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I wish you enough.

Mum And Daughter At Parting
Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said:
“I love you and I wish you enough.”

The daughter replied, “Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom.” They kissed and the daughter left.

The mother walked over to the window where I sat. Standing there, I could see she wanted and needed to cry.

I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied. “Forgive me for asking but why is this a forever good-bye?”

“I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is the next trip back will be for my funeral,” she said.

When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, “I wish you enough.” May I ask what that means?”

She began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.” She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more.
“When we said ‘I wish you enough’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them”. Then turning toward me, she shared the following, reciting it from memory,

“I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.”

She then began to cry and walked away.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person.
An hour to appreciate them.
A day to love them.
And an entire life to forget them.

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Tenth Amendment Centers

A new friend asked me about tenth amendment centers.
Well, it runs deep but here goes.
Bear in mind this is my current understanding and I reserve the right to learn more. 🙂
The whole basis of our legal system is Magna Carta – The Great Charter. This was an agreement between the nobles of England and their king on the basis of how things should be run from a legal perspective from that day forward.
It is worth reading in its entirety but it says that NO MAN shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without a trial by a jury of his peers.
Because it also says that nobody has the power to legislatively take away these rights, they cannot be lawfully dispensed with.
Because Magna Carta is the basis of our judicial system and has not been overturned, replaced, reversed or any any other way abrogated, IT STILL STANDS and is valid despite any legislation to the contrary because it is senior to legislation!
What this means is that EVERY administrative and judicial fine, foreclosure, incarceration or killing is illegal according to the basis of law in the UK, US and Australia, Canada and NZ.
The we come to the US Constitution. It is the original, basic agreement on which the country is founded. It may only be amended under certain circumstances. A point which your current president know only too well, being a constitutional lawyer, but which, like Magna Carta, he criminally chooses to ignore.
Signed by representatives of the states, the Constitution is an agreement which grants certain specific and limited rights to a Federal government. Note, the States preceded and formed the US Federal government and take rank in priority over it!
As you can read here, http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/about/about-the-tenth-amendment/
several founding fathers were strongly opposed to the sort of government they suffered under from England and many in the US now suffer. Thus they lobbied for and had passed, the tenth amendment to the Constitution.
There are grounds for any state to nullify any federal law it holds unconstitutional: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_(U.S._Constitution)
Sine the US Federal Government is currently pursuing a despotic, anti-freedom, anti-liberty and suppressive course of action, at home and abroad, it pays people who value their liberty to do something about it while they still can.
Since the US, at this time and in this place, sets the pace for the rest of this planet, I have a vested interest in seeing liberty maintained.
If you are a US citizen, don’t just alert others, please lend your shoulder to the liberty wheel!
Your mate from Down Under,
Tom Grimshaw