Walking on Bones

BAMA is a sweet shelter dog that adopted my dear friend as his own human.  Bama has a habit of collecting things.  He brings his treasures and lays them at the back door as a gift and a prize.  Unfortunately, the thing that Bama collects is the bones of the departed deer that used to live in the wooded areas all around my friend’s house. 

My friend has commented on more than one occasion, on how she will leash Bama to go for her morning walk only to step outside and hear a familiar crunch of Bama’s latest offering. 

She is continuously walking on bones.

This week our country is mourning the loss of an amazing woman.  She is the first woman to lay in repose in the capital.  

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Justice Ginsburg was a smart and capable woman.  She graduated with high honors first from Cornell University with a degree in government.  After that she continued her education at Harvard and Columbia Law School where she graduated at the top of her class.

As a woman in a male dominated field, she struggled to find a job.   She took a clerkship with the United States District Court of Appeals in New York and a teaching position at Rutgers University School of Law.

Her work with the American Civil Liberties Union (where she headed the “Women’s Rights Project”) allowed her to play an important role in helping to write the brief for the ACLU in the case of Reed vs. Reed.  This case prompted the court to strike down a law that favored men over women as estate administrators.

She was the first women to hold a tenured position as a law professor at Columbia. 

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and in 1993 she was appointed to the Supreme Court of our Land. 

She became known on the supreme court for her scholarly, well balanced arguments. Justice Ginsberg was a champion of Gender equality throughout her life. 

I never met Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  But I cannot help but feel we all have lost something special.  I am also humbly grateful for the Legacy that Ruth Bader Ginsburg left for us all.   Those were her “bones” that she collected throughout her life that we all will stand upon.

It is not by coincidence that this blog falls under the title “Legacy Building”.  We are all building a Legacy that will affect someone in some way long after we are gone.  It is up to us to make to make sure that the Legacy we are building is for the good of mankind.

One of my favorite sayings these days is that “We have to earn our journey”.   Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg earned hers and I am forever grateful.

I love you, Bama!  I love you Starra!!