All War is Lost

below: Last scheduled flight of the Concord from NYC to London. Pics by Sybil








This is my entry for remembrance day also know in France and Belgium as Armistice Day.
I was aboard a train headed for Edinburgh on November 11th, 1999, cruising along England's North Sea coast. Over the intercom came an announcement to observe a minute of silence in remembrance at 11:11.
It occurred to me that along this coast were many air fields where allied pilots and bomber crews left and never returned, many never to be seen again. Simply disappearing into the fog of war.
One of them was my uncle, 19 year old Robert Charles Shilliday, MIA January 1945. My middle name was given to me after my mother's lost brother.
The silence at 11:11 that morning was very special.
afterthought
It didn’t take long after The Wright’s first manned flight at Kitty Hawk that people realized this new wonderful invention would be good to use in the theatre of war.

I am strictly anti-war but I love everything about flight, including the war machines man has created since the early 1900’s. As a child I was surrounded by pilots. My father and three uncles flew in the service, one of them disappearing somewhere in Europe in 1945. So I was exposed to planes from the time I learned to see and think. My father would let me sit in cockpits of a variety of aircraft as they sat in hangars out at the base. Although I never became a pilot myself, I have experienced flight hundreds of times and especially love the feeling of breaking through the cloud into the great blue yonder…..

MY favorite planes as a child include some that my family members flew.

Credits: Sabre - Spad - Spitfire - Kitty Hawk

Ensemble

Our heart's are in the right place, we just keep getting distracted. Pay attention. Peace on earth.

We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For

There is a blog I frequent and a friend of hers shared some wise words from a wise man with her and she shared with her readers so now I’ll share them with you. And so on and so on and so on and…..

Message from a Hopi Elder
Oirabi, Arizona, Summer Solstice 1999

“You have been telling the people that this is the eleventh hour, now you must go back and tell the people this is the hour and there are things to be considered:

Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden!

It is time to speak your truth, to create communities, to be good to each other and to not look outside of yourself for a leader…”

Then he clasped his hands together and laughed:

“This could actually be a good time! There’s a river flowing now, very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and they will suffer greatly. Know that the river has a destination! The Elders say we must let go of the shore – push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open and our heads above water. See who is in there with you and celebrate!

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personal, least of all ourselves – for the moment we do that, our spiritual growth comes to a halt. The time of the lone wolf is over! Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary! All that we do now must be done in a sacred way and in celebration. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!”

For What We Are About To Receive: G-Men

We often think of large CO2 carbon dioxide/equivalents as being factory emissions from factory stacks especially in the mining sector. But of course they come from a variety of sectors including agriculture and ag related industries and landfills.

Any source emitting over 100,000 tonnes of CO2/year is considered to be a LFE (Large Final Emitter). This means there are millions of SFEs (small) contaminating the air at any given second but we as a species likes to spend a lot of time and energy studying the crap out of the fewer big killers.

Anyway, in the BKC (Big Killer Category) of LFEs Canada has about 500 offenders. My home province of Manitoba has 11 contributing 11.3 % of the provincial total.

These are often large employers so there are many people including politicians who turn their backs to the poisoning of the atmosphere. “Can't change our lifestyle.” they say. “Who's gonna pay the bills if I lose my job?” they say.

So, who are the big winners of the honored distinction of being responsible for poisoning the planet's air?

Here, in order of quantity emissions, it is a fertilizer plant (Koch Fertilizer - Brandon), a government owned hydro plant (Manitoba Hydro - Brandon), a Gas pipeline company (Trans-Canada Pipelines - Rapid City), a government owned landfill (Brady Landfill - Winnipeg), a mining company (Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting - Flin Flon), a lime production facility (Graymount West. Can. - Faulkner) and another government owned landfill (Summit Road Landfill - Winnipeg).

Now considering the government owns the #2 offender and 3 of the province's 7 LFEs AND is responsible for the toothless environmental monitoring authority which turns its back like everyone else, I would give them the award for the largest entity responsible for the CO2 emissions finding their way into the planet's atmosphere. Looks like we should start with government if we want to wrestle this problem to the ground/earth.

stat source: Climate Change Connection

That Little SunuvaBush!

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --U.S. President George W. Bush in interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

That sunuvabush came to Montreal last week. Somebody is actually paying him to do these speaking gigs. Well, he got a royal welcome tabernac! Baby George and his two puppeteers are as big a threesome of war criminals as you'll ever see!

Bush in Montreal Oct 22 2009
Youtube post by 2minstral

Inspire. Happiness.

Another key to happiness, true happiness, is to stay inspired.


Inspire definition:
From the latin "to breathe" = Be inspired. Live a little.

Mirriam-webster.comMain Entry: in•spire
Pronunciation: \in-ˈspī(-ə)r\
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): in•spired; in•spir•ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French inspirer, from Latin inspirare, from in- + spirare to breathe
Date: 14th century
transitive verb 1 a : to influence, move, or guide by divine or supernatural inspiration b : to exert an animating, enlivening, or exalting influence on (was particularly inspired by the Romanticists) c : to spur on : IMPEL, MOTIVATE (threats don't necessarily inspire people to work> d : AFFECT (seeing the old room again inspired him with nostalgia)
2 a archaic : to breathe or blow into or upon b archaic : to infuse (as life) by breathing
3 a : to communicate to an agent supernaturally b : to draw forth or bring out (thoughts inspired by a visit to the cathedral)
4 : INHALE 1
5 a : BRING ABOUT, OCCASION (the book was inspired by his travels in the Far East) b : INCITE
6 : to spread (rumor) by indirect means or through the agency of anotherintransitive verb : INHALE

— in•spir•er noun
• heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"
• supply the inspiration for; "The article about the artist inspired the exhibition of his recent work"
• prompt: serve as the inciting cause of; "She prompted me to call my relatives"
• cheer: spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"
• revolutionize: fill with revolutionary ideas
• inhale: draw in (air); "Inhale deeply"; "inhale the fresh mountain air"; "The patient has trouble inspiring"; "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well"

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn • To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to ...

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inspire • inspiration - arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
• inspiration - a product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn • inspired - divine: being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare";

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• inspiration - a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
• inspiration - divine guidance: (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings; "they believe that the books of Scripture were written under divine guidance"

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• inspiring - stimulating or exalting to the spirit

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The Gambler

Do you think peace really DOES have a chance? What do the oddsmakers say?

There's A Chance (Peace Will Come) - Melanie Safka
Youtube post by Nalora


lyrics:

There's a chance peace will come in your life please buy one

For sometimes when I am feeling as big as the land
With the velvet hill in the small of my back
And my hands are playing the sand

And my feet are swimming in all of the waters
All of the rivers are givers to the ocean
According to plan, according to man

Well sometimes when I am feeling so grand
And I become the world
And the world becomes a man

And my song becomes a part of the river
I cry out to keep me just the way I am
According to plan

According to man, according to plan
According to man, according to plan

For sometimes when we have reached the end
With the velvet hill in the small of my backs
And our hands are clutching the sand

Will our blood become a part of the river
All of the rivers are givers to the ocean
According to plan, according to man

There's a chance peace will come
In your life please buy one.