Childhood memories
Posted by Rue
When I was a child, a family used to come for mid-day lunch most Sundays. It was a lady and her two children. The father had died suddenly leaving the young family bereft, Mum had felt sorry for the family and so had asked them to Sunday Roast Dinner and so the lady got into the habit of just turning up every Sunday. Now I am older, I am able to see more clearly how a simple thing like visiting us ( a busy family of 5 children, Mum and Dad, animals like pigs,horses, chooks, an aviary of interesting birds and various other birds wandering around the house, lambs and calves in the springtime )- could provide some interest to their week. Remember that these were the early 1960's, when TV had the most basic of programs and were expensive,and computers didn't exist. I don't remember being bored - there was always things to do, usually outdoors. This family eventually shifted out of the district, and so the Sunday visits ceased. I wonder if Mum realised how much her kindness meant to this family.
Newsletter April.
Posted by Guardian Spirit Mariah
There comes a time in everybody's life when the call to duty comes around. At this time it is felt that one should get off one's backside and volunteer to do something about the situation. I feel that this time is now, because the situation to hand is such that something needs to be done about it now... and that now refers to the state of where the country is in now. If you look to your Northern neighbours you will understand where I am coming from in regards to the "dirty cloud formation" as a result of that volcano that has erupted in Iceland. It only takes one such incident in a small country to control the lives of many throughout the world. This is what I want to talk about today and that is just how one small and insignificant item can throw everything out and bring the whole world to its knees with its power. Think about this for a moment, because the ramifications of what happened here is going to happen more often in the future to bring the whole world to its Knees because of some small action that is outside anybody's control to do something about it. This then makes the world you are living in dependent on each other for your very survival doesn't it? And that is what this message is all about at this time. With your modern-day technologies, all it does is bring the news to you that something big has happened that controls the way you are at this time and restricts your movements indefinitely. Such power to the individual if they could control that sort of power over many. I suppose it is just as well that you can't - but in another way you can...and that is in the power you wield in showing people a better way of achieving life through the examples you yourself set. Now, isn't that interesting.