July 4th.2015

I started to write this last night to send out on the fourth. However Microsoft was so kind as to shut down my computer to install a update in the middle of what I was doing. I don't know why but the update took from 8:30 PM until 9.00 AM today and I still have not found what I was writing. I thought my computer was toast.

Elders Wisdom:

I have watched movies, read books and seen with my own eyes how war like, arrogant, and stupid the propaganda for war is. This has to stop.It's up to all of us to say no more. It's up to us to teach negotiation,  conflict resolution,  cooperation and waging of peace. We have to do it at the doorsteps of Congress,at the recruiters office at the gates of military bases and at the police stations across our land. It is even more important to begin teaching it in our parks, playgrounds and within our schools. To teach it in our church's and houses of worship. Above all to make it something to be used within our families, social institutions and neighborhoods. We have to develop literature teaching how to reach win win in all areas of life. Where are the playwrites and poets in this our greatest need? Who will write the songs to further our growing from a neighborhood bully for the world to a builder of trust and honor between nations? I am too old and tired to begin this process but hope someone younger and smarter will take my words and do something with them. Just think, a world without conflict,a world without hunger, strife, a world where we do not need standing armies or police because their is no fear or lack, that is what I was shown in my five trips to heaven or whatever you want to call it. I just say the other side.

Bob Smith (Big Tree) 7/4/2015