Comments on: To Give To the Light http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/ Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul-John Muir Fri, 10 May 2013 16:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ana http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4619 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:44:34 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4619 I have always found so daunting people’s definition of success. I also have always fought back a lot of those definitions. I see your child’s success based on his wonderful, charismatic smile. All I saw was happy he looks. To me, the definition of success will never be the car one drives or the title one possess, but what you have tried to teach Benjamin: to dance to his own beat.

]]> By: eemilla http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4618 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:14:41 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4618 I hope that things continue to improve!

]]> By: Benjamin http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4602 Sun, 27 May 2012 19:53:17 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4602 Thank you.

]]> By: Rider http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4601 Sat, 26 May 2012 15:36:12 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4601 Your writing is beautiful, Ms. Blue. It’s enhanced by Benjamin’s picture and by Ariel’s poem. Then Ariel, through her immediately preceding comment, provides a wonderful ending to your posting.

Now, though it feels like sacrilege, I’m intent on adding a comment of my own.

What I want to say is that there’s far more to your your writing than beauty. Beauty is its surface appeal. Beyond it, and far deeper, is your intelligence and your goodness and your love.

Something similar can be seen in Benjamin’s picture. He’s handsome, of course. He’s also good. He’s intelligent. And he’s loving.

Maybe he got the job in Raleigh. Maybe not. But there’s one thing I’m certain of.

I’m certain he’s going to be successful.

]]> By: Ariel http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4589 Thu, 24 May 2012 12:46:55 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4589 It’s amazing to think of how much more meaning that poem has now with what’s happened with you and Benjamin than it did just a while ago, and how much more it speaks of both of your strength even in weakness. I love y’all both so much.

“For both of us, his transformation in that time has been so profound as to seem like a rebirth. So with his birthday coming up soon, we talked about how wonderfully symbolic it would be if he ended up getting the job around his birthday, making his recovery period a sort of nine-month gestation.” That would indeed be wonderful!

]]> By: Bikbik & Roro http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4580 Thu, 17 May 2012 03:26:03 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4580 Beth! I was just thinking last night that I wanted to write you first thing in the morning and ask how you are. A very happy mother’s day to you too, and that everyday! You are in my prayers you know! *hugs*

]]> By: Lindy http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4574 Fri, 11 May 2012 11:42:30 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4574 Lovely photo of a handsome young man, and it all matches, Benjamin sure looks at home in this pic.
Very best wishes for the future, he has come so far, and so have you, and all of us I guess. Bless!

]]> By: Sweetflutterbys3 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4572 Mon, 07 May 2012 22:44:57 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4572 He looks so handsome. I hope he got the job!

]]> By: vickilane http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4571 Sun, 06 May 2012 17:11:46 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4571 Best wishes for Benjamin — what a handsome young man. And what a beautiful poem

]]> By: Sharon http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/to-give-to-the-light/#comment-4569 Fri, 04 May 2012 12:03:39 +0000 http://blueridgebluecollargirl.wordpress.com/?p=2273#comment-4569 Hi Beth, Just found your blog coming over from Betsy’s at Joyful Reflections and all I can say is “wow.” Can’t wait to get to know you better. Anytime I see the words Blue Ridge, I’m drawn to them. From one who sees these mountains from the East TN side and calls them “mine” to one who sees them from the Western NC side, I guess we’ll just have to share them, won’t we? I have read your story backwards, but stopped because I want to go back to the beginning and read it like a book! Benjamin is so handsome. We have friends with a son who has Asperger’s Disease. He has just entered his teen years and we’ve watched his transformation as his mom works with him after finally taking him out of our school system for the exact reasons you talk about. Do you think you will be able to return to longer distance hiking or will hubby’s injury prevent that? I look forward to getting to know you better. Sharon

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