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Feb 24, 2007

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Today’s Stories

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Reiki Energy Healing

Robin Lee

Healing With Hands

Though life can be complicated, healing your mind and body should be a simple process. Many of today's methods of healing are unpleasant and expensive. Reiki is a natural hands-on healing art that can be easily learned and performed on yourself or a recipient. It is uncomplicated but very powerful because it rids your body of toxic energies and creates balance in the mind, body and spirit.

The Japanese word Reiki refers to universal life force, or Chi, energy that exists within all things. In its simplest form, it involves one person placing his or her hands on another to become an open channel for Reiki energy to flow through. The energy is drawn into the recipient, where it strengthens the life force and gives the body the energy it needs to heal itself.

Channeling the life force energy can leave you with feelings of peace, relaxation and security while it treats your or a recipient's mind and spirit. You can perform Reiki on pets, your home and even your car, infusing your possessions with beneficial energy that will promote safety and well-being.

Learning Reiki is easy. Much in the same way Reiki is performed, the ability to use the technique is transferred from master to student by opening the student's energy field to allow it to act as a conduit.

The International Center for Reiki Training offers information about classes, books and products that will help you begin to channel life force energy on your own. Learning Reiki gives you a simple, all-natural health solution that you can use on yourself and others, and the knowledge lasts a lifetime.

It's that time of the month when I need to work on my monthly story for my website.

After some hemming and hawing, I put all my archives together, did a little googling for more info,  then in an e-mail to a good friend, I wrote this, which I realized was just the twist for this biography of a desert rat named Josie Bishop. This is a rough draft and only half of the story.  I'm posting this in the e-mail form to my friend,  but I think I will entitle this:

Robin Lee

onespiritx3@yahoo.com

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  The Making Of A Story

Cecile Vargo

The Making of Josie Bishop/ Radium Queen of the Mojave

To:  Old Scribe

Before you read this, I hope you have seen the previous e-mail I sent, and you will realize that I was headed from Los Angeles to the wilds of the western Mojave, by horse and buggy and to Jawbone Canyon to Josie Stevens Whitehill Bishop's grave.  Somewhere along the way I picked up a little tidbit that Josie's papa was from New Mexico, so I turned  my buggy around and headed straight for Silver City. 

My horse was getting pretty tired by now, and so was I, so we stopped in the saloon and there a young man overheard us asking about Sheriff Whitehill.  It was pretty scary there for a moment when I realized who this kid was - but he came over and tipped his hat, then sat down right next to me at the old bar.  I slung down a shot of whisky real fast before I took him up on his offer of his rough hewn hand. "Names Henry, Henry McCarty" he said, "But most people around these parts know me best as Billy".

So this kid, Billy, and I started talking and one thing led to the other in the conversation, as they often do. Turns out that Sheriff Whitehill arrested him once for throwing rocks at Chinamen, and stealing several pounds of butter from a rancher. The Sheriff's boy was friend's with Billy, and he felt sorry for the kid, so he let him off with a warning. A few months later, Billy found himself arrested by Sheriff Whitehill once again. This time for stealing clothing from a Chinese laundry. The case went to court and Billy was sent to jail, in hopes it would temporarily keep him out of more serious trouble, and teach him a lesson that he would take with him later in life.  Unfortunately, for Billy, it didn't work, and I shuttered when I realized that after our brief encounter at that Silver City bar.... Billy's fate would eventually wind up in the hands of another Sheriff named Garrett.

The bartender came around and offered the kid and I another round, which by this time I was in more desperate need of than the first one. We clunked our glasses together before taking the second shot.  I wiped my hand across my mouth, then my jeans, before offering Billy my hand once again.  "Thanks," I said.  "You've been more than helpful."  then I got up from the creaky bar stool and headed out the saloon.

I realized the library was just down the street from where my horse and buggy rested. I paused to pat the horse in assurance, then headed towards it. There the librarian kindly directed me to a room in the back where the newspaper archives were.  I thumbed through until I found 1875.  Sure enough, April and September of 1875, Henry McCarty, better known in later years as William Henry Bonny, was arrested by the Sheriff of Grant county, Harvey Howard Whitehill.

My heart was racing by now, and I knew I had to get back to  California and the western Mojave desert. I hurried to my buggy and with a holler to the horse, we were fast on our way.  In record time, we were back at Jawbone Station and a quick look at the calendar behind the BLM visitor center counter, assured me it was 2007.  Upon request, a volunteer behind the counter directed me to the information pamphlets. 

There it was:  Josie Bishop, Radium Queen of the Mojave.  A few paragraphs down I read:

"Born June 18, 1875, Silver City, New Mexico, Josephine Stevens Whitehill was the fifth of ten children born to Sheriff Harvey Whitehill and his wife Harriet Stevens."

And my mouth dropped open.  Harriet Stevens would have been pregnant with Josephine at the time her sheriff husband was arresting Billy The Kid!

Some forty years later, the daughter of the  Silver City sheriff that had the first reported run in with the infamous outlaw who began his life of crime stealing several pounds of butter, moved to the Mojave Desert from New Mexico.  She was quoted in a 1937 edition of Times Magazine as arriving with "a can of beans, a loaf of bread but no butter." But the lack of butter didn't seem to bother her very much, because she owned some promising acreage between Jawbone and Redrock Canyons. In another twelve years she would be known as the Radium Queen of the Mojave.

So what do you think, Old Scribe, do I have the makings of a story?

Cecile Vargo

ccvargo@yahoo.com

Well behaved women rarely make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

www.explorehistoricalif.com  

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Poetry Corner

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Winter's Fight

Cynthia Groopman

Winter is truly involved in a big fight,
 Employing all of his anger and might.
 He refuses to leave the seasonal scene,
 As he doesn't want to embrace the lush springtime theme.
Winter acts in a hostile manner, as spring attempts to arrive,
And in her arms are rebirth and renewal,
Desiring to flourish and thrive.
 Winter and spring spin round and round,
 As they hiss and quarrel in a nasty sound.
 Winter must not display a mean arrogant face,
And should never be reluctant to accept spring's soft loving embrace.
For in God's scheme of things,
 Snow falls in winter and birds enchant us in the spring.
 So, spring and winter, you must certainly learn to behave,
And for seasonal tranquility, I so desire and crave.


Cynthia Groopman
Cynthia.Groopman@verizon.net
Copyright ©2006 Cynthia Groopman

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The Flower of Friendship

Cynthia Groopman

In my garden of life, beautiful flowers of friendship regally

bloom,

And How am I enchanted by the lovely fragrant

ant melodic tunes.

With warm sunshine crowned with marvelous splendor,

Thrives friendship's flower, so fragrant and tender.

All of these

flowers grow into

a regal chain,

Possessing a warm glow of hope despite sadness, or the

stormy days of rain

Cynthia Groopman 

Cynthia.Groopman@verizon.net

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 Life's Storms

Cynthia Groopman

Life has many storms that darken our sky,
As we become flustered and see clouds weep and cry.
In a state of anger, life's wind howls and shouts,
Tossing our thoughts all about.
Life's storms are full of fury and torment, at times,
And we long for the sunshine to brilliantly glow and radiantly shine.
Angry and bitter we must not be,
And we must learn to adjust successfully.
So, when life has a stormy day,
A cheerful thought smiles at me in a loving way.


Cynthia Groopman
Cynthia.Groopman@verizon.net

Copyright ©2006 Cynthia L. Groopman

Readers Feedback

 Carol,

I've seen May/December and December/May relationships work. I've also seen them fail. But that is true of all married couples. In my opinion, any marriage will have a better chance of survival if they are compatible, and both partners are willing to compromise for the better of the relationship.

Renee'

Re. Liberty Honors Medal winner Cynthia Groopman.     WOW!    What an honor!  What an inspiration she is to all of us and to all  of the seniors she reaches and touches with her poetry and hard work.  Thank you Cynthia!               Louise

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