Exquisite Warriors From Heaven

 

I am well. I had the weekend off. Today there's no work too. I need the time to decompress, to work on various projects and to rest. Anthony started his grieving over his grandmother on Friday, and let me know. It was the Christmas songs of Frank Sinatra that started the release of healing tears. 

I felt her presence yesterday while we were watching Sunday Night Football. I didn't know what to say, and she didn't say anything, but I sensed she was happy Anthony and I were watching football together. She always would watch the game too when we watched, and cheer for Anthony's team to win.

I found a wonderful website, yummybazaar.com, so I can get my favorites I can't get here. I adore chestnut spread for crepes. Ironically, when I went later to Big Lots (a discount store) to buy our maple syrup (best price anywhere, for organic at price of conventional) I found REAL spaetzle noodles of the same brand I had just bought. I bought egg noodles and porcini mushroom noodles and also a 'mug' of hot German mustard. All at even lower prices than the website which is actually very reasonable. I've bought the chestnut spread on Amazon, and the Droste sprinkles, which upcharge about double of the website.

Here is a wonderful introduction to our heroes we are going to share today--the creator of this video is insightful and has a message for us all: Beauty of Women over Time With Untold Secret

Our first Exquisite Warrior is a mom I knew from Little League. Her son just turned eighteen. The family I met perhaps two years ago, and had relocated from the East Coast to here because of her husband's business.

Already because of that, and because her son our pitcher had emotional issues which she managed excellently--she had my respect.

But to give her brother of the pitcher a little excitement to make up for the Covid restrictions, she booked tandem skydiving for them both! 

She loved him so much she 'jumped out of a perfectly good plane' at thirteen thousand feet--thanking everyone on the team so very much for 'keeping them safe' the whole time--following her son and his tandem jumper. 

In my opinion she wins 'mom of the year', hands down.

We know that the 'unseen hand' likes to keep war going on the planet. It accomplishes two goals--it decreases the population, and it increases the wealth of the few.

Here is a video slide show of 77 photos that are really fascinating.

Now that you are in a little more relaxed and philosophical mode, let me introduce one of the most incredible souls and her most incredible story...

This is Kim Bon-Dong. She had a very close-knit family growing up. If you have read the book, Wild Swans, by Jung Chang, you will know what horrors the Japanese army inflicted upon the people of Manchuria/China.

Kim was a girl in Korea, when she was taken away to Japan.

Here is her story: a rare surviving Comfort Woman speaks

What an incredible warrior! 

• she protected her family by agreeing to go to work 'on uniforms', just like her brother was taken to 'be a student soldier'
• she tried to rescue herself and two others from the horror by attempting suicide together
• she decided to live to 'tell her story'
• she spared her future husband by keeping the problem to herself, and remaining single
• she did her best to spare her mother from the Truth, which she knew would be painful
• after all this, she still is willing to forgive, as long as the Japanese were sincere to apologize to her for kidnapping her and making her a sex slave for eight years.

You can see by her story telling, and the pain, that she didn't dissociate or develop the DID/multiples. 

There was no 'relief' from her pain, no partitioning off with her suffering to a different personality like some people do. 

I wonder about the men who were offered the opportunity to visit a 'comfort station' and declined because how offensive it was to the women?

It is the Warrior Witness like this who experiences the tragedy in order to bring that story to raise awareness in others.

Thank you, Kim Bon-Dong.

These two I'm going to introduce you to, are wonderful, upbeat women. 

But first, Ross wants me to share with you two extremely short videos about bears who are having a bad day:

• Cheering up a sad bear
  
• Swedish Man scares an attacking bear and is okay.
  

Now we are more 'light', let's get to know Carmen and Lupita!

• Dumb things people say, part one
  
• Dumb things people say, part two
  
• Interview by Chris of Special Books by Special Kids
  

Being a warrior isn't easy. You can see the family really makes a big difference in the quality of life for these girls. 

Just in case you are nosy, here is an article from The Atlantic magazine that everybody wants to know.

There was a set of thoracopagus twins Catalina and Adalina, from Mexico, that we did cardiac surgery on at my fellowship at UCSD. I didn't work on the case, but was used one twin as a transfusion/bypass machine for the other and vice versa. There were two sets of hearts and lungs I think. I wrote a paper for it, but the doctor editing it never liked what I wrote and how I wrote it so we never submitted the paper. (we intubated each separately but used the connector for a double lumen tube to have the ventilator run their ventilation. I wonder if these two are the same, and perhaps the names are a little different. 

It's a small world.

Thank you for your following our teachings. We hope that after today, you will see people around you with new eyes. You will listen closely to their stories. And you will see the angelic victory just around the corner after so many wise and wonderful, delightful souls have put in the groundwork to Raise The Consciousness of us all!

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Aloha and Mahalos,

Namaste,

Peace,

Ross and Carla

The Couple

P.S. If you are fascinated by medical things, here is a wonderful video on very rare mutations: 

and the syndromes that happen

P.P.S. Here is a recipe for Pumpkin Pie, and American tradition. That's the story behind all the 'Pumpkin Spice' everything we enjoy here in the states in Autumn.