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		<title>BRACO: The Man And His Miracles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece appears in conjunction with a feature in the Maui Weekly (www.mauiweekly.com)

This week the extraordinary healing presence&#8211; the “Gaze of  Miracles”&#8211;of a man called BRACO (pronounced Braht-so) returns to Maui.   His work has received the blessing of Hawaiian spiritual leaders  throughout the Islands, including our own Auntie Pua Mahoe, Auntie Nahi [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>This piece</strong></em><strong><em> appears in conjunction with a feature in the Maui Weekly (www.mauiweekly.com)<br />
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<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1116" style="margin: 5px;" title="headshot-braco-maui-weekly2" src="http://www.miraclesandgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/headshot-braco-maui-weekly2-248x300.jpg" alt="headshot-braco-maui-weekly2" width="248" height="300" />This week the extraordinary healing presence&#8211; the “<em>Gaze of  Miracles</em>”&#8211;of a man called BRACO (pronounced Braht-so) returns to Maui.   His work has received the blessing of Hawaiian spiritual leaders  throughout the Islands, including our own Auntie Pua Mahoe, Auntie Nahi Guzman and  Lehua Rider.</p>
<p>Braco has been sharing his healing energy in Eastern Europe for 15  years.  He does not touch anyone with his hands nor does he give out  philosophical teachings or offer solutions to people’s individual  problems. Since 2002 he has not spoken in public. The powerful Energy  which comes through him, and enters our hearts and minds and our lives  speaks for itself.  <span id="more-1113"></span></p>
<p>Braco simply stands, humbly and silently, and gazes at those who have  gathered (he has seen up to 10,000 people a day!) He seems to effortlessly  accommodate and emit a great intensity of Pure Energy whose power  displaces all our mind chatter, doubts and fears. Over the years,  thousands of physical healings have been reported and medically  documented and scientific study of this phenomenon is on-going.   Often, there are instantaneous miraculous healings.</p>
<p>Effects from the, approximately 6-minute, group gazing sessions encompass healings on the  physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, relationship, and even financial  levels. Positive changes may occur in the days and weeks following a  gazing session.    After several heart-opening sessions with Braco, a growing ease began enveloping every aspect of my life.  Also, increasing physical stamina, and completely unexpected creative professional opportunities began to materialize.</p>
<p>Braco lives as an ordinary human being.  The 43 year-old native of  Croatia, is a husband and father, and former businessman with a master’s  degree in economics.  His extraordinary “gift” spontaneously came upon  him when he was age 26.  He has never charged money or accepted  donations for his powerful healing work.</p>
<p>Braco does not call himself a healer, but is graciously allowing  himself to be utilized as a powerful channel for the ultimate healing  Energy, the Source of Life. He was once recorded as saying, “I am not a  guru or leader of any sect.  I am only here for those who need me or  will need me without their yet knowing it.  I look for no gratitude for I  am also a man with his own sorrows and joys.  I can speak only in  respect with what deeds pass through me and which sometimes astound even  me by the things they can do.”<img class="alignright size-medium  wp-image-1087" title="bracogazeforweekly" src="http://www.miraclesandgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/bracogazeforweekly-195x300.jpg" alt="bracogazeforweekly" width="195" height="300" /></p>
<p>Whenever/wherever you are able to attend, I recommend approaching  sessions with Braco with an open heart and mind, available to receive  all goodness possible.  Then, just allow yourself to bathe in the Energy  of Source and feel the uplifting vibration.  A unified field of  compassion-love is created by all of us sharing the experience.</p>
<p>After  the sessions, and back into our everyday lives, we become transmitters  of this expanding consciousness. <em>We,</em> ourselves, are now the gift to our  planet.  I feel that it is no coincidence that a Braco appears when the  need for spiritual maturity and actions of peace are so critical for the  well-being and survival of our planet.</p>
<p>At gazing sessions, Braco is usually introduced by consciousness researcher and author,  Angelika Whitecliff, who tells of her own experience of learning about  him, meeting him personally, and being invited to accompany him for  three weeks in Europe.  Her book, “21 Days with Braco” describes what  she witnessed and experienced.  Convinced of his  genuineness,  Angelika made a personal commitment to help bring Braco to the rest of  the world.</p>
<p>News of Braco is spreading like wildfire.  Since the last few  months when initial presentations of gazing sessions on Oahu, the Big  Island, and Maui began, presentations are now being offered in  Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sedona and  Kobe, Japan. I believe that you will understand the excitement once you take the  opportunity to experience &#8220;<em>the Gaze of Miracles</em>&#8220;.   For more information about  Braco and his upcoming schedule of events world-wide: www.braco.net.</p>
<p>Braco&#8217;s group gazing events on Maui are June 14, 15, and 16 at the Studio  Maui, 810 Haiku Road, Haiku.  Daily Sessions: 11 a.m./12:30 p.m./2  p.m./3:30p.m./5 p.m./6 p.m. Tickets $8, available at the door help cover costs of renting the space, paid out of a presenter&#8217;s pocket.   Presenter: Fred Spanjaard www.globalmediaproductions.com  808-875-8820.</p>
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		<title>BRACO:  GAZE OF MIRACLES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that we all yearn to feel deeply loved and accepted –just as we are, right now–and we want to experience a deep inner peace that is not dependent upon external circumstances.  We desire to feel hopeful about our unfolding lives, and to be free from physical pain, or at least be free of [...]]]></description>
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<p>I think that we all yearn to feel deeply loved and accepted –just as we are, right now–and we want to experience a deep inner peace that is not dependent upon external circumstances.  We desire to feel hopeful about our unfolding lives, and to be free from physical pain, or at least be free of the mental suffering that can accompany it.</p>
<p>To this mind, any of the above represents “healing”.   In these challenging times, as things seem extremely out of control in many places on our beautiful but beleaguered planet, the need of healing is very apparent; whether it is physical, mental/emotional or on more refined levels of beingness, of spirit.</p>
<p>I just had the opportunity, privilege and blessing to experience such healing, attending a series of public events that I believe are positively changing the collective consciousness of the world.  All that was required of me was to stand with an open heart and mind and receive “The Energy” coursing through and around a man called BRACO (pronounced Braht-so).</p>
<p>Braco, a 42 year-old native of Croatia, husband and father, and former business man with a master’s degree in accounting, does not speak in public, nor does he give teachings or offer solutions to problems.  There is no need.   Allowing himself to be utilized as a conduit for the greatest Love, he most humbly shares the miraculous gift, which was spontaneously bestowed upon him at age 26, by simply standing and gazing at those who come to be in its presence.  <span id="more-1002"></span> As Braco modestly and effortlessly stands before groups (which sometimes number in the thousands) Nature takes it from there, often creating miraculous results.  Well-known in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Germany, etc., Braco has been sharing his gift for 14 years.  He has never charged or accepted donations for his healing work.  Once, when asked by a reporter how it all works, Braco replied that he doesn’t have a clue.  “What counts is it works”, he said.</p>
<p>The range of healings that have resulted from this Radiation of The Divine Light (my term) have been medically documented.  There are numerous YouTube videos which tell Braco&#8217;s story and the stories of those he has impacted, as this radiation permeates and affects their whole life.  My story is simple, but empowering.</p>
<p>I came upon a poster advertising Braco’s appearance in Hawaii.  “BRACO:  Gaze of Miracles” it said.  He had been a guest at a UFO convention earlier in the month, I read. My immediate reaction was that I would certainly NOT attend a gazing session, thinking, “Are you kidding me?”   I was judging it as another wild performance, in what sometimes appears to me as spiritual circus of gurus, teachers and pundits, who dance through the Islands periodically.  With continued skepticism, I viewed a YouTube video emailed me by a friend.   Again, I rejected the idea of attending, thinking that it might easily be a public relations manipulation.  Yet, surprisingly, at 7 in the morning of the second day of Braco’s visit to Maui, I found myself dressing to drive to the venue where he would be appearing.</p>
<p>I knew that the only way to attend was to be open to receive whatever there was to receive.  That was my only intention.</p>
<p>Seated in the center of the third row, I listened to an introduction to Braco by Angelika Whitecliff who told of her own experience of learning of Braco, flying to Croatia to attend a gazing session, meeting him personally, being invited to travel with him for three weeks, and making the personal commitment to help make him available to the rest of the world.   She authored a book, “21 Days with Braco” describing what had occurred.</p>
<p>Then our small group of 30 or so stood and Braco silently walked into the room and mounted the steps to a platform from which he could see, and be seen, by all.  The gazing session began.  Almost immediately, I observed a clear bright light radiating from Braco, and felt the familiar energy of the One Love causing my heart to joyously expand.  The Energy was clear, direct, enveloping and penetrating, reflecting That which I Am—Braco at once a medium and a mirror.  Through the 6 minutes of this heavenly infusion I felt the bliss of being, and an emotional satiety that I have yearned for recently.  I suddenly remembered that I had requested this very feeling of deep inner peace from Source in recent days.  What a gracious response!</p>
<p>My experience was a timely reminder that I, as a human being, was (and always am) being taken care of.  In truth, all comes from “within”. . .but sometimes a booster shot from the seemingly “without” is very helpful.   This is how it was for me.</p>
<p>I returned for several more sessions on Maui and even flew to the Big Island accompanied by dear friends to be in Braco’s presence for a few more of them.  As I looked around, or listened to others in attendance, it was clear that my experience was not unique.   Many souls were reporting being healed and sustained through the Gaze of Miracles.</p>
<p>Since returning home, I remain profoundly peaceful within in a deep and abiding way.  Numerous insights, revelations, and realizations are arising and there is a calm certainty that there is truly nothing more to be done except, of course, to continue practicing Simply Being Present, moment-to-moment.  (“No hurry, no worry”, says  Chinese Medical Physician, Lam Kong).   Another thing:  physical discomfort that has been a long time companion is abating a bit more each day and I am getting intuitive understanding as to possible emotional causes which I hadn’t contemplated before now.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em> Dear Reader:  I was compelled to write today to share with you the miracle of meeting Braco, heart to heart. </em></strong><strong><em> </em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em> May all beings have this golden opportunity in the near future. . . </em></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Winter I choose not to vacuum/clean my car, mostly ‘cuz I’m lazy and don’t want to get cold/wet/etc.  I’m sure you understand how many small pebbles/dirt/leaves collected on the floor.
Finally the weather turned warm enough for me to get the vacuum out and commit to the chore.
When I opened the driver’s side door, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the Winter I choose not to vacuum/clean my car, mostly ‘cuz I’m lazy and don’t want to get cold/wet/etc.  I’m sure you understand how many small pebbles/dirt/leaves collected on the floor.</p>
<p>Finally the weather turned warm enough for me to get the vacuum out and commit to the chore.</p>
<p>When I opened the driver’s side door, I saw that the floor was perfectly clean.  After I got used to the idea of another miracle happening to me my cynical comment was:  “What a lazy angel…The passenger’s side is still dirty!”</p>
<p><em>Tom B.</em></p>
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		<title>WE ARE MIRACLE WORKERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sherry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I consider everyone participating with me in “Miracles And Grace” to be a Miracle Worker.  I want to acknowledge your generous-of-heart contribution.
Miracle Workers are angels of compassion, functioning as an inspirational presence on our extremely challenged planet right now.  Here, their activity is the sharing of stories of their personal miracles, marvels, wonders, grace and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-902" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="me-for-blog" src="http://www.miraclesandgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/me-for-blog-150x150.jpg" alt="me-for-blog" width="150" height="150" />I consider everyone participating with me in “Miracles And Grace” to be a Miracle Worker.  I want to acknowledge your generous-of-heart contribution.</p>
<p>Miracle Workers are angels of compassion, functioning as an inspirational presence on our extremely challenged planet right now.  Here, their activity is the sharing of stories of their personal miracles, marvels, wonders, grace and graciousness experienced so many ways and times.</p>
<p>Awareness and acknowledgement of all the everyday miracles brings about deep feelings of gratefulness and gratitude which act as an energy magnet to attract even more.  This is the momentum of grace.<span id="more-693"></span></p>
<p>Together, we are changing the vibration of the world.  Every time a story is posted on this site, it radiates a positive change throughout the Universe. (Actually, the moment we begin to think about writing our story, that positive effect is already taking place!)  Every time someone reads a story their personal world is filled with more light and they acquire a wider and wiser view. Worry and fear can be transformed or transcended this way.</p>
<p>Science supports this proposition.  Quantum physics has concluded what ancient and indigenous cultures have said all along:  everyone&#8211;everything, actually&#8211;in the Universe is composed of, and connected by an interpenetrating Field of energy (a matrix) which has intelligence.  We communicate to, and through, It via our feelings, thoughts, words and deeds.</p>
<p>Whatever we send into the Universe is mirrored back to us. Whatever we place our attention upon, increases in strength. <strong> Focus on “miracles” and Miracle Consciousness is raised and the whole Universe responds accordingly. </strong>What Power we have with our positive intention.  Our feelings, turned into action, centered on helping support others, is a beautiful service.</p>
<p>It doesn’t take much time to write down a story or to simply list your observations and experiences of the innumerable unexpected occurrences and insights that are bringing deeper peace, joy, and understanding to your lives.</p>
<p>Join the roll of Miracle Workers who have posted on this site. They are positively changing the world&#8211;one story at a time.  Now <em>that&#8217;s </em> a miracle!!</p>
<p><em>ENJOY THE STORIES POSTED BELOW</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an experience that happened to me late 1975 or 76.  I was a practicing vision specialist at the time and I’d been wearing glasses for 9 years. I didn’t see well without glasses.  I could barely see the big E on the eye chart, and needed them to drive.  I started doing some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is an experience that happened to me late 1975 or 76.  I was a practicing vision specialist at the time and I’d been wearing glasses for 9 years. I didn’t see well without glasses.  I could barely see the big E on the eye chart, and needed them to drive.  I started doing some vision exercises, and gradually reduced the strength of my eyeglasses prescription, and my vision started to improve.  Then, at a certain point, it stopped.</p>
<p>One day I was meditating (I had meditated since 1971) and I had a profound experience that I never had before.<span id="more-545"></span>In the midst of my meditation, and with eyes closed, all of a sudden I found myself observing myself and everything else in the room.   Today we would say “out of body experience”, but I had never heard of such a thing.</p>
<p>My eyes were closed, but through some way—I can’t say ‘the mind’s eye’, because I don’t know how it was observed&#8211;everything in the room was crystal clear.  Beyond optically clear&#8211;<em>everything </em>was clear. There were no questions&#8211;about anything.  Everything was just. . .I don’t even know how to describe it.</p>
<p>In the midst of this experience, I also realized I also couldn’t tell from where I was seeing.  It felt&#8211;the experience was&#8211;like simultaneous perception from an infinite number of points around the room, because I was observing myself from the front and back and top simultaneously.  I don’t know how to speak about that either.</p>
<p>When I opened my eyes, my eyesight was crystal clear.  I left my home, got in my car, put my glasses on the seat next to me, and drove to my office to examine myself.  On the way to my office, I could see everything: street signs billboards, everything.  I got to my office, I sat in my chair and started looking at eye charts I’d never seen before, and I could see every letter on every chart.    I put myself behind the horopter and went through same process, asking the same questions I ask my patients, “which is better #1 or #2?”</p>
<p>I went through the process and when I was finished, came up with the optical prescription, I was sure that the device would say “zero”, I didn’t need a prescription.   But the prescription in the machine was exactly the same prescription as I was wearing in my glasses.  The report was calling for the same prescription that my eyesight had always called for.</p>
<p>I had to ask myself the question,  “How is this possible??  I just had a 300% improvement in eyesight that seemed to occur instantaneously.  I could see everything on the eye chart without any stress or strain, and yet the optics of my eyes hadn’t changed at all!  Then all of a sudden it came to me:  Oh, we don’t see from the eyes alone.</p>
<p>It is now 32 years since that day, I’ve never had a pair of glasses on my face since that day, for distance or for reading.  6 months ago had a professional vision exam, and even though I don’t register as being nearsighted any longer, (which I was back then) I actually show more astigmatism now than before.  The amount of astigmatism that was objectively measured would make it impossible for me to see 20/20.  Yet I do.</p>
<p>What I’ve come to realize is that we don’t know what it is that is seeing.  From my experience, the seeing isn’t happening in the eye; unless you identify the eye as the seeing mechanism. For me, it’s not happening in the mind‘s eye; unless you identify yourself and the source of your essence as being in what you call that continual flow of thoughts that we think of as mind.  For me, is a situated&#8211;perhaps call it an awareness—is situated in the place that is aware of, not only the sensations of the body, but is continually aware of this activity of this thing going on in we call the mind.</p>
<p>All of us experience thoughts, most of think we are thinking them.  From my experience, what’s actually happening is that we are observing them.  In fact the only reason we are aware of the fact that thinking is occurring is because something is watching it, something is seeing it.</p>
<p>So, for me, the reason I believe that my eyesight changed so radically, and seems to give me optical clarity when the optics of my eyes would indicate that it would be impossible to have that clarity, is because the identification with the source of seeing, for me, is no longer in the eye or in the mind.  What I trust is that thing that sees without looking.</p>
<p><em>Jacob&#8211;Hawaii</em></p>
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		<title>FRESCO THE HEALER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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This is a story of Grace.  The Grace given to me and my husband to see the beauty of love and it&#8217;s healing qualities in all forms.
Our family (my husband, myself and our 85 lb. Labrador Sheppard mix, Fresco) joined a Pet Therapy group at our local hospital.  We were encouraged by a neighbor who [...]]]></description>
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<p>This is a story of Grace.  The Grace given to me and my husband to see the beauty of love and it&#8217;s healing qualities in all forms.</p>
<p>Our family (my husband, myself and our 85 lb. Labrador Sheppard mix, Fresco) joined a Pet Therapy group at our local hospital.  We were encouraged by a neighbor who recognized our dog&#8217;s gentle manner as a perfect fit for the program.    We instantly loved being a part of this important work and landed on visiting the Children&#8217;s ward as Fresco was so well received by the kids.<span id="more-156"></span></p>
<p>Our usual routine was to check in with the nurses station prior to &#8220;making the rounds&#8221; to learn of any special requests or rooms to avoid (these were children too sick to receive a visit from a furry friend).  One evening we learned of a three year-old boy that had been mauled by a pit bull.  We were familiar with the case from the local news.  That evening, we made special care to avoid the boy&#8217;s room or even going within eye&#8217;s distance as the nurses were concerned with the boy&#8217;s reaction of seeing dog after such a tragic event.</p>
<p>On our next scheduled visit, two weeks later, we again checked in with the nurses.  This time the nurse looked at us, and then at Fresco and said &#8220;let&#8217;s try something&#8221;.  I&#8217;m not sure what she was thinking because we never discussed it with her, but my sense was that her intuition was telling her something.  My mother was a nurse and I learned that nurses have special intuition when it comes to healing.  She led us to the play room where the three year old boy was playing.  She stopped us just outside the door and asked us to wait.  A few minutes later, she returned with the boy by her side.  She told him he had a special visitor.</p>
<p>At the first sight of the boy, my husband and I were shocked.  This little toddler had well over 50 stitches on his shaved head.  In that instant, not sure how the boy was going to react, we held our breath.  And then, with the joy and innocence only children possess, he grinned from ear to ear at Fresco.  All the time Fresco had been sitting and sat completely still as the toddler waddled towards him.  When the boy arrived, he flung is little arms around Fresco&#8217;s neck.  We were relieved that the little boy had seemed to forget the trauma he had endured just a short time ago.</p>
<p>Then, the beauty of love and healing happened just before our eyes, Fresco gently and so carefully began to lick the boys head.  It was as if each deliberate movement was an act of healing, of love and forgiveness.  In that moment, I thanked God for the miracle we were witnessing.</p>
<p>We continued visiting the hospital for years after this experience and our interactions with the hospital children were wonderful and meaningful.  In retrospect, I often feel as though my husband and I were only there to provide transportation for Fresco.  And that all the healing work was being done by him.  We were mere witnesses.</p>
<p>This gift of being witnesses to so many miracles and healings has been one of the greatest gifts from God.  We are grateful for the Grace bestowed to us through our loving family member, Fresco.</p>
<p><em>Ellen&#8211;Big Island, Hawaii</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over 30 years, I have guided people in the canyons, rivers, and mountains of the Colorado Plateau. This is a story of a young woman whose application to our program was almost turned down because I wasn’t sure if she would get anything out of it.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For over 30 years, I have guided people in the canyons, rivers, and mountains of the Colorado Plateau. This is a story of a young woman whose application to our program was almost turned down because I wasn’t sure if she would get anything out of it.</p>
<p>At the end of each day, we gather in Circle to “listen with respect and speak from the heart.” Although I usually conduct Circle around a campfire or bathed in fading sunlight or alpenglow, with this one particular group of teenagers, we always met before dinner. One day, we reached camp early, set up our shelters, and enjoyed a leisurely afternoon.<br />
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A tent group of boys baked fresh bread with their stove and a “twiggy fire.” Others rested, talking by a small stream. Some even lay on the warm grass and slept.</p>
<p>So, it was that we gathered that dreamy afternoon, deep in a forest of aspen and spruce. Bill spoke of friendship, how he felt closer to people in this group in just three weeks than he did with his friends back home whom he had known for years. Ruth was excited about all the scratches on her legs from the off-trail hiking. Karen admitted that she had little to say because she was so content. Raoul from Chicago told us that he loved the quiet of the forest, that it was so “natural,” so different than the silence of his room in the city. And, then, there was silence in our Circle, for long minutes.</p>
<p>At last, Megan reached for the talking stick. Holding it with both hands, she looked around the Circle with a beatific smile. She spoke slowly, “When I am with Mother Earth, I hear beautiful music. I hear the little birds in the morning talking to each other. Every stream has a friendly song. Twigs snap loudly under my boots.”</p>
<p>Still with her all-inclusive smile, but now with tears running freely down her cheeks, Megan looked around the Circle, at our lips, to see if any of us were talking. She chose her words carefully, and enunciated every word with effort and passion. You could have heard a pin drop in the Circle.<br />
“I love the sound of aspen leaves and dry grass in the wind. When a storm comes, the thunder frightens me. I know where the deer sleep because I can hear them breathing. I can hear the stars moving at night. When I sleep outside, I hear the voices in my dreams. I am so happy to be here with all of you.”</p>
<p>Megan is completely deaf. We gathered for Circle in the daylight, so that she could read our lips. We listened intently because her speech was difficult to understand. She knew how to “listen with respect and speak from the heart” and we understood.</p>
<p><em>Doug—Mancos, Colorado</em></p>
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