[Oe List ...] Is there a STORY day?

[Holcombe Wanda via OE]

I used it too in my Peace with Justice workshops. I great piece to use art form methods on....

Wanda

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> On Jul 24, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Ellie Stock via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 
> Margaret,
>  
> Thanks for sharing this story.
>  
> We used this story in Peru in 2002, sharing it via workshops with residents of various communities who were downwind/downstream from a lead smelter in another community that was contaminating the original community as well as the inhabitants/soil/air/water of the surrounding communities.  The smelter and contamination affecting the original community was indeed their concern as well--and still is...
>  
> Ellie Stock
> elliestock at aol.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Margaret Aiseayew via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> To: oe <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> Sent: Thu, Jul 24, 2014 7:11 am
> Subject: [Oe List ...] Is there a STORY day?
> 
> I have never been known for being able to tell jokes – even old ones.  This came to me as great absolution for always being told I care about too many things that don’t concern me. A friend who seems to understand, sent me this:
>  
> A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. 
> “What food might this contain?” the mouse wondered.  He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
> 
> Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: 
> “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!”
> The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me.  I cannot be bothered by it.”
> 
> The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!” 
> The pig sympathized, but said, “I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. 
> Be assured you are in my prayers.”
> 
> The mouse turned to the cow and said, “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!” 
> The cow said, “Wow, Mr. Mouse. I’m sorry for you, but it’s no skin off my nose.”
> 
> So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s mousetrap alone.
> 
> That very night a sound was heard throughout the house – like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.  The snake bit the farmer’s wife.  The farmer rushed her to the hospital and she returned home with a fever.
> 
> Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. 
> But his wife’s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. 
> The farmer’s wife did not get well; she died. 
> So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.
> 
> The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness. 
> 
> So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn’t concern you, remember, when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.  We are all involved in this journey called life. 
> We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another. 
> Each of us is a vital thread in another person’s tapestry, the web of life.
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