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Bare Trees in Fog

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For a few hours today, I searched reputable websites for political propaganda speeches given by a dictator called only by his last name: Hitler. I planned to add a few clips to remind US of the similarities that we have been witnessing as another dictator rises up over our domestic horizon. I learned something in my research: There are very, very few places where it is possible to witness one of the original speeches given by Hitler (with English subtitles). History has few records of those speeches that are actual, filmed as is, and not doctored with music or subtexts.


Raw footage. That is what we need to remind US that it happened. It can happen here in the US in 2024. Let US not pretend.




The Britannica Encyclopedia offers documentary videos with narration. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler/images-videos

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​Six Stages of Pilgrimage:

  • The Call:

  • The opening clarion of any spiritual journey. Often in the form of a feeling or some vague yearning, a fundamental human desire: finding meaning in an overscheduled world somehow requires leaving behind our daily obligations. Sameness is the enemy of spirituality.

  • The Separation:

  • Pilgrimage, by its very nature, undoes certainty. It rejects the safe and familiar. It asserts that one is freer when one frees oneself from daily obligations of family, work, and community, but also the obligations of science, reason, and technology.

  • The Journey:

  • The backbone of a sacred journey is the pain and sacrifice of the journey itself.  This personal sacrifice enhances the experience; it also elevates the sense of community one develops along the way.

  • The Contemplation:

  • Some pilgrimages go the direct route, right to the center of the holy of holies, directly to the heart of the matter. Others take a more indirect route, circling around the outside of the sacred place, transforming the physical journey into a spiritual path of contemplation like walking a labyrinth.

  • The Encounter:

  • After all the toil and trouble, after all the sunburn and swelling and blisters, after all the anticipation and expectation comes the approach, the sighting. The encounter is the climax of the journey, the moment when the traveler attempts to slide through a thin veil where humans live in concert with the Creator.

  • The Completion and Return:

  • At the culmination of the journey, the pilgrim returns home only to discover that meaning they sought lies in the familiar of one's own world. "Seeing the place for the first time . . ."

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