The Earthkeepers

Or maybe don’t want to know! I don’t know where John found this list, but many of these “facts” sound absurd. Who knows, maybe they’re all true!  –Mark

1. The venom in a Daddy Longlegs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow’s or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won’t open wide enough.

2. A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

3. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

5. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.

6. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

7. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

8. Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

9. The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas bursting.

10. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents who are present and don’t die throughout the movie.

11. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara falls froze completely solid.

12. There’s no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.

13. It’s impossible to get water out of a rimless tire. 14. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

15. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

16. In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.

17. In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30 minutes after eating garlic.

18. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

20. Polar bears are left-handed.

21. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

22. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

23. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs in it.

24. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.

As part of our dance or encampment ceremonies, John included a forgiveness ceremony.

In this ceremony, forgiveness was not treated as something that is good for the person that is being forgiven. Instead, the approach to forgiveness is that carrying around resentment, hurt, or ill feeling is unhealthy. We can improve our health by forgiving and start the process of peace in our lives.

Look at the act or event, which we derived our hurt from as being real. We assume that whatever hurt we have felt is justified. Remember, we don’t have to visit that territory at all. We also do not look at forgiveness as necessarily reducing the distance between two people. Being in a state of forgiveness does not automatically require things being the way they were before. Two people being together may not be appropriate anymore after forgiveness as before.

However, what does change is that we let go of the emotions of judgment, anger, resentment, and fear, which served us when we were freeing ourselves from a situation we had decided, was not healthy or productive. Sometimes those kinds of emotions serve us well in the interim. But once those feelings no longer serve us, we go through the ceremony of forgiveness to begin the process of letting these emotions go.

The ceremony itself begins the process by forgiving the only person involved in the situation who is present at the ceremony - you.

Hugs, Tracy - take what you want…find your truths…leave the rest. ~ I share because I care.