[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Start with love, start with gratefulness

[Judi White via Dialogue]

Thank you.

On Jan 29, 2017 7:49 PM, "NANCY TRASK Owner via OE" <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> I just returned from powerful Mindfulness Retreat by Larry Ward and Peggy
> Rowe Ward.  Thinking about how to start with love and gratefulness, I took
> a drive through the Winterset cemetery.  And the new gravestone for Charles
> Moore gave me pause.  A slave who followed the north star, he lived in
> Winterset for several years, became a businessman here.  I've seen his name
> occasionally in the historic local paper, with a horse for sale or other
> various reasons. Our historians were recently able to identify the grave
> and raised money for a new marker.  Then I paused at the marker for
> Thankful Robbins, at first because I was pondering gratefulness, and
> wondering how much impact it would have on your life to have the given name
> of Thankful.  Then I recalled that this was the woman who bumped into
> George Washington Carver at the south edge of Winterset. He had walked
> north from KS after being turned away by a college that had earlier
> accepted him for admission, but changed their mind
>  .  He was ill, and Thankful was good with natural remedies, and took him
> in to nurse him.  He eventually opened a laundry and lived in town for a
> couple of years before going onward to Simpson College with less than a
> dollar in his pocket. The Dr. Milholland family had befriended him and
> encouraged him to go on to college.
> I'm continuing to ponder the phrase "start with love, start with
> thankfulness."  I would say that Thankful was able to start with love.
> I'm grateful for my local and global community and their history.  May it
> guide us to ever more humane and inclusive decisions.
> Just offering up my musings of the evening here in the Heartland.
> Nancy Trask
> Winterset IA
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