You gotta watch this. Even if only to see the fist pump when he does it!
Hell yeah!
Kinzang Lhamo
Picture this: the marathon is over, the champions have already claimed their glory, the crowd has begun to settle. And then, slowly but surely, one last runner makes her way into the stadium. Her name is Kinzang Lhamo, a runner from Bhutan, a country tucked away in the Himalayas, thousands of miles from Paris. She wasn’t racing for gold, and she knew it. But what she carried in her steps that day was something far heavier—and far more beautiful—than a medal.
By the time she appeared, the finish line had already seen its victors cross nearly an hour and a half earlier. Most athletes would have crumbled under that weight of time, the spotlight long gone, the race feeling endless. But Kinzang pressed forward, step after grueling step, until she reached the stadium. And to her surprise, what awaited wasn’t silence or pity—it was a standing ovation. Thousands rose to their feet, not because she had won, but because she hadn’t given up.
Her words afterward cut deeper than any highlight reel: “My country did not send me 5,000 miles to start the race; they sent me 5,000 miles to finish the race.” In that moment, the world saw what sport is really about—not records, not medals, but resilience.
She finished in 3:52:59, far from her personal best. But somehow, it didn’t matter. What mattered was that she refused to surrender. What mattered was that she kept running long after the cameras shifted away from the front. And by the time she crossed that line, she had transformed what could’ve been seen as defeat into one of the most inspiring stories of the Paris Games.
Because sometimes, the greatest victories don’t come with medals—they come with courage, applause, and the reminder that finishing, no matter how late, is a triumph in itself.
Elizabeth Packard
In 1860, Elizabeth Packard was a wife and mother of six when her husband did the unthinkable: he had her committed to an asylum.
Not because she was violent. Not because she was unstable. But because she questioned his strict religious views.
At the time in Illinois, a husband could institutionalize his wife without trial, evidence, or her consent. And inside the asylum, Elizabeth discovered the horrifying truth: many of the women locked away were not “insane” at all. They were wives who resisted, daughters who defied, women who refused to be silent.
Elizabeth did not break. She wrote in secret, observed carefully, and waited for her chance.
After three long years, she stood before a jury, defended her right to her own thoughts — and won.
But she didn’t stop there. Elizabeth published her story, exposed wrongful confinement, lobbied lawmakers, and helped change the laws so no woman could so easily be silenced again.
Elizabeth Packard’s courage cost her nearly everything, but it gave countless women the protection she herself had been denied.
Looking For Truth
Kindness Travels Through Time
This wild Kingfisher’s grandparent, I found in the garden, nearly dead, some years ago. Nursed him back to health, and set him free. The next morning, the family swooped down, past me, in gratitude.
A couple of years later, I awoke to find the next generation, a parent of this bird, waiting for me on the terrace, his wing seemed broken. I picked him up and examined him. He never flinched, and stared deeply into my eyes. A thorn had locked his wing from operating. I pulled it out, and set him free. Without fail, he passes my window every day at the same time, crying out to me.
This baby, sat in the tree, eye to eye with me, then flew directly to my hand, and sat there for several minutes, before flying away.
Intuition, compassion, good intent, those essences of love, was all we had. Pure, unspoken.
An energy that has no end, and passes silently onward, much further than we can imagine.
You Don’t Stop Having Fun
Violence Is The Last Refuge
Truth And Love
The Right Path
Are You More Than 9 Meals Away From Starving?
I read an article from Jeff Thomas (if interested you can read it at http://www.321gold.com/editorials/thomas/thomas042316.html) wherein he writes, “After only nine missed meals, it’s not unlikely that we’d panic and be prepared to commit a crime to acquire food.“
Given the current declining levels of ethics, morality, civility and stability in society, there is an increasing chance of disruptions in the supply chain that would cause food shortages, to a greater or lesser degree.
Now, while I like to think that if you knocked on my door in need of a feed, that I would be only too willing to welcome you to my table, obviously I do not have the resources to do that for everyone.
So I am asking you to start laying in some extras each week that might enable you to help your family and friends in a worst case scenario. That will take the load off my ability to help others.
This does not need to stretch your budget past breaking point.
As I write this, Coles have a half-price special on brown rice this week, $9.50 for 5 kilos.
They also have brown lentils for the regular price of $5.50 a kilo or red lentils for $4.20 a kilo. And several varieties of canned beans for $1.10 a 420 gram can.
Even if you only spend $5 or $10 a week to lay in a reserve supply of food you are gradually building a potentially life-saving increase in your survival potential.
Just as a further tip, get a glass or hard plastic container in which to store your 5 kilo plastic bag of rice. Otherwise rice weevils can eat through the plastic bag and you don’t want that sort of competition for your rice! LOL!