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What makes me who I am
Here is something I found in one of my mother's letters to her family. (1954-03-22 G-143 LPK to JWCF)
I was 8 years old, learning to read English (which was difficult for me).
It reveals aspects of my character that have continued to be evident even now that I'm 80.
My mother had given me a copy of Evelyn C. Nevin's (1946) Lost Children of the Shoshones,
which had captivated my imagination and sympathy.
She wrote :
“He was very interested in the story of Sacajawea and her beautiful mountain country. He was sitting beside me while reading the part about how she was stolen by the Blackfeet and taken to their hunting grounds on the Great Plains. He flung his arms about me, buried his head in my shoulder, and cried “I’m not at home! My real home is in the high mountains far away!” He was sobbing. It reminded me of those moments in my own childhood when I had visited visions of another world where everything was purer, more sparkling with light, where ordinary things became beautiful and every moment precious; worlds you could see for a long time in a second, and which immediately struck you as being, as Laurence said, your real home. These visions of childhood must be quite common; Wordsworth mentions them in “Intimations of Immortality”, as I remember. I know how sad they make a child feel, how exiled in an alien world. In any case I think this book evoked a vision of diamond mountains and crystal brooks which suddenly struck him as home.”
What Larry Put Here
Healing with Jesus
Based on 15 years experience working with a Christian healing and deliverance team, I put this presentation together specifically for my Japanese friends. It's still in draft, pending feedback and expert Japanese correction. It is a Microsoft PowerPoint, rendered also as an Adobe PDF.
Travel log for October-November 2019, including Vancouver Canada, Seattle US, Sacramento and vicinity US, and multiple locations in Japan. (Complete through Osaka)
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