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Storytime Tapestry Newsletter
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August 2, 2007
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TO HONOR THEIR SOULS
Perhaps you have never heard of Katherine Lawes. Katherine was the
wife of Lewis Lawes, warden at Sing Sing Prison from 1920-1941.
Sing Sing had the reputation of destroying wardens. The average
warden's tenure before Lewis Lawes was two years. "The easiest way to
get out of Sing Sing," he once quipped, "is to go in as warden."
In
his 21 years he instituted numerous reforms - and an important part of
his success was due to his wife Katherine.
Katherine took seriously the idea that the prisoners are human beings,
worthy of attention and respect. She regularly visited inside the
walls of Sing Sing. She encouraged the prisoners, ran errands for them
and spent time listening to them. Most importantly, she cared about
them. And as a result, they cared deeply about her.
Then one night in October of 1937, news was "telegraphed" between the
prison cells that Katherine was killed in an accident. The prisoners
petitioned the warden to allow them to attend her funeral bier. He
granted their strange request and a few days later the south gate of
Sing Sing swung slowly open. Hundreds of men - felons, lifers,
murderers, thieves - men convicted of almost every crime conceivable,
marched slowly from the prison gate to the bier, reassembled at the
house and returned to their cells. There were so many that they
proceeded unguarded. But not one tried to escape. If he had, the
others may have killed him on the spot, so devoted were they to
Katherine Lawes, the woman who daily walked into Hell to show the men
a piece of Heaven.
Katherine's strength was to see the men less as prisoners and more as
individuals. Thomas Moore has said, "We can only treat badly those
things or people whose souls we disregard."
To treat people well is to honor their souls. To honor their souls is
to understand what it means to love your neighbor.
-- Steve Goodier
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This I Believe. Great Presidents
Bill Walker
missourisage@yahoo.com
I was reading other people’s views and polls taken on who were the
greatest presidents of these United States. I don't think
that is a fair question. Each president had different
problems, some were great buck passers. I think the people who were polled sure
didn't understand the question judging by the ones that was picked to be the
greats.
Since reading of the mess the present president has us in, I wonder if the
man ever read history in any level of what schooling he has or knew
what holders of the office before said or had to deal with. If he had
studied others a bit he might have thought better of his moves into Iraq.
George Washington said it very plain, don't go getting messed up in other
people’s problems.. Don't trouble them, if they didn't trouble you.
Teddy Roosevelt said, stay out of other people’s troubles also. Carry a big
stick, whack the other guy if he comes and troubles you, otherwise, just carry
a big stick.
There has been many nations and warlords who bit off more then they could chew.
They become all powerful, but then they fall apart due to a couple things.
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Get so
big and power hungry,
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run
troops here, there, putting out fires here and there.
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Even
have problems at home, and can't deal with them for the lack of troops at home.
- Is this the United States we see today?
No one nation by itself can be the world cop; ever has, and never will. They
might be able to do it for a time, and most of the time that isn't very long.
Soon a small rag tag nation becomes too much. The powerhouse draws in the
horns, licks wounds, and then gets into another mess some where else.
- Is this the United States we see today?
We have lost something in the way of wise men in
government that understood, the fact, stay out of other people’s problems.
Carry a big stick, whack them hard and good if they trouble you, other wise
stay at home, take care of problems at home, not elsewhere. Above all stay out
of some other nation’s Civil Wars. Your only going to get killed yourself
messing in other nations Civil Wars.
In the American Civil War, did you see other nation’s coming to aid one
side or the other. The South tried to get Britain to come to
their aid. Britain acted a bit
like they might, but then backed out of it. I don't think from what I read, Britain was about to
send troops to get messed up in the fuss. They might have given a few dollars,
in aid, but it would have been very few. They might have let some get jobs on
the raider ships the South had, but that didn't line Britain up on the
South side in the war.
I have said it before, will say it again. No people’s or nation like your
troops standing guard on their land.. You’re going to get whacked at till you
either kill them off, or they send you dripping in blood for home. You might
have had a faction of the people that welcomed you at first, soon they too will
join the ones you were trying to clean out, and both are ganging up on you.
- Are we seeing this today in Iraq?
Yes the United States is going to
fall apart within, and with getting messed up in other people’s problems. It is
now just a matter of time. Mighty Rome fell for the
same reasons, and this nation is real close to going the same old road.
Getting back to great presidents; it sure beats me how three of the top five
picks got on the list. I wonder what happened to Jefferson, Washington, and Teddy,
and Herbert Hoover.
- You say Herbert Hoover?
Well at least he had General MacArthur at home to roll out the tanks and send
the Veterans of World War One out of Washington. He was tending to problems at
home, not some where else. His saying was there is going to be a chicken in
every pot, the problem was the Veterans didn't have the pot.
Speaking about the Veterans of World War One, this
reminds me of the time I was a starving Southern Soldier, I think it was in
1864 I went up to this house out in the country. I asked the lady of the house if she could
give me a piece of meat to cook? The lady did have, and gave me. I then asked
if she has a pan I can fry it in? She whooped me up a fine meal, guess she
thought I might be like them dad gum Yankees, keep the
pan.
Tinker and Poo; The Boys Write
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-35741-5
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Poetry Corner
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FAR
FROM HOME
Sandra L Hoynacki
Each board painted in love and pride
Always mindful of life inside
Locked within so many treasures
We used a key and several measures
To enter hurriedly
Rockers lined this porch of time
Weathering seasons and various clime
Dignitaries sat with wine to drink
Distressed of life, the radical brink
Speaking worriedly
Vacant of life; boney fingers I see
Apparitions appear pointing at me
Figures wave and mirrors stare
In empty rooms with beds now bare
Of mortal man
They seemed to share a heavy load
No one else could dare encode
The meetings held on this front porch
Often caused some ears to scorch
Now remains quiet
They won and lost many good wars
Became old friends, wrote memoirs
This place in town a cozy home
Now sits empty; as ghost now roam
It just seems right
Sandra L Hoynacki
sandylh@cox.net
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