How amazing this Twenty First Century, with this thing called “The Internet”, instant communication. For a person with a Thirteenth Century Mind Set, it is truly an amazing thing. Everyone has a “Mind Set”, this being your Teachings as a Child. Being honest with ones’ self, all of the things thought to you as a Child where you were not allowed to question, even within your Being you knew there had to other options, other concepts, they were forced upon you and linger throughout your life, causing a “Mind Set”. Yet adults tell you NO, IT IS THIS WAY, you are WRONG. How sad these Children of the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries that are not allowed to question Concepts and Opinions of the adults that were given the Privilege and Honor to Educate the Child. When in Actually and Reality, Opinions and Concepts are neither right nor wrong, just one Individuals’ out look.
This you may be thinking, “What does that have to do with Wolves?” This, so as, to let the Reader know, I am not of a Mind Set of this Century, I was allowed to Question and form my own Opinions and Concepts as a Child, with guidance, not firm discipline as to Conceptual Rights and Wrongs.
It may be many of you read a thing on the Internet today called, “Save the ‘Twilight’ Wolves”. The thinking of the Society of today, here is a very important Fact of Nature, an important question, an important out-come, and yet the writer equates it to and interfaces it with Fiction.
The State of Washington is “debating”, should the Wolves that are returning to the Washington’s Olympic Peninsula be exterminated. In the 1800s an extensive Wolf extermination campaign eliminated the species in that area and many other areas in what is known today as The United States of America. Now after more than a hundred years the Wolves are slowly returning to this area. Have we as the Human Race not learned past Lessons? The pray Animals cause a Balance within Nature, keeping in check, the over population of other creatures that can be very destructive, due to greater numbers thus destroying their habitat. In turn also having an effect upon us Human Beings.
As a Boy in my Mountains of northern New York State, as it is known today, there were no Wolves. This being due to the fact the Euro-Americans had exterminated them prior to the Twentieth Century, out of Fear. As the Europeans moved into our Lands they brought with them the fantasies and fears of the Wolf with them. Their Stories of Werewolves, a fiction, wrought out of fear and fabrication of some kind of Mythical man eating Animal.
I will agree Wolves will attack and consume domesticated Animals, yet we as Human Beings have the intelligence to safeguard our domesticated Animals. This occurs when we over hunt and kill the Animals that are the Natural Pray of the Wolf, hunting no longer out of NEED, but for SPORT. We as Human Beings upon this Earth are liken to a virus, consuming all that Nature has placed here for all of its inhabitants. We as Human Being in this Twenty First Century and the prior Century consume our Natural resources, not out of NEED but out of WANT and GREED.
As I read the comments following this Internet posting I was pleased to read, out of the twenty one comments, eighteen were for allowing the Wolf to reenter its’ Natural Habitat. Two stated they should be “relocated”. How sad for them. When Governments come across something that they perceive as an Obstacle or Fears, just relocate them, as they did with the Original Peoples of this Land. How sad that the Peoples of this Country have Learned nothing in the past six hundred years. One comment suggested allowing the Wolves but eliminate the Bear. Damn!
I am sure the majority of the People reading this article on the Internet will be distracted from the Real Issue, the Wolves, and focus on the advertisement for a fictional Movie called “New Moon”. This may be an interesting exciting movie, yet it is fictional, for entertainment, or will it allow the Old Fears be brought forward and the Wolves be eliminated due to the old Fears?
We as Human Beings no longer see ourselves as “a Part of Nature”, we see ourselves “as above it”, “superior”, when in Actuality, how can Man Survive without looking out for all of the entities of this Earth? Honor their existence, bring this Earth back to its’ Natural Self with all of its’ Beings intact.
Wolves, a necessity for the survival of all Beings. Think about it!
White Crow January 2010
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Monday, January 11, 2010
A New Decade
As we enter into a new decade, 2010, a time for reflection. While in today’s Society we measure our Life circumstance in ten year segments, called a Decade. In my Culture, Life circumstance is measured in seven year Cycles.
Cycles: First cycle, Birth to seven years (baby to child), second cycle, seven to fourteen (child through puberty), third cycle, fourteen to twenty one (young man). Forth cycle, after twenty one you are considered a Man, not only physically and mentally, but also legally, by the laws of toady’s Society. As these seven year cycles progress, Maturity.
Yet, I have encountered, because we are all “Individuals” and “Life Lessons Learned”, fourteen and fifteen year olds have shown more Maturity than a man in his 30’s or 40’s. Age is but a “number” not a measure of Maturity.
As we all look back on this past Decade, the changes in ones’ Life. Some good some bad, all depending upon your Individual interpretation. Life changing situations, life changing encounters, there effects on ones’ Life, all placed there for “Purpose”. When one looks back and look beyond the “effect”, never question the effect, always question the cause. Always hold close to you, YOU ALLOW these changes, these encounters and situations to happen in your Life. Choice, a birth gift to all Human Beings, Choice is the cause, not the effect. We all have made bad choices along our Life Path, learn from them and become a better person because of it. Your Choices are placed along your Life Path to gift to you Life Lessons. Whether your Choices have a Positive or Negative effect, the Lesson is always there, learn from it, never looking back with “what ifs”, move on.
The birth of a new Decade, new beginnings, will you allow this new time span to improve your Life or allow the encounters and situations of the past Decade hold you, or allow yourself to move on with new visions of your Life experience? The Choice is always your!
I can only look back on my own Life experiences for the past Decade and yet know similarities of other Humans exist. The loss of a Friend due to misunderstandings, misinterpretations and the lack of communicating due to their anger and the interference by outsiders, a sad state. And yet, out of this unfortunate situation I found another friend. I do not say one friend held a lesser emotional connection than the other. I hold all friends close, a Cultural Concept, “everything is given and yet nothing is required”, Friendship. There is also another Cultural Concept, “acceptance”. This concept in today’s Culture seems to be the hardest for this Society to comprehend.
The Turmoil in another’s Life may also have an effect on your well-being.
A Friend or a Family member, moving on to the World of Spirit effects all they have encountered along their Life Path. Once again, the effect is all in individual interpretation of death to the Physical Self and Religious Teachings. In my Culture, Death is not an end; it is a new beginning, considered to be the Greatest Human Adventure.
I have found as the Decades of my life pass, not much changes in the Human Condition. The first decade of my life the World was at War, and for every Decade it has continued, as I now enter my eighth Decade, War is still prevalent in our Society. As I see it, Life Lessons, that have not been learned. Until we Human Being Learn from the Lessons placed along our Life Path, they will persist.
This present War, Religious factors, its’ basis. Religion, what as devastating concept when we Humans lack true understanding. The European Cultures adopted a Middle Eastern Religious Concept. Then changing the principle Person from a dark skinned, dark haired, dark eyed Human Being into a light skinned, blond haired, blue eyed person to fit into their Culture. A fact of Nature, People from the Middle-East ARE a dark skinned Race of Man, not a light skinned European. Yet we do War because of differences, when differences IS what makes us a beautiful entity on this Earth. Underlying factors of THIS War, oil and greed. How sad we as Human Beings measure our time, our Decades by War, World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict, Vietnam, Desert Storm and now the Iraq and the Afghan Wars. This thing we call “War”, being the most inhumane action one Human Being can inflict upon another Human Being.
Decades pass, Life Lessons are placed before us as a People upon this Earth and we never seem to Learn.
A Decade, for some, amazing changes. At the beginning of this Decade if you were eleven years old, at the end you would be twenty one years. At its’ beginning, a Child on the brink of Puberty, the most amazing transformation we as Human Being go through. Into your “teen” years, exploring “who you are”, fighting the established Society with all of it’s imperfections. Now at the end of the Decade, you are twenty one, a man, not only physically but according to today’s Societies Laws. What a fantastic and amazing metamorphosis due to only ten years in your Life Cycle, a Decade.
Within a Decade, old Friends move on, new Friends enter ones’ Life, Friendships evolve as with all things within this Universe. Loves come and go, changing, evolving, happiness and pain, another fact of the Human Condition, choice, acceptance, or hold on to the past which can have a devastating effect upon your well-being.
A new Decade, may all your hopes, dreams, expectations and prayers come to be. Let all of the unfavorable or unfortunate Life Encounters blow into the Winds. Look forward with Love in your Heart, optimism and expectations with all of your Being.
Start your new Decade with no “what ifs?”
White Crow January 2010
Cycles: First cycle, Birth to seven years (baby to child), second cycle, seven to fourteen (child through puberty), third cycle, fourteen to twenty one (young man). Forth cycle, after twenty one you are considered a Man, not only physically and mentally, but also legally, by the laws of toady’s Society. As these seven year cycles progress, Maturity.
Yet, I have encountered, because we are all “Individuals” and “Life Lessons Learned”, fourteen and fifteen year olds have shown more Maturity than a man in his 30’s or 40’s. Age is but a “number” not a measure of Maturity.
As we all look back on this past Decade, the changes in ones’ Life. Some good some bad, all depending upon your Individual interpretation. Life changing situations, life changing encounters, there effects on ones’ Life, all placed there for “Purpose”. When one looks back and look beyond the “effect”, never question the effect, always question the cause. Always hold close to you, YOU ALLOW these changes, these encounters and situations to happen in your Life. Choice, a birth gift to all Human Beings, Choice is the cause, not the effect. We all have made bad choices along our Life Path, learn from them and become a better person because of it. Your Choices are placed along your Life Path to gift to you Life Lessons. Whether your Choices have a Positive or Negative effect, the Lesson is always there, learn from it, never looking back with “what ifs”, move on.
The birth of a new Decade, new beginnings, will you allow this new time span to improve your Life or allow the encounters and situations of the past Decade hold you, or allow yourself to move on with new visions of your Life experience? The Choice is always your!
I can only look back on my own Life experiences for the past Decade and yet know similarities of other Humans exist. The loss of a Friend due to misunderstandings, misinterpretations and the lack of communicating due to their anger and the interference by outsiders, a sad state. And yet, out of this unfortunate situation I found another friend. I do not say one friend held a lesser emotional connection than the other. I hold all friends close, a Cultural Concept, “everything is given and yet nothing is required”, Friendship. There is also another Cultural Concept, “acceptance”. This concept in today’s Culture seems to be the hardest for this Society to comprehend.
The Turmoil in another’s Life may also have an effect on your well-being.
A Friend or a Family member, moving on to the World of Spirit effects all they have encountered along their Life Path. Once again, the effect is all in individual interpretation of death to the Physical Self and Religious Teachings. In my Culture, Death is not an end; it is a new beginning, considered to be the Greatest Human Adventure.
I have found as the Decades of my life pass, not much changes in the Human Condition. The first decade of my life the World was at War, and for every Decade it has continued, as I now enter my eighth Decade, War is still prevalent in our Society. As I see it, Life Lessons, that have not been learned. Until we Human Being Learn from the Lessons placed along our Life Path, they will persist.
This present War, Religious factors, its’ basis. Religion, what as devastating concept when we Humans lack true understanding. The European Cultures adopted a Middle Eastern Religious Concept. Then changing the principle Person from a dark skinned, dark haired, dark eyed Human Being into a light skinned, blond haired, blue eyed person to fit into their Culture. A fact of Nature, People from the Middle-East ARE a dark skinned Race of Man, not a light skinned European. Yet we do War because of differences, when differences IS what makes us a beautiful entity on this Earth. Underlying factors of THIS War, oil and greed. How sad we as Human Beings measure our time, our Decades by War, World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict, Vietnam, Desert Storm and now the Iraq and the Afghan Wars. This thing we call “War”, being the most inhumane action one Human Being can inflict upon another Human Being.
Decades pass, Life Lessons are placed before us as a People upon this Earth and we never seem to Learn.
A Decade, for some, amazing changes. At the beginning of this Decade if you were eleven years old, at the end you would be twenty one years. At its’ beginning, a Child on the brink of Puberty, the most amazing transformation we as Human Being go through. Into your “teen” years, exploring “who you are”, fighting the established Society with all of it’s imperfections. Now at the end of the Decade, you are twenty one, a man, not only physically but according to today’s Societies Laws. What a fantastic and amazing metamorphosis due to only ten years in your Life Cycle, a Decade.
Within a Decade, old Friends move on, new Friends enter ones’ Life, Friendships evolve as with all things within this Universe. Loves come and go, changing, evolving, happiness and pain, another fact of the Human Condition, choice, acceptance, or hold on to the past which can have a devastating effect upon your well-being.
A new Decade, may all your hopes, dreams, expectations and prayers come to be. Let all of the unfavorable or unfortunate Life Encounters blow into the Winds. Look forward with Love in your Heart, optimism and expectations with all of your Being.
Start your new Decade with no “what ifs?”
White Crow January 2010
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