Can you believe?

Can you believe that some mean woman is having a go at Nienie?

So to recap Nienie has been blogging for a couple of years. Her blog was a joyfilled tribute to her husband and family and their life together. She wrote simply and filled with heart. It's a beautiful thing.

Then in August 2008, Nienie joined her husband and his instructor for a flight lesson when the plane crashed and she was burned a lot. Her husband was too and the instructor died. It was bad.

Nienie was hospitalised and in an induced coma for an age, meanwhile her sisters rallied round and took her four children into their homes until they could return to live with their parents.

What Nienie didn't know (probably cause she isn't obsessed with people visiting her blog like I am) was that thousands of people followed her blog and once the word got out that she was at deaths door, sympathy poured in and an online auction etc were organised raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for medical expenses.

So now after more than a year of rehab, operations, skin grafts, pain, tears, honesty and love, some mean women is having a go at Nienie for being vain (Nienie got her hair done and a pedicure) and for living off the funds raised (not true they are kept for medical bills only). I just have to say how dare this mean women email Nienie and have a go at her. It makes me really mad that someone, anyone thinks they have the right to have a go at someone who has been so brave, generous, loving, faithful and has shared her struggles which have given mine perspective. Nienie is my hero because she is all of us.

Man this makes me so mad I'm almost crying (right eye only) now I have to work to anchor myself and change my state to a positive place.

So people if you haven't read Nienie dialogues yet, do so now here - I was going to link it directly to Nienie's post about the mean woman, who ,Nienie rightly pointed out should just stop reading her blog if it's that bothersome to her, but I don't want to bring you down when Nienie is usually so uplifting.

Crik in my neck!

I have the worst crik in my neck for 5 days now and I swear my head is going to stay leaning to the left and you know I'm hating that!

But let's talk about heros.

I'm not one who invests in heros and this, apparently is typical of my generation, we just don't do heros. But in my old age I have recently accquired a hero or two.

1. My first recently accquired hero is Nie Nie of nieniedialogues - I just admire her so much and even though my life is very, very different from hers I am grateful to have her as an example of endurance (unrated attribute but one of the greatest), grace (you know it when you see it but not something one can learn), bravery (so, so brave everyday) and love. Nie Nie was an example of these before and equally after her and her husband's accident. I only hope that I can be as strong as my trials come my way.

Ok I though I had another one but he turned out to be not so great.

Eustace Conway seemed like the kind of man I would want to be if I were a fulla. Then I read his biography and the thing about learning about your heros is that they have clay feet.

Eustace are hulking huge clay feet. See here on a you tube interview with the Today show and he seems straight forward, skilled and really amazing. And he is but he is also arrogant, determined, single minded to the exclusion of everything else, huge expectations of others (and to be fair, himself), particular and quite insular. Now keeping in mind that he needs to be all these things to accomplish all that he has but as a person he is makes me go "oookkkaaayyy... not liking this at all". So now he has been demoted to someone who I admire and would like to accquire some of his skills. The book is a fascinating study of how mankind has evolved and Eustace rocks really he just ain't hero material.

So I guess I just have the one hero - Nie Nie, gosh I love her - and thats ok. I just happy to have one hero.