Stacy Finch

I am just wondering what significance the phrase at the bottom of this
message has "Get a Taste of Religion:
>~LICK A WITCH~

Stacy

>Message: 15 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:04:51 -0500 From: "Cleopatra Rojas"
>Subject: Re: Checking in/checking out
>
>
>Hi all, Jacli here :) I've been relatively quiet for quite a while. Going
>through too much physical turmoil to get embroiled on the stuff on the list
>too. But Helen's message struck me. I didn't appreciate her method but I
>understood her madness.
>
>The plain fact is that we seem to have cycles on this list. The good, the
>bad and oh yes, the ugly.
>
>We have moments when we shine. When we all come together to help one
>another question and answer our collective approaches to schooling,
>unschooling and parenting in general. These are the moments when we -each
>of us- contribute just a little something, a little bit of our own flavor
>and when taken in create a masterpiece.
>
>Then we have moments when we get a little thoughtless or insensitive.
>Perhaps too sensitive is what I should say. Moments when for just a New
>York minute we let the bad in and become JUDGEMENTAL.
>
>That's okay. This list is full of moms, dads, teachers, leaders and since
>we're all human on this list, the occasional screw-ups. But we acknowledge,
>apologize and move on. And thank goodness for the occasional screw up. They
>remind us to think before we speak, to consider and reconsider the way we
>treat or mistreat others, such consideration is probably a big asset for a
>group of folks attempting to guide their young-ins and deschool themselves
>at the same time.
>
>The problem is when the Ugly sneaks it's ugly face in. Ahh, the moments
>when we tear down instead of buildup. Then we go back in and do it again.
>The long, long debates on whether so and so said what they said they said
>and so forth. Usually followed by people upset about all the people saying
>what was or was not said and then the comments about how people should go
>and say things somewhere else.
>
>This is not new for us. But it is shameful. Because when we are good, we
>are AWESOME! When we shine it is because, as a group we encourage, support
>and unite.
>
>I do not care for the way Helen responded to the UGLY. But I do think it
>came from an emotional place of frustration and disappointment that it had
>come back again. And let's face it, when folks start telling other folks to
>get on other lists, UGLY has come back in a big way.
>
>Shame on us. Do you know what I do when the ugly comes? When the first
>whiff of ugly has come I try to ignore it by becoming real friendly with my
>delete button. But at times like this, times when UGLY has come back all
>the way and brought friends, I leave. That's right. I've been off this list
>several times and I'm about to do it again. And that's okay too. Because
>the true feeling of this list is strong enough to survive even the ugly and
>the disappearance of one or two faces. Ugly is like a fire and if we all
>just stop feeding the flames IT WILL GO AWAY.
>
>Sooner or later The Good will come back and when it does I and the others
>who have already quietly slipped away for a bit will come back. I just hope
>in the meantime that we haven't already permanently alienated some of the
>wonderful people on this list who maybe don't understand our ups and downs.
>The list will survive, but it could come back and bloom and thrive if only
>we would all work just a little harder to stop feeding the ugly and start
>working The Good.
>
>Well, just my two cents, bye all, Jacli :)
>
> >Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:58:57 -0800 > From: Helen Hegener
> >Subject: Checking in/checking out > >Dear friends and listmembers, >
> >It's a major disappointment to see this list fall back into the same
> >kind of downward spiral we experienced a few weeks (or was it >months?)
>ago. >... It was truly discouraging to see the disparaging remarks >about
>our magazine in the middle of this discussion ... > To see our magazine
>called into question >because of what someone who happens to write for us
>does on this list >was probably the final straw for me. >I'll be blunt. I
>do not have the time nor the interest in being >involved with the kinds of
>dynamics I've read here in the last few >hours.... > For that reason, I am
>removing all >references to HEM from this list, turning this list over to
>the >moderators, unsubscribing, and getting on with what needs doing in my
> >life. I wish you all the best in finding appropriate resolutions. >
> >Helen ____________________________________________________________ _ Get
>a Taste of Religion: ~LICK A WITCH~


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--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "Stacy Finch" <finchstacy@h...> wrote:
> I am just wondering what significance the phrase at the bottom of
this
> message has "Get a Taste of Religion:
> >~LICK A WITCH~
>

I think it's a tag line and a funny one at that.

Bridget