Re: [pf] Our stories. (D: 1)

At 09:12 10/10/2001 -0500, Diane F wrote:
>... I have come to appreciate more the ... somewhat diverse mix of beliefs
... and backgrounds. ... One thing we do have in common, I believe, is
compassion. ... we do care about others and our planet.
>
>... I enjoy hearing anecdotes about how people got to this point.  I would
like to invite all here -- from regulars to lurkers -- to share pieces of
their personal stories of how they became searchers for a positive future.
>

· It actually began when I was living in eastern Ontario during WW-II in
our MacClement family stone farmhouse.
  I remember swimming underwater in the summer in Collins Bay (Lake
Ontario) near our stone dock. I was too skinny (always have been) to swim
on the surface and found spending as long as I could, down on the bottom,
quite interesting - there was life going on down there in a very different
world from my own.

· Also in those early-1940s years, I would occasionally visit a French
speaking small family in a shack near our "farm" gate - my mother tried to
discourage me - and again came to realise that there were people living
lives and speaking a language very different from mine.

· Later, after arriving in New Zealand, one of my household jobs (do kids
have these any more?) was looking after our family's small flock of bantam
chooks, when I was about 11.

· They clearly had a society of their own, their own interpretation of the
world and others' actions. 
  At the right time of year, I would give them the treat of shooting
cicadas with my BB-gun (Red Ryder, lever action, .144 lead shot). I had
only one chance so got quite good at it. The way the chooks would rush over
to me when they saw me with that gun lightened my heart.

· I'm a bit late writing this (lunch and that other job, today), so I'll
probably continue (spiders, worms in compost heaps, and lots more) another
time.

David.

David MacClement [davd @ ihug.co.nz] (remove spaces)
http://davd.tripod.com/GrRR-011005_titles.html#top
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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