Written by a lovely client of mine.
GATE A-4
Grab your tissues and read this!
How one woman helped to create, even if briefly and even if only for a few, the world most of us want to live in.
Isn’t this worth emulating?
Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement: “If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately.” Well — one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing. “Help,” said the flight agent. “Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.”
I stooped to put my arm around the woman and spoke haltingly.
“Shu-dow-a, Shu-bid-uck Habibti? Stani schway, Min fadlick, Shu-bit-se-wee?” The minute she heard any words she knew, however poorly used, she stopped crying. She thought the flight had been cancelled entirely. She needed to be in El Paso for major medical treatment the next day. I said, “No, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just later, who is picking you up? Let’s call him.”
We called her son, I spoke with him in English. I told him I would
stay with his mother till we got on the plane and ride next to
her. She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just
for the fun of it. Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and found out of course they had ten shared friends. Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian poets I know and let them chat with her? This all took up two hours.
She was laughing a lot by then. Telling of her life, patting my knee,
answering questions. She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool
cookies — little powdered sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts — from her bag — and was offering them to all the women at the gate. To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the mom from California, the lovely woman from Laredo — we were all covered with the same powdered sugar. And smiling.
There is no better cookie.
And then the airline broke out free apple juice from huge coolers and two little girls from our flight ran around serving it and they
were covered with powdered sugar, too. And I noticed my new best friend — by now we were holding hands — had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing, with green furry leaves. Such an old country tradition. Always carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.
And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and I thought, This is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in that gate — once the crying of confusion stopped— seemed apprehensive about any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women, too.
This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
My 3 Step Plan
I have formulated a three step handling that is my best shot at bringing people up to speed so we can save them from harm and enjoy their shoulder to the wheel to reverse this insanity.
Step 1 points up the illogics in the government response. Hopefully the product is a person whose suspicians are confirmed that all is not as it seems.
The product of Step 2 is a person disabused of the illusion that the government operate in their best interests.
The product of Step 3 is a person who has certainty that Covid was a man interefered with virus and the response to it was a planned scam from beginning to end.
A tall ask I know, but ya gotta try! The soup we are in is getting might hot and this frog wants OUT!
Unlock Australia!
Please contribute by signing this petition.
https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/petition_2109_unlockaustralia
The Cry Of The Mothers
Simple Choice
This week I have had two long conversations with “last man standing” holdout girls, those who are the last one in their organisation/company to get the shot and being pressured to do so. Both were feeling alone, pressured and were wavering in their determination due to feeling so alone.
My question to them was this, “Based on all I have read/watched from doctors and scientists in the last 18 months, it comes down to a choice between taking the shot and knowing you will be dead within 3-5 years at the outside or leaving that job (I recommend not quitting but waiting till you are laid off) and looking for another job, which would you choose?)
I try to keep it simple and keep it true.
Qantas Pilot Speaks Out About Vaccine Mandate
This brave Australian pilot is facing termination for not submitting to the company’s demands of “no jab, no job.”
https://rumble.com/vm6tgd-qantas-pilot-speaks-out-about-vaccine-mandate.html
Time To Vote Out The Tyrants!
Craig Kelly is standing up for our freedom.
His new party has 40,000 members in 13 days.
He rightly says the Liberals and Labor are the same. They are both controlled and want vaccine passports.
Time to ditch them and replace them.
Assumption Of Liability Agreement
Police Officer Challenges Government’s Vaccination Policy
A New South Wales Police officer is taking legal action against the state Health Minister Brad Hazzard over the COVID-19 injection, which for many is for all intents and purposes mandatory if they wish to work and lead semi-normal lives.
Although police officers have not been singled out for mandatory vaccinations, they are still considered to be essential workers and are being urged to obtain vaccinations.
Over and above that, officers officers who live in Local Government Areas (LGAs) of concern in Greater Sydney, must be vaccinated before they can leave those LGAs to go to work.
Legal action
Senior Constable Belinda Hocroft, who is attached to the Dog and Mounted Police unit, has filed civil proceedings in the Supreme Court of NSW against the health minister seeking a declaration that the government does not have the power to pass orders which essentially coerce people into being vaccinated.
Ms Hocroft’s legal team says the lawsuit, “specifically challenges the extent to which the Government may coerce its citizens to have themselves injected with a drug they object to taking, especially when there is a less intrusive alternative of having the unvaccinated citizens tested to ensure that they are not carrying the virus.”
The Senior Constable has been working as a NSW Police Officer for 14 years and has been told that she cannot return to work until she has had one dose of the Covid-19 vaccination because she comes from a ‘hotspot’ zone.
“I am not against vaccines as such. However I am concerned about the long term effects of Covid-19 given they are relatively new vaccines,” Ms Hocroft said in an affidavit to support her legal action.