[Dialogue] Start with love, start with gratefulness

[Marsha Hahn via Dialogue]

Thank you Nancy.  Powerful and oh, so pertinent.

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> On Jan 29, 2017, at 6:49 PM, NANCY TRASK Owner via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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> 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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