Angela Ramey, of Bloomington, threw the shot on Dec. 4 after a fundraiser at her 9-year-old daughter Grace's private school.
Earlier this month, Grace had won a competition at school by raising $1,200 for Kids Against Hunger, an organization that provides meals to local families. Using the money from the fundraiser, the entire school packed meals to dole out to Minnesota's neediest on Dec. 4.
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Looks like the food assistance she needs is to hide the tableware.
Maybe she follows the bear ways.
I was gonna say the same thing ampersand did. Mom needs have an assistant hide the food instead.
She didn't even see it go in.
That's what he said.
When a body follows an unnatural course that is unhealthy, such as the putting on of additional weight (or the keeping it off through bulima/anorexia) as the result of unbalanced eating practices, there are often other factors involved such as an early childhood trauma, prolonged deprivation/scarcity or an experience of severe or unrelenting abuse. The clue in this story, the red flag alert that something beyond the need to hide a fork or food might be involved shows up when the mother says she "grew up in a house where food was scarce".
Chances are good that other forms of deprivation may have been involved as well. Yes, Lem's "maybe" may be close to the truth, in that she does follow the bear's ways with regard to habits of self preservation/protection. The other truth is this: She did not give in to shame and go into hibernation, but worked like a bear to protect and provide for other cubs in need, and for that she is to be commended. There is little more powerful, when it comes to healing, encouragement, support and motivation, than the telling of a real story.
As the crowd quieted down, Ramey thanked the children for their hard work fundraising, and told them why it touched her personally.
"I wanted to tell them that service projects matter," Ramey said. "I did not grow up in a well-off family. I understand food insecurity."
I'm too late, everyone said what I was going to say.
Glass houses boys...glass houses. ;)
If not glass houses, then rose-colored glasses, as the repeated presentation and visual feasting on this blog off the remembered mammaries of bounteous women who are now mostly over 80 or dead, could appear to be another fork off the tree of compulsion.
As large as the shooter in this story is, the largess she inspired and the energy she expended made a difference for good, which is noteworthy along with other expressions of levity.
Largess, also largesse-thanks chickelit.
From OnlineEty:
largesse (n.) also largess, "willingness to give or spend freely; munificence," c. 1200, from Old French largesse "a bounty, munificence," from Vulgar Latin *largitia "abundance," from Latin largus "abundant" (see large). In medieval theology, "the virtue whose opposite is avarice, and whose excess is prodigality" ["Middle English Dictionary"]. For Old French suffix -esse, compare fortress
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