DogTags and Body Bags (with Healing Epiphany at end)

There was a very healing epiphany for me revealed at the end in the last three sentences:
healing from survivor's guilt and immense grief!

Dearest Ron, Heartfelt thanks for sharing this.  Your healing journey is so inspiring that it moves me to tears!  This is so beautifully conceived and put together.  You have expressed yourself eloquently and with deep meaningfulness.  Knowing how hard-earned this piece is makes me appreciative beyond words.  It is sure to help others in their own journeys of healing.  What a wonderful tribute this is to your brother, too.  I'm sure he is loving, thanking, and celebrating you from the 0ther side - just as so many of us do on this side!

 

  

Susan Boles Ron, this is beautifully done. May it bring forever knowing of LOVE. May we know we are living the script chosen before birth, the script that awakens us to knowing that we are breathed out in Love, live in Love, return to Love. It is impossible to be separate from Love. May you and I remember....always. Infinite Love, Light, Life, Laughter and Lavishness! Thank you for all of the Awakening you are experiencing. It makes it easier for the rest of us.       

 

               

Ronald E. Fugiel :After all these years, I have never quite gotten over all the friends I lost to Viet Nam. From family, to friends I made in basic. I too was drafted, I enlisted to avoid going overseas. Went to Fort Polk for basic and S.E.R.E training. Out of our company, I was one of six who were R.A.. We were ridiculed, and treated as outcasts. We endured, 12 men took their lives during basic. We were the last group to go through Brown Boot Training. Upon graduation day, the entire company was shipped to Nam, minus us six. I stayed in touch with a few, stopped writing when the letters were returned deceased. The letters I did get, told a story of young men, not properly prepared to mount an attack on Cambodia. athrough the years I kept my feelings and emotions bottled up. Thank You for posting your experience. Aloha Ron. 21 hrs · Unlike · 2 Ron Alexander (from V.) Dear Ron, Heartfelt thanks for sharing this. Your healing journey is so inspiring that it moves me to tears! This is so beautifully conceived and put together. You have expressed yourself eloquently and with deep meaningfulness. Knowing how hard-earned this piece is makes me appreciative beyond words. It is sure to help others in their own journeys of healing. What a wonderful tribute this is to your brother, too. I'm sure he is loving, thanking, and celebrating you from the 0ther side - just as so many of us do on this side! ... Pamela Arrington This was such a moving piece Ron. I watched it several times. Very heart wrenching for me but I totally agree. It's a help in letting go. Ron Alexander thanks dear Pamela Arrington - LIGHT at the end of long 45 year tunnel- late is better than never! LOVE IS FOREVER!

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Robyn Summers-Shelley I love it Ron. Thank you for sharing these precious memories x

       

               

I think you will get a lot out of this healing video - I have obtained a lot of healing from it! Love is forever and we will always be connected! Ron Alexander (Jeanne Porter Ashley had nothing to do with this video!) 45 years of darkness revealing LIGHT at end of tunnel       

 

Effie Aghili                           

What a beautiful and touching video.  Indeed love last forever and our spirit is immortal. Love and light to your beloved brother's soul and you dear Ron       

 

World exists as a sheen of dew on flowers

 

Come quickly -- as soon as these blossoms open, they fall. This world exists as a sheen of dew on flowers.

Izumi Shikibu(gratefulness.org)
mid-Heian period Japanese poet

 



Fervor gone?

When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost.

St. John Climacus(gratefulness.org)
The Ladder of

fer·vor

ˈfərvər/

noun

noun: fervour; noun: fervor

1. intense and passionate feeling.

   "he talked with all the fervor of a new convert"

   synonyms:

   passion, ardor, intensity, zeal, vehemence, emotion, warmth, earnestness, avidity, eagerness, keenness, enthusiasm, excitement, animation, vigor, energy, fire, spirit, zest, fervency "even the smallest of tasks he tackled with fervor"

   antonyms:

   apathy

   • archaic

     intense heat.

     plural noun: fervours; plural noun: fervors Divine Ascent
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I am unsupported...

Joy Schultz

This morning I facilitated a woman on "i am unsupported. (completely alone)." Situation: she was feeling absolute terror as she walked up the steps to the house of a birthday party at about 7 years old. At first she couldn't find the thought...she was just in a state of terror. Sitting in that state of terror the thought arose (as a gift) for us to question. So grateful. I've been sitting with "i am supported."
i am supported--
so supported.
never alone,
not possible to exist alone,
i and "my environment" are one,
one thing
life support,
biosphere,
ionosphere,
clouds
sky
air,
can you find one
person,
place
thing
that doesn't support you?
space--so supportive,
not empty
all of Arapahoe Community College
(where i've "taught art for 9 years")
every single person that works there,
security,
maintenance,
all past students,
the internet (where classes are listed and found and registered for...)
this paper,
trees...soil...a whole ecosystem,
trucks,
paper factory,
store,
oil wells...
just consider...
how long did it take to make that "oil"?
worthy,
of that,
of the entire universe,
the stars,
the burning heat
and light
of the sun,
the frozen glistening
snow of winter,
the geese flying in a "V",
worthy of gorillas and tigers,
lions, bears,
and rainforest,
of the quilt that is here
covering my toes,
its cozy warmth,
only by the hands and hearts
of a million unknown
supporters,
contributors,
in this
moment
boggling,
to the mind,
the support ROARING in
ALREADY here
endless
immeasurable
support
these eyes
see only
Love
coming to me
coming to me
coming to me
let this be a day of endless gratitude
for that is
all there is
cause for

Glory of God =

The Glory of God is a human being fully alive.

St. Irenaeus(gratefulness.org)



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