Inca summer palace
Cusco, Peru is waaay the hell up in the mountains of South America. I needed oxygen
shortly after the plane landed. Mi espouse, Blanca was born there. The next day we took a Toyota taxi into the sierras...After a few hours of empty dirt road...Pulled off..Middle of absolute No where...And 5 children soon materialized running at full speed... pulling each other. The oldest was 8 and the little girl was probably 2 or 3. They all started singing at the top of their lungs...Each and every one of their faces was very tired and not very happy. This was their survival skill. No electricity, no telephones, no train track, very very little other than a beautiful sky, a cow, irregular rows of corn, a river and each other. Rain or shine they were outside most of the time. As they looked up singing I could see by the health of their skin... how they are outside all day in the elements of wind, a huge blue sky and a light burning within each of them. Big sister, while squeezing hands, did smile and spoke while the "choir" wailed at about 90Db. The little voices are beautiful and captured on my digital Sony video but the picture tells a different story. After praising and enjoying and shaking hands and dancing we passed out gifts. To each I gave and to the oldest I gave for her mama and papa.....Looking back out the car window I waved goodbye to these children covered in dirt.... The middle size boy squeezed the prize in his hand, he grinned and yelled "George Bush" as loud as he could. I smiled and included each of them, and all their loved ones in my prayers. Then we jumped in our taxi and drove off in a cloud of dust.....throwing kisses of course. On a different topic...That of healthy clean drinking water....Let us all visualize and enclose sources of pure Water..." Water is the lifeblood of industries and communities around the world, and scarcity, increasing demand and rising costs are driving the need to conserve, reuse and identify new supplies of this essential resource," said George Oliver, president and CEO of GE's Water & Process Technologies business. "By 2025, nearly 50% of the world's population will live in water stressed areas according to the World Meteorological Association and many in the Middle East face this reality today." Loved Ones enclose Mr. Oliver and all his loved ones with the White Light of the Holy Spirit and give blessing to the living planet upon which our physical being is composed.
- posted by Samuel Bell @ 9:29 AM