and how much misery they can inflict on others.

I have met people, who ooozed Christianity and delivered something else.

I met Buddhists,..who denied themselves nothing, and their goals had nothing to do with "enlightenment."

I have met Muslims, who were indeed dedicated to God and not to terrorism.

I have met Hindus, who love their "beef" tacos,

and "Deafies," who speak foreign languages while they have never mastered English!!

I have met people, who cower over computers in their parents' basements while planning "domination" over other folks lives while they don't have the courage to come out of their own basements and lead lives for themselves!! And I don't mean basements of the subterranian kind!!

And I have met online some folks,..who are worth their weight in gold. Sippi,..I wish you well in your operation today. I hope that you face it with courage and with the folks that you love best by your side. Online,..I have never seen you present yourself as anything but kind, considerate and compassionate.


Indeed,..the vigor with which you seem to face your life has passed itself onto me as Nellie Zimmerman is passing onto others the gift of her life story...and it is going around the world.


Sippi,..you have shaped youself,..your online personality,..into a charactor in my mind,.."the basically good person doing what they must do against impossible seeming odds," and perhaps someday,.that charactor will live on in a story or in a book and then,..again maybe not. I don't know.

All I know is

"The Iniverse of the mind

Leaves the World behind."

Good Luck today,..Sippi!