before...

Before you were conceived, I wanted you.
Before you were born, I loved you.
Before you were here an hour, I would die for you.
This is the miracle of love.

-- Maureen Hawkins

Raffle Total for June 3rd, 2003
$300.00
Thank you so much! Keep it comin'!

I'm curiously following your web log from day to day, it's so exiting, especcially since we're also in the process of adopting, our third child from India. :-)

Also I wanted to say that I loved this poem and will write it down and keep it!

Also it's quite interesting learning how you raise the money for the adoption, by a raffle! I think no one her in Norway ever thought of that, and I'm not sure if others would approve either... Happy for you that it works for your family, though!

Wish you lots of luck in your adoption journey. I know it's hard waiting for your precious child on the other side of the world, and Rani is so beautiful!!!
But finally the day is there, when you have the longed for child in your arms, and everything is what it was meant to be...

Warm regards,
Toril

We are never truly sure of our beliefs.

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it!

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

There is no such thing as society....There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

I like getting emails from people I know, makes me feel better every morning.

Awesome sentiment! I totally agree with you!

While I realise I maybe be out of the topic, I just found an incredible lyric site featuring hundreds of thousands of lyrics.
If you wanna bring back some happy memories you should stop by to lyric lovers.

A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

During the first assault of passion as under a thunder stroke the sentiments of virtue may yield for a moment.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Society is indeed a contract...it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.