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Elspeth
Clarke, Hickory Nut Gap Farm, North Carolina, USA I am thinking so much of all of you farmers in the UK and Europe. We send you our deepest sympathy and hope and pray that you get through this terrible period of foot and mouth . We too have herds of cattle and sheep and we just can imagine what terrible times you are going through and we send our deepest sympathy. |
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John
Pilson, Farm Manager, Warren Wilson College, Black Mountain, North
Carolina, USA My name is John and I manage the farm at a small college in North Carolina. We've been paying attention to what is happening to all of you and to your farms and your livestock. We know how much we care about our livestock that we raise. We are sure it must be devastating to your families to have what's happening, going on. We want you to know that all of our hearts here go out to you and we wish you the very very best. |
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General
Grant, of Cherokee, North Carolina, USA Most people have lost a lot of things, but through the Native values, you utilize the things that you have. You have your health, your family, your land, your love and your commitment to life, and you can still survive if you use those things. So hang in there and keep at it. |
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Chase
Hubbard, Assistant Farm Manager, Warren Wilson College, Black Mountain, North Carolina, USA Someone once told me at a time of difficulty that you can endure almost anything as long as you can see some light at the end of the tunnel. I have found that to be true. I don't pretend to know how you guys are feeling or what you are going through over there with a lifetime of work built up and now it seems like it is all gone. But hang in there. Farmers are tough people. We work in an environment that demands us to have patience and be strong so you folks hang in there. |
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Diana Osborne, Madison County, North Carolina, USA
We are so sorry that these things have happened . . . there are very few words that anybody can say. But there's a kind of way that you can be: when a tree falls and you're another tree - that's kind of how I see it and feel it. In that way that we are so connected with nature and the animals and the trees, then when something goes, everything changes and it's understood. Everything does change and grow and die, and we are all part of this enormous cycle of all things. I think it's here for us to remember now, as things get perhaps very difficult. So I want you to remember . . . how everyone has to remember who has lost things, that this is a cycle that we are a part of and we can't escape it, and it goes on endlessly. You and I and all these things share something very profound. So now I share your tears, and what you've lost, I share that with my heart. |
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Ted Williams, Iroquois elder living in Madison County,
North Carolina, USA We are always part of the great cycles of all things, and because we're all from the same creation, we are all sisters and brothers, one tremendous family. Not only within the elements called people, but intimate kin to all the elements of this divine, harmonious universe. Our faith keepers tell us that gratitude is the beginning of knowledge and understanding. We have been given the job of taking care of all of our other elements, because we were the last to be created. We have four things with which to do it: we have our good thoughts; we have our good feelings; we have our good words; we have our good deeds. Animals have given us so much: food, clothing, shelter, beauty, medicine, a divine consciousness. We open our hearts to these animals and say "Oh, we love you so very much and wish to thank you for all you have given us". We know that when any of our animals pass on, all other animals, that are even closer to the Creator than we ever could get, are waiting for them, to take care of them and love them and take them into their arms, as we ask them to help us, too. |
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