3 Heroes
How many of us sat and watched what was happening on TV with Hurricane Katrina? I did. Too busy working.
Yet, I just read this story about 3 college kids from North Carolina, who were disgusted about what was happening in New Orleans. They jumped into a 2-wheel drive Hyundai and drove straight there.
The National Guard and other authorities turned them away at every in-road to the city. So they swiped a press pass and took it to Kinko's and made 2 more copies. They used there stolen/counterfeit passes to get past the guards and drive straight to the Convention Center, where people were trapped in horrible conditions.
20 minutes and they were there, no flood waters to cross, nothing. The people trapped in the Convention Center could have been easily bussed out days earlier.
I see we are heading into a future that includes more and more distrust of authority, and more and more reliance on one's own mind--one's own inner guidance.
Human beings are heroic by nature, yet...
How many of us are stopped from being everyday heroes, because we've been conditioned to wait on approval or permission from authority or society?
It's time we raise our children to live by their own vision and inner guidance... time for the Vision Revolution!
Shortly, I will reveal what the Vision Force Academy is doing to bring vision to the disaster victims. Yes, food, water, clothing and shelter is needed... but so is vision. Now more than ever. Starting over again and dealing with chaos and change... it helps to have vision.
Today, I salute those 3 Duke students, and everyone who has heroically stepped forward to make a difference with the Hurricaine Katrina disaster... including the National Guardsmen and the authorities.
Yet, I just read this story about 3 college kids from North Carolina, who were disgusted about what was happening in New Orleans. They jumped into a 2-wheel drive Hyundai and drove straight there.
The National Guard and other authorities turned them away at every in-road to the city. So they swiped a press pass and took it to Kinko's and made 2 more copies. They used there stolen/counterfeit passes to get past the guards and drive straight to the Convention Center, where people were trapped in horrible conditions.
20 minutes and they were there, no flood waters to cross, nothing. The people trapped in the Convention Center could have been easily bussed out days earlier.
I see we are heading into a future that includes more and more distrust of authority, and more and more reliance on one's own mind--one's own inner guidance.
Human beings are heroic by nature, yet...
How many of us are stopped from being everyday heroes, because we've been conditioned to wait on approval or permission from authority or society?
It's time we raise our children to live by their own vision and inner guidance... time for the Vision Revolution!
Shortly, I will reveal what the Vision Force Academy is doing to bring vision to the disaster victims. Yes, food, water, clothing and shelter is needed... but so is vision. Now more than ever. Starting over again and dealing with chaos and change... it helps to have vision.
Today, I salute those 3 Duke students, and everyone who has heroically stepped forward to make a difference with the Hurricaine Katrina disaster... including the National Guardsmen and the authorities.
2 Comments:
I too salute everyone who is helping out the victoms of Katrina. Too many right now are playing the blame game on who's fault it is that relief was not brought in earlier. In my opinion the 3 students and the other relief workers are all hero's. It is time to stop the blame game and pitch in to do something.
I live in Mississippi in an area impacted by Hurricane Katrina. But in a minor way compared to those in New Orleans and on our Gulf Coast. (And by the way, you see very little on the news about our state's devastation). We have 4,000 children in our state who are in need of temporary homes because they have been separated from their parents. We have numerous elderly from nursing homes who were evacuated, some are now in nursing homes, some are in a hanger at our Naval Base. The Navy closed in a hanger and put in air conditioning. We have many, many families in motels. Various churches around the area are asked for people in our community to "adopt a family" and put them in a spare bedroom if you have one. The also suggest
you adopt them for a day if you don't have a bedroom. Just bring them and their children to your home where there is a yard to play in and they can have some home cooked meals. We have normal citizens who are volunteering their time to go to the coast to pull down sheetrock where the frames can dry out, who are helping tear up carpet, who are already helping to clear so rebuilding can start. Some of these people have made committments for the next two years.
We were buried under trees and out of the darkness came 30 Mormons from South Carolina with their chain saws and trucks. They were removing trees from people's home and hauling it away in their trucks. They were sleeping on the ground.
We found them shelter and made sure they were fed, we were kind. They said they have done this many times before but a lot of times people wouldn't even talk to them, shunned them. I found that almost unbelievable. But in any event, along with many others, they were our heros. They touched and changed our lives and I like to think we changed theirs.
What happened to all of us is too long to go into but it reminded me of a line from "Desiderata",
...the world if full of trickery, but let this not blind you to what virtue thre is; many persons strive for high ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism..."
Alice Crane
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