On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 17:27, Jerome K. wrote:
Well, this is not per say a Dakotas teaching story but it did happen in SD.
I was riding my bicycle cross country in 1976 and I had gotten a ride from Rapid City to Chamberlain. I had been given the name of a Baha'i gentleman as someone I could visit. I rang the door bell and a gentleman answered. He said the Baha'i lived in their basement but was gone for a few days. If I wished, he said I could stay there for the night. I accepted the offer and in fact they invited me for dinner. It happened to be a Feast night so I unloaded my bicycle panniers and sleeping bag, washed my face, said a prayer (devotions), talked to myself about how the day went and may still go (business), and went up for dinner (social). It was my first taste of Turkey Fries. I departed the next morning after leaving a thank you note for the Baha'i and thanking the family.
I recall arriving in Sioux Falls and the Baha'i family there had just been flooded out of their house. I rode to Sioux City. My back was out, upper vertebrae, so one of the Baha'is knew of a chiropractor in Vermillion, SD. The Baha'is were having a picnic in Vermillion and my friend took me to the chiropractor and we waited until 3pm to be seen. It was first come, first served, the treatment worked and it was only $3. The doctor said 'If I charged more, the poor could not afford to see me.' Very inspiring and I later went to massage therapy school. We drove to the picnic and had a nice social.
Hope that helps and have fun with your project.
God bless you,
Jerome "Bad 'Bent" Knudson
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"The world is, in truth, moving on towards its destiny.....Adversity, prolonged, worldwide, afflictive, allied to chaos and universal destruction, must needs convulse the nations, stir the conscience of the world, disillusion the masses, precipitate a radical change in the very conception of society, and coalesce ultimately the disjointed, the bleeding limbs of mankind into one body, single, organically united, and indivisible." Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p.122-123
Well, this is not per say a Dakotas teaching story but it did happen in SD.
I was riding my bicycle cross country in 1976 and I had gotten a ride from Rapid City to Chamberlain. I had been given the name of a Baha'i gentleman as someone I could visit. I rang the door bell and a gentleman answered. He said the Baha'i lived in their basement but was gone for a few days. If I wished, he said I could stay there for the night. I accepted the offer and in fact they invited me for dinner. It happened to be a Feast night so I unloaded my bicycle panniers and sleeping bag, washed my face, said a prayer (devotions), talked to myself about how the day went and may still go (business), and went up for dinner (social). It was my first taste of Turkey Fries. I departed the next morning after leaving a thank you note for the Baha'i and thanking the family.
I recall arriving in Sioux Falls and the Baha'i family there had just been flooded out of their house. I rode to Sioux City. My back was out, upper vertebrae, so one of the Baha'is knew of a chiropractor in Vermillion, SD. The Baha'is were having a picnic in Vermillion and my friend took me to the chiropractor and we waited until 3pm to be seen. It was first come, first served, the treatment worked and it was only $3. The doctor said 'If I charged more, the poor could not afford to see me.' Very inspiring and I later went to massage therapy school. We drove to the picnic and had a nice social.
Hope that helps and have fun with your project.
God bless you,
Jerome "Bad 'Bent" Knudson
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The world is, in truth, moving on towards its destiny.....Adversity, prolonged, worldwide, afflictive, allied to chaos and universal destruction, must needs convulse the nations, stir the conscience of the world, disillusion the masses, precipitate a radical change in the very conception of society, and coalesce ultimately the disjointed, the bleeding limbs of mankind into one body, single, organically united, and indivisible." Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day is Come, p.122-123
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