"These things which man purports to admire-the noble, the brilliant, the splendid-these are the very things he cannot tolerate when he finds them."-----Mark Clifton
Posts: 5565 | Location: hoffman estates il | Registered: 01 April 2003
Claire, occasionally Chris and I wax poetic about the old days on the Hartmann board and the unusual cast of characters that posted here. It's really hard to explain to someone who wasn't there. It's something like the 60's and 70's before before corporate rock and roll.
Sometime I'd like to hear about your experience in Australia with Salem.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
Posts: 8264 | Location: Fl | Registered: 05 July 2001
Claire, I just read a cat 5 cyclone is headed toward Queensland. Be safe.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
Posts: 8264 | Location: Fl | Registered: 05 July 2001
Geoff and Norma are amazing people. Geoff has such an extensive and interesting library I spent lots of my time there reading and trying to keep away from the mossies.
One day on the way back from taking Norma to hospital we passed a wild horse. So after we dropped Norma back home we went back to get it. Geoff got out the car, told me to drive it back once he had the horse. He made a lasso and approaced the horse. The horse had wild wide eyes and was rearing up, but Geoff soon calmed the horse enough to lasso it's neck. Once I'd seen he was ok I drove back. Geoff arrived back home about an hour later, for an old man he's very fit!
The next day we went out to the yard where he had left the horse. He went in with it and chased it around for a while until the horse faced him all the time. Then he approached it, taking his time and eventually could stroke it. Then he taught it to turn, and lift its leg up and then he slowly got it used to having something on it's back, by jumping up and resting on the side.
Once he was happy, I got in too. I stroked it, turned it, lifted it's leg, and got on it's back for a few seconds. It was amazing. From a wild horse one day to sitting on it's back the next day. He asked me to name him, I called him Jasper.
I can see why the kids there have such a sense of accomplishment when they have their own horse and can take it from wild to riding it around and jumping it.
Geoff has so much wisdom about healing and is such an amazing healer, I learned so much from him.
claire
Posts: 924 | Location: Byron Bay, Australia | Registered: 05 April 2002
Stein drops in every once in a while. He made some contributions in Last Hours which I would find for you if the darned search engine provided me with a different experience than it's currently doing...
Posts: 1927 | Location: pending | Registered: 18 December 2004
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