What would you choose to make a film about?

Posted on May 10th, 2008 by Mark Jordan

I'd love to make a film about true foregiveness, using the Acholi people of Northern Uganda as the key story. These people have suffered terribly during more than 20 years of civil war, being forced... More »

In The Shadow of the Volcano

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Kate Mariposa

In 3 weeks we have travelled from the highlands of La Paz, to Lima, through Northern Peru and coastal Ecuador, to Baños, Ecuador--again in the Andes Mountains. The night before we left La Paz, I... More »

Berlin Beach Camp 2008

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Jes

I was surfing around couchsurfing.com when I came across this event post: The 4th BERLIN BEACH CAMP will happen from May 8th - 12th 2008 at its traditional location "Strandbad Gruenau" (Sportpromenade 9, 12527 Berlin).... More »

The Model of INFINITY

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Rinon Hoxha - Ustahi

In The Name of GOD. The ALLMighty. The ALLKnowing. When it comes to Defining Matrix and how People have organized values inside it, The Claire Graves Model is an Outstanding Model for making distinct the... More »

Call Me by My True Names

Posted on May 7th, 2008 by boundlessfreedom

Call Me by My True Names Thich Nhat Hanh Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look deeply: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a... More »

Camping 101- Life Requires an Adventurous Spirit

Posted on May 7th, 2008 by IAAM2

In a few days my vacation begins with the open road soon to be my close companion. Right now the containers of camping gear are being pulled out and sorted through. There are many  memories... More »

ACS in New Orleans and Katrina

Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Chanin

I recently went to New Orleans to attend the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Convention. Traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana is like visiting a different country. I’m no stranger to Zydeco and I’ve seen and... More »

Extreme Self-Care

Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Halal the Giraffe

I saw this newletter column by life coach Cheryl Richardson a few weeks ago, and my Ya Ya sisters and I decided to create extreme self-care lists for ourselves.  In hindsight, we probably more often... More »

Vision Keeper

Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Ki

Just returned from the mountain and am currently enjoying the hot springs of Ojo Caliente, NM. The vision quest was an interesting experience... I'm not sure that I'll want to do it again, at least... More »

breaking it down to piece it back together

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by gioiapura

wow. so i am done the semester.  almost done.  minus a paper that is this close to being done.  it feels nice. does it though?? feel nice? nope.  it kind of sucks.  i've changed so... More »

From the collection of Lincoln's papers in the Library of America series, Vol II, pp. 520-521. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battlefield; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, . . . to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps, and our sailors on the rivers and seas, with unusual health. He has largely augmented our free population by emancipation and by immigration, while he has opened to us new sources of wealth, and has corned* the labor of our working-men in every department of industry with abundant rewards. Moreover, he has been pleased to animate and inspire our minds and hearts with fortitude, courage, and resolution sufficient for the great trial . . . into which we have been brought by our adherence as a nation to the cause of freedom and humanity. . . . Now, therefore, I . . . do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next as a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may be then, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe. And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations. *preserved

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already. . . . What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

The world is rapidly being divided into two camps, the comradeship of anti-Christ and the brotherhood of Christ. The lines between these two are being drawn. How long the battle will be we know not; whether swords will have to be unsheathed we know not; whether blood will have to be shed we know not; whether it will be an armed conflict we know not. But in a conflict between truth and darkness, truth cannot lose.

Jews don't go camping. Life is hard enough as it is.

By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered, and confidently waiting come what may, we know that God is with us night and morning, and never fails to greet us each new day. Yet is this heart by its old foe tormented, still evil days bring burdens hard to bear; Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.

On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.

The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

Poetry & Communication Pod

Share your poetry here! Below is a *free* chat room! You can register a user name and password by clicking the link below, or create a temporary user by typing in your name in the... More »

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