Lunch Break: Four-fingered pianist
by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind…
Email Bethany with your Lunch Break suggestions!
by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind…
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I think that people will look at that and think that’s a step too far…. I find it really abhorrent to see the sort of campaign that’s been raised now on a really sensitive issue.
I’m concerned to see young kids involved in a debate like this.
There was a good point made in some of the commentary that I saw, that these young people are at an age that they haven’t actually lived long in the life to experience the competing issues that adults have to confront in their lifetime.
~ Australian Premier Lara Giddings (pictured above right; click to enlarge), commenting on silent protests at the Tasmanian Parliament involving “more than 200 people… [including] young children – some in school uniform… rall[ying] against proposed changes to the state’s laws to allow abortions up to 24 weeks into a pregnancy,” as quoted by ABC News, April 10
Video at link.
Comments (2)


None of us has any excuse!
Wow.
Thank you, Bethany! That was amazing! I loved watching the proud Mommy of this very talented young lady!!
Bethany,
Why don’t you comment any more?
I am duly ashamed of my own complaining about not being able to do certain things (which is my own fault).
I’m so sorry, Hisman! (So good to hear from you!)
I saw your beautiful new baby grandson!!! He is precious. Congratulations!
I want to comment all of the time, but seems like life keeps getting in the way lately. I read here when I can though. Last week my grandfather died…I was very close to him so it was very difficult for me… and this weekend I had my wisdom teeth- all four of them- removed and it was pretty painful- I got a dry socket in two of the teeth and a nerve was damaged or bruised so my tongue is numb and tingly on the left side.
I promise I’m going to try to comment more when I can, but I haven’t forgotten about anyone here.
I hope you will have a wonderful month.
Hey Bethany, I hear you on your experiences – I’ve shared some of them.
Have one remaining grandparent alive, my dad’s mom – she’ll be 98 in November. She never boozed and lived a pretty “clean” lifestyle as far as food, though nothing more than what was considered half-decent in the 1940′s.
It has been a tough, tough thing for me – my grandparents’ generation passing on. I’m 50 now so almost all are gone, Now it’s my mom and dad… Wow.
You will always be one of my all-time favorite people.
Doug
Bethany:
Sorry to hear about your Grand Dad.
Despite all your trials you still maintain a sweet spirit.
Wow!
Hisman…thank you so much! You can read more about my grandfather at my blog, if you haven’t already.
http://bethany.preciousinfants.com/2009/05/29/my-papa.aspx
http://bethany.preciousinfants.com/2009/06/01/an-honest-blog.aspx
I posted a couple of posts about him…he was a wonderful man, and a WW2 veteran with a purple heart…and he loved his family.
Doug, where have you been? I haven’t seen your posting in a while either. I almost thought you had dropped off the face of the earth. I hope you’ve been doing well. As for your grandmother, that is wonderful that she has lived such a long and healthy life so far. My last grandfather who died a few years ago lived to be 98 as well.
We watched Wayne Dyer’s No Excuses (I think that’s what it was called, something like that) seminar on PBS last night and he had a remarkable young man on named Dan Caro who was burned over 80% of his body at the age of 2 and lost his toes and both hands… and is one of the best jazz drummers in the south…
Truly amazing… the kids jaws about hit the floor. (Made me so proud to work in a hospital with one of the largest, most successful burn units in the country. Our kids go on to do amazing things, too!)