Thank you for calling attention to the very serious situation facing our National Parks, America's Crown Jewels. My parents and I travelled to National Parks throughout my childhood and I have, in turn, taken my son to many parks on our summer vacations. Yosemite is one of our favorites and we just returned this past weekend from visiting Zion and Bryce Canyon NPs. While I know there are people who are not fans of the outdoors, for those of us who are (and there are a lot of us), our National Parks preserve the most beautiful of our natural areas for our children and their children. I am deeply disgusted at the administrations treatment of/pilaging of the park system and the total disregard for public lands (though this should not be surprising).
In college, I camped in Yosemite with my boyfriend, who was still AD. We slept in tents. We didn't see anyone once we set up camp. It's unthinkable what this regime is doing to our National Parks.
Memorable Homily at Sunday Mass on this past 4th of July Holiday Weekend ~ Hope Remains Alive
The Priest celebrant began his homily on Sunday describing his God inspired journey into retirement this year, having extended it one year after becoming eligible. He had been dealing with a bad knee (bone-on-bone) for several years, which he said was possible due to the miraculous cortisone drug. Then, early last Fall during a SIC morning walkabout with his beloved Irish Setter, he suffered a fall that tore the meniscus cartilage in his other knee. Sealing his retirement decision.
Throughout his lengthy recovery ❤️🩹 from the two surgeries to repair the meniscus in his one knee and to replace the other, Father was assisted daily by a wonderful nurse. As he came to know her, he learned that she had escaped Haiti to the USA a number of years’ ago under Temporary Protective Status after several of her relatives were murdered and her house was burned down by rampant, out-of-control marauding gangs. Father inspired by the nurse’s depth of character, lightness of spirit and strength of faith commitment, one day inquired about her secret to life ~ confiding to her that he was doubting his own capacity to overcome the darkness she had suffered.
Her answer was ~ Father, as you know well after all your years’ in service of Christ’s flock, “LIFE IS HARD, BUT GOD IS GOOD”.
🙏❤️🩹🇺🇸🌎🌍🌏
Postscript:
Father’s booming voice cracked-a-bit and his eyes’ moistened as he spoke the Haitian nurse’s answer to his query.
Same here in Montana at Glacier National Park. We locals (the smart ones at least) stay out of the park this time of year. It's wall to wall insanity, not to mention the stress it puts on the wildlife.
This is part of Trump and MAGA's all out assault on the environment.
Joni Mitchell warned us about it over 50 years ago:
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
An arm and a leg just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot.
Thank you for calling attention to the very serious situation facing our National Parks, America's Crown Jewels. My parents and I travelled to National Parks throughout my childhood and I have, in turn, taken my son to many parks on our summer vacations. Yosemite is one of our favorites and we just returned this past weekend from visiting Zion and Bryce Canyon NPs. While I know there are people who are not fans of the outdoors, for those of us who are (and there are a lot of us), our National Parks preserve the most beautiful of our natural areas for our children and their children. I am deeply disgusted at the administrations treatment of/pilaging of the park system and the total disregard for public lands (though this should not be surprising).
In college, I camped in Yosemite with my boyfriend, who was still AD. We slept in tents. We didn't see anyone once we set up camp. It's unthinkable what this regime is doing to our National Parks.
Memorable Homily at Sunday Mass on this past 4th of July Holiday Weekend ~ Hope Remains Alive
The Priest celebrant began his homily on Sunday describing his God inspired journey into retirement this year, having extended it one year after becoming eligible. He had been dealing with a bad knee (bone-on-bone) for several years, which he said was possible due to the miraculous cortisone drug. Then, early last Fall during a SIC morning walkabout with his beloved Irish Setter, he suffered a fall that tore the meniscus cartilage in his other knee. Sealing his retirement decision.
Throughout his lengthy recovery ❤️🩹 from the two surgeries to repair the meniscus in his one knee and to replace the other, Father was assisted daily by a wonderful nurse. As he came to know her, he learned that she had escaped Haiti to the USA a number of years’ ago under Temporary Protective Status after several of her relatives were murdered and her house was burned down by rampant, out-of-control marauding gangs. Father inspired by the nurse’s depth of character, lightness of spirit and strength of faith commitment, one day inquired about her secret to life ~ confiding to her that he was doubting his own capacity to overcome the darkness she had suffered.
Her answer was ~ Father, as you know well after all your years’ in service of Christ’s flock, “LIFE IS HARD, BUT GOD IS GOOD”.
🙏❤️🩹🇺🇸🌎🌍🌏
Postscript:
Father’s booming voice cracked-a-bit and his eyes’ moistened as he spoke the Haitian nurse’s answer to his query.
Same here in Montana at Glacier National Park. We locals (the smart ones at least) stay out of the park this time of year. It's wall to wall insanity, not to mention the stress it puts on the wildlife.