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Li-ling Huang Memorial House.
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Marcie Bakker ? Your sister’s name?
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Sun Lasting Li-ling is my youngest sister. She passed away in 2016 at 52.
She is my hero - a kind and brave warrior, fighting for love and justice all her life.
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Marcie Bakker So young. A warrior like you, very nice.
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Sun Lasting She took over the responsibility that I was unable to do in the US: taking care of my parents, in particular, my mother in illness, my eldest brother' orphans, organizing community cultural activities, fighting for the environmental and animal justice, helping the less fortunate people when her boss paid her minimum salary (similar to the 2.2 K) for a long time. It was a big selfishness on my part to pursue my goal ( a scholarship pushed me to the US) and left the burdens on her.
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Marcie Bakker Incredible! Beautiful soul.
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Sun Lasting I was back to Taipei and lived in the hospital for two months with her until she passed away. She was the first one I witnessed the dying process with painful, emotional trauma - very very difficult to me (I did not arrive in time to say good-bye to both my parents from the US in the earlier years).
I have never experienced such an impact and sorrow in my life, a long term grieving PTSD beyond words...
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Marcie Bakker I understand. I took care of my younger brother while he was dying from small intestinal cancer in 2002. He died at 43 years of age. I still want to call him some days. Unbearable some days.
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Sun Lasting Your brother died too young. It is very painful to lose your beloved sibling.Manage
Marcie Bakker Do very much.
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Sun Lasting I remember I carried her on my back often when I was a young girl, in particular, a visit to a barefoot doctor - a tiny, sick sister that I could write a book about it.... (the 10th child born when my mother was very ill at age of 45). I always treated her like a darling baby-sibling and never realize how small and insignificant I have been until her death. I wish that I had not won that scholarship.... I wish I had never taken this trip to the US - the price is too high beyond my emotional capacity. Nothing can exchange one more day to be with her...
Marcie Bakker Ah, my brother ‘s unconditional love for me was a defining part of me; I only realized that after he was gone. Leaves holes in our hearts, yes?
Sun Lasting The Buddha's Pieta, holding my youngest sister in 2016 at her prime of 52... She bore all the social institutional pains and injustice: the unbearable gender ideology, the violence of poverty, the detrimental familial false consciousness, the ethnic-politic-economic repression, and silently, ascending to a place where there is no more suffering and sorrow...
Sun Lasting Thanks to my dear sister 黃麗月(Li-yeuh Huang) helps out all the necessary steps and chores during Li-ling's hospitalization, the funeral, establishing a Memorial Scholarship to commemorate Li-ling's loving and courageous deeds, setting up the Memorial House during my staying in Taipei and after I was back to the US
. 麗月, Li-yeuh, my dear sister, another great hero, warrior, fighting for love, peace and justice. I am so lucky to have sisters like Akiko (she was born during Japanese imperialism, and passed away, a great great lady with tremendous sacrifice for my family), Li-yeuh (bears the unbearable burdens to support my family and the National Crisis in Taiwan, retired as a Major) , Li-chun, and Li-ling (she passed away in the same year of Akiko, 2016). All the great women come into my life like miracles. Each of my sisters takes several books to write about their courageous and sacrificial deeds during the hard time of Taiwan.
Sun Lasting Don't be envious of me - the best/luckiest thing in my life is that my parents gave me the bravest and the most caring female siblings to my life ! (As my male siblings, maybe, something could be written about...as well).
On the other hands, there is a horrific anxiety - my poor pen and limited ability to write them out as my native tongue - Taiwanese and Mandarin - are no more sharp as used to be, and my adopted English has never been improved enough for my sisters' Odysseys...
Sun Lasting
How to define the greatness of woman on this planet?
I don't know. I just have been fortunately enough to experience their greatness in my real life without the mundane definition of greatness, such as, my mother, an illiterate woman with long term illness AND gave birth 10 children ( as I was told that a couple of my other siblings did not survive as infants) - passed on/reinforced the thousand years of gender ideology and her inescapable sorrows, while maintaining her splendid greatness beyond words that amazes me all the time!!!
By the way, is overpopulation (a major consequence of religious ideology and particularly, gender stratification: poverty and its twin - ignorance ) part of your concerns? In fact, 3 of my siblings end up no children (including myself). Once up a time, my mother joked to us siblings, "All you kids have not reproduced grandchildren more than the children that I have..." Yes, she had, altogether, 9 grandchildren from her 10 children - quite close to the ideal 0 population theory, accidentally, or
teleologically?
Sun Lasting Song for tonight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF9r5U97XHI&index=7...Manage
愛的真諦 Love is patient and kind - by Xena Crystal L.C. Huang #51
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The above lyrics of 愛的真諦 was adopted from Corinthians 13:4-8 :
"Love is patient, love is kind.
愛是恆久忍耐、又有恩慈
Love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.
愛是不嫉妒,愛是不自誇．
It does not insist on its own way;
愛是不張狂．
it is not irritable or resentful;
不作害羞的事
it is the universal golden rule- treat others as you want to be treated;
不求自己的益處．不計算人的惡．
and rejoices in the truth.
不喜歡不義．只喜歡真理
It is accommodating and inclusive,
凡事包容．
never losing the faith in humanity and thriving for the better future;
凡事相信．凡事盼望, 凡事忍耐, 凡事要忍耐.
Whenever and wherever there is love, there is life and hope"
愛是永不止息．
- (with minor changes from the original verses).
Sun Lasting I recorded the above song when Li-ling was hospitalized.
:)!)
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