Tag – you’re it!’ –
The rules:
- You must post these rules.
- Answer the question the “tagger” listed for you in their post,
- And create 11 new questions for the people you tag to answer.
- Choose 11 people to tag and link to them in the post.
- Let each blogger know that you have tagged them.
My tagger was Hobbling Around, who writes a fantastic blog about the ups & downs of being a mother with MS, the trials of being in a wheelchair & heart-aching commentary on the emotional roller coaster of life with lots of laughter & a few tears.
The question Hobbling Around posed for me was:
What is the best post that you have written? I would have to say the following post is my favorite post. I have 7 daughters & I would hate to think because of apathy on my part or their part, they might lose some of their rights. I stood up for these rights in my youth & I lent my voice to the cause of equality for women. I urge all women to act to keep those who would deny women their right to birth control & control over their own bodies from getting elected in the upcoming US elections. One of my daughters once told me she would rather I didn’t share my political views with her which is fair because I would like her to form her own opinions, but this one is FOR her & all my other girls, so I can’t be quiet. https://benzeknees.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/international-womens-day-2012/
Now to pose questions for my taggees! These are supposed to be individual questions for each blogger, but I’d like to change it up a bit today & ask them all the same question (& of course I hope Hobbles will answer it too!):
What are you most proud of & why?
So here’s my list:
benzeknees 
Apr 24, 2012 @ 15:32:06
Does never being CONVICTED of a felony count? 🙂
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Apr 24, 2012 @ 18:35:52
In some states 😀
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Apr 24, 2012 @ 18:14:04
So you are asking me, among others, “What are you most proud of & why?”
Well now that’s a tough one for me to answer, because there have been SO MANY things that I’m proud of, and a veritable multitude of reasons WHY I’m so proud of these things, both real and imagined. 😀
I am very proud of the fact that I value modesty and selflessness above all else, and let me tell you all about it. You should be willing to just stop whatever you are doing right now, and read the rest of my answer, because I just know that whatever you could be doing, can’t possibly be anywhere near as important as MY emotional NEED for you to read this, and I mean RIGHT NOW! So get with it, Bucko!
Modesty and selflessness of this great a magnitude just doesn’t shout out how great it is, just any old day, and you should feel very fortunate and thank me for it right now!
Even though I’m not finished here, I’m going to post this right now, because this kind of content should never be kept waiting more than even just a second longer than necessary!
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Apr 24, 2012 @ 18:54:20
Okay, so that was the serious answer to the question, and now I shall do the nonsensical and very silly answer…
“What are you most proud of & why?” I honestly am not comfortable with the question, because there’s that thing about “pride going before a fall” and I’ve fallen too many times in my life, so inviting it to happen makes me very wary, and suddenly I feel like I should put on a motorcycle helmet immediately. Lol – And I’m only half joking when I say that.
Okay, I’m just going to run with what comes to me first, and before I say another word, I don’t think it’s anything that great, or anything that I should take much pride in.
In 1976 when I was a freshman in college, the city of Boston was torn apart by racial hatred and violence as a result of a Federally Court ordered school desegregation program, that mandated a percentage of white children in the Boston Public School System to be transferred into predominantly black schools, and a percentage of black children to be transferred into predominantly white schools.
I’m not going to give an opinion here of whether the court decision was right or wrong. But what I absolutely know with all my heart and soul, that was not only wrong, but the very face of evil itself, was when white mobs of adults in certain Boston neighborhoods gathered to throw bricks at black kindergarten children aged 4 – 5 years old, as they tried to get off their buses and go to school.
It was beyond wrong when a white gang attacked a black man in front of Boston City Hall, who was just trying to go to work. In a memory that will live in my mind forever – because of the horrible metaphor it created, the gang seriously beat this man with the heavy flag pole on which the American flag waved while the beating took place.
What I have described, is not fictional or exaggerated in any way – there terrible things really happened, along with many more terrible things that happened, and all because of the sin of racism in it’s most virulently ugly and terrifyingly violent manifestation.
The only thing that I have to be proud of, and it’s not much, is that in 1976, I took part in “The Boston March For Racial Peace”, along with many thousands of other Bostonians, who all wanted to gather together to send a message that no matter what the court had done, or whether it was right or wrong, that racism and racial violence was the greatest wrong of all being perpetrated, and we wanted to unite in a stand against it.
I believe that the march was a turning point that helped a majority of people in the greater Boston area, both black and white, to focus on what they they really believed in, and to speak out loudly the truth that racial hatred and violence must never be tolerated by our society or in any society.
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Apr 25, 2012 @ 02:15:54
You have much to be proud of Chris! You didn’t stand by & say this is not my problem. You took a stand & put your feet into action. I applaud you Chris!
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Apr 24, 2012 @ 19:14:08
Interestingly, I had a job interview this morning and they asked me that very question. I didn’t even hesitate; my self-published novel is my proudest accomplishment. Err…I suppose I could have mentioned my kids or something equally sentimental…oops.
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Apr 25, 2012 @ 02:18:03
Mark, I did the same thing in an interview not long ago. It was for an IT department & I mentioned my blog as being something I was proud of. Haven’t gotten even close to the book stage yet. As far as kids go, I have a lot (1/7/10) & I didn’t mention them either.
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Apr 24, 2012 @ 19:40:04
Excellent answer to your question, benzeknees.
The answer to my question is that I’m proudest of the fact tthat there is a woman wearing a ring on her finger that is the exact match of the one on mine.
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Apr 25, 2012 @ 02:19:28
Very sentimental of you EG, I’m learning a lot about you lately! (And I like what I’m learning BTW)
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Apr 25, 2012 @ 17:19:45
ARen’t people supposed to answer this on their blogs?
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