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THIS Is How You Change The World. Doing Your Best To Improve Things. Daniel and Daughters.

Daniel and Daughters

In 1985, in a quiet village in East Africa, a man named Daniel stood barefoot with his three daughters. His wife had passed during childbirth the year before. He never remarried. He didn’t have the time-or the heart. He was a farmer, a builder, a father, and a dreamer all in one.

Their home had no electricity. Some nights, dinner was just boiled roots and water. But what they had—what Daniel made sure they always had—was dignity.

Every morning before sunrise, he woke his girls and walked them two miles to the schoolhouse. He couldn’t read or write himself, but he sat outside the classroom every day, waiting in the shade, just so they wouldn’t have to walk home alone.
Sometimes he went without food so they could buy a pencil.

He sold his wedding ring to afford exam fees.

He worked three jobs during harvest season just to buy secondhand textbooks—many missing pages.

People laughed.

“They are girls,” they said.

“What future do they have?”

Daniel didn’t answer.

He just kept walking beside them.

Years passed. One by one, they graduated.

One by one, they earned scholarships.

And one by one… they crossed oceans.

In 2025, 40 years after that photo was taken, the world saw something no one expected:

A new image of the same man, standing proudly-this time in front of a hospital-with his three daughters, all wearing white coats.

Doctors.

All of them.

When asked how he felt, Daniel cried softly and whispered,

“I never gave them the world. I just never let the world take their #hope away.”

He grew crops with his hands, but he raised doctors with his heart.

And in the quiet shadow of a man the world never knew, three girls rose… and changed it.

By Harper Lily

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Wise Words From Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle

Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle

Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented a few days ago on the current situation:

“This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole. The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into this hole.

But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, then you will walk through the portal.

Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone at the same time.

Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. There is a social question in this crisis, but also a spiritual question. The two go hand in hand.

Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism.

Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.

Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.

Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are exterminated. But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.

Don’t feel guilty for feeling blessed in these troubled times.

Being sad or angry doesn’t help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!

You have the right to be strong and positive. And there’s no other way to do it than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright posture.

Has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world).

It’s a resistance strategy.

When we cross the threshold, we have a new worldview because we faced our fears and difficulties. This is all you can do now:
– Serenity in the storm
– Keep calm, pray everyday
– Make a habit of meeting the sacred everyday.

Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love.”

Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle

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Montefortino Helmet

Montefortino Helmet

One of the most critical pieces of Roman armor, the Montefortino helmet used around the 4th century BC, was actually a design borrowed from Celtic warriors.

This helmet featured a simple but life-saving innovation: a small, protruding neck guard at the back.

In the chaos of close-quarters combat, this small flap of metal was designed to deflect downward sword or axe blows aimed at the back of a soldier’s neck.

It was a practical and efficient addition that didn’t add much complexity or cost to the helmet’s production.

The design proved so effective that the Roman Republic adopted it widely, and it became a common sight on the battlefield during major conflicts like the Punic Wars against Carthage.

Initially, soldiers often had to provide their own equipment, but the clear advantages of helmets like the Montefortino led to greater standardization.

This shows the Roman genius for recognizing, adopting, and perfecting effective military technology, regardless of its origin.

The legacy of this simple neck guard can be seen in the design of military helmets for centuries to come, a testament to a feature that saved countless lives.

What’s fascinating is that the Montefortino was not the end of the story for Roman head protection.
It was a starting point that the Romans continuously improved upon.
Later helmets, like the Coolus and the iconic Imperial Gallic types, featured even larger and more refined neck guards.
Roman armorers also added other improvements, such as reinforced brow ridges and more substantial cheek pieces, based on battlefield experience.
This practical approach to military gear, constantly adapting and improving, was a key reason for Rome’s long-standing military dominance.
It shows a deep understanding that protecting the individual soldier was essential for the success of the entire army.
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Potentially The Most Important Food Article You Will Ever Read

Wheat Gut

Was agriculture “the worst mistake in the history of the human race”? Skeletal analysis shows that early farming communities were shorter-lived and sicker than their hunter-gatherer predecessors – height dropped by 5-6 inches, life expectancy fell by seven years. Studies of prehistoric skeletons reveal a nearly 50% increase in signs of malnutrition (like enamel defects in teeth) and a fourfold rise in iron-deficiency anemia when agriculture took over.

The dark side of wheat is a story about listening – listening to our bodies, to the lessons of history, and to the emerging science that challenges nutritional orthodoxies. It urges us to reconsider the comforting narrative that has placed wheat on a pedestal. Yes, wheat nurtured civilizations and fills bellies in a hungry world. But it may also underlie a great deal of the chronic illness that plagues those very civilizations in the modern era.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/p/beyond-the-gluten-free-fad-the-unchanged

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Crisis In Psychiatry

Crying Criminals

Psychiatrists and their membership body, the Royal College of Psychiatrists, consistently lament about the growing crises in their profession. A regular narrative calling for even more Government funding could easily sway members of the public into thinking a higher proportion of their taxes should be spent on mental health. But think again.
Clever and shrewd investors consider the overall value of a service in a given industry or profession. Amongst other things, they look at value for money, the longevity of a product and its workability. Psychiatry however falls down on all of these points and it’s not because of money or staff.
Psychiatry is fundamentally flawed. A constantly revolving mental health door indicates failing and damaging outcomes of psychiatric “treatments”. Whether it’s voluntary or involuntary “treatment”, patients are being harmed and dying as a result of prescribed psychiatric drugs and brain-damaging ECT. In any other profession, these failures would result in probable closure while also generating court proceedings and custodial sentences. The fact that psychiatry continues in its same operating patterns indicates the profession is currently operating with impunity.
Silence about psychiatric damage and the abject failures is not an option.