Especially to Camilla, Carole and Everybody who were talking and thinking in
these nightmare-days NOT ONLY about own diseases and pains, BUT also about
OTHER people's pains, even they were not PD sufferers:
THESE CLAPTRAPS WERE THE MOST HUMAN REACTIONS AND THESE IMPROVED THE PARKYS
LISTMEMBERS HUMAN DIGNITTY AND SOCIAL SENSIBILITY.
And I know very well that to type with these "capitals" means in the
e-mailing ethic shouting - yes, I wanted to shout it
so as everybody could hear me.
Believe me, I'm right. I've grown up in such a world what - fortunately -
most of you cannot imagine. Under the communist regime every year (it were45
years...) we had to celebrate even the anniversary of the occupation of our
country! We had also the celebrate the Soviets's anniversaries, we were
forced to live on that way what they did determind for us. There were no
more privacies, there were no more private properties - they have stolen
these. And they have stolen the lives of thousands and millions, and not
only their lives but even their future and their dreams, too. They told us
in my childhood and later my children that there was no God, there were no
Santa Claus, there was no nationality only internationality, - so people,
believe me! To remain a Human Being, a feeling, living soul is very simply
and even so hard: to be as emphatic and
helpful and filled with love as much place is in your heart. And the
capacity of the human heart is endless...!
This is one of those things what I've learnt during these dark years, I've
learnt to love as much as I can. Everybody. Every creature of God - even
them, too. I do not hate them, most of that regime's men were poor in their
spirit and in their mind, I think.
Do not forget: your ability to love is endless.
God Bless You All!
Olga Maria
----- Original Message -----
From: Camilla Flintermann <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: The complications we face
> >Dear Camilla: I have long counted you a dear friend,
> >although we have never met, and the conscience of the List.
> >It is complicated, isn't it? All wars are hideous and in
> >all wars innocents die. THAT is the REAL dilemma, isn't it,
> >how to engage in the inherently inhumane act of war,
> >without forfeiting your humanity?
>
> Indeed---you put it very well. I know you are stressed and hurting
> in many ways, and I wish I could be there to give you a BIG HUG and
> maybe a dish of Haagen Daas ? (sp) Try to take a few deep breaths
> and calm yourself, for in order to face what may lie ahead, calm will
> be needed at times. I recall how we demonized the Kaiser (though I
> wasn't born yet), Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito---now the
> demon-face is bin Laden. We seem to need to do this to the enemy
> before we can attack--just as they in turn have done it to us. I
> have said what I needed to say, claptrap or not, and I am sorry if
> you were in ANY way personally offended, for you ARE my dear
> friend,--and here's that HUG, even if it has to be virtual---
>
> {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{CAROLE-GRINCH}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
>
> Please try to be good to yourself----, with much love, Camilla
>
>
> >And the children. Of course we have all seen them in their
> >streets celebrating death. So sad to be so young and so
> >full of hate. (Although he recruits the poor and
> >disadvantaged to die for his cause, Bin Laden, as you know,
> >comes from a priviledged background and does not wish to
> >die anytime soon, as he adhers to the maxim that it's hard
> >to hit a moving target.)It reminds of the stories about the
> >children sent to lure soldiers into booby-traps during that
> >last horrible war in Viet Nam. I have 3 sons and a nephew
> >of draftable age and, as it is the children who fight all
> >wars, I am so stressed this week that my PD symptoms seemed
> >to have tripled. So, dear friend,before Mr. PD does me in,
> >I need to take a break from this topic and do something
> >that relaxes me. If I could just remember what that is...
> >Carole
>
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