OCTOBER 2010 -

THE HOLISTIC ANIMAL

Next meeting – Thursday, October 28, 6:45-9 pm – see complete e-Newsletter (BELOW) for topics of discussion and handouts.

– VERSE for THOUGHT

- ANIMAL WISDOM

Intra/Inter Species Communication

(Note: this is not a discussion about telepathic animal communication)

- Faerie Tales Cat Rescue 2nd Annual Book Sale Fundraiser and Cat Adoption Event

Wolf Wisdom

An old Cherokee told his grandson
about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all.

One is Evil.

It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,

self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies,

false pride, superiority and ego.

The other is Good.

It is Joy, Peace, Love, Hope, Serenity, Humility, Kindness, Benevolence, Empathy, Generosity, Truth, Compassion and Faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute

and then asked his grandfather:

"Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied,

"The one you feed."

ANIMAL WISDOM

"FOR THE STRENGTH OF THE PACK

IS THE WOLF,

AND THE STRENGTH OF THE WOLF

IS THE PACK."

Rudyard Kipling

1. Wolf Wisdom - Teamwork, Patience, Play, Communication, Loyalty. 3:50 min. video

2. Effective Communication - To commune with something is to experience it. With a tree, the water ... experience it as it is.

Communication is to experience another soul as it is. 10:12 min video

3. Power of Words read The Power of Words & the Presence to Heal

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”—

Leo F. Buscaglia

FAERIE TALES CAT RESCUE

501(c)(3) NON-PROFIT

The 2nd Annual Book Sale Fundraiser and Cat Adoption Event will be held in Jackson on December 11th from 8-4. Book Sale at Biggby Coffee Shop and Cats at Pet Supplies Plus right across the street!

Faerie Tales is accepting your used books, videos, DVDs. Please contact me to donate these items.

charjackr@sbcglobal.net / 517.529.9073

Who are Faerie Tales Cat Rescue:

Once upon a time there lived a group of loyal, sincere, and trustworthy women. Their collective spirits sought to come to the aid of abandoned, unwanted, abused, and lost felines. They wanted to give these beautiful, if sometimes scruffy, creatures a new beginning. They showed the kitties love to heal their broken hearts, patience to learn to trust, and healing medicine to make them well. The women knew that their quest could not stop here for there were just too many kitties to care for all on their own. What were they to do?

VERSE for THOUGHT

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.

Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice,

man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.

We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.

And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man.

In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”

Compassionate Pet Care & Resource Center

Empowering our Community through Education

They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”

Henry Beston