Showing posts with label empathy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label empathy. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Robert Wadlow with his father


Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940) also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, is the tallest person in history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. The Alton and Illinois monikers reflect the fact that he was born and grew up in Alton, Illinois.

Wadlow reached 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) in height and weighed 439 lb (199 kg) at his death at age 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to hyperplasia of his pituitary gland, which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone. He showed no indication of an end to his growth even at the time of his death. (read more)

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Walk a Mile with Me

Blessings Everyone:

Someone once said something about walking a mile in another person's shoes to learn empathy. 
Do you have 8 min. to walk a mile with me? 
You can still wear your own shoes.
your humble servant, 
ancient clown

Friday, February 11, 2011

Friday, January 28, 2011

roger, go with throttle up...


The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on Tuesday, January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida, United States, at 11:38 a.m. EST (16:38 UTC).


Disintegration of the entire vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed, allowing pressurized hot gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB attachment hardware and external fuel tank. This led to the separation of the right-hand SRB's aft attachment and the structural failure of the external tank. Aerodynamic forces promptly broke up the orbiter.


The crew compartment and many other vehicle fragments were eventually recovered from the ocean floor after a lengthy search and recovery operation. Although the exact timing of the death of the crew is unknown, several crew members are known to have survived the initial breakup of the spacecraft. However, the shuttle had no escape system and the astronauts did not survive the impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface.


The disaster resulted in a 32-month hiatus in the shuttle program and the formation of the Rogers Commission, a special commission appointed by United States President Ronald Reagan to investigate the accident. The Rogers Commission found that NASA's organizational culture and decision-making processes had been a key contributing factor to the accident. NASA managers had known that contractor Morton Thiokol's design of the SRBs contained a potentially catastrophic flaw in the O-rings since 1977, but they failed to address it properly. They also disregarded warnings from engineers about the dangers of launching posed by the low temperatures of that morning and had failed to adequately report these technical concerns to their superiors. The Rogers Commission offered NASA nine recommendations that were to be implemented before shuttle flights resumed. (read more)

Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Sacred Hoop Of Healing




In a Dream of Vision 
 In a Place where Hearts  reside  and are 
Consumed in Grief   
I saw not Anger nor Retribution  
Not the Face of Hatred  nor of Despair  
But the Clear and All Encompassing  
Heart Of All That Is   
I saw Each One Stand  
Mother Father Brother each 
Child of the Seventh Generation  
In Peace and Understanding   
And Facing His Brother  His Sister  
Each Child of Their Children's Children  
Wrapped his Heart around....   
And kissing the Tears  on the 
Tear stained face  of the One he Held  
Released His Own Pain   
And when he had opened himself  
To Receive 
Unconditionally  the pain and 
unbearable sorrow  of his Brother   
Only then  When Each had Received  
The Healing  of each and every Heart   
Would raise their eyes  to Wanbli  
To All That Is  
In utter Acceptance and Resolve   
Making the Unimaginable 
Grief of each and every Heart  
His Own 
Would we Heal   
And as their hearts and hands reached out  
Would open their own Hearts  
To become that Hollow Bone  of 
Acceptance and Responsibility  of 
All That Is   
And in Unified Silence  
Take upon themselves  
The Duty and the Honour  
Which is Each Our Own   
Of allowing each hand  
And Every Heart  
To take up and to Receive  
and hold closer than Forever   
The River Of Tears  Of All Mankind   
The River Of Tears  Of Humankind  
As One Swift Uptaking  Breath  
Of All That Is  
Is made our Own.     

Crys The Tears/Dreamwalker~Lakota  
copyright 2001

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

The Art Of Healing

The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole

Mother Seacole was a healer at the time of the Crimean war, she has little in the way of modern medicine, what she had were:

An understanding and insistence upon Hygiene and cleanliness.

A desire to give comfort, warmth and feelings of home

Empathy and an open loving heart

Energies for all, equally, freely given

A basic understanding of herbs and natural medicines