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NO
New Nuclear Weapons - NO
Star Wars -
EVERYTHING SHOULD BE UNDER THE SUN -
NO
New Nuclear Targets...
NO Weapons In Space
- NO
New Pretexts For Nuclear War - NO Nuclear Testing - NO
All Types Of Weapons & War & War Culture...
We have only one WORLD yet! If we
destroy it, where else will we go?
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YES
For The Global Peace Movement, YES Loving & Caring Each Other,
YES Greatness in Humanity, YES Saving Our Unique Mother Earth,
YES Great Dreams For Better Tomorrows, YES Emerging Positive Global
Energy, YES National and Global Transparency, and YES Lighting
Our Souls & Minds.
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Crowder's
Mountains
by
Zehra BIRSAN
LM-South
All
started with a bet, a bet on a new year
eve about a number of pounds we can shed
off of our bodies in the blooming new year.
We, 3 of us that are parties on this bet,
being very ambitious of being the one who
beat the others, intend to do all the extremes
to do whatever it takes.
We, 3 of us that are
parties of this bet, lacking all the imagination
while thinking too much on what the others
are doing to win this bet, decided to start
hiking together at the weekends, that way,
we could know at least one time what the
others do and that will be the same thing
every one of us do.
First, we had to find
a reasonably steep hill, to help our upper
limps to be slimmer when climbing but not
too much on a side of a rock climbing not
to scare the life out of our lungs. We had
to find mountain-like hills so that we can
call the excursion "hiking" and
not lying openly at the same time and we
found it. It is called Crowder's Mountains
right at the lacy hems of King Mountains
of North Carolina or I should say South
Charlotte, as nobody else knows what King
Mountains are about in North Carolina at
large, unless they live around Charlotte.
Crowder's is such a place that actually
posses couple of steep rock-climbing type
of heights but you can safely keep away
from those and be able to hike as well.
We, 3 of us that are
the parties on a bet, started hiking on
this mountain every Sunday morning. Sunday
is being very precious to all of us not
that God declared its holiness but because
it is the only day we can spare to our families
or whatever we'd like to do for ourselves.
We decided to start
along with the roosters so that we can have
the rest of the day to ourselves. Such a
good idea, right? Except that it takes to
wake up at around 5 AM on a SUNDAY so that
you can drive 45 minutes to get to the entrance
of the hiking trail then take 2 hrs. hiking,
be back to your car by 8 or 8:30. This timeline,
of course, depends on the sugar level on
your blood that decides to rebel and stops
you for a couple of minutes here or there
to interfere with your good intentions to
be a professional hiker and a "fast
one" at the same time. Including another
45 minutes drive back home, you are there
back at the warmth of your house to start
your day at 9:30 latest. If you are lucky
enough with a good husband to have the breakfast
ready for you by then, you can start rolling
around 10:30 A.M. to do whatever...
The
day that starts with or without that lucky-star
dependent breakfast is a good day regardless because you had the glimpse of the North
Carolina Mountains at their very best the
first thing in the morning. The feelings
you are experiencing, defers every day depending
on what type of a day that Sunday is. If
it is a Sunday that is so bright that lets
you see how Charlotte skyline wakes up under
a newborn sun then you feel warm all over
and it takes all day to warn out. If it
is a Sunday so fogeyish gray or even drizzling,
as you can still hear the birds starting
the day, calling, reaching out, no way you
can miss the warmth that is caused by the
baby sun, because you feel it anyway but
this time, it is the warmth of the hope
that nature fills in your lungs with every
breath you take.
Hope of all the new
starts, hope of that relentless youth that
makes you feel there is nothing you can
not do. Sometime it makes you feel surprised
when you see the clouds that are fallen
on the surface of the pond looking from
the top of one of the peaks, feels like
you are a part of the power that makes such
a scene possible, the real surprised feeling
comes when you realized that you actually
are.
And
another memory from that day you spent in
Crowder's is that the aftertaste you have
on your senses from all those talks of minds
alike that can not be driven from anything
alike that had left you fulfilled.
We, 3 of us that are
the parties on a bet, we talk with minds
wide opened with oxygen that is also known
as mountain air. We talk about how things
are bothering us, we talk about how things
should not bother us, we talk about how
sorry we fell about the other people who
are getting ready at the same moment to
take their place in a neighborhood church
to commit their places in their community
and missing such a proof to God's existence
merely just by walking in Crowder's.
We, 3 of us that are
parties of a bet, we are having a hard time
to think of an equal religious ritual to
hiking at an early morning hour since we
started practicing this ritual. And this
makes us think that the mother-nature and
God have to be close relations.
I
promise myself I will never be reluctant
or resistant to any kind of a bet between
friends anymore, look where one of them
took me, falling hard on steep but climbable
rocks of North Carolinians mountains.
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