Caring Saves Lives

Words From Book Forming Ray Of Light On Person

Viktor Frankl, one of the great psychiatrists of the twentieth century, survived the death camps of Nazi Germany. His little book, Man’s Search for Meaning, is one of those life-changing books that everyone should read.
Frankl once told the story of a woman who called him in the middle of the night to calmly inform him she was about to commit suicide. Frankl kept her on the phone and talked her through her depression, giving her reason after reason to carry on living. Finally she promised she would not take her life, and she kept her word.
When they later met, Frankl asked which reason had persuaded her to live?
“None of them”, she told him.
What then influenced her to go on living, he pressed?
Her answer was simple, it was Frankl’s willingness to listen to her in the middle of the night. A world in which there was someone ready to listen to another’s pain seemed to her a world in which it was worthwhile to live.
Often, it is not the brilliant argument that makes the difference. Sometimes the small act of listening is the greatest gift we can give.

Fertilizers

To make a nitrogen boosting fertilizer
To a two cup container add
Contents of 1 teabag
1 cup of oats
1 cup of boiling water
let sit for at least an hour, preferably longer.
Strain to remove particles.
Water your plants once every three weeks with the liquid.

For potassium, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium
Take a banana skin, chop finely and add to a litre of water.
Let soak for at least an hour to release nutrients.
Strain and water the plants with the liquid.

For a complete home made fertilizer, into a 4l container add
3 egg shells crushed as finely as possible
3 banana peels chopped
peel from one potato
Tea leaves from 3 tea bags
3 table spoons of 3% hydrogen peroxide
1 teaspoon of baking soda
Fill with warm water
Shake
Let sit for 24 hours
Strain out the solids
Use the liquid to fertilize your plants.

To kill gnats and their eggs in the soil:
add
1/3 of a cup of 3% hydrogen peroxide
1 cup of water
Water the plants with the liquid.

Jason On Cluster Bombs

Jason On Cluster Bombs

If you haven’t heard, the US said a while ago that if Russia used cluster bombs in Ukraine it would be a war crime. They have just announced they are going to send them to Ukraine to use.

Jason writes:

Double standards and hypocrisy: The legacy of the American empire

This really frustrates me. The US government is proving once again civilian casualties are nothing more than collateral damage, all while posing them as the heroes safeguarding democracy.

One hundred and twenty-three countries have joined the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, an international treaty which entered into force in 2010. Ironically, many of the states who signed the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions are NATO allies.

The US Cluster Munition Coalition, which is part of an international civil society campaign working to eradicate the weapons, said this would cause “greater suffering, today and for decades to come”.