Good Words 4

 Good Words Four. (Tomasito photo)

"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world; it  is appeased by love. This is an eternal law."

The Buddha


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Japan Tsunami

A few days ago the people of Japan experienced a terrible earthquake and tsunami.


Since the disaster occurred in broad daylight and since so many Japanese carry cell-phone cameras amazing movies were made of the mass of moving water carrying houses, ships, cars and literally everything before it.


Some 18,000 people were killed and an atomic power plant was damaged so badly that leaking radiation has caused grave concern.


My cartoon above expresses the grief of the survivors who gathered to bury the dead.

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Bear

T&T & Bear. (Museum Volunteer photo 2010)

There is a BIG stuffed grizzly bear in the community museum at the public library of Valley Center California and it is a custom to be photographed standing in front of it: so here we are.

Valley Center is an interesting micro-community because it seems to have no center but is spread out over a big, wide valley.

There have been some interesting people living here though from the old days of Hollywood and California of the 1940's.

Now it is more hidden than "Escondido".

See you here sometime soon. No kidding.

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Good Words 3.

La Mano Poderosa. (Tomasito photo, 2010)

The third in this series of "Good Words" comes from the same good book: "Mission" by Roger G. Kennedy.

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Be thou praised, my Lord, with all Thy creatures,
Above all Brother Sun, who gives the day brightens us therewith...

Be Thou praised, my Lord, of Sister Moon and the stars;
in the heavens Thou hast formed them, clear and precious and comely.

Be Thou praised, my Lord, of Brother Wind,
and of the sir, and the clouds, and of fair and all weather, by which Thou givest to thy creatures sustenance.

Be Thou praised, my Lord of Sister Water.
which is much useful and humble and precious and pure.

Be Thou praised, my Lord, of Brother Fire,
by which Thou hast lightened the night,
and he is beautiful and joyful and robust and strong.

Be Thou praised, my Lord, of Sister Earth,
which sustains and hath us in rule,
and produces divers fruits with colored flowers and herbs.

(A few stanzas from the "most famous prayer of Saint Francis", 13th century CE.)

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Good Words 2.

Tanya in Blue. (Tomasito photo, 2010)

The Shield of Saint Patrick

For my shield this day I call:
Heaven's might,
Sun's brightness,
Moon's whiteness,
Fire's glory,
Lightning's swiftness,
Wind's wildness,
Ocean's depth,
Earth's solidity,
Rock's immobility.

(This stanza from an old Irish prayer reprinted in Roger G. Kennedy's book, Mission--details in my last [posting.)

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Good Words 1.

KFC View, Escondido, CA. (Tomasito photo 2010)

New Construction Northeast Escondido, CA August, 2010. (Tomasito photo)

I would like to post some words meaningful to me.

I found them in the book: "Mission" by Roger G. Kennedy and published by Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

There is a copy in the Escondido, CA Public Library collection--thanks!

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"Now our words we direct to our Mother Earth, who supports all life...we include all plant life, the woodlands, all the waters of Earth, the fishes, the animal life, and the Four Winds. As one mind our acknowledgment, respect, and thanksgiving move upward to the Sky World; the Grandmother Moon, who has a direct relationship to the females of all species of living things, the sun and the stars and our Spiritual Beings of the Sky World..."

(Audrey Shenandoah, Onandaga at the Global Forum on Environment and Development for Survival in Moscow, Russia, January, 1990.)

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Lucas' Big Bro

Lucas' Big Bro. (Tomasito photo 2010)

A couple of days ago I posted the photo of baby Lucas' tiny feet and his mother's hand.

This photo is of Baby Lucas' big brother.

A big Teenager, still in school, he faces troubling times--recession at home, gangs at school, population explosion, global warming and constant foreign wars.

And he is fast approaching the age of military duty--the armed forces are about the only ones hiring just now.

We can only hope for the best for him--Lucas' big brother.

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