Joan Ruth Smith Stout

Joan Ruth Smith Stout
March 16, 1931 -September 5, 2007

Our Message

Joan Ruth Smith Stout passed away on September 5, 2007. She was my beloved mother and grandmother of the beautiful girls pictured to the right, Kim, Tiffany, Tara, Chelane, Stephanie, Tristen, Sara, Telisa, Mikel, Jenny and Ashling. My mother died due to complications from malnourishment, or in other words, an eating disorder. I believe it started in her teens and she was completely unaware of the insidious disease that took route in her mind. She was somehow blessed to give birth to four children, three boys and a girl. Joan loved her children with devotion and passion even though much of the time, she felt poorly. Stomach problems, headaches and heart palpitations were a daily occurrence for her. As her only daughter, I was oblivious to her plight until my very own sweet daughter started on that same journey in her teens. By then my mom had been suffering from her eating disorder for a good fifty years, and there was no redirecting her thoughts. Unfortunately for me, I was angry for a while when I realized that the route of all her illnesses was through lack of nutrition. That was shameful on my part, and I am sure that only added to my mom's illness. I hope she knows now how foolish I was. However, through the journey of Telisa's eating disorder, the girls in our family have learned much, especially Telisa! It is for this reason that we collectively, as Joan's Girls, are choosing to send the message out to the world of what real beautiful bodies need to support good physical and mental health!!!!!!! We watch with horror the unhealthy and unattractive images on TV, Movies, Magazines etc. We witness some of our dear friends struggle with body image issues, and frankly we are sick of the comparing and obsessing over one's size versus one's health!! We believe in good health, we believe in eating the food provided for us by our Heavenly Father, we believe in balance and moderation, we believe in exercise in moderation, we also believe the best exercise is done while serving others, we believe that God created many types of bodies and we thank Him for that! We believe in modesty and we believe that our bodies are a gift from Heavenly Father! We believe that true beauty comes from within. All of Joan's granddaughters are true beauties. Our legacy to her will be our commitment to the TRUTH of what is beautiful and praiseworthy. We seek after these things. We will strive for good health and the truth in all we do!

Monday, August 10, 2009

A Beautiful Mind

Try to read the paragraph below:
then consider what it actually says.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabridge Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the olny iprmoertnt tihng is taht the frist and
lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.
Tihs is bcusease the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe and the biran
fguiers it out aynawy.

The brain is a wonderful thing, isn't it?
Posted by at 7:27 AM

6 comments:

Stephie said...

Rihgt!

August 10, 2009 10:51 AM
Tristen said...

fnuny!

August 10, 2009 1:27 PM
Beus Family said...

That is pretty crazy! Jess is glad to know this since she is not that great of a speller! Now she just has to worry about getting the first and then last letter right and we should all be able to figure the word out! Rghit?!

August 10, 2009 2:20 PM
Sara said...

OHHH! I get it! I was wondering why Stephanie and Tristen couldn't spell. Ha ha! I'm a little slow.

Anyway, that's really cool. We've talked about it in a few psychology classes I've had.

August 11, 2009 9:32 AM
Peters Family said...

I love it! The mind truly is AMAZING!!!!!!!

August 12, 2009 5:02 AM
Dennis and Kathryn Peters said...

Wow!
It's hard to spell that word wrong! Makes ya think! Good post!!!!

August 12, 2009 10:17 AM

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