Gal Pal email 24th edition

Gal Pal email 24th edition
True friends (Best Friends series III)
Contents:
Quips and Quotes
Ebonics Lesson
On the Flip Side
Mama's Korner
Her Voice Speak
Announcements

Quips and Quotes:
"Patty, when a girl is a tease, well then she is called a buzz-kill..."the Persian princesses Ida and Sara during a gal pal powwow
okay the real quote of the week :"I sustain myself with the love of friends" Maya Angelou (via Adina Sterling)
Ebonics Lesson of the Week:
"That's hot" use to be just referred to a person, but now it is in reference to anything that is cool or interesting... look at the sweater...oh that's hot...look at that computer program...oh that's hot (for all my homies who are engineers, mass love )

On the Flip Side
Baby-sitters Club
Synopsis: It is a pivotal moment in the lives of The Baby-sitters Club--seven very special girls growing up in Stoneybrook, Connecticut. With most of the girls turning 13 and the summer upon them, they hope to devise a brilliant plan to make some money, have some fun and keep their remarkable friendships intact, but with new boyfriends showing up, rival girls, and long separated parents, the baby-sitters will test the fabric of their long-standing friendships. Each girl rises to the challenge in her own way and by the summer's end they discover their friendships have not only survived, they have thrived and flourished.Okay, I know what you are thinking...Patty Cunningham Jr. we were cool with the Anne of green gables but you are stretching us with the Baby-Sitters Club (BSC) book stuff.
Well let me tell you, I say that my journey through these books during my childhood were not only gripping but I remember wishing and hoping that one day I would have 5-6 girlfriends at the least who would know me and love me and no matter what happened we would always be friends. This group of seven girls went through adolescence together. To me, to outlast that would mean a great many good things...surviving puberty and its complexity. At the same time friendship in the real world has the same types of cyclical journeys. A person grows from struggle and triumph and so does friendships. Anything worth having takes work. Just as these girls ran a business together, they also worked very hard at maintaining their friendships. The point was that friendships were the most important. Life is journey, and its awesome to have friends to help you along the way.

DEGREES OF FRIENDSHIP
The type of relationship you can have with an individual depends upon the degree of friendship which has been established between you. Bill Gothard, in his Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts, has identified four "Levels of Friendship". They are (1) acquaintance, (2) casual friend, (3) close friend, and (4) intimate friend. Each level has its distinguishing characteristics. I think that it is important to know where people fit into your life, not to box them in, but to see where they are and where you are. IF I were to write about getting rid of unhealthy people in your life, "categorizing" friends is a way to see if the friends that you have are the ones you should have or even need. I think that we all walk this life wanting to be liked by the people who are in our lives but at the same time we need to recognize that we can not be all things to all people and the importance of having a circle of friends is so valuable such that you know that sometimes those friends can be closer than family. That iron can sharpen iron. Having a kindred spirit or a circle of women will not only make you feel the love that you need, but it will also give you a circle of people who will love you despite of your flaws and encourage you to go on in life and remember friendship can be forever. Look at these and see if the people who are around you are worth the long haul.

Mama's Korner:
I know that I have spoken about Uncle Fonny on multiple occasions but this past weekend my sister, Sachiko the ho, reminded me that our uncle would come from Reynoldsburg to da field many Sunday afternoons to visit. He wasn't there for laughs or to talk about old times, he was there to eat my mama's fried chicken. He would bring my mother chicken to replace the chicken he would consume. And this was no small feet. Uncle Fonny was serious about eatin his chicken. My mom would get a phone call to "warn" her he was coming. He would call to make sure my mom had chicken on hand. He would come with in the hour and proceed to easily eat a whole chicken by himself. There was no part of the bird when fried that went neglected. From the leg and thigh to the breasts and wings, man, even the neck and backs to the chicken were not overlooked. He then would go to the local bakery, Schulers and buy donuts for the whole house before taking several boxes of them back to Columbus. Gal Pal Angel was there and has witnessed the still very agile Uncle Fonny. This Man who is pushing 70 I am sure can still hop fences as demonstrated at graduation party from undergrad. SO ladies eat the fried chicken cause I am sure that it will help you jump fences at 70.

Her Voice Speak
IMAGINE A WOMAN
by Patricia Lynn Reilly, M. Div
Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is a woman.
A woman who honors her experience and tells her stories.
Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life.
Imagine a woman who believes she is good.
A woman who trusts and respects herself.
Who listens to her needs and desires, and meets them with tenderness and grace.
Imagine a woman who has acknowledged the past's influence on the present.
A woman who has walked through her past.
Who has healed into the present.
Imagine a woman who authors her own life.
A woman who exerts, initiates, and moves on her own behalf.
Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and to her wisest voice.
Imagine a woman who names her own gods.
A woman who imagines the divine in her image and likeness.
Who designs her own spirituality and allows it to inform her daily life.
Imagine a woman in love with her own body.
A woman who believes her body is enough, just as it is.
Who celebrates her body and its rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource.
Imagine a woman who honors the face of the Goddess in her changing face.
A woman who celebrates the accumulation of her years and her wisdom.
Who refuses to use precious energy disguising the changes in her body and life.
Imagine a woman who values the women in her life.
A woman who sits in circles of women.
Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.
Imagine yourself as this woman.

Announcements
Birfdays!!!!Erin Brozovich Happy 23rd
Rachel Rickards is well 25 !!!!