An Ounce - For Your Consideration

A surprising story including horrific challenges and an unexpected twist.

This story begins in Dutch town during world war 2 not long after the Germans invaded 

Corrie ten Boom had become a well-respected watchmaker living a very quiet life. A self-described spinster in her 50’s lived in a 2-story home with her sister and elderly father. Life was good. It was simple, uneventful, and happy. 

Find out what happens as they decide to become involved int the Dutch Underground and end up grateful for fleas.

You never know how people are going to react in times that are dramatic or shocking. Media and Movies show us expectations that seem legitimate, however, reality can be a bit different. When dramatic things happen, people don’t react the way you might think. At the moment or after they have a chance to process what happened. It's OK. And, it is important to let someone (including yourself) deal with things in a way that makes sense to them at that moment. I share a personal experience, an aircraft crash, from many years ago to illustrate the point.

New reports from the event:

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/07/21/Report-CIA-owned-plane-that-crashed-at-Dulles-Airport/6210585460800/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1988/07/21/pilot-killed-in-takeoff-at-dulles/9e7f4b26-00bc-4378-842c-23f6a6d820ce/

https://reports.aviation-safety.net/1988/19880720-0_DHC6_N7267.pdf

This 'Bonus Episode' is a telling of a personal experience. Kirtley Freckleton relates her own story about how she created a vision for herself with a half-sized posterboard and a picture of a princess standing next to a regal horse.

Well, anyone who knows Kirtley will probably already know she loves horses, so having a picture of a girl and a horse seems like a no brainer - 'of course, she would put a picture like that!' What happens next is the amazing part.

Listen in, and enjoy going on her adventure with her, to see that very scene reproduced in real life. An experience that illustrates the real power of having a vision and a direction chosen as you step out on your own life's journey.

See the photo at:

https://anounce.org/kirtley-freckleton-power-in-direction-and-vision

More info or contact Kirtley Freckleton at:

https://www.facebook.com/kirtley.sorensen

https://www.kirtleyfreckleton.com/?fbclid=IwAR0eIbxL7lnO3phB_hB63D8GABFB7OldFfVI1rPOT3EapeMMUj2p_Y12M8I

This famous story is incomplete...

'Listen, my children, and you shall hear

Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five…

...Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch

Of the North Church Tower as a signal light, -

One, if by land, and two, if by sea;…

A fun story to hear written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow of the heroic adventure of the Famous Revolutionary Paul Revere. 

But, this prose has a few important omissions. 

Listen and learn of additional hero's who were arguably more successful and heroic than Paul Revere!

Jim was a tall lanky young man, well-liked by everyone who knew him. Ever since he could remember he wanted to fly. In his younger years, he spent endless hours in the basement of the family home working on model airplanes, mechanical drawings, and chemistry. All with the aim of someday, becoming, a flyer.

With his father's encouragement, he began to let go of his dreams of flying and applied to Princeton University. He was accepted and began his studies in 1928. 

An intelligent man, and aware of world affairs, Jim could see a war coming. He loved his country, he wanted to contribute. And, in November of 1940, he decided to enlist. He was rejected. He was too skinny. 

He gave it another try in February of 1941, and having a friend manning the scales, he met the weight requirement. Despite great protest from his contracted employer, Jim entered military service in March 1941, as a private in the United States Army air corps. 

We live in a restless world. Everyone moving so fast, working, carting the kids around, keeping appointments, earning, building, growing. Finding a way to move ahead, and get maybe get rich.

Here’s a simple little story that will help us change our perspective a little. What is it to be 'rich'?

There is no doubt that showing off and having fun can be a thrill. And, sometimes there no reason not to. 

But, Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should. 

Listen to a fun story about a couple of pilots and a vintage car enthusiast.

When he was born his mom and dad could immediately see he was different. Life for their son would be harder than it was for other boys. They may have mourned for him a little, and wondered what kinds of challenges they would have to see him face. They may have been concerned about how he would deal with being different. 

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America. He led the nation through the perilous civil war and was re-elected to a second term. 

Today, he is one of the most admired and popular presidents we’ve had. But, following the civil war about half the nation didn’t feel that way. The feelings of those in the south were still very raw, and some of them were not at all ready to accept the outcome of the Un-civil conflict in which they had been defeated.

On the 14th of April, 1865, the President and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, decided to take in a play, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC. It was there that the President was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth. And, hours later, on the morning of April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died.

How did this happen?

Isn’t there tight security around a president everywhere he goes?

How did the assassin get so close that he was able to hold a gun up inches from the back of the President’s head, and take his life?

Here’s the story of one seriously surprised mayor of Argonia,  Kansas. Elected mayor and the candidate didn’t even know their name was on the ballot.

In 1887, the rules for elections did not require that the names of those on the ballot were made public until Election Day. The inclusion of this surprised candidate's name was done a prank, a joke, if you will, by political rivals trying to make a point that the consideration of such a candidate was foolish.

The name placed on the ballot as a prank, as a ploy to humiliate, backfired - big time.