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13/09/2024

"There are four Indian
Spirituality Laws that say
nothing happens without a
reason in life.

When you do that, it is very easy
to handle and you look at what is
happening with confidence,
grateful for what was and happy
for what is going to happen.

The first law says:
"The person you meet is the right
one."

That is, no one comes into our
lives by accident, all the people
around us who interact with us
stand for something, either to
teach us or to help us in our
situation.

The 2nd law says:
"What happens is the only thing
that can happen."

Nothing, but absolutely nothing
of what happens to us could have
been different. Not even the most
insignificant detail.

There is simply no, "If I had done
it differently it would have been
different." No, what happens is
the only thing that can happen
and must happen so that we can
learn our lessons to move
forward.

Everything, yes, every situation
that happens to us in life is
absolutely perfect, even if our
mind resists our ego and won't
accept it.

The third law says:
"Every moment when something
begins is the right moment."

Everything starts at the right
time, not sooner or later. When
we are ready for something new
in our lives, it is already there to
begin.

The 4th law says:
"What is past is past."

It's that simple. When something
in our life ends, it serves our
development. Therefore, it is
better to let go and move
forward, donated to the
experiences now.

I think it is no coincidence that
you are reading this here. If this
text meets you today, it is
because you meet the conditions
and understand that no raindrop
anywhere in the world will
accidentally fall in the wrong
place.

Let it go well
Love with your whole being
Be happy without end
Every day is a happy, happy day."

🦋 Anonymous
🎨 Autumn Skye ART, Perception

13/09/2024

📚 Story Time: One Woman Perkins

When Frances Perkins was a little girl, she asked her parents why nice people could be poor. Her father told her not to worry about those things, and that poor people were poor because they were lazy and drank.

Eventually, she went to Mount Holyoke College, and majored in physics. In her final semester, she took a class in American economic history and toured the mills along the Connecticut River to see working conditions. She was horrified. Instead of teaching until she married, she earned a masters degree in social work from Columbia University.

In 1910, Perkins became Executive Secretary of the New York City Consumers League. She campaigned for sanitary regulations for bakeries, fire protection for factories, and legislation to limit the working hours for women and children in factories to 54 hours per week. She worked mainly in New York State’s capital, Albany. Here, she made friends with politicians, and learned how to lobby.

On March 25th, 1911, Frances was having tea with friends when they heard fire engines. They ran to see what was happening, and witnessed one of the worst workplace disasters in US history. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was devastating, killing 146 people, mostly young women and girls. Frances watched as fire escapes collapsed and fireman ladders couldn’t reach the women trapped by the flames. She watched 47 workers leap to their deaths from the 8th and 9th floors.

Poignantly, just a year before, these same women and girls had fought for and won the 54 hour work week and other benefits that Frances had championed. These women weren’t just tragic victims, they were heroes of the labor force. Frances at that moment resolved to make sure their deaths meant something.

A committee to study reforms in safety in factories was formed, and Perkins became the secretary. The group took on not only fire safety, but all other health issues they could think of. Perkins, by that time a respected expert witness, helped draft the most comprehensive set of laws regarding workplace health and safety in the country. Other states started copying New York’s new laws to protect workers.

Perkins continued to work in New York for decades, until she was asked by President Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him only if he agreed with her goals: 40-hour work week, minimum wage, unemployment and worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, federal aid to the states for unemployment, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. He agreed.

Similar to what she had worked for in New York, her successes became the New Deal, and changed the country and its workers forever.

So while you may not know her name, you certainly know her legacy. 💚

13/09/2024

"There is a special kind of
person in this world who is
often misunderstood.

These people tend to be the
loners, the free spirits,
the innocent lovers.

They see the world for all
they can, and should be,
although the world rarely
sees them.

They are the old souls,
the dreamers, the people
in tune with life, so intuitive
of emotions that they frighten
us.

They frighten us not because
of who they are, but because of
who we are not, what we lack.

Ancient souls reach depths
we cannot understand.

They have a connection with God,
with the Universe, with Nature,
and that's why they are the people
who will change the world.

We often feel inferior,
as if we have to strive to stay
remotely close to their level,
to be worthy of their love.

It takes a confident person
to love an old soul.
But it's worth it.
It will change your life.

They are romantic, they are loyal,
they help us grow, they are not
materialistic, they understand
the deep connections in life,
they are grateful, they are
examples of bravery.

They walk the most painful roads
of this life, and yet somehow they
find the courage to smile, often
selfless. Supporting others.

Loving an old soul and being loved
by one is a gift from the Universe."

♥️ Luiza Fletcher, When You Love An Ancient Soul

13/09/2024

"There is no wisdom without love.
Unless we learn to love God's
creation, we cannot truly love
and know God."

🧡 Shams Tabrizi

13/09/2024

“The object of art is not to
reproduce reality, but to create
a reality of the same intensity.”

🎨 Alberto Giacometti

“Art is unquestionably one
of the purest and highest
elements in human happiness.

It trains the mind through
the eye and the eye through
the mind.

As the sun colors flowers,
so does art color life.”

🌼 John Lubbock

13/09/2024

New work: Promenade 🐴🐇🦌
https://elisabethonearth.com/ #/promenade/

Let’s go see the countryside, and fill ourselves with the scent of her wildflowers.
Hello, rabbit. Would you like to join us?
Let’s go visit the trees, to ground ourselves in their vast web.
Hello, deer. We would love your company.
Let’s go cross the river, pausing to receive her inspired wisdom.
Let’s sit with the rock and read her marks, the story glaciers left behind.
Let’s climb to the top of the mountain so we might discover her perspective.
Let’s wander and learn and admire.
Are you coming?

13/09/2024

Sometimes we just need the nearness of our dogs...💛 🐾 🐾

13/09/2024

Self-Love Rainbow

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My fingers still have PTSD 🤦‍♂️😏

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"Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.”

Words: Pema Chodron
Art: Rachel Byler

11/09/2024

It was the dogs. The dogs are what got me.

A few years ago we visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and we saw a lot. Twisted steel girders. Baby-faced portraits of the deceased. Mutilated emergency vehicles.

But it was the dogs that wrecked me.

The dog exhibit is pretty small. Located in the far corner of the museum, with photographs of search and rescue dogs.

You see dogs nosing through rubble, wearing safety harnesses. You see them in their prime. They’re all deceased now. But they were spectacular.

There was Riley. Golden retriever. He was trained to find living people. But, he didn’t find any. Instead, he recovered the remains of firefighters. Riley kept searching for a live survivor, but found none. Riley’s morale tanked.

“I tried my best to tell Riley he was doing his job,” said his handler. “He had no way to know that when firefighters and police officers came over to hug him, and for a split second you can see them crack a smile—that Riley was succeeding at doing an altogether different job. He provided comfort. Or maybe he did know.”

There was Coby and Guiness. Black and yellow Labs. From California. Surfer dogs. They found dozens of human remains.

And Abigail. Golden Lab. Happy. Energetic. Committed. Big fan of bacon.

Sage. A border collie. Cheerful. Endless energy. Her first mission was searching the Pentagon wreckage after the attacks. She recovered the body of the terrorist who piloted American Airlines Flight 77.

Jenner. Black Lab. At age 9, he was one of the oldest dogs on the scene. Jenner’s handler, Ann Wichmann, remembers:

“It was 12 to 15 stories high of rubble and twisted steel. My first thought was, ‘I can't send Jenner into that…’ At one point, [Jenner] disappeared down a hole under the rubble and I was like, ‘Ugggggh!' Such a heart-stopping moment..."

Trakr. German Shepherd. Tireless worker. Worked until he couldn’t stand up anymore. Trakr found Genelle Guzman-McMillan, who was trapped for 27 hours among the debris. Genelle was as good as dead, until the cold nose poked through the mangled steel.

Apollo. German shepherd. An NYPD police dog. Coal-black muzzle. Liquid eyes. The first dog on the scene, only 15 minutes after the attacks. Apollo worked 18-hour days. Once, he was nearly killed in a fire during his search. But Apollo had been drenched in water and he was quick on his feet. No injuries.

Jake. Labrador. As a puppy, Jake was found on the side of the road in Dallas. Abandoned. Left for dead. Like trash. He had a dislocated hip and a broken leg. They made him a rescue dog.

Jake worked until his body threatened to collapse from exhaustion. After his shifts, local New York merchants saw his rescue-dog vest and treated him to free steak dinners in upscale Manhattan restaurants.

And, of course, there was Bretagne. Golden Retriever. Easygoing. Dutiful. Obsessed with food. Her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss, a firefighter from Harris County, Texas, brought Bretagne to Ground Zero while the rubble was still hot.

Bretagne went straight to work. She worked for 10 days solid. Ten agonizing days. Bretagne never quit. She napped onsite.

Denise recalls: “...There are images of Bretagne going to where she was directed to search, into the unknown, the chaotic environment. But even then, she knew who needed the comfort of a dog, and which firefighter needed to hold her close and stroke her fur.”

After 9/11, Bretagne also helped recovery efforts during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and Ivan. She retired at age 9.

Old age finally overtook her, she had a hard time using stairs, so Denise installed an above-ground pool to keep Bretagne’s joints limber.

In retirement, Bretagne became a reading dog at a local elementary school. First graders, too shy to read aloud, would read to a white-faced, elderly retriever who looked them in the eyes and smiled.

Bretagne visited students with special needs. She visited students with autism. She visited everyone.

She suffered kidney failure at age 16. She was put to sleep on June 7, 2016, and became the last of the 9/11 rescue dogs to end her earthly career.

Bretagne hobbled into the Cypress, Texas, animal hospital, one sunny Monday, only to discover the sidewalks and hallways were lined with firefighters, first responders, and rescue workers who saluted her.

Her remains were later escorted from the hospital, draped in an American flag.

We do not deserve dogs.

In memory of the animals that served on 9/11 and the days afterwards.....

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Many of you have shared having this experience. Cats know. 💖

10/09/2024

“It would be something fine if we could learn how to bless the lives of children. They are the people of new life. Children are the only people nobody can blame. They are the only ones always willing to make a start; they have no choice. Children are the ways the world begin again and again.

"But in general, our children have no voice--that we will listen to. We force, we blank them into the bugle/bell regulated lineup of the Army/school, and we insist on silence.

"But even if we cannot learn to bless their lives (our future times), at least we can try to find out how we already curse and burden their experience: how we limit the wheeling of their inner eyes, how we terrify their trust, and how we condemn the raucous laughter of their natural love. What's more, if we will hear them, they will teach us what they need; they will bluntly formulate the tenderness of their deserving.”

― June Jordan

Art by Mohamed Elbehairy

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