Comments on: cruel children http://theuglyearring.com/2008/05/14/cruel-children/ ug‧ly [uhg-lee] offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: theuglyearring http://theuglyearring.com/2008/05/14/cruel-children/#comment-2775 Sun, 18 May 2008 16:45:25 +0000 http://theuglyearring.wordpress.com/?p=850#comment-2775 thank you hammie for sharing your tale; perhaps it is my own fear of getting too close to them. i hear stories of how people deal with widows…the best one is sucking them up with a vacuum cleaner.

all of it irks me out.

]]> By: hammie http://theuglyearring.com/2008/05/14/cruel-children/#comment-2774 Sat, 17 May 2008 23:11:40 +0000 http://theuglyearring.wordpress.com/?p=850#comment-2774 When I became a mother I went around the outside of our townhouse and killed all the redback spiders I could find with a flat head screwdriver. I feel the same way about anything that carries disease or poison.
Now we live on the other side of the world and it is easier to be in harmony with nature; until the little feckers are in the hot press and I get the traps out quick sticks. They are mice, not dolphins I tell my hippie mates. I don’t want their shit on my kid’s clean linen.

We lived in the outer suburbs growing up; and I remember my Dad’s quite justified obsession with killing every snake that came into our back yard. Poor things were just trying to get away from the industrial development behind our quarter acre lots; But they were Tiger Snakes, in the Top ten of the deadliest snakes in the world and not welcome under my swing set (where I met one and promptly assumed the sloth position, dangling until Dad could fetch the shovel and despatch it to the compost heap, sans head)
Yes we must all defend our young; it is our instinct. But perhaps we should learn to build Our nests, a little further away from theirs?

xx

]]> By: erica http://theuglyearring.com/2008/05/14/cruel-children/#comment-2772 Sat, 17 May 2008 13:29:45 +0000 http://theuglyearring.wordpress.com/?p=850#comment-2772 “their hour glass bellies resting against mine…” Beautiful.

]]> By: theuglyearring http://theuglyearring.com/2008/05/14/cruel-children/#comment-2762 Thu, 15 May 2008 17:14:00 +0000 http://theuglyearring.wordpress.com/?p=850#comment-2762 it is definitely a paradox i fight with every day. perhaps the best solution is another move?

wink, wink.

]]> By: Dianna http://theuglyearring.com/2008/05/14/cruel-children/#comment-2761 Thu, 15 May 2008 16:46:31 +0000 http://theuglyearring.wordpress.com/?p=850#comment-2761 this makes my heart hurt. i know the struggle, but don’t know the answer. i always lean towards living in peace and harmony & learning how to co-exist. but, i don’t know if i would feel differently if it were my baby’s hand reaching into the web.

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