Tumblr (3.0; @gradlady)http://gradlady.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1j93wPUt71qjqzoeo1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1j93wPUt71qjqzoeo2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/20098628630http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/20098628630Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:43:45 -0400“<p>And in too many religious people he sees inconsistencies. They speak of life’s preciousness when railing against abortion but fail to acknowledge how they let other values override that concern when they support war, the death penalty or governments that do nothing for people in perilous need. …</p> <p>As a physician, he said, you’re privy to patients’ secrets — to their truths — and understand that few people live up to their own stated ideals. He has treated a philandering pastor, a drug-abusing financier. “I see life as it really is,” he told me, “not how we wish it were.”</p> <p>He shared a story about one of the loudest abortion foes he ever encountered, a woman who stood year in and year out on a ladder, so that her head would be above other protesters’ as she shouted “murderer” at him and other doctors and “whore” at every woman who walked into the clinic.</p> <p>One day she was missing. “I thought, ‘I hope she’s O.K.,’ ” he recalled. He walked into an examining room to find her there. She needed an abortion and had come to him because, she explained, he was a familiar face. After the procedure, she assured him she wasn’t like all those other women: loose, unprincipled.</p> <p>She told him: “I don’t have the money for a baby right now. And my relationship isn’t where it should be.”</p> <p>“Nothing like life,” he responded, “to teach you a little more.”</p> <p>A week later, she was back on her ladder.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>From the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/opinion/sunday/bruni-a-catholic-classmate-rethinks-his-religion.html?scp=1&sq=bruni&st=Search">NY Times Frank Bruni’s “Rethinking his Religion” piece</a>. Read the whole thing.   (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://georgethecat.tumblr.com/">georgethecat</a>)</em>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/19988435921http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/19988435921Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:04:42 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1itdhIrmo1rq2qp4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/19987963026http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/19987963026Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:57:29 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0kto0KWnF1qbowlfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Can you imagine if this monster stole your 5 year old brother and made him shoot your parents?  Or how about if he took your little sister and turned her a sex slave, to be used by men old enough to be her own father?  Before you return to your comfortable life, take a moment to care about something bigger than whether you get the latest Ipod or Iphone.</p>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/18953310867http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/18953310867Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:32:16 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzkkqbBxhn1r0l23po1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://sunshinesoccercoitis.tumblr.com/post/17803107775/if-i-ever-have-a-daughter" class="tumblr_blog">sunshinesoccercoitis</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>If I ever have a daughter…</p> </blockquote>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17804115198http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17804115198Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:56:50 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzhstuXCUs1rolgk4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>So true</p> <p>#stayathomemom #mom #mothers</p>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17713079739http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17713079739Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:39:30 -0500<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9ZaLipDgFZQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17534862442http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17534862442Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:02:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzbacjcNP01rpxvxdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17534119841http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17534119841Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:49:23 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyy994ISTu1rp2es0o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17134535758http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17134535758Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:11:34 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lytnxmkvgQ1r9t8gqo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hoodlumberjack.tumblr.com/post/16975401032/a-wooden-castle-in-wyoming">hoodlumberjack</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/garden/the-smith-mansion-in-wyoming-is-the-stuff-of-legend.html">A wooden castle in Wyoming</a></p> </blockquote>http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17071205245http://gradlady.tumblr.com/post/17071205245Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:45:23 -0500