and as a Facebook poster said, "That awkward moment when the catholic church is more open-minded than our own government"....
Yesterday was the birthday of Louisa May Alcott. She was an abolitionist, a feminist, a suffragette. I read this summation on Facebook:
She was such an amazing woman. She ran five miles a day in high button shoes and petticoats because she believed women should exercise. She paid for her sister to go to art school in Europe where she could paint portraits including nudes. At the time in the US women could only paint Still Life's. Great role model for you. She was the highest paid author of her day and contemporaries included Mark Twain, Thoreau and Emerson. As a unmarried woman with no direct heirs, she was not allowed to write a will and all her estate would have gone to the state, so she adopted her nephew from her sister and gave him instructions on how she wanted the estate divided. I am sure if they had Pantsuits in the 1880s, she would have worn one proudly.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121831612
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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