Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Help of Old

The intelligent pursuit of wisdom may be said to proceed through levels.
Purification directs to freeing truth.
Attend to the great teachers and to their words of one and many.
Young and strong of wide mind, approach number in an experimental manner.
Think of science as an investigation of principles. Observation is a good start.
Curiosity leads to relating one phenomenon to another.
Find beautiful order in motion.
Aptitude for music is golden. There is healing there.
Smell the roses. Contemplation of beauty is well paid.
Purification is a true way.
Hear high principle and meditate.
There is a bit of the flaming Pleiades in every blade of grass that blows.

Analysis by function, morphology, order, content, structure is useful. However, the most beneficial analysis of man may be by motivation.

Alive and Lively

Being well motivated helps.
Loving helps.
Sharing helps.
Understanding helps.
Honoring helps.
Faith, hope, and charity help.
So does a pure mind in an active body

Monday, September 01, 2008

Thoughtful Christian


Don't give up your effort to make sense of non-Biblical ancient history.

A harmony with nature, a coordination of natural and social forces seems to increase your chances for success.

Consider a wider nature of "thou."

Be a bit more willing to secure a harmonious balance.

Greater Good

We have covenants, contracts, agreements, understandings.

What is to be learned from the experience of organized labor and collective bargaining?

What is the process of agreement?

How does a group come to an understanding?

How does one group come to an understanding with another group?

I know war and force have been useful, but neither tend to lead to win/win situations.

What is a process that tends to a peaceful prouctive understanding among people?

Sunday, August 31, 2008

What in the World Was Going on During the Life of ...

M. William Sheehan, 1839 -1912.
His birth was a point where all of the past met all of the future.

I'll note some happenings and goings on in the year of his birth, 1939.

There were Indian uprising in California. Men from the "States" were plotting to take the Spanish Southwest from Mexico. Stephen W. Kearny, the future Military Governor of California was about 45 that year. The "Rancho Era" of California was in full swing.

The Oregon Trail was opening to Emigrants. Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea was traveling the West. He was probably 34 that year. Do you remember a song about Sacagawea? Seems I remember words like "flower of Shoshones race."

Twain's family moved to Hannibal, Missouri and "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Poe was published.

Uruguay declared war against Argentina and the First Opium War between Britain and China broke out.

Goodyear made possible the commercial use of rubber by his development of the process of 'vulcanization.' Live long and Prosper. Carl Gustav Mosander discovered the metallic element lanthanum to add to the Russian's Periodic Table. The Swiss-German chemist, Christian R. Schonbein discovered and named ozone.

Doubleday is said to have started baseball that year. Seems he did popularise the name. The Scott inventor, Kirkpatrick Macmillan probably constructed the first bicycle. The French political leader, Louis Blanc, popularised the phrase and idea. "to each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities" Prussia restricted juvenile labor to a maximum of 10 hours a day.

The American marathon walker, E. P. Weston, completed a 3895 mile walk from New York to California at the age of 70.

Would you like me to say a few words about the world happenings in each or the 73 years of his life?


















Seven Sheehans

The guys in the photo are probably Sheehan's, right? Do You know anything about the photograph?

To add to the confusion I mention that in 1983 Susan Sheehan won a Pulitzer Prize in the
nonfiction category for writing "Is There No Place on Earth for Me?"
I haven't read it, have you?

Cardinal Lawrence Sheehan was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore from 1961 to 1974. He was born in 1898 and died in 1984.

Neil Sheehan won a Pulitzer in nonfiction for his 1989 book,
"A Bright Shining Lie." I haven't read it, have you?
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Flower Dream

A Yaqui flower dream can point a good way, even when I dream. I don't know the dance, but the way is good. This purification has no toloache, no alcohol, no special mushroom or cactus. All flowers have their beauty, even the yellow flower of the bitter gourd has its goodness. Still it is best to choose well.
Not perfection, rather perfecting is the way.
Souls get sick, but Yaquis can bring beautiful flower souls.
Powers come and go. Jesuits left. Still there are strong souls and flowers bloom.
Yaquis lost energy with Obergon, still they are wise enough.
They know responsibility for purification of these worlds.
They have been enslaved and value freedom as free beings. The cultivate flowers and wild flowers bloom through a nearly silent spring.
Yaqui flower near Tucson and north of Cuidad Obregon and there and there. Some practice strengthening purification. Some have seen a weakened dear dance. Some can still find the 16th flower world with four fours.
Fawn flower; garden flower; water flower; all good. The fruit of the bitter melon splits and grows before me after its yellow flower. Rain comes to the flower ground and better fruit splits and grows fine flowers.
Yaqui did not die when the Franciscans did not come. The nigh hawk returns and the thunderbird too. The mesquite blooms and brings powerful fruit. Deer flowers are still willing to feed many. Little hoofed brother flower is still willing. There are sticks and sounds of sticks.
There is a tree bent down, rich with flowers. Where is it? Out there in the sage? A flower branch, bent down with flowers.
Look there in the brush. Can you see doves. Can they be in the water?
Surely you can see three walking in the flower world dawn.
Can a bush squirrel still sound large. Can we hear it like and old enchanter?
Can we sleep in these flowers?
Who crawls in these flowers?
Dead grass stands shaking in the wind, there in the flower world. A blue cloud, grey water, mist will reach down, will rain down.
Will we break down the beavers door to kill it? Will we kill it? Kill it with a bow and arrow?
Do you know the cholla flower? Flowers with the body of a young deer? Can you see there where you stand to rub your antlers? How can a deer with antlers stand to rub them beneath a cholla flower? Still the deer and the cholla are willing. It is as it was.
I do not will flowers to move; the flowers will to move. They move. A road of flowers move. The cloud will break. Cloud breaks. Smart energy is available.
Each can cooperate with another. All Cahita were not always friends. Yaqui did not always love Mayo. Navajo does not always love Apache. Cahita were many and many. They farmed the desert too. They knew Pima and Papago and cotton by the old names. Some in the racherias know powerful ways of uniting, of cooperating. Can the find 16 flower souls?
Their vanity let the Spanish divide them. They were divided even knowing the purification of the four principle soul worlds. This is now. Think of sixteen. Now frown or pain.
How is the flower? Answer truly. Be willing to purify in a loving, healthy way. You will move. No need to fight. You will move. Purification is a good way; flowers purifying, perfecting these worlds and this world. Eliminating harm; each flower important.
I can say four fours need no gas and Easter is good enough.
I am not a Yaqui. Yet I speak. I speak of a now big and long. I know a flower road that is strong today and today. What can a Yaqui remember, find in mind, find in the sun, in a pure flower dream?

It Makes Ya Wonder

What causes a person to say, "Give me liberty or give me death?"
What causes a person to decide to die for honor?
What causes a person to chance death in battle?
What cause a person to decide to destroy life and property?
What causes a person to decide to give up their life to destroy another life?
What causes a person to be ready, willing, and able to die in a foreign land?
What causes a person to sacrifice himself?
What would you die for?
For what might you sacrifice all?
What is worth your supreme sacrifice?
How much dishonor, injustice, sacrilege, and deprivation are you will to allow your loved ones to suffer?
What arouses your curiosity?
How do you satisfy your curiosity?

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