Treasures.

"Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning." John Henry Cardinal Newman

We are beginning today's post by celebrating those that just get better with age:

http://www.everydayhealth.com/senior-health-pictures/10-super-seniors-we-admire.aspx?xid=aol_eh-age_7-1_20110410&icid=main%7Chtmlws-sb-n%7Cdl6%7Csec3_lnk3%7C21062

Continuing we are moving on to a celebration of treasures:

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/25/500-year-old-book-surfaces-in-utah/?icid=main%7Chp-laptop%7Cdl1%7Csec3_lnk1%7C210747

Now we are ending the day with stupidity. Certainly the man should have known the phrase he used to describe women was dripping with sexism.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110421/od_nm/us_safran_sexism

Be well and comment away.

WHO AM I

Known as the "Conscience of the American Revolution," I was born in 1728 as a descendant of a Mayflower passenger as the fifth of thirteen children. Although I never had a formal education I accomplished things unknown to women before I died in 1814. I was a prolific and influential writer, the first woman playwright, wrote the first history of the American Revolutionary War (by a man or woman), and influenced most of founding fathers, as well as speaking up for women's rights. I counted both John and Abigail Adams among my friends, and I influenced such great names as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Patrick Henry. I married my second cousin at age twenty-six. We had five sons together. In one play I predicted the Revolutionary War. It took until after my death to reap my awards. I was inducted into the Woman’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York in 2002. It was said of the legacy I left behind:
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"Seldom has one woman in any age, acquired such an ascendancy over the strongest, by the mere force of a powerful intellect. She is said to have supplied political parties with their arguments; and she was the first of her sex in America who taught the reading world in matters of state policy and history."

I hope my life encourages women to speak up. My example can be followed in many ways. I spoke up when I needed to, and many benefited from the things I said. I was inspirational and worth remembering as a builder of our nation. The key to knowing my name is in the first sentence, read it again and you can answer the question, Who Am I?