Refreshing Beauty 6

in the mountains, Ms. Nisha Ojha

Nicole McClellan & her man

 

EXPANSION

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mountains by Walt Thririon Photography
"Storm clouds roll into the North Rim at Sunset.
Yes, I sell limited edition prints upon request." - Walt Thirion
 August 16, 2013 




mountains surrounding Trail Ridge Road by Enigma Fotos

From the Mountain Top to the Core

READ FIRST 

"The short and direct penetration into the practice of blowing up mountains comes from the minds of the people who came here from Europe. We ignore the subject being overly sensitive to how it makes white people feel, and in the end we don't examine the facts or the spirit of the question. 

The first step to acquiring personal power comes from the practice of unlearning all you know. That process requires deep self-examination. In the public forums centered around the environment the source and root of the problems go to the side and we all are instructed not to look in that direction, or make the obvious connections between the environment, conquest, supremacy, dictatorial patriotism, the Euro-American belief structure, and the tendency that came from the practice of killing one's grandchildren to feed one's children that none of the conquered people had ever heard of, or conceived in their darkest dreams! 

How else does a person deal with the truth of their actions to change behavior, I assert, is the central question to the complex problem of mistreating the Earth, our Mother. Activism not coming from a deep relationship with our Mother further soils the living waters. Why is that?" 

- Gregory E. Woods, 
Keeper of Stories (Dawn Wolf)
2.23.14

Dawn Wolf teaching Medicine teachings at Raw Food weekend 2011.

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN!

A STORY TOLD 

"Deep into the sadness and the madness of blowing up mountain tops is the long and traditional relationship between poor whites and the wealthy white men beginning during the colonial period of American history that continues into the present moment!

I know Americans don't like to go to the roots of problems preferring to remain somewhere along the surface area. It hasn't worked well for anyone in the long run. But, for this issue examine the history and the correlation between the above mentioned relationship and the other relationships important to the dysfunction of the tearing down practice our culture produced!" - Gregory E. Woods, 2.23.14


Earthjustice

Julia "Judy" Bonds, activist.
 June 27, 2012 

  

"A spitfire daughter of a West Virginia coal miner who worked as a Pizza Hut waitress before she became, in midlife, a leading voice of the grass-roots resistance to mountaintop strip mining, died Jan.3, 2012 of cancer at a hospital in Charleston, W.Va. She was 58." 

That was how the Washington Post described Julia "Judy" Bonds who died in 2011 after becoming the face of mountaintop removal mining. She inspired a whole generation's fight to preserve their beloved Appalachia, as her daughter Lisa movingly recalls. http://earthjustice.org/mountain-heroes/lisa-henderson

Judy is a reminder to everyone that nothing is set in life and that we must do what is right for the things we care about most, no matter how daunting the challenges are. 

This photo mosaic was created using photo petitions from the thousands of people who have already shown their support for our fight. Won't you do the same? http://earthjustice.org/mountain-heroes/mymtrstory

Blow The Mountain Top Cut the Tit!

Terry Tempest Williams
July 12, 2012 

 "When I witnessed mountain top removal for the first time in the hollows of West Virginia, it put everything I believed about democracy into question," says Terry Tempest Williams.  http://earthjustice.org/mountain-heroes/mymtrstory







Something is happening beneath the surface, right beneath our noses and on top of the world. Things like this often happen while most are distracted by a major event in the public eye of no real consequence to the betterment of the whole! So what is insignificant that is occurring and getting your attention while something fundamental to our freedoms, and our very lives is being threatened with extinction that has your attention? Who cuts the tops of mountains to create wealth, and expand an industry, or develop beautiful islands in the water for the rich to enjoy? 


Like many the thought of, and the 'how' such a practice could have been conceived staggers the mind of most people because the mountains are where people, their histories and homes are and have been, and where prayers ascend from to the Most High, and where animals and birds live their productive lives. Mountains have been revered since our first time as people upon the Earth, our Mother! The insensitivity of a group of people who would conceive of such a thing have their own dilemma with their grandchildren becoming environmentalists, and disagreeing with the tactic. The people who profit from the destruction of mountains have an origin, a creation story, and a history we need to discover, and dissect. That being said I want to ask the proponents and those opposing this practice a series of questions beginning with how could such a thing be conceived, developed and acted upon? What kind of people believe in, and come from such an energy force, or level of consciousness? 

I don't know how to arrive at an answer to the three questions I raised without making the obvious connections to the rape of the Earth, our Mother and the rape of women. The correlation is clear. The horror visited upon one is visited upon the other. That being said where should focus now be centered in our introspection? What is the name of the monster chopping the tops of mountains off, and the one who takes pleasure in cutting the nipples of his victims' bodies? 

We can protest, and be outraged and sign petitions, march on Washington, but those actions will be as effective as slamming one's fists into the ocean outraged at the creation and power of a tsunami if we don't understand the beast created, or find out who, and what mindset, and cultural perspective created this monster! It is the lack of understanding origins that leads to gross assumptions, and disallows introspection to lead good people to correct strategies to develop and unfold in the war that should start within our very beings and follow the wisdom of knowledge, and rituals of purification that should lead the best leaders to lead the best of people to permanently stop the actions of the men who come from two cultures that have darkly, and with light altered the world we live upon. 

I asked six questions. The answers will determine outcome. These are my words. I am Gregory E. Woods, the first born of Herbert and Constance B. Woods. I am also named Alowan Chanteh Inyan Wichasha. I am a Sirmiq Aattuq Wisdom Keeper, a Keeper of Stories, a Grandfather Teacher, a Muskogee Indian-African Man speaking for the next seven generations. 

(2.23.14) 

Earth, our Mother