I received this in an email this week and it has given me reason to ponder the lesson. Maybe you will get something out of it too.
Once upon a time there was a bunch of tiny frogs who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower.
A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants. The race began. No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower.
You heard statements such as:"Oh, WAY too difficult!!" or "They will NEVER make it to the top." or "Not a chance that they will succeed.The tower is too high!"
The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one. Except for those, who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and higher.
The crowd continued to yell, "It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!"
More tiny frogs got tired and gave up....But ONE continued higher and higher and higher. This one wouldn't give up!
At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the one tiny frog, who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top!
Then all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it? A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal?
It turned out.... That the winner was DEAF!!!!
The wisdom of this story is Never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Prepare Yourselves--This Will Take a While
I decided what I wanted to write about this morning as I sat in a Regional PTA meeting yesterday morning. I do try to avoid most political items of late, my dear readers, as I know it is not everyone's cup of tea. But this issue is so asinine I must write about it, just to vent my own frustrations.
On Wednesday this week, a little bill called Senate Bill (SB) 199 made it's way out of the little committee that reviewed it (and passed it by a 5-1 vote, by the way) and now becomes a measure to which the entire senate must attend before a vote.
SB 199, at the onset, was announced to be a bill for equality of access for parent groups in our public schools. That is funny, as I have never seen anyone "carded" at the door of any school I have visited. If anything, all parent groups seem to be pleading with parents to be more involved. But apparently, Senator Curt Bramble of Provo seemed to think that wasn't enough.
The final three lines of this bill are the pointed, upsetting bits. In essence, it says that no Utah public school shall have any association with any parent group that charges dues. (Is it any wonder that this guy was one of the proponents of school vouchers a few years ago when I was pulling my hair out about that stupidity?) Now, he is coming about to attack the PTA--specifically this time-- from the back door too. Dues, seemingly, would be the problem.
Paul Rolly, a reporter and columnist from the SL Tribune wrote a great blog point on this. I'd like to share it with you:
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Utah: 'We're Number One'
"Utah already is on the weird-state map for its unusual liquor law, and state Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, won distinction a couple of months ago as Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" on MSNBC's "Countdown."
"But Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, might single handedly surpass all that.
"If Bramble's SB199 is passed into law this year, Utah will be the only state in the nation that prohibits the PTA from participating in school activities.
"A spokesman for the national PTA office in Chicago said no other state has a provision that comes close to the Utah proposal, and to his knowledge, there has never been such a law targeting the PTA in that manner.
"Bramble's bill passed out of the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday. It would ban schools from allowing organizations that collect dues to participate in activities at the school. The PTA, because of its national affiliation, requires $5 a year in dues from members.
"The proposed legislation appears to be an act of vindictiveness on Bramble's part. His Democratic opponent for the Senate last year is the president of the Provo District PTA. And the organization helped get the voucher bill passed by the 2007 Legislature repealed in a referendum vote.
"Plus, most of those who testified in favor of the bill at the committee hearing were members of the coalition that pushed vouchers through the Legislature in the first place. Representatives of Parents for Choice in Education, the Sutherland Institute, the Eagle Forum and the Charter Schools Association all spoke in favor of the bill.
"And the committee itself is stacked with the most vehement supporters of vouchers in the Senate, including Bramble, Howard Stephenson, R-Draper and Margaret Dayton, R-Orem.
"I just can't wait to see what award awaits Utah after word of this legislation gets around.
"Cheers,
"Paul Rolly"
Now, at the moment I don't really care what we "look" like to other states--we pretty much have to get over ourselves on that one--but this was the most ridiculous waste of time I think I have seen at the legislature since the pointless discussion a few years ago over the State's official junk food.
I wrote to my senator, Senator John Valentine, the first time while this bill was in committee. I wrote again yesterday when I heard it had passed from committee and was awaiting a senate-wide vote. Would you like to see my letter? Thanks, you guys are so gracious...
February 19, 2009
Senator Valentine—
I understand that SB199 has passed out of committee and is on its way to a senate vote.
PLEASE, I urge you to oppose this legislation as it is going to do exactly opposite of what it appears to encourage if it passes. The way the bill is written does not grant equal access. Indeed it will exclude a large group of interested and concerned parents, simply because they are members of a national organization that requires payment of dues.
70 % of Utah schools currently have an established local PTA organization working within them. Parents wishing to volunteer and work within a given school need not be members of PTA at these schools to participate.
PTA Membership does require a membership dues payment, but volunteers at a school have no requirement for membership to participate.
As a long time PTA member, I am grateful for the benefits that come to my family and my local schools because of my paid membership each year. There are programs my children love and enjoy participating in that are direct PTA programs. They are not accessible if we do not have PTA in our schools. As a member, I know my voice counts in what the entire organization does to fulfill its mission to advocate for all children.
As a PTA volunteer, I am grateful for the leadership and localized training that comes with my PTA membership. I have learned much as far as the organization and administration of our city, local schools, local districts and the reach the legislature has over our schools statewide. PTA is a source of information and a resource I do not receive any other place. And I know the information I receive through PTA is always structured to benefit children.
Please do not allow the Senate, or Utah legislature in general, to set policy for an independent organization. If this bill passes, it would seem likely that it will also affect not only PTAs across the state, but also athletic and parent booster clubs for all sorts of groups in our schools. There will be many, many unintended consequences if this bill passes. That would be more than just unfortunate. It would be devastating.
Again, please vote NO on SB 199 when it comes to a vote. Equal Access is already established by Federal mandates. Please let’s keep ALL interested parent groups welcome in our Utah schools; that should include the very active PTAs in our schools too.
Yesterday I received an email response (It was certainly generically generated, but I don't care. At least I know he heard from me) that gently affirmed his stand with me on this one.
WHY, with everything else this part-time, lay-legislature has to do in this session, under these economic stresses, WHY would this even be worth their time or paper to write it on? It is called personal agenda, my friends. The government is crawling--not with the RIGHT people to represent us, but with persuasive people who got where they are because they convinced the people who voted for them that they were right and now they are out to forward their personal agendas.
Remember when 'AGENDA' meant a plan to follow for a structured meeting? It certainly has other definitions now, doesn't it?
I'm not quite ready to say rigth her and now that Sen. Bramble is the Grand PoohBah of a conspiracy group out to end the PTA in Utah. But the thought has crossed my mind.
If you see the stupidity of this bill, please write an email and shoot it off to your state senator today. Let them know what a waste of their time this bill is, and how damaging it's effects will be to our schools and our kids. Go to www.utahsenate.org to find your district and your senator. The appropriate email address should be listed there too.
So much for the promise Lincoln gave us of a 'government for the people and by the people', huh? Stayed tuned! I'll be sure to report back what I hear about SB 199 as it comes along. And THANKS, as always, for letting me vent. Good thing I slept on this one, or my blog would suddenly be rated "M" for strong language.
On Wednesday this week, a little bill called Senate Bill (SB) 199 made it's way out of the little committee that reviewed it (and passed it by a 5-1 vote, by the way) and now becomes a measure to which the entire senate must attend before a vote.
SB 199, at the onset, was announced to be a bill for equality of access for parent groups in our public schools. That is funny, as I have never seen anyone "carded" at the door of any school I have visited. If anything, all parent groups seem to be pleading with parents to be more involved. But apparently, Senator Curt Bramble of Provo seemed to think that wasn't enough.
The final three lines of this bill are the pointed, upsetting bits. In essence, it says that no Utah public school shall have any association with any parent group that charges dues. (Is it any wonder that this guy was one of the proponents of school vouchers a few years ago when I was pulling my hair out about that stupidity?) Now, he is coming about to attack the PTA--specifically this time-- from the back door too. Dues, seemingly, would be the problem.
Paul Rolly, a reporter and columnist from the SL Tribune wrote a great blog point on this. I'd like to share it with you:
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Utah: 'We're Number One'
"Utah already is on the weird-state map for its unusual liquor law, and state Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, won distinction a couple of months ago as Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" on MSNBC's "Countdown."
"But Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, might single handedly surpass all that.
"If Bramble's SB199 is passed into law this year, Utah will be the only state in the nation that prohibits the PTA from participating in school activities.
"A spokesman for the national PTA office in Chicago said no other state has a provision that comes close to the Utah proposal, and to his knowledge, there has never been such a law targeting the PTA in that manner.
"Bramble's bill passed out of the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday. It would ban schools from allowing organizations that collect dues to participate in activities at the school. The PTA, because of its national affiliation, requires $5 a year in dues from members.
"The proposed legislation appears to be an act of vindictiveness on Bramble's part. His Democratic opponent for the Senate last year is the president of the Provo District PTA. And the organization helped get the voucher bill passed by the 2007 Legislature repealed in a referendum vote.
"Plus, most of those who testified in favor of the bill at the committee hearing were members of the coalition that pushed vouchers through the Legislature in the first place. Representatives of Parents for Choice in Education, the Sutherland Institute, the Eagle Forum and the Charter Schools Association all spoke in favor of the bill.
"And the committee itself is stacked with the most vehement supporters of vouchers in the Senate, including Bramble, Howard Stephenson, R-Draper and Margaret Dayton, R-Orem.
"I just can't wait to see what award awaits Utah after word of this legislation gets around.
"Cheers,
"Paul Rolly"
Now, at the moment I don't really care what we "look" like to other states--we pretty much have to get over ourselves on that one--but this was the most ridiculous waste of time I think I have seen at the legislature since the pointless discussion a few years ago over the State's official junk food.
I wrote to my senator, Senator John Valentine, the first time while this bill was in committee. I wrote again yesterday when I heard it had passed from committee and was awaiting a senate-wide vote. Would you like to see my letter? Thanks, you guys are so gracious...
February 19, 2009
Senator Valentine—
I understand that SB199 has passed out of committee and is on its way to a senate vote.
PLEASE, I urge you to oppose this legislation as it is going to do exactly opposite of what it appears to encourage if it passes. The way the bill is written does not grant equal access. Indeed it will exclude a large group of interested and concerned parents, simply because they are members of a national organization that requires payment of dues.
70 % of Utah schools currently have an established local PTA organization working within them. Parents wishing to volunteer and work within a given school need not be members of PTA at these schools to participate.
PTA Membership does require a membership dues payment, but volunteers at a school have no requirement for membership to participate.
As a long time PTA member, I am grateful for the benefits that come to my family and my local schools because of my paid membership each year. There are programs my children love and enjoy participating in that are direct PTA programs. They are not accessible if we do not have PTA in our schools. As a member, I know my voice counts in what the entire organization does to fulfill its mission to advocate for all children.
As a PTA volunteer, I am grateful for the leadership and localized training that comes with my PTA membership. I have learned much as far as the organization and administration of our city, local schools, local districts and the reach the legislature has over our schools statewide. PTA is a source of information and a resource I do not receive any other place. And I know the information I receive through PTA is always structured to benefit children.
Please do not allow the Senate, or Utah legislature in general, to set policy for an independent organization. If this bill passes, it would seem likely that it will also affect not only PTAs across the state, but also athletic and parent booster clubs for all sorts of groups in our schools. There will be many, many unintended consequences if this bill passes. That would be more than just unfortunate. It would be devastating.
Again, please vote NO on SB 199 when it comes to a vote. Equal Access is already established by Federal mandates. Please let’s keep ALL interested parent groups welcome in our Utah schools; that should include the very active PTAs in our schools too.
Yesterday I received an email response (It was certainly generically generated, but I don't care. At least I know he heard from me) that gently affirmed his stand with me on this one.
WHY, with everything else this part-time, lay-legislature has to do in this session, under these economic stresses, WHY would this even be worth their time or paper to write it on? It is called personal agenda, my friends. The government is crawling--not with the RIGHT people to represent us, but with persuasive people who got where they are because they convinced the people who voted for them that they were right and now they are out to forward their personal agendas.
Remember when 'AGENDA' meant a plan to follow for a structured meeting? It certainly has other definitions now, doesn't it?
I'm not quite ready to say rigth her and now that Sen. Bramble is the Grand PoohBah of a conspiracy group out to end the PTA in Utah. But the thought has crossed my mind.
If you see the stupidity of this bill, please write an email and shoot it off to your state senator today. Let them know what a waste of their time this bill is, and how damaging it's effects will be to our schools and our kids. Go to www.utahsenate.org to find your district and your senator. The appropriate email address should be listed there too.
So much for the promise Lincoln gave us of a 'government for the people and by the people', huh? Stayed tuned! I'll be sure to report back what I hear about SB 199 as it comes along. And THANKS, as always, for letting me vent. Good thing I slept on this one, or my blog would suddenly be rated "M" for strong language.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Life Imitates Art? Art Imitates Life?
Did you ever see Garry Marshall's film The Runaway Bride with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere reteamed a decade or more since Pretty Woman? Well, I caught a section yesterday while I was waiting to go pick up The Boy from scouts last night.
It reminded me of two things. First, How much much I love Joan Cusack's work. She is like a modern Lucille Ball or Claudette Colbert. And Second, how much I enjoy smart dialog.
So for today's posting, I would like to share an exchange between Maggie (Julia Robert's character) and her best gal pal Peggy Fleming--not the skater-- (played by Joan Cusack) which they share one morning in the Curl Up and Dye salon following a town softball game wherein Maggie got a little too friendly with Peggy's husband, Cory.
Maggie: Do you think I flirt with Cory?
Peggy: Yes.
M: I don't mean to.
P: I know. I think sometimes you just, sort of, spaz out with excess flirtatious energy and it lands on anything male that moves.
M: Anything male that moves? As opposed to anything male that doesn't?
P: Well, like certain types of coral...
M: From what you're telling me, I'll have to kill myself.
P: Why?!
M: Because you think I'm like, 'Hey man, Check Me Out!'
P: No, I don't. I think you're, like, 'I'm charming and mysterious in a way even I don't even understand and something about me is crying out for protection from a big man like you.' It's very hard to compete with, especially us married women who've lost our mystery.
M: What? You...Ur...uhhh..You were totally mysterious.
P: No, I'm weird. Weird and mysterious are two very different things.
M: I'm weird.
P: No, you're quirky. Quirky and weird are two very different things.
M: Peggy, I think there is a distinct possibility that I 'm profoundly and irreversibly screwed up. Despite that, I love you and I promise to no longer flirt with Cory.
P: Maggie, I am not worried about you and Cory, or me and Cory, or you being irreversibly screwed up. Maggie, you've been like this since we were kids and I'm thinking now that you are aware of it, that it hurts people's feelings sometimes, maybe its time to get on with life and commit to someone of your own....
Haven't all of you had this kind of conversation with your girlfriend in the beauty parlor of your hometown before? Of course, you have, probably with Richard Gere hunting through town looking for you too, right?
The point of their conversation I do enjoy is the distinction that Peggy Fleming--not the skater--makes between charming and mysterious women and those of us that feel more weird. Even the charming mysterious ones, if they feel out of sorts, are not quite weird, but quirky. And that makes them more endearing.
I had a dear friend, a best friend, that was one of those girls. Boys would talk to me, so they could ask me about her. I was simply the resourceful friend, the Joan Cusack to her Julia Roberts.
Good thing Joan has so much talent, huh?
It reminded me of two things. First, How much much I love Joan Cusack's work. She is like a modern Lucille Ball or Claudette Colbert. And Second, how much I enjoy smart dialog.
So for today's posting, I would like to share an exchange between Maggie (Julia Robert's character) and her best gal pal Peggy Fleming--not the skater-- (played by Joan Cusack) which they share one morning in the Curl Up and Dye salon following a town softball game wherein Maggie got a little too friendly with Peggy's husband, Cory.
Maggie: Do you think I flirt with Cory?
Peggy: Yes.
M: I don't mean to.
P: I know. I think sometimes you just, sort of, spaz out with excess flirtatious energy and it lands on anything male that moves.
M: Anything male that moves? As opposed to anything male that doesn't?
P: Well, like certain types of coral...
M: From what you're telling me, I'll have to kill myself.
P: Why?!
M: Because you think I'm like, 'Hey man, Check Me Out!'
P: No, I don't. I think you're, like, 'I'm charming and mysterious in a way even I don't even understand and something about me is crying out for protection from a big man like you.' It's very hard to compete with, especially us married women who've lost our mystery.
M: What? You...Ur...uhhh..You were totally mysterious.
P: No, I'm weird. Weird and mysterious are two very different things.
M: I'm weird.
P: No, you're quirky. Quirky and weird are two very different things.
M: Peggy, I think there is a distinct possibility that I 'm profoundly and irreversibly screwed up. Despite that, I love you and I promise to no longer flirt with Cory.
P: Maggie, I am not worried about you and Cory, or me and Cory, or you being irreversibly screwed up. Maggie, you've been like this since we were kids and I'm thinking now that you are aware of it, that it hurts people's feelings sometimes, maybe its time to get on with life and commit to someone of your own....
Haven't all of you had this kind of conversation with your girlfriend in the beauty parlor of your hometown before? Of course, you have, probably with Richard Gere hunting through town looking for you too, right?
The point of their conversation I do enjoy is the distinction that Peggy Fleming--not the skater--makes between charming and mysterious women and those of us that feel more weird. Even the charming mysterious ones, if they feel out of sorts, are not quite weird, but quirky. And that makes them more endearing.
I had a dear friend, a best friend, that was one of those girls. Boys would talk to me, so they could ask me about her. I was simply the resourceful friend, the Joan Cusack to her Julia Roberts.
Good thing Joan has so much talent, huh?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Confessions of a Slacker Visiting Teacher
The least favorite thing I have been called on to do I completed again yesterday. I go with a friend, who lives nearby, and we check on a few other friends as we go. I enjoy all the ladies I see. But visiting teaching is not my favorite calling. Far from it.
In my mind I know this is what I am supposed to do. I have been asked to do this. I have been assigned to do this. I know many others who just rave about getting to go each month. I don't exactly dread it but I am not counting down the days as I look forward to another month either.
I think my hang up with it is that it feels like I am intruding on people. They are busy, (they must be, right?) and I am busy and my partner is busy. Trying to affix a meeting time with that many schedules seems so contrived. Of course, it is. But it still feels like I am pushing my way into some one's personal space and personal time.
The messages are fine, and we give them. Some months I relate better to them than other months, but we give them each time.
I do notice how much older I am than one of the sisters we see--and I feel distanced from being of service, as all my comments tend to be on the "I remember when" slant.
Then we see another sister who is a bit ahead of me and I feel like I have nothing new to bring her in terms of the message as she has probably "Been there, done that".
Another, our third sister, is gracious and welcoming but I feel like she is not so interested in our message but has let us come visit just so we will quit calling her. This stop may just illustrate my own insecurities in sharing with Gospel with less active members in my neighborhood, as I don't want to have her feel we are "pushing it down her throat".
I do feel better when we finish and I report to our VT supervisor. But as soon as I hang up with her I feel impending doom, as the whole scenario will have to played out again in a few weeks.
I do it because I know I should, but I have guilt because I hear about people who love visiting teaching and I certainly don't. My hang-up with it isn't any personality issues with the sisters we see, or with my partner (who is delightful and lovely), or even with the little children who accompany us. It is just my own tendency to avoid uncomfortable situations--and I feel like I am essentially forcing myself and the message on others, and that is uncomfortable.
Still, month in an month out I make the attempt, so I can say I am fulfilling the calling, doing what I should. But in a perfect world, I would be assigned visiting teaching ladies who I am already meeting at the Barn for lunch and who already know and love me and will take care of me when I need it, and will accept the favor in return. But that would be too easy, on everyone.
In my mind I know this is what I am supposed to do. I have been asked to do this. I have been assigned to do this. I know many others who just rave about getting to go each month. I don't exactly dread it but I am not counting down the days as I look forward to another month either.
I think my hang up with it is that it feels like I am intruding on people. They are busy, (they must be, right?) and I am busy and my partner is busy. Trying to affix a meeting time with that many schedules seems so contrived. Of course, it is. But it still feels like I am pushing my way into some one's personal space and personal time.
The messages are fine, and we give them. Some months I relate better to them than other months, but we give them each time.
I do notice how much older I am than one of the sisters we see--and I feel distanced from being of service, as all my comments tend to be on the "I remember when" slant.
Then we see another sister who is a bit ahead of me and I feel like I have nothing new to bring her in terms of the message as she has probably "Been there, done that".
Another, our third sister, is gracious and welcoming but I feel like she is not so interested in our message but has let us come visit just so we will quit calling her. This stop may just illustrate my own insecurities in sharing with Gospel with less active members in my neighborhood, as I don't want to have her feel we are "pushing it down her throat".
I do feel better when we finish and I report to our VT supervisor. But as soon as I hang up with her I feel impending doom, as the whole scenario will have to played out again in a few weeks.
I do it because I know I should, but I have guilt because I hear about people who love visiting teaching and I certainly don't. My hang-up with it isn't any personality issues with the sisters we see, or with my partner (who is delightful and lovely), or even with the little children who accompany us. It is just my own tendency to avoid uncomfortable situations--and I feel like I am essentially forcing myself and the message on others, and that is uncomfortable.
Still, month in an month out I make the attempt, so I can say I am fulfilling the calling, doing what I should. But in a perfect world, I would be assigned visiting teaching ladies who I am already meeting at the Barn for lunch and who already know and love me and will take care of me when I need it, and will accept the favor in return. But that would be too easy, on everyone.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
My Monday Meltdown
I am still not sure what the trigger mechanism was yesterday, but I know it had something to do in equal parts with 1) early teen daughter attitude, 2) dear son disobedience, 3) school's out schizophrenia, 4) loads of laundry, and 5) low caffeine levels throughout the day.
I was mostly revived from my frantically cranky attitude by Genius Golfer who gave a lovely Family Home Evening lesson, which he began thinking of last week (!!). Of course, then guilt was added upon my meltdown and, needless to say, I went to bed with a headache last night.
I am determined to do better today. At least everyone will leave me alone by 9 AM.
I was mostly revived from my frantically cranky attitude by Genius Golfer who gave a lovely Family Home Evening lesson, which he began thinking of last week (!!). Of course, then guilt was added upon my meltdown and, needless to say, I went to bed with a headache last night.
I am determined to do better today. At least everyone will leave me alone by 9 AM.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Friday the 13th Fun!
The Alternate Girls Night Out Friends last November for Twilight weekend movie!
We all met up to see Confessions of a Shopaholic. The movie was cute, but not quite my reality. I had a hard time looking past the supposedly desirable outfits which were generally not so cute to me. When the character was looking at prices I was having some shortness of breath. Who pays those prices? But I digress...
The movie wasn't really the big draw for me. I enjoy the company, all of them. It is such a fun thing to do something in a social setting with friends that I usually only see in our "working" environment. It is fun to see ladies I admire and look up to letting their hair down and just being girls again. We checked our "mom cards" at home and just went as friends.
The other bonus fun was seeing some of our Young Women after the movie who were out together too (celebrating Single Awareness Weekend)! Miss Katie and Miss Nikki both looked fantastic--some dumb boys who didn't ask them out were missing a good thing! The girls were so cute to chat with me and give me a big hug before they took their party on the road.
Not being a late night party girl, I volunteered to be the early bird bus home, so I took three other ladies home after the movie, while the other ladies went to share a dessert someplace.
Even though this wasn't my ward, or my stake for that matter, my friendships were not restricted by geographical boundaries or by neighborhood exclusivity. I am grateful for friends all over town. These are not just friends in name only, they are the real deal. I know that I can call them for a fun evening out but I could just as easily call, or pop in on them if I needed something too.
Those are the best kind of friends--relationships without guilt or obligation. I'm very lucky that I have so many wonderful friends. I recognize how good I have it. Don't you wish all friendships worked that way? Don't you wish all relationships worked that way?
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Please, Sir, I Want Some More
Just a reminder that tonight begins PBS Masterpiece Classics's Charles Dickens love fest. Opening for the program is the first portion of a new version of Oliver Twist. Other beloved Dickens characters will follow. Thought not as tidy and romantic as Jane Austen's works, Dickens may have a bit more to say that we can relate to in our present economic situation.Let's have a look and see what parallels we can draw, shall we? Happy Sabbath, everyone.
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