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Dwight Eisenhower

1953 Cross of Iron Speech

...Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.  The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities...  We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.  We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than eight thousand people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking.  This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense.  Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron....

This speech is 55 years old...what have we learned?

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 Reviving A Community Tradition

Storytelling

Ever since our ancestors could first communicate, we have gathered to share our stories. We have passed along creation tales and tragic stories of love lost. We have repeated accounts of real heroism and simple stories of family history. When our forebears lived closer to the land and to each other, the practice of storytelling was imbued with ritual and occasion. Members of the tribe would often gather around the fire to hear their genealogy recited aloud by an elder or master storyteller. Listeners could track how their own lives, and the lives of their parents, interwove with the lives of the other tribe members, as everyone’s ancient relatives once played out similar life dramas together.   

As a custom, some cultures’ storytellers repeat the same tale over and over because they believe that each time you hear it, you come to the story as a different person and view the plot and characters in a new light. Hearing the story over and over is a way to gauge where you have been and where you are now on your path of personal evolution. It also helps the younger generation learn the stories so that they can pass them to forthcoming generations.

When we hear others tell stories, we can laugh at their humorous adventures, feel the thrill of exciting encounters, see parts of ourselves in them, and learn from the challenges they face. Though most of our formal traditions of storytelling are lost, it does not mean we have to be without. We can begin new practices in our own families of listening to one another, of honoring our own journey, and witnessing the journeys of those around us. We can revive the fireside communal by gathering around the campfire or hearth with family and friends, sharing in stories. By building new practices of storytelling, we give ourselves and the ones we love an opportunity to draw ever closer in our shared human experience.

Hair today...gone tomorrow

I want to share a story with you from my heart and my head.

In May of 2007, my 82 year old mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.  It appeared she had the tumor for quite some time as it was the size of one's fist and had completely taken over her left breast.  The doctors plan was to give her chemotherapy to shrink the tumor to operable size.

My mother has always taken pride in the amount of hair she grows and told the doctors she did not intend to loose her hair.  Well, in two weeks time, she was bald!

When I learned of this news, as my mother lives 1200 miles from me, I considered shaving my head as the sole purpose in growing my hair in the first place was to donate it to  LOCKS OF LOVE once I had met the 10 inch minimum.  I did not however, shave my head, and found my resistance very interesting.  Why was I attached to my HAIR of all things?

Time passed and come September, mom was scheduled for surgery to remove her left breast and 6 lymph nodes in her left armpit.  Being the healer I am, I went to stay with her to provide support and home health care.  Again, I felt an urge to cut my hair and did not.  Again, I wondered what the resistance was. 

Mom went through her surgery only to be informed that they were going to follow it with radiation.  That in itself could be quite a story but I will refrain and just say, by February of 2008 she was done with all treatments.  Again I felt the nudging to cut my hair, again I did not and by this time I was asking why I was not following those nudges...was it ego....was it attachment....was it attachment to ego....????

Well in May of 2008, I received my answer.  It was not about ego or attachment, it was about timing.  My mother went in for her annual mamogram and came out with a clean bill of health.

The next day, I cut my hair, with no resistence and sent it off to LOCKS OF LOVE.  I did this in CELEBRATION as opposed to mourning and have felt the weight of the world lifted from my being. 

I share this in hopes to support others in believing in DIVINE TIMING regardless of what our minds might think or project. 

Also remember, do EVERYTHING in CELEBRATION OF LIFE!!!!!!!

Thank you for listening....NAMASTE.....

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