What do little miniature brown shoes have to do with bringing the world together & peace you ask?
Well you could watch this video from youtube and get your answer there. I think its a wonderful idea. The shoes in question were made around 1910 for kalacaw’s (betty) father, who was born in 1903. Now his father made them for him. These little shoes are one of the most important things left in betty’s family. This is an absolutely wonderful gesture to invite people to partake in custodianship of these hand crafted beauties. Travelling around the world is high on the agenda for these shoes. But peace & bringing people together is the impetous for this project.
There is already five videos made on these little shoes & all have done this cause proud. Anyone who is interested in taking part in this travelling adventure need only ask betty, & she will put you on the list to be considered.
Below is an excerpt from kalacaws (betty) blog on wordpress.
“It occurs to me that these shoes are the only things I have that are truly “passed down” things. My Dad was very specific about this. That fleeting thought, “How can I do this?” shakes me a little. “How can I let these shoes leave my hands, to destinations yet unknown!?” I’ve nothing left of family but memories and things, and now I’m letting go the most important of the lot. Then I thought of all the people who would hold those little shoes in their hands. They would know I loved them very much to do this. They are the reason I’m doing this. It’s the biggest thing I can think to do. After remembering that, I’m comforted. I know I’ve done the right thing. And my Dad would have loved this.”
We on this earth as a collective bunch of humans, are taking the earths resources for granted.
When one looks at the statistics of making junk mail in the USA alone-4 million tones of junk mail is made out of 100 million trees per year. This is not a smart use of trees!!
If one is looking after ones health, one does not eat junk food regularly. Sending junk by post is only feeding junk to peoples brains. On a day to day basis this cannot be healthy for our brains & in turn the earth. If everyone took control of how much junk mail they received, then this could only be a step in the right direction of saving trees & our minds.
Who was it that said “no man is an island”? Maybe it was the person who made this little one man shack, on one man island. To at least have the illusion of being untouchable. Until of course your friendly swallow zooms in with a little flying feaces present.
No, but seriously i like the idea of this watery peice of real estate. kind of romantic, secluded, left to your own thoughts. Well not really, considering the main road is but 200 metres away, and every passer by gawks at you. Oh, there goes my common sense bursting my imagination bubble again.
A net neutrality message for everyone. Seems there is a proposal to charge to have access to the internet. Large companies want to have control over what you can see and they want to make money out of it. You may as well call it TV if this proposal gets the go ahead.
The way it is now is everyone is on a relatively level playing feild on the internet. This proposal could effectively destroy the internet as we know it today. There is always some greedy turd out there willing to destroy resources the masses have access to.
I for one support the internet as a level playing feild. Keep the internet neutral, keep it free.
I often sit above or to the side of myself and observe the wrong decisions that take me down the road of damnation. A fault of mine is sitting in a rutt and not seeing the big picture, seeing problems when the answers are right there in front of me.
Makes me wonder as people die and move on, why do we who are left behind in the physical world stop and whollow? I imagine their spirits sitting there in the same room trying to influence us to take the right path. Their effect on the physical world is that of energy. Which in turn is enterpreted by us here incorrectly most of the time.
Im no expert on this, but i guess its a very small percentage of the human race who are open to the spiritual world. most of us are too wrapped up in our own little worlds, dulling our senses.
We could learn a great deal from the spiritual world and in turn ourselves.
In todays immediate satisfaction world, i am so thankful my son sits and talks in theory about sitting and feeling the moment without external stimuli entertaining him. He even adds to the conversation of his own experience at school, when all the kids in his class talk about basically being mindful of others around them. Trusting each other to entertain ourselves with our own brains.
At the touch of a button we can be entertained and sometimes blown away by what we watch and listen to these days. Its easy to imagine our minds getting very lazy and relying on external sources to occupy us. I think its vitally important we keep our young children intrigued to the point where they exhaust us parents with their creativity.
The traditionalist will probably say no there is no place for art on the internet. But literally right in front of our eyes there is new forms of art being invented and honed. Traditional oils are being exhibited on the internet with a digital twist-video art.
Producing high quality video is becoming very accessable to the average joe. Possibilities are endless. I for one am not a stuffy nosed traditionalist-i support art on the internet.
I say more power to you for getting creative ORIGINAL works out there on the interwebs.
Junk mail is becoming increasingly invasive. permeating right into our personal lives. Our personal information is being bought and sold between companies, all for the search of wealth and at the cost of the environment.
In the USA alone, there is over 100 million trees destroyed to create over 4 million tonnes of junk mail a year, which will eventually find its way to the trash can. I dare to say most of this material isnt even being read.
Its time to think about what we are throwing away. Should it have been delivered in the first place. Its time to take action for our own sakes and in turn for our planet. Take our names off the lists of unsolicitated mail and regain our privacey.
Imagine if the world promised it would be there for you forever. So, is it up to the world to adjust to you & your decisions all the time, in order to carry out that promis? I dont think so! in order to be together you both have to make sacrifices. a little give & take!
As the human race, i see us as a collective taking from this partnership we have with the world. more take than give, to give a balanced view point, or is it unbalanced?
I personally have changed over the years. i recycle as a rule now-foregoing the comfort of throwing every bit of waste into one trash can. I sort & seperate, then once a month travel to recycling station. for over ten years i have made this a habbit. Over the past 5 years i have been increasingly concerned over the amount of oil we use on this planet-its a crying shame!
So what can i do to minimise my usage of oil? Well dont use my car when its absolutely not necessary. Maybe even get rid of it! am i ready to make that sacrifice? Honestly, i dont think i am at this stage of my life. Im sorry world, i guess its you who has to make the sacrifice in this instance. To be continued…..
