Comments on: Let’s All Hit Each Other In The Face More. https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/ "Writer! Quilter! All the things!" Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:13:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Lisa E https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1604 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:13:40 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1604 I have two teenage daughters. My gut was knotted as I read your post. I LOVED your response. Perfect in every way. You got your opinion across and stopped what was going on in that stall. Better yet, I think there’s a chance that your actions may have gotten through to that mom. Hopefully, she can see herself and get a grip on her feelings. That little girl knows that someone out there was supporting her. She was not alone.

]]> By: Saska https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1581 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:10:43 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1581 After the noise I made, I probably would’ve said….”let me hit YOU as hard as you hit HER”. I believe children need to be directed in the right paths, but nobody deserves to be slapped…NEVER.

]]> By: Patricia Sanabria-Friederich https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1576 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:41:55 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1576 I love what you did ! Very nice to see a young woman act like that . God bless you.
Patricia

]]> By: Sue Lohr https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1567 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 02:21:05 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1567 I am proud of you, Mary! Doing ANYTHING is better than letting that woman think she ‘got away with it’. Because next time, it might have been worse. Because of you, perhaps there will not be a ‘next time’ for that dear little girl. Thank you for standing up for her.

]]> By: Sharon https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1566 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:33:46 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1566 One of your best post Mary not what happened but how you handled it. More people need to think of ways of handling injustice.
Sharon

]]> By: Lisa D. https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1563 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:55:45 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1563 Hey it didn’t put ion the paragraphs, I swear I made them.

]]> By: Lisa D. https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1562 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:54:46 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1562 Mary,
You talents are so excellent with a pen…er keyboard. I hope you read this as I feel it important that you may need nutritional info. about what may be irritating your in-narrds(spoken with a French accent). …I have written before and enjoyed your writing so much every time you post, what a breath of fresh air. …someone with something to say and do. It is no mistake that you were in that little room, at that very time, and were so inspired to do something. I loved what you did , as it was genius on so many levels. When we have that kind of inspiration for the helpless it comes from God. He cares so much about all the little ones, and He cares for your heart-feelings( I know you still cringe at what happened) and health too. You are brave and strong to live such an wildly creative life. ..so very glad that you inspire us. I write as I talk, with little punctuation.
The nutritional advice is about eating GMO’s It is a story of great big business holding hands with government. Since the nineties, cancer and colon troubles have doubled. All these gluten issues that have popped us recently ..celiac disease may be nothing more than peoples’ colons blowing up because there have been animal and bacteria genes spliced into our corn wheat and soy, squash and zucchini. Would you like some fish genes in your Bryers Ice Cream with those chocolate swirls? My daughter is your age and she has physical symptoms from eating GMO’s her stomach blows up! You can see it after she eats it, she looks like a chicken that swallowed a grapefruit. The whole fam has issues with that and pesticides, food additives, and preservatives . Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a natural pesticide to bugs and has been gene-spliced into our food plants and when bugs eat it, kaboom, it blows up their digestive tracts and they die. Problem is, people are having the same result. It’s insidious to think that the company that makes these problems for human beings, Monsanto has the right to go on doing this and the government is protecting it from lawsuits. Funny how the heads of Monsanto go on to be the heads of government offices. That is Fascism ..business holding hands with government and making out.
I had written you from my little Kindle pad about this and some glitch may have prevented it from getting to you and I am so sad that you have suffered so , even though I don’t know you, I do care and I had to make sure that you get this info. You may write to me at the above address and I will try and get you more info to help you. I do understand you have had a real physiological disease, but it may be healed to the point that it stops being an insult to your life. I know that carrying around bags of organic food and goodies and being picky to eat only organic food without additives is a pain, but much less of a pain than the kind of suffering that we do from eating poisonous foods.
I was too beat up by my body, and spending way too many visits in the little room, but it was with severe migraines and extreme nausea and illness..I was driving the porcelain bus every week at least once and all day too, at times. It was the food additives. Do you remember that beautiful African American investigative reporter, Ed Bradley? He saved my life with his investigations on food additives. It’s all about profit. I am well today because he was willing to find out why so many people are sick.
I know you have to eat and travel, and it is never convenient to wag food, but it may just be a great investigation on your part and heal your suffering. I found many portable foods that are organic, and I have a nutribullet and it is good. Got it at Tar’get'(also a French word.) It comes with books and recipes and you will be a rocket on those nutrients… as long as they are Non-Gmo and organic. Not that you aren’t already. A Coleman 42-Can Wheeled Soft Cooler With Hard Liner, and some of those blue icy packs would fly through the airport with you. I found it on Amazon.
Finding a restaurant is a real challenge. I call them all the time. They actually admit that they have GMOs in their food. I am from TX and we are close to Mexico and it influences out diets here. A corn chip isn’t a corn chip if it has to blow up my digestive track. So I go to Costco for their organic things. Ohhh if they would just get potato chips.
Andrew Weil MD on TV is a true nutritional scientist wellness person. I don’t know about any psych, or other spiritualist mumbo he has, I am a believer in Christ… but he has books on nutrition and aside from Denver, his True Food Kitchen restaurant also has locations in Arizona (Scottsdale and Phoenix) and California (Newport Beach, San Diego, Santa Monica). Chipolte has begun to eradicate GMO’s from their great food chain. I am so much able to live my life now. If it weren’t for ED Bradley I would have died 20 years ago.
I know this is a long speak, didn’t know any other way to reach you, but you are definitely very, very, much worth caring about. You have a friend here in Texas and one that very much appreciates your art, and insight, and wishes and prays you to be well and happy.

Lisa D.

]]> By: Briana Sprecher-Kinneer https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1560 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:47:57 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1560 Beautifully written, Mary! Beautifully lived!

]]> By: Deb Hathaway https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1558 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:16:06 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1558 Wow! Thanks for sharing this ‘event’. I usually open my big mouth and say something when I see an injustice… but your story made me stop and really think about it for a moment. Not once did it ever occur to me that by my stepping up and confronting the abuser, I might actually make things worse for the victim at a later date. That was EYE OPENING!!!
I loved the way you handled the situation…that your inner self knew instinctively what to do. I hope I am as creative and clever if I ever find myself in such an awkward position in the future.
GOOD GOING Mary!!!

]]> By: Sandie Deahl https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1556 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:14:51 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1556 The clap heard round the world..nicely done Mary!!

]]> By: Joy https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1555 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:04:57 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1555 Wow.. It is a wonderful thing you did! I would have done something stupid like cry.

]]> By: Becky M https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1554 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 17:41:34 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1554 High fives to you for thinking so fast in a horrible situation. My heart breaks for that little girl and I hope your actions have the right impact on that mother.

]]> By: melissah https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1552 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:56:45 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1552 I love how u took care of that situation. I cried through your whole story. What an awful parent. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not against a pat on rump when it is necessary. But I’m not into slapping across the face or in anger….great job Mary

]]> By: Cheryl https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1551 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:48:55 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1551 What a rough thing to become a part of.
As a parent and one who will freely admit to sometimes infinite frustration with her children, and one with her own past, I can say that you may have done the right thing for the mother as much as the child. It may have snapped her out of the bad place she was in. Beyond knowing that she was seen, that her anger wasn’t private anymore, she may have had the moment where she is able to see what you saw (heard).
It was a powerful message for you and her.

]]> By: Karen Morrell Johnson https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1550 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:39:26 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1550 Perfect, Mary! We’ve all been in that situation where we ask ourselves “should I intervene?”. Your instincts were right on.

]]> By: Grace https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1549 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:28:52 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1549 Oh, you just broke my heart with this story. That poor little girl. That is not parenting, that is bullying. I don’t know how you held your tongue, but your solution seemed to be very effective! Thank you for taking a stand for the child.

]]> By: Matthew M. F. Miller https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1548 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:24:06 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1548 Good on you, Mary Fons. Abuse isn’t a private matter, and you did the best thing you could have done in that terrible moment. You were brave, and you shifted the narrative – hell, you changed the story. Instead of being a know-it all, needs-to-mind-her-own-business stranger, which is how the mother likely would have classified you (and ultimately would have used your “intrusiveness” to somehow justify her terrible behavior), you did exactly what you hoped to do – you broke the moment and prevented (hopefully) more abuse in that bathroom.

Words are beautiful, but there were no words that could have saved that moment better than two hands slapping each other in a bathroom. Bravo.

]]> By: Sharon https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1547 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:23:15 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1547 How humiliating for a child. Today’s parents are under a lot of stress and pressure but it does not warrant a parent to hit their child!

]]> By: Karen https://www.maryfons.com/2014/04/lets-all-hit-each-other-in-the-face-more/#comment-1546 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:11:21 +0000 http://www.maryfons.com/blog/?p=1556#comment-1546 love you

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