On sunday I put up a diary Rays of Hope. We do a lot of those kind of diaries here. Trying to look on the positive side and not the negative. That is my particular bent, you might say.
Now with the big influx of Kossaks, I feel all these rays of hope entering this arena and boy do I feel we are going to do something grand with all these rays floating about.
I keep thinking of the words Shoulder to Shoulder mentioned on this site several times in the last few days. You know that was the song of the suffragettes. Shoulder to shoulder we stand. We have a great heritage as women and it seems we still need to stand together. What might we accomplish??
Here is a little about the Suffragettes movement:
THE SUFFRAGETTES….WOMEN’S EPIC FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE
The fight for the right for women to vote was a violent revolution for the rights of equal citizenship led by Emmiline Pankhurst and her fellow Suffragettes. The following is a brief account of their fight for equal rights, and the women who were part of that sometimes bloody and violent fight.
In Manchester on October 10 1903, Emmiline Pankhurst’s patience finally ran out. Tired of being pleasant to MP’s in order to get them to give women the vote, she called for more militant action. ‘Deeds, not words’ was to be the motto of the Women’s Social and Political Union. (W.S.P.U.) Emmiline expected a fight but little did she envisage the violent and often savage struggle that was to follow on the basis of that motto. Her movement was confined to independent women only, with no party affiliations. They were women of principle and pursued their goal with great passion, determination and fortitude.
They were going to need all these attributes and more before their struggle was over.
On May 19, 1905, a deputation of ten women went to speak to the Prime Minister. Amongst those women was Emily Davies LL.D., who was seventy-six years old. It was Emily who handed the first women’s suffrage petition to the Prime Minister. In return all they received was some advice about ‘being patient’. This was not the result they wanted. They wanted to be taken seriously.
What parallels can be drawn between then and now, I wonder.
What are your thoughts and do you see the rays of light and hope I do.
I hope all you new members realize that too us on Booman Tribune you are all great rays of hope, and that is why we are so happy to see you here.
Will we stand shoulder to shoulder, you betcha!!!!!
What ray of hope have you seen today or this week?
My dear, crazy Diane, I can see you are seriously in need of intervention. . .step back from the keyboard, very slowly, that’s it, that’s it, slowly, slowly.
Another Diary? Have you gone over the edge?
Okay. . .Ray of Hope, we have more than 250 new, bright, intellegent, caring passionate, well informed, beautiful, fun loving and determined members here today.
NOW THAT’S A RAY OF HOPE
Shoulder to shoulder indeed. There is a lot to garner from our foresisters and I just know we are not going to let them down. We may take a day or two of a breather, get ourselves centered in our strength, but we are up to the fight.
As I said somewhere earlier. . .Don’t ever piss off the warriors, because they will stand and fight.
I am fading a bit here, so I will check in later
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Join the fun and receive lots of mojo. Especially the new UID #1001 thru #1151? – yep we can still count the numbers, but like to know more about you. New(old)comers — SusanG, Maryscott OConnor … so many familiar names from dKos!
All newbies will get some attention from our Ambassador Diane101 in her WELCOME diaries. A special diary —
Meet Diane101
Diane and shirlstars, my admiration is growing in pace with the numbers these past two days — what a terrific job! Kudos.
Oui aka @dKos as creve coeur and new creve coeur
Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
So there you are, glad to see you back. The Uid numbers are even highter now, it is 1260 or something like that. Several hundred new users today alone!!!
Funny how my son’s blazer keeps popping up on this site. LOL….
So Oui, you better get busy and make plenty of comments to catch up on things here, lots of activity…
Thanks for the welcome to the frog pond! When I came here, it felt like all the weight had lifted off my back and that I could finally stand straight up again. Guess it’s because I’m surrounded by so many thoughtful, intelligent, and wonderful posters from DailyKos and Booman and other blogs! đŸ™‚
You don’t by any chance have a history with the Red Cross, do you? You’ve been amazing during this strange and unique .. um… emergency evacuation.
I don’t have anything deep or profound to say, but I will add that it just feels good to be here. That in itself is huge. Much gratitude….
Hi Zander, you just made me laugh with your comment. No I have no history with the Red Cross, but I am an Earth Mother and a Taurus.
By the way Zander you have been doing an excellent job of helping with the welcome diaries and therefore I am drafting you as co host all/any of my tell us diaries. Shirl and I sure need the help, so please say yes.
You bring a wonderful lightness to this site that stands out. So glad you have come here….
Wonder how long this emergency evacuation will go on. I hope all the ladies have recovered a bit and feel better just being here.
<blush> I’m happy to help in any way I can.
I think the post-trauma recounting will go on for a bit, but already it seems like the defensive and confrontational tone has mellowed – miracle of miracles – the fight has moved into a place where there are no vicious counter-attacks, just a whole bunch of people saying ‘ya, me too, I know, I hear you’. I suspect that this environment will work wonders for everyone who has been so shaken up lately.
Thanks again, and let me know if I need to wade into some of the deeper threads to dig someone out for you – my machine is a massive powerhouse and can handle it.
Have you slept at all? You must be just beat.
I know we have missed plenty of people posting on these diaries and sure if you can give them a personal welcome. I do so think it makes people feel at home if they are personally welcomed.
Oh and I sleep plenty, and rest plenty.
There is great joy in this blog work so it energizes me when great influxes occur.
So go girl, there are souls to tend to and you seem to be a great comforting source, so I may call upon you many times in future, if you concur.
My index finger is getting a bit weary from all the scrolling and posting so I will be heading off to bed shortly.
Thank you dear one for being you. You make me smile.
..thing that I’ve heard in a while. <happy grin>
I’ll go dig around in some of the longer welcome threads and see if I find some missed refugees.
Sleep well – it’s amazing what you’ve managed to do for so many. During this entire mess, who would have thought such good things would happen as a result?
Zander, yes it has been abundantly clear to me that getting to know a fellow poster makes all the difference in how a site functions. We have been bulding up the camaraderie on this site since the beginning and it has worked well for us. We seem to work as a big team in so many ways.
In the beginning of the site there were not many of us so we just started to talk among ourselves both on site and off site. I think that pattern is firmly set on this site at this time so I feel it’s very important to show new members the family feel here.
Focusing always on the bad side of things brings everyone down and we need all of our positive energies to fight the big fight we have ahead.
Good to see you are one of the warriors.
When things settle down a little here, do send me an email, I want to get to know you if you are of a mind to do so.
Hugs.
I sincerely hope that the camaraderie already developed here grows through this experience. It certainly seems like all of the right components are in place – especially the dozens who have just ‘left the trenches’ so to speak.
The mail attached to my id here has expired during my long negligence of this name – but I’ll be scouting out a new mail service to ‘match’ me and will be sure to mail you when I’m organized. I’d be honored to get to know you.
I just had a thought about what you said about your computer. Would you by chance have the ability to pick out all of the various diaries of tell us about you, with the members screen name in Alphabetical order, in some kind of format so that we could in future just go to a listing and click up a particular name we want to know about.
Ah, the computer is powerful – yet, my skills are weak. I’m unfortunately clueless about Scoop, which I believe is the platform this site runs on. A friend came to mind – programmer extraordinaire – but, no go, again different program. Sorry, can’t help there.
thanks so much for your great energy here. And especially thanks for helping to welcome those that Diane and I just weren’t able to get to. It means a lot to us and to our community that people get to know each other a little and treat each other like real people, not just anon. screen names.
Your help has been much appreciated, and I have enjoyed reading your comments through many threads today. I hope we will be hearing a lot more from you over time.
Big Hug,
Shirl
It’s been really inspiring to be here. And frankly, pretty daunting – I’m really not a pushy person, honest, though you wouldn’t know it the way I’ve just hopped in here and splashed around.
And speaking of good energy – I’ve just planted what I think was my first troll rating ever. Wow – I startled myself. I just don’t do that. But over in Catnip’s diary amid so much support and encouragement was a summary of everything we’ve all just escaped from. Sigh.
Anyway, I’m sorry if I’ve run amok over here. I’m more accustomed to quietly lingering, but have just been so excited about the potential all of this represents.
You have been AMAZING. I’ve been trying to hand out 4’s to newbies as I see them. This place has been on my mind throughout the past couple of days constantly. The dynamic is different with more people, yet the congeniality is still here, which I think matters most. Alot of that has to do with your Welcome Mats. I’m working on a couple of diaries for tomorrow because this is a big week with the Senate resuming debate and the explosion of the Downing Street Memo finally into more “mainstream” sources. Thanks again and I’m glad I’ve gotten to know you both over the past couple of months here.
Eegee thanks so much.
About all the energy I have left at this 2:30 in the a.m. is to offer you a big and sincere hug.
Hugs
Shirl