From Mike Moody

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1. John Whipple Sr.
   February 19th, 2009 11:37
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   Ah-ha! Trying to trick Mother Nature to think you can fly like a bird. . .”It’s not nice to trick Mother Nature.”

   There was an old adage in Mother Nature’s rule book. “You can make anything fly for a little while, even a rock!”

   As I watched this video I could remember in detail being towed up to 3500 feet and can still remember the “no sound” silence of captive air that had stopped and leaving me suspended in time and the “rush” shook my body when the release hook dropped.

   It was me and the world, and we were separated.

   It was just like in my airplane except my airplane had an “up” button (the throttle). If I wanted “up” I would have to use one of Mother Nature’s thermals.

   What is the point of this story?

   Basically it is understanding and overcoming “risk” and widening your and all others’ “comfort zone” of safety and accomplishment.

   It is not a bad thing. . . .It is a good thing!

   If you don’t “risk”. . . You don’t “Live” and what would your memories be worth then?

2. John Whipple Sr.
   February 19th, 2009 19:26
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   On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Michael Moody wrote:

   Hey, old man, good to hear from you. Thanks for taking a silly thrill video and turning it in to a focused life lesson. I will have to forward it to non Whippleworld folks I sent the video to.
   Regards,
   Cousin Mike

   Hi, Mike!
   I see you file your keepers under subject matter. . . .great idea!
   Here is one you can file under “Unity of Truth” resolved by reducing a subject in question to the oneness of a simple single answer.

   Along about 1979 we had a small Shetland pony that I let graze along the railroad track behind the house. I was sitting at the kitchen table having a bowl of Campbell’s Tomato Soup and wheat crackers (How is that for a 30 year memory span?). I heard the train blow the whistle and realized it was going to spook the horse so I immediately went out the back to bring in the horse. I untied the horse and led her in the gate with my back toward the on coming train with reasonable time to get in the gate when I heard the horn blow again and the familiar crunching sound of the train hitting a car at the intersection on the corner 3 blocks away. It carried the vehicle ( an Oldsmobile station wagon) up to almost behind my house with a squealing scrapping noises.The engineer had come out and was standing on a platform behind a railing warning the many approaching people from the houses and cars stopping along the access road and stopping just short of the damaged vehicle.

   Not knowing what to do they stood around and kept talking about how there should have been a better warning system or something to keep this sort of thing from happening. Some said we should do away with railroad tracks all together. Each having a different answer all logical in some form or other.

   The answers began to be more and more complicated and all seemed to extend into excuses and then into infinity when the real answer was really known by all if simplified to the Unity of Truth!

   “When you let your car occupy the same space as a 400 ton locomotive you are going to lose. and we individually are the only one that can prevent that!”

   But now we have compulsory Insurance. . . .are we still thinking in the wrong direction? The results show 8.8 times more accidents now than when we had to be responsible for our own waves we make. . . .