tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7522113976739242172024-03-13T18:03:03.634-07:00Paper Crane TidbitsI loved making these origami paper cranes when I was a child. I was taught by Japanese friend of the family when we were stationed in Japan. It's a small, calming, creative action, taking a piece of paper and transforming it into something else.Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.comBlogger1149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-29892450558061226572010-11-09T13:02:00.001-08:002010-11-09T13:02:01.398-08:00Swords to Plowshares–does it help with PTSD?  An older blog I began in the early days of blogs and websites and boy does this puppy need some attention and updating.  Not holding myself out as knowledgeable about kitchen gardening, this blog was about my efforts, trials and errors and bits of information I learned along the way.   Now I keep a lot of my information on One Note for my personal use.  I blog about Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-49835947591549842722010-09-22T12:35:00.001-07:002010-09-22T12:35:02.463-07:00Does Compassion Mean What I Think It Means?Compassion.  I think I know what it means to me, and I know my penchant for projecting onto others what I think it must also mean to them.  And more often than not, I come to learn what I have projected is not necessarily at all something means to another.   So difficult, finding the commonality of our languages, even when we speak the same language.  I would have surely Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-91015898336589702782010-09-21T11:33:00.001-07:002010-09-21T11:33:51.689-07:00Mormonism of Yesteryear's Pioneer SpiritIt would not be complete to not include the link to this post by Holly Welker; Latter-Day Saints and Modern-Day Pioneers, which generated in me a culmination that it has become  time or even past time for me to lift up my voice with my husband's voice in honoring the spirit, integrity and courage displayed by his familial ancestors as reflective of the pioneer spirit of Mormonism.  I Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-25592330489375793432010-09-21T10:24:00.001-07:002010-09-21T10:24:36.481-07:00Literalism, another way to look at it  I have come to value that one of the pitfalls my formerly devout (in other words, accepted by the LDS mainstream) husband was his experience of a literal faith, which proved to have holes too big for him to ignore, followed by his need to resist the literalism of his faith community.  In the either/or literal sense, his resistance was truly more his own effort to deepen his faith Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-81980209946887780462010-09-20T16:45:00.001-07:002010-09-20T16:45:05.951-07:00Dressy, Colorful, Designer and Vintage ScarvesI’m excited with my new endeavor, launching Look Again! an online e-store   We welcome you to Look Again at the treasure finds we have found and are making available to you. Our items will be primarily of the gently used variety. If it appeals to us, then there is a good chance it will appeal to you too! Please do bookmark us so you can find your way back to the store Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-32590464043257333362010-09-20T16:39:00.001-07:002010-09-20T16:39:09.966-07:00She asks the questions most obvious to me Is this a pattern? A lot of us women on fMh have been hurt by men in some form or another - abuse, rape, abandonment, etc. It seems to me that my friend in the temple easily dismissed my concerns because of my fears. If I wasn’t so “damaged”, then I would understand the patriarchal order and be at peace with it. Is that true? Part of me wonders if it might be. But then part of me tends to Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-5325159572791573972010-09-20T16:36:00.001-07:002010-09-20T16:36:28.263-07:00What does Yon Kippur have to do with Mormonism?  Perhaps more than is realized or currently practiced.  In quickly scanning which posts I would read this morning, I almost skipped this post, because it immediately started with Yon Kippur, and I wasn’t in the mood to read about Yon Kippur today.  But what Mraynes did with interpreting the spirit of Yon Kippur in applying it to Mormon doctrine of atonement was refreshing. Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-88167917152612306972010-09-20T16:34:00.001-07:002010-09-20T16:34:58.447-07:00Barbara B. Smith influence on Mormon Women at time of ERA  It helped me to read what Stephanie posted in eulogizing Barbara B. Smith.  Her expansive description of the time in which Barbara Smith took office of President of Relief Society reflected a time of great inner organizational structural change in the LDS church.  At the time of ERA, I knew little of Mormon faith, beliefs or culture, only that the LDS women were marching in Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-66910606117850356172010-09-20T16:30:00.001-07:002010-09-20T16:30:49.785-07:00Developmental Stages 7 and 8On the eight stages of the ladder of life as defined by Eric Erikson it seems I have reached Middle Adulthood, and am looking at Stages 7 and 8. Two conflicting issues fight within to be resolved; Generativity versus Stagnation.    Eric Erickson developed a ladder of life stages theory that seems to my reading to make sense, particularly this stage of 7 and 8.    Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-23577658544073434612010-09-20T16:29:00.001-07:002010-09-20T16:29:40.657-07:00Stuff, Getting it, getting rid of it It’s a strange cycle, all those years spent slowly acquiring ‘things’ only to reach this age and wish to be shed of most of them.  I’m reminded of the late George Carlin’s performance routine in which he talks about ‘stuff’.    Coming across an article in The New York Times; When Possessions Lead to Paralysis, I am reminded fondly of what George Carlin has to say about it. Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-89639479442031247402010-09-20T16:27:00.001-07:002010-09-20T16:27:08.087-07:00Is the ‘Favorite’ child going to take care of Mom?I know, I know..my mom says it too, she doesn’t have favorites, she loves us all the same.   Actually, I have come to recognize that I don’t want to be loved ‘the same’ as my siblings, because somehow it denudes my specialness, and I am then just one of the brood.  My mother would never admit to having a favorite among her four children.  I like to believe that I don’t have a Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-33174631525071626172010-09-20T16:25:00.001-07:002010-09-20T16:25:42.080-07:00She really does like her solitude and it’s okay.Reassuring article, New York Times; Aging’s Misunderstood Virtues  explains that as we age our so do our tastes, preferences and what interested us at 45 or 50 may not be of interest in later years, as we mature so do our interests, we are continually evolving.    I have worried that my mother seems to spend more time alone than I think is healthy.  Perhaps not; quoting Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-14220614070926358432010-07-21T19:01:00.001-07:002010-07-21T19:01:32.456-07:00Project; Her t-shirt ruffles meets his shirtHow-To: Upcycled Ruffled Shirt Pillow Tricia of Oh So Crafty shares her tutorial for making this cute ruffled pillow from a man's button-down shirt and a t-shirt. I am subscribed to Craftzine which features crafty artists and projects.  I enjoy seeing the creative minds at work, sometimes I marvel at how minds work in thinking up these projects.  Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-27111919565548373332010-05-16T15:13:00.001-07:002010-05-16T15:13:32.772-07:00Thrift Find – Pink KimonoMore thift find sharing.  I don’t think this kimono is vintage, but I liked the pattern and color.  For now I have it on hanger on closet door to please my eyes when I wake up in morning.  Later I thought I might use the fabric in a remake project.  Which reminds me that I need to snap some photos of the wonderful linens I found when I was thrifting with my mom in her town Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-70263077966164287972010-05-16T14:32:00.001-07:002010-05-16T14:32:47.464-07:00Big Blue BottlesOn the return route home from our Mother’s Day drive to Cathlamet and Puget Island last weekend, we stopped at an Antique Shop we have bypassed on our several trips south.  The house and location was a dairy farm, per the owner, and now that they are not farming, they rearranged the space into a home-owned antique shop.  I got to browse the shop finding several items on my mental ‘must Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-9191828360339267852010-05-16T13:43:00.001-07:002010-05-16T13:43:43.433-07:00Crocheted Open Weave Mesh Scarf for SpringLooking for a light weight spring season type scarf to crochet, I came across pattern for open weave mesh scarf.  First I tried the pattern on some ribbon yarn my mother had brought for me, but I would have needed about two more balls to get the scarf to a long enough length.  The ribbon yarn made up into a neck scarf and that may work well too.  I had some lemon colored light Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-57063030418028820492010-05-16T12:55:00.001-07:002010-05-16T12:55:19.926-07:00Colorful Palette of ScarvesI can’t help it, in my thrifting, when I run across a colorful scarf that appeals to me I just have to add it to my collection.   I don’t wear them very frequently, mostly when I have reason to dress up, ie, going to town, meetings – that sort of thing.  After years of 8-5 employment and dressing for the office, I don’t regret that I don’t have to do the ‘morning routine’ each and Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-1975395479808275252010-05-16T12:35:00.001-07:002010-05-16T12:35:02.415-07:00In the Pink – oil paintingMy most recent oil painting drying in the kitchen.  I didn’t name the painting ‘in the pink’, although it does have pink tones in the sky and water.  But sitting on my pink formica table with chrome pink chairs, ‘in the pink’ seems to fit for this photograph.  The oversized Ball blue mason jars in the background were a find from antique shop a week earlier.  The card is Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-45225068985442127722010-05-15T10:49:00.001-07:002010-05-15T10:49:42.919-07:00Can we make it?Don Delillo's White Noise. "Here we are... knowing all these great things after centuries of progress but what can we do...? Can we make a refrigerator? Can we even explain how it works? What is electricity? What is light?... Name one thing you could make."   (from blog post at fair companies)   Sustainable living continues to intrigue me on many levels.  As I am Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-57209968046034064762010-03-30T11:36:00.000-07:002010-03-30T11:37:49.359-07:00Our house now and past Find more photos like this on My Old House OnlineLietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-64320652362995142422010-03-26T10:26:00.001-07:002010-05-16T16:06:21.490-07:00Hero to suicided Iraq veteran in five short years… A photograph of PFC Joseph Dwyer in Iraq made him an American hero, but five years after returning home, mental combat wounds drove him to his death. He is not alone. In 2009, more than twice as many soldiers died by their own hands than were killed by the enemy in Iraq. But new types of therapy are giving others the chance for the peace he never had. If you are of a mind to actually read Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-23862673040599419822010-03-23T10:43:00.000-07:002010-03-23T11:06:00.300-07:00Health Care Reform Legislation Passed and Signed into Law today'On Behalf of My Mother'This morning the President made it official: things are going to change a bit between Americans and their health insurance companies.� The President signed health reform into law, with a package of fixes not far behind, and in the process created a future for the country in which Americans and small businesses are in control of their own health care, not the insurance Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-77191153180195814332010-03-22T13:33:00.001-07:002010-03-22T13:33:55.688-07:00‘Fears that Veterans health care and TRICARE will be undermined by the health reform legislation are unfounded.’ ShinsekiStatement from VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki WASHINGTON - As Secretary of Veterans Affairs, I accepted the solemn responsibility to uphold our sacred trust with our nation’s Veterans. Fears that Veterans health care and TRICARE will be undermined by the health reform legislation are unfounded. I am confident that the legislation being voted on today will provide the protections afforded our Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-14566309220099142572010-03-22T12:55:00.001-07:002010-03-22T12:55:37.531-07:00Law of the Garbage Truck One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of the parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752211397673924217.post-49628970830272173042010-03-15T12:01:00.000-07:002010-03-21T09:38:58.437-07:00The end of an era - Monkey Puzzle Tree is down(photo of our home is among the featured illustrations in 'Back Roads of Washington', 1992, drawn by illustrator, Earl Thollander)Saga of our 90 year old Chilean Monkey Puzzle Tree ( Araucaria araucana ) comes to a close. The tree was planted in the front yard of our house, we are given to understand, some 90 years before we ever arrived on the scene. When we bought the house, the tree Lietta Rugerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013387655042340435noreply@blogger.com1