Just thinkin...about little HOPE and Lily the Black Bear

My favorite Picture of:

HOPE and Mama Lily

The Most Famous

North American Black Bears in America

Ely MN

Good morning on this Wednesday morning... sure feels like Friday... not much sleep since HOPE went missing... so sad ~

BUT..

HOPE illuminates the darkest of nights and in the darkness of night Dr Rogers and Sue Mansfeld are out looking... See that moon? Almost as bright and full as a moon could be to help them find HOPE!

Coffee hot and good, four-leggeds doing NASCAR around for fourth lap ...

Jan 22 Lily gave us HOPE thanks to Dr Lyn Rogers and Sue Mansfield via live web cam I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this marvelous experience! And how I love the thought that I will forever hear in my heart,

"BEAR... IT'S ME"

http://www.bear.org/

ok, CLICK here and get a kleenex... but come on back when you are done...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DdWIPLSbQ

WE were "captivated" by Lily in her den as she prepared to give birth, well at least many of us were there since then... and we waited, and we watched!

There were many times my very best friend would take a look at the live cam; look at me and shake her head saying,

"WOW! That's great;

sort of like watching pain dry isn't it?"

But then... HOPE came into the world, and the den... and my friend's opinion changed ~ then the phone calls started coming in... and it sounded a bit like this, "Hi, it's meeee... any happenings in the den? Have they named the cub yet? Lily moving? Did you see the baby? Any noises yet?"

LOLS

Of course this was around the same time I was trying to grow my fan page to let folks know about

Healing Heartaches, Stories of Loss and Life ~

I had about ohhhh, 100 people on my page.

LILY THE NORTH AMERICAN BLACK BEAR had a few thousand if I remember correctly!~?

she now has, let's see...

can you say more than "96,000 people on hers"!!!

I have shared the stories of Lily the Black Bear, of Dr Lyn Rogers, the fans on facebook... the antics and the cries that sounded human from HOPE... I have shared my thoughts of how HOPE brought people together and allowed them to put their troubles aside, allowed them to forget their finances, their worries, their grief...

That was in the beginning... don't get me wrong, many are there and are all about Lily and HOPE and the NABC and each other, genuinely and truly caring about each other, comings and goings, and doings, and selling stuff and oh my ... http://www.bear.org/

But I have watched another side of that page, a darker side that makes one want to be a bear, free from it all.

Sort of like what we often see during times of grief in families... you know after the company leaves?

When the fights erupt over who gets what and who thinks they are entitled to grandma's favorite china, or pencil or crochet work???

OR better yet, who has the most grief measured by who cries the most or who tries to throw themselves over the casket or falls in the grave???

Oh all right, maybe I am exaggerating a wee bit, but for goodness sakes we have all seen what happpens under times of stress, heartaches and grief, and sometimes we have seen just plain out mean spirited people in action once they have a forum for it.

Can you imagine this... someone actually posted on Lily The Black Bears page that they "blamed Lily ... the North American Black Bear" for the cub's disappearance and for the fact that HOPE has gone missing? Implying that Lily is a bad mother??? Some even suggest that they have a "better idea" of how Dr Rogers and Sue should be looking for the little cub... how often we should be updated by them?

OH PLEEZZZEE, give us real people a break.

 (think this may cost me a book or two?)

OK, maybe it's me here... but we are talking about Black Bears living in the forest, doing quite well without the judgment of humans before we were invited guests into their world via live web cam... It is nature... it is the wild, the woods... it is not suburbia, Internet, coffee pots and children with GPS monitoring devices.

OK, it gets worse... while there are remarkable people included in this more than 96,000 registered on the page... there are some who have posted such ugly and cruel things to others (I know of one who I adore and who is a WARRIOR I might just add) who are coping/battling with Cancer that I won't even go into here. Those posts had to be deleted by the administrator but unfortunately were seen by the person already fighting the biggest fight of their life and did not need to have to deal with that nonsense on top of it all.

But things that we on this page have seen written on a couple of occasions but could not imagine such mean spiritedness ~ C'mon now... on a page dedicated to a North American Black Bear!

ARe you kidding me???

So I'm thinkin,

what is wrong with people...

And yesterday morning I get a post saying that President Obama will not be placing a wreath at the Arlington Cemetery on Memorial Day on Sunday... It comes from a reliable source... I was shocked by this, so I posted it to my facebook and asked others to Stand UP and let their voices be heard, I said our President needed to be there, needed to place a

wreath at the Tomb to honor the fallen.

Sooooo ...

The next thing that pops up on facebook is a post from the Obama page... and I comment there about it.

Well wouldn't you just know my mailbox gets three messages in a hot minute from people I don't know and I got a good ass chew for that, telling me to take my post down as it was false and not appreciated ~

alrighty then, I reply to all three asking for information and am given the information that POTUS will be at two events one in Chicago and on in DC including the Lincoln Memorial on MONDAY to place a wreath for

Memorial Day.

I thank these strangers for the information and let them know they could have done it in a more respectful way. I also let others know on Obama's page that I didn't appreciate the righteous stones that were thrown at me on their page, and to not be surprised if one might come back and hit them in the ass for ugly! That got me a "bravo" and apology from a couple of them anyway.

I did take my post down, although I don't think it was false information... my way of thinking is this. Placing a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial on Monday is not the same thing as honoring the fallen on 

Memorial Day at

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The moral of today's thoughts is simply this...

HOPE is a light that burns brightly in darkness, that lights our inner soul in the brightest light as well. We can talk all we want of how we want and what we want and the joys we say we share...

BUT

It is how we live, how we treat others, how we respond to self and to others when the rubber meets the road that really matters.

Would that we could learn from the four-leggeds' from the winged-ones from the sea life that now struggles in our gulf waters.

I do not care what religion, what political affiliation a person is... makes no never mind to me.

I do believe we should honor and remember and pay tribute to the fallen, to those who are serving and have served our great Nation.

I believe our President should lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as it has been done in the past.

I believe we should not criticize nor judge, I believe we should all hit our knees before we crawl into our soft beds after our warm soap and bath tonight because of those who have fought and continue to fight for our freedoms to be able to enjoy this.

AND

I do not think we should take that for granted.

Would that we would have a voice recorder, a mirror at hand always...

A self regulator if you will; to allow us the opportunity to see us as others are exposed to us from out of the blue as we enter their day, their moment in time.

In a moment

It only takes a moment

STOMP

Someone I do not know tells me to "shut up" ~

Someone I do not know tells me to

"Stomp" somewhere else they are in pain because

 HOPE is missing in Ely MN ~

Are you kidding me here?

It only takes a moment

To gather

To let your voices be heard

To know that hearts connected like Lily and HOPE

will not be disturbed

nor judged

NOR will those with pure intention

S T O M P

HOPE ILLUMINATES DARKNESS

HOPE lives within all of us and others

HOPE is out there; maybe up a tree just waiting to be found; maybe deep within you waiting to be called to action; maybe just maybe waiting to explode like fireworks on a spectacular fourth of July.

HOPE, BELIEVE, LOVE, LAUGH

The fire is burning, its embers are hot... the prayer bowl is surrounded by the smells of sage and sweetgrass as thoughts and prayers are being sent on the winds to all Sending thoughts on the wind and HOPE in healing ways to those who have asked, those who are struggling along the path, those who are Warriors:

For:

Lily The Black Bear and Baby HOPE,

Dr Lyn Rogers, Sue Mansfield, Nita, and TO: the NABC,

Jill, Chris, Vicki, Cindy in NC, Cindy C, Laura, Mitch and family, Liz, Lee, Molly, Joanie, Jude, COFA,Judi, Matthew, Matt, Mark's family and many friends , Andrea, Jimmy, Marie and family up in New England, Pat, Dorothy, Angela, Elijah, Ode, Linda M, "Southwest VA", Irene, Kevin, Dr D, the 96k plus fans of Lily the Black bear on Facebook who are grieving what ever may have happened to our beloved little cub and the many and varied other losses in their lives...


Dr P and family, Charlie and family, Booker, Bernice, Jean, Julie, Rhonda, Victoria, Mildred, Andi and family, Irene, Faith, Denise, Jim, Tom, Joey, Shelby friends and family, Judi, Phylis, Monica, Luci, Brandon, Joyce, Gina, Tonya, Beverly and Family, Janeth, Melissa, Pam, Virginia, Stacey, Sara Cook 2 time Cancer Survivor, Kevin Edward Belevich and his Pops Jack Phelan, Elizabeth,
AND
for all the children
gone too soon
We are Warriors here ~
~ ~ ~
We are here, we are with you in thoughts, prayer and spirit ... along with some powerful angels





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-n5aOAAMs

May you find comfort in knowing you are not alone along the journey... along the path we are with you always...
 
"When someone becomes to hard to love you have two choices you either stop loving them or you love them a whole lot more" (anonymous)

Walk In Beauty,

DRSES

author of:

Healing Heartaches, Stories of Loss and Life

http://www.drsherryeshowalter.com/

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