March 20, 2013

• Many Lands/Many Visitors

  I cannot thank the people of the world enough who are coming to my website.  I just had the joy of sending my book to a new friend in The People’s Republic of China, so, “Pinkhoneysuckle,” my book crosses The Great Wall Of China before I get to.  My name is Barbara Everett Heintz on Amazon, and I do appreciate that my weblog has developed a following.  Writing my book was one of the periods of history in a time and place which I do not believe many people were familiar with unless they were living it, and I am not certain that other nations know about our Rust Belt which is a terrible name of the northern mid-Atlantic states, and some, like Illinois and Missouri begin our Great Plains, that we call everything, “Great,” has much to do with the vast amount of land involved.  This country from East to West is so incredibly versatile that, just as in Europe, we will never get to visit all of the exquisite art and monuments, one would have to spend a year or two to see the diversity of topography of our land.  One can find arid areas in Texas because it is so very large, but East of the Rockies is not desert land, for the Rockies so influence weather patterns, and until I lived in California, I did not understand about upland desserts such  as the desert of Oregon and I believe it extends in to Washington State.  Above the Plains Wyoming amazed me how many millions of miles are desert land, and in Wyoming and Montana our wild horses can still roam freely where there is grassland and water, but those of us East of the Rockies get the summer rain, the flowers which can survive shorter growing seasons of the eastern coast states, and all of the cities where the building of America began, not to mention the rugged Atlantic coast and the Great Lakes. 

  I would love for visitors to America to know about Wisconsin which may be compared to Switzerland, but I have been to both areas, and Wisconsin is Lake filled from small to large, and when we are in sweltering heat in Ohio and Illinois, Wisconsin is cooler once you are in the heart of it, and the green is more emerald, but one would need to know winter sport to fully enjoy the long winters.  Cincinnati, Ohio, our city with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati has always prospered because of the great diversity of factories and world wide business like, Proctor and Gamble, and is considered mid-west in relation to the Continental Divide and how our country developed.  I think Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky are among our most gracious areas to receive visitors once people begin touring mid America, for the glaciers carved out the rivers, and you will find a quaint old city built on 7 hills, very different from the 7 hills of San Francisco, for the grand old housing remains all over the city from early century and a student of architecture would find ever kind of architecture from Queen Ann To Victorian, for we value our exquisite buildings.

  I will give my visitors a travelogue now and again, but I must say something for my home state of Tennessee.  It is mountains and ends along with Northern Alabama the Appalachian Trail, so some hills are really the foot hills of how the mountains were heaved up from the earth, and in Kentucky and Tennessee our English language prevails, but people are going to speak more slowly, usually a little more softly, and world visitors will again see the changed topography.  Traveling from the country music recording capital of America from gracious Nashville, and staying on the expressway East toward Chattanooga, you will see rolling hills which look like Vermont, wonderful small towns along the way, many great mansions hidden on hills and the famous Tennessee Walking Horses which are shown where I first went to college at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and there are the gracious old Southern Mansions with the winding porches, the beautiful fretwork décor, all from another time, and it is gracious and wonderful to sit out under the cool old oaks and maples, to sip sweet tea and to just dream of how wonderfully exciting a steamy southern night can be.  I loved to walk the streets at night with boyfriends, and I was a very cheap date, because Mama and Daddy had always taught us not to ask for things, so I was never going to admit to be hungry enough for dinner, and maybe I might have strawberry ice cream, for it was so beautiful just to look at and once the strawberries were ripe and so very sweet, so the taste made one feel loved, even if you had decided such companionship was not the person for you.

  Please lands of the European union feel free to visit this website, South America, Asia, Australia, even our South Pacific Islanders along with Canadian friends, and now and then I will take you on some small tours for we have only touched some of what America is about.  Of course I am honored if you look on Amazon, Kindle, or Create Space for my book, “Pinkhoneysuckle,” but if you just want to ask me about other areas of our country, I will take you in writing where I have been  Stop a while, and read a little, and practice some English if you are up to it, but I decided that since I have thousands checking in, then I could write something for you and to write about my country is something which I love to do.  Feel free to ask me about places you are interested in, and what I know about I shall share.  We haven’t spoken of Graceland, and what I have to share about that will surprise you, and to mention Las Vegas; There is no other place like it on earth, so I hope this is your reward for checking out my website — For this is one way of becoming what we wish to become, A Peaceful Planet where there are no wars and we have pooled our resources to end hunger and to provide for human decency.

  I end this blog by stating that I believe we Catholics have had a wonderful Pope called who took the name of Francis, for I believe he is going to tackle the hard and painful lessons which the Vatican has endured, but I believe he needs all of us to give him confidence and to clean house at first — A very difficult task.  Next he will probably look at how women can be more useful in the Church, and if ever there was a time to speak for Priest and marriage for the first time since St. Augustine ruled it out, the time is now.  So many of us are convinced that non married priest is an unnatural state, and it was changed once in the church, so it can be brought back in to the church, and almost no American is going to tell you that they do not believe that Pedophiles searched out the Priesthood, so the ability to marry would be a change in tradition which would help cleanse the pastoral call, and I know the argument is made that it would not work, because most abuse occurs among relatives, and I am witness to that happening, but in a church; Are we not all brothers and sisters, so I would end my writing this night with congratulations to South America and with hope that Pope Francis I will consider making that one major concession to Doctrine as well as to allow women Deacons.  He is not there to reform social agendas of gay marriage and to revisit abortions, but he is there to say to baptize those babies who are born even when mothers may need to do some work to come to communion, and I believe soon that he will be bringing mothers back in to the church who were not ministered to after abortion, divorced persons who felt left out of communion.  I believe this man understands forgiveness, but he is not there to re write the Bible, so we Christians have jobs to do.

  God Bless This Man Of God From The Americas

  Just Let Me Know About What You Wish To Ask About America or American History…Barbara Everett Heintz, Author of “Pinkhoneysuckle,” The Book and Pinkhoneysuckle, The Xanga Blog

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