Blag before Bed.
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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon |
You may prefer, cocoa, ovaltine, hot milk, I prefer a blag before bed!!
While my friend from church was visiting, we discussed lots of things, but I told her how Poprhyria was often related and the source of the vampire and werewolf legends. And I told her there is one form of it, called Gunthers deisease, where you end up looking worse than a Yorkshire Terrier whose threee years over due to be clipped...lol..(was joshing of course!)but had never thought before, when she asked, if that was likely the source of the beareded ladies that used to be at fair grounds years ago. But seems likely, methinks.
And I only remember a beareded lady from the film the elephant man, and really, most all of the people of those times who put themselves on display as a unsual specimen, had illnesses, deformities of one kind or another. And the world laughed at them and mocked.
Made me think of the one line from the Elephant man that reached right into my heart, spoken by John Merrick, the elephant man himself. "I am a man, I am a human being."
How quick we forget the humanity of people in whatever there circumstances. Not just the weaker or sickly ones phyiscally. But weakness is common to all mankind in varying forms. And each one of us could say about anyones weakness, "there but for the grace of God, go I."
We are all fearfully and wonderfully made, whether we be the cream of the crop as the world regards beauty, or the runt of the litter. All unique in the our own right. All with something to offer. Which is one reason, tho a Brit, Winston Churchill is Anathema !! in my book. With his role in planned parenthood, and ideas at one time not that much different to Adolf Hitler as regards the unborm and the disabled, and women who may have in those days been termed "mentally retarded" mandatorily sterilized. Epilepsy was one of the things that would get you sterilized at one time. So, yes, there indeed but for the grace of God, go I.
