By Shae Hadden | Bio
With
elections today in Canada and next month in the U.S., this is a good
time to remind all the women we know to exercise their right to vote--a
right which we've only had for less than a century. In July
1917, a group of 33 women picketed outside the White House, asking for
the right to vote. They were rounded up by 40 police wielding clubs,
brought to Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia and imprisoned for
"obstructing sidewalk traffic".
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Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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By Shae HaddenBio
Expectations are basic to who we are. From the time we are born, we
live in a relationship with the future based on our experience of the
past and the interpretations of reality that we learn from our culture
and history. We learn from our parents to live up to our expectations.
We organize our actions based on them and, more often than not, they
become self-fulfilling. When something unexpected occurs, we feel
fortunate if it is good and upset if it is bad. Our moods are always
correlated to our expectations. And as we grow older, most of us expect
to ‘slow down’, experience declining health, need to change our
lifestyle and perhaps to give up many of the things we’ve enjoyed most
in our lives. The general expectation of old age is one of decline.
If
I were to have a child (a hypothetical choice at this point in my life,
as I am long past my child-bearing years), I would not be able to bring
them up without teaching them what to expect in the future. For from
the first time they cry and I respond, I would begin a pattern of
stimulus-and-response behavior that would create an expectation. If I
can perceive that my child is hungry, I would feed them: wet, I would
change them. In need of tender touch and affirmation of my presence, I
would provide both for them. And in doing so, they would connect their
need and their rudimentary vocal and body language with a fulfillment
of that need. The mere act of making a request by verbalizing or
indicating with some form of ‘language’, followed by a patterned
response, creates a context of expectation.[
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Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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expectation
history
lesson
relationship
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