Mama Butterfly

My Golden Butterfly

My golden butterfly touches the sunShe sometimes sings to me when day is doneWhen she opens up her wings to fly into the worldI wish I could fly with her and smell the breezeIt must be peaceful with everything she sees
My golden butterfly comes to me when it is nightShe sleeps in my patio until it is daylightI see her in my garden, on the flowers and in the treesShe makes me smile, so delicate and freeLike an angel in the sky, I hope she will stay with meJust her and I
My golden butterfly likes the waterfallShe reminds me of heaven and the beauty of it allButterfly, oh butterfly, give me wings to fly with youYou are like a falling star, wonderful and newTouch the sun every morning, kiss the night goodbyePlease remember me, as in the world you fly.

© 2005Linda Ann Henry

Home Going Celebrations for Malettor Cross

Sunday July 12th 4-7pm
Memorial Celebration
Detroit’s Afro- American Mission.
1019 Clay Detroit, Michigan 48211
(313) 872-0444I75 & Clay Ave
Monday :July 13th
12-6pm
Mother Cross’s body lies in state
@ “The Dale”
Monday: July 13th 7-9pm
“A Tribute of Testimonies” 7-9pm
Rosedale Park Bapt Church
14179 Evergreen Detroit, Michigan 48223
(313) 538-1180

Tuesday July 14th 10am-1pm
Family hour 10:00 am
Services 11:00 am
Ward Presbyterian Church
40000 6 Mile Rd
Northville, MI 48168

Internment at United Memorial Gardens
Plymouth, Michigan

3:30pm
Repast @ Rosedale Park Bapt. Church
14179 Evergreen
Detroit, Michigan 48223

Funeral arrangements provided by
Wilson Akins Funeral Home.
17500 Fenkell St. Detroit, MI 48227
(313) 837-4440

How would America be different if we gave the gift of forgivness to all our fathers on father's day

Forgiving our Fathers..... by Dick Lourie...... This poem is read during the last scene in Smoke Signals


Maybe in a dream: he's in your poweryou twist his arm but you're not sure it washe that stole your money you feel calmerand you decide to let him go freeor he's the one (as in a dream of mine)I must pull from the water but I neverknew it or wouldn't have done it untilI saw the street-theater play so close upI was moved to actions I'd never before takenmaybe for leaving us too often orforever when we were little maybefor scaring us with unexpected rageor making us nervous because there seemednever to be any rage there at allfor marrying or not marrying our mothersfor divorcing or not divorcing our mothersand shall we forgive them for their excessesof warmth or coldness shall we forgive themfor pushing or leaning for shutting doorsfor speaking only through layers of clothor never speaking or never being silentin our age or in theirs or in their deathssaying it to them or not saying it -if we forgive our fathers what is left

from the 1st lady @ The Dale

Stark Reality
• The United States has the world's highest rape rate of the countries that publish such statistics.
• 4 times higher than Germany
• 13 times higher than England
• 20 times higher than Japan.
• Stark Reality
• 83% of rape cases are ages 24 or under
• 1 in 7 women will be raped by her husband
• 1 in 4 college women have either been raped or suffered attempted rape
• Only 16% of rapes are ever reported to the police
Yet we wonder why it is that females, girls and women
… cover up
• Strange Man Effect
When young girls are estranged from their father and don’t know who their daddy is, whether due to abandonment; alienation; isolation; avoidance; denial; separation or divorce and are exposed to “strange men” in the home. (even when the strange man is a step father)
• Strange Man Effect
A strange man can be any man other than a girl’s biological father who lives with her and relates to her in a way that only a father can and should
• Strange Man Effect
Emotional and social development
• Low self esteem
• Constant need of acceptance by men
• Aggressive attention from men
• lack a sense of protection
• Strange Man Effect
• 53% more likely to marry as teenagers
• 111% more likely to have children as teenagers
• 164% more likely to be a single parent
• 92% more likely to divorce if they marry
• Strange Man Effect
• Diminished cognitive development
• Poor school performance
• Lower achievement test scores and
lower IQ scores
• Drop out of high school
• Many never attempt college
• Many drop out of college
• Strange Man Effect
Physical Development
• girls grow up too fast
• One (1) in six (6) girls enter puberty at eight years of age!
• Strange Man Effect
“If we want young girls to delay sex and childbearing, having a loving biological father on the premises is not simply a good idea,
[it is God’s idea], while having [strange] unrelated men on the premises is not."
“There is still no substitution for a father's love and while many females are able to succeed there still exists a place, even though long ago covered up, covered over and buried beneath the business of life, there still remains a place in every woman and every girl ‘s heart, and a part of them that longs to be
‘daddy's little girl’.”

are women more important then men in the developing the foundation of the masculine image?

Psychiatrist Dr. Jack Raskins of Children’s Orthopedic Hospital and the University of Washington says a mother’s presence is especially important in the early stages of a child’s life.
The key is “the child’s close, unbroken attachment in the early months to the people who care for him.
Jean Flemming points out that “a mother’s presence throughout infancy and the entire preschool stage is important because more learning takes place in the child’s first five years than in any comparable period of life.
Too much disruption of this imbeds in the personality traits that can be disruptive for a lifetime....
Attachment to the people who love him and who respond to his needs is nothing less than the foundation of the child’s personality
Experts agree that as much as eighty-five percent of a child’s character is developed by age five, and the way a child is raised in the early years accounts for at least twenty points of his IQ

lost battle but a winable war?

http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583/page/2

spin to win

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123664427493678121.html