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When I was a kid, I said that Jane Goodall had my job — to go to Africa and study animals.
But I was wrong. It was her job.
Field study all day, every day in the jungle? I wouldn’t have the patience, skill, or fortitude to do what she did.
I would be screaming from the hilltops that it took me 6 months to get close enough to a wild troop to really study their behavior. Yet, all day, Goodall would sit or travel with her binoculars, trying to make contact with a wild troop of Chimpanzees. She spent her evenings writing up her notes. Her hiring company knew that sending a young woman out into the jungle was unheard of, so, her mother, her number one supporter, went along. The mother would cook, and she and Jane would, ceremoniously, have a small glass of whiskey before they went to bed.
“As I traveled more, we’d each raise a glass at our respective 7 p.ms. It was a way to feel connected. Now I toast her up in the clouds every evening.”—Jane Goodall.
Goodall said she knew she was safe in the jungle.
Now, she has moved on with the message that we all have a reason for being and that we all matter.
From “Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall,” with Brad Falchuk. They recorded the interview in March on the condition that it would only be aired after Goodall’s death.
What a woman!
She stated that when she was a child, she wanted to go to Africa to study animals, and that turned out to be true for her. She became the foremost authority on chimpanzees and changed the definition of Homo sapiens—us.
When Dolly Parton’s high school principal asked the graduating seniors what they wanted to do after they left school, Parton said, “I’m going to Nashville and become a star.”
Everyone laughed.
She was embarrassed, but she thought, “Why are they laughing, ‘cause that’s what I’m going to do.”
We may not all become illustrious in the world’s eyes, but we matter not one iota less.
The Aboriginals of Australia believed they were holding the good energy of the Earth. However, they are dying out, and the youth are being seduced by pickup trucks and leaving the old ways. The elders, however, believe that others will pick up the torch.
Let that be us. We are the lovers of the Earth, the lovers of animals, the ones who believe that human beings have at their base an ability to live in joy and harmony. We can take what we need without destroying our resources in the process. Didn’t we learn anything from the white man coming into the West and decimating the buffalo herds?
It doesn’t appear that the majority learned, but never doubt what a small dedicated group of individuals can accomplish. (Nod to Margaret Mead.)
Pick up the torch.
Believe that we CAN and WILL make a difference.
We will preserve the Earth.
We will see that the animals do not perish from the Earth.
We will preserve our FREEDOMS.
Wherever evil lurks, there we will be to shine a light into the darkness.
Wherever people are oppressed, there we are to lend a helping hand.
Little by little, we will prevail.
· We will teach people that happiness doesn’t come from a pill.
· We can teach people that they are spiritual beings here to have a human experience, however, that doesn’t mean we don’t make that experience a great one.
· It doesn’t mean we leave behind trash for the next generation to handle. It means we care about future generations.
· We will save our children from predators.
· We can and will feed everyone on the Earth.
· We don’t need billions of dollars stockpiled into our personal stocks, bonds, and savings accounts.
What if we didn’t turn a deaf ear, or avert our eyes, and say, like the people of a village used to call out to kids that were being mischievous, “Hey, knock that off.!”
Used to be kids stopped. They felt duly chagrined.
The list of needs is immense, but since we are a lot of people, we can divide it up.
You might be a psychologist who helps people with drugs, depression, and all manner of psychological ills. You are making a difference.
You might volunteer in a classroom and read inspiring books to the children. Many adults remember one person who spoke to them when they were a child, and that one encounter made all the difference. Oprah Winfrey said that one lady told her she had “bee-stung lips.” And after that, she didn’t see them as a detriment.
You might be a farmer who grows organic produce, which helps the soil by not using chemicals and benefits people by promoting health.
after someone had beaten him up because of the color of his skin
After someone had beaten him up because of the color of his skin, Joseph McClendon III lived in the box in Lancaster, California. He thought there must be something wrong with him that a person would treat him that way.
A man came along and gave him a book.
The book was Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
He read it and returned it to the man who had given it to him, understanding that when someone offers you a gift, you should give them something in return.
The man said to pass it on, not the book specifically, but the principles.
Now Joseph McClendon III is a europsychologist in L.A.
You never know, do you?
Grab the torch!
You never know do you?
“They say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
–John Lennon.