My Personal
Concerns


Sleep my love, and peace attend thee
All through the night;
Guardian angels God will lend thee,
All through the night,
Soft the drowsy hours are creeping,
Hill and vale in slumber steeping,
I my loving vigil keeping,
All through the night.

Angels watching ever round thee,
All through the night,
In thy slumbers close surround thee,
All through the night,
They should of all fears disarm thee,
No forebodings should alarm thee,
They will let no peril harm thee,
All through the night.

An ancient Welsh folk song, "Ar Hyd y Nos" known today as "All Through The Night".
May we all provide safe havens and protect those within our care, for they are our future.


This purple ribbon is a symbol of those who are working to raise awareness and who work to reduce violence and hate crimes. In our homes, our schools, our community. It also symbolizes abuse survival. For more information about The Purple Ribbon Project, click on the ribbon below:


The Ribbon of Promise below is a symbol of Geocities Heartland's committment to help end school violence. Read their motto, and join with them in keeping this pledge to our children. Click on the ribbon below and follow the link to the National School Violence Resource Center:

Child abuse and childhood violence are crimes that affects us all. Children deserve the right to grow up. Please help protect them. Click on the banners below for more information and help.



What Is Child Abuse?

Battered Child Syndrome
A Parent's Guide to Child Abuse Awareness
The National Children's Advocacy Center
The Child Welfare League of America


On average each year, women experience 572,032 violent victimization's at the hands of an intimate. Child witnesses become victims, carrying the scars for life, and perhaps continuing the cycle. If you, or someone you know is in an abusive relationship, please share these sites with them.



Stop the Hurt
The Storm Is Brewing: Survivors Against Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence: The Survivor's Handbook (Your Legal Rights)


Breast cancer will affect 1 in 9 women in the United States. It is a disease that touches the lives of both men and women. Men who have lost their wives and sweethearts, sons who have lost their mothers. Women who have lost their sisters, and even Moms who have lost their daughters. If a little pink ribbon could save a life wouldn't it be great. Please pass it around.


Avon Crusade
The Facts About Breast Cancer
1998 Update: The American Cancer Society
Linda's Journey: The Diary of a Breast Cancer Survivor

Dedicated to my grandmother, who was a survivor, and to my mother and mother in law who are survivors.



Lupus, The Wolf Within.


"Shape Shifter" painting by Diana Stanley

The Lupus Foundation of America
Living With the Wolf: Survivors
On-Line Support and Caregivers Forum
Lupus Foundation of America: Support Groups


Dedicated to my sister-in-law whom I love very much, and to two very special internet friends whom I admire more than they will ever know
(you know who you are).


Animal Abuse.


"One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it." - Anthropologist Margaret Mead

Animal Activists On-line

First Strike: The Connection Between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence

The Animal-Human Abuse Connection

Animal Cruelty/Domestic Violence Fact Sheet The Animal Abuse-Human Violence Link


Please, feel free to take any of these graphics and links for your own page, but where applicable please link as indicated. To my knowledge none are copyrighted. And if they are, please e-mail me immediately. These issues are important to me, and I would be most appreciative if you would help spread these messages across the world so that others might hear. That they might also learn and hope.

Cat Related Pages:

[Meet The Tally Household][Our Photo Album][Remembering Tardy]
[Tardy's Legacy][Stomatitis, Autoimmune Disease & Interferon]
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[Indoors versus Outdoors][Declawing: What You Need To Know]
[Special Issues for Animal Lovers] [Favorite Cat Related Sites]

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[Personal Causes][Linda's Journey: Diary of a Breast Cancer Suvivor][Mentoring][My Harp Page][My Fairy Garden]
[The Art of Thomas Kinkade & Graphics Acknowledgments]
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