Tainari88 wrote:Life is not a guaranteed thing for any of us. That is why the Earth needs to be respected as a living thing.
I have just finished a biography of the Indian Leader Crazy Horse. While Indian cultures can engage in fierce war like behavior, I have always been fascinated with their respect for the earth ….. Mother Nature.
Tainari88 wrote:The best thing is to be grateful for the life you have already lived.
Last week I was contemplating doing something very stupid. I was thinking with my heart, not my head. I planned to travel to Miami beach to visit with two good old friends of over half century. I thought to myself, " Old friends are priceless. If I get sick and die …… so be it. I have had a remarkable life. Ups and downs for sure but I am grateful beyond words for the fascinating experiences and joys which I have experienced and continue to experience."
Perhaps it was the Hand of God that intervened. All hotels in Miami Beach were shut down the day prior to my departure. I have had 3 near death experiences in my life that I know of ……. "somebody" or something seems to be looking out for me. Let me bore you some day with the story of how a cow almost killed me in Colombia, S.A.
Tainari88 wrote: attitudes about death
A lesson that Crazy Horse's father taught him repeatedly: "Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next."
Tainari88 wrote:This pandemic is letting us know who knows how to live and those who don't.
The human race is being taught a serious lesson. Whether is resonates or not …….. time will tell.
Getting back to Crazy Horse ….. he was, IMO, a truly great leader. Humble, wise and brave. He dedicated his life to protecting his people and culture from the encroaching "whites". Early in his life he had a prophetic dream/vision of his future. A mighty warrior rose from a lake and was invincible in battle only to be pulled down and destroyed by his own people. His end came when warriors working with the whites who were wearing white soldiers' blue coats held him while another stabbed him in the back with a bayonet. His last words were, "Tell the people they should not depend on me any longer." He was undefeated in face to face combat ( he and Gall were primary battlefield leaders in Custer's demise.) and died from a stab in the back while being held down.
As an aside …… when his 4 year old daughter died from sickness, he stayed by her body for 3 days and nights and cried.
Tell me Tainari, what do you think of dreams? Most seem to be random shit rattling around in my brain but, every so often, one stands out. My father has been dead for 59 years and, last night, he came to visit me in a dream: I saw him walking about 40 yards ahead of me on a road. I walked very fast so as to catch up to him. When I caught up with him we walked side by side, turned and smiled at each other.
Check out Crazy Horse …… you may find him interesting.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897