July 2011 Blog Posts (5)

Traditional prayer. The simplicity of this traditional prayer of the Apache people speaks powerfully of the beauty of this glorious planet. May reading this Apache prayer bring you a sense of deep p…

Traditional prayer.

The simplicity of this traditional prayer of the Apache people speaks powerfully of the beauty of this glorious planet. May reading this Apache prayer bring you a sense of deep peace and comfort.

May the sun

bring you new energy by day.

May the moon

softly restore you by night.

May the rain

wash away your worries.

May the breeze

blow new strength into your being.

May you walk

gently through the world and… Continue

Added by Cindy Dickinson on July 31, 2011 at 9:06am — 1 Comment

Oil spill cleanup turns up trove of Indian relics

CAMINADA HEADLAND, La.Cleanup after the BP oil spill has turned up dozens of sites where archaeologists are finding human and animal bones, pottery and primitive weapons left behind by pre-historic Indian settlements — a trove of new clues about the Gulf Coast's mound dwellers more than 1,300 years ago. But they also fear the remains could be damaged by oil or lost to erosion before they can be fully studied.

So far, teams of archaeologists hired by the oil giant have visited more than 100… Continue

Added by ERIC SHARP on July 23, 2011 at 5:26pm — 1 Comment

A cool story ,Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered

Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday.

Marc-Andre Bernier, Parks Canada's head of underwater archaeology, said the HMS Investigator, abandoned in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water in Mercy Bay along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada's western Arctic.

"The ship is… Continue

Added by ERIC SHARP on July 23, 2011 at 5:15pm — 2 Comments

In Iceland, hunters and watchers battle over whales

A slick black head breaks the surface, drawing delighted shrieks from whale watchers in a growing, and lucrative, activity that some say should replace Iceland's controversial whale hunt.

Since their meagre beginning in the 1990s, whale safaris in this island state have grown to attract tens of thousands of visitors each summer. But its proponents tensed up when Iceland reintroduced commercial whaling in 2006, and the two sides remain uneasy bedfellows.

"Whaling is bad for our… Continue

Added by ERIC SHARP on July 23, 2011 at 5:05pm — No Comments

PRAYER REQUEST NEEDED

I GOT SOME BAD NEWS YESTERAY AFTERNOON. MY SON SENT ME A MESSAGE ON FB AND TOLD ME THAT HIS GIRLFRIEND'S DAUGHTER HAD TAKEN HER OWN LIFE SUNDAY AFTERNOON. DID NOT LEAVE A NOTE AS TO SAY WHY SHE DID IT OR WHAT WAS WRONG. HER NAME WAS AMANDA AND SHE LEFT BEHIND A 4 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. IT WAS A SAS AFTERNOON CAUSE AFTER I HEARD THAT I THOUGHT ABOUT WHEN I LOST MY SON BACK DEC.2,2003. SO I KNOW WHT SHE IS GOING THROUGH WITH LOOSING HER CHILD. KATHY HER MOM WHICH IS MY SON'S GIRLFRIEND JUST TOOK THE… Continue

Added by WILLA NYOKA (ADMIN) on July 19, 2011 at 12:34am — 15 Comments