There is reputed to be only one lone Matriarch elephant silently roaming the dense Knysna forest on the South African south-east coast. But she at least is - in touch - quite literally with her stimulating, comforting natural environment. Zoo loneliness is man determined hell.
I suddenly remembered A.A. Milne's poem of 3 year old Christopher Robin At The Zoo. There were biffalo buffalo bisons and wallaboos, but he gave buns to the elephant when he went down to the zoo.
I dared read the AI review... so clearly composed by an It. The usual give-aways - platitudes and clichés. Unable to grasp the humour of small child sound games.
I would like to support this project, but prefer to not create an account on another platform or pay through Facebook. Is there another way to send money?
The link does not go to Facebook, but to Kickstarter. But perhaps Nancy will tell us if there are, in addition, other ways to donate. I have to wait until money arrives to make a donation, hopefully within a few days.
Yes, the pledges are made through Kickstarter. Kickstarter has an all or nothing model of crowdfunding. Your credit card is only charged at the end of the campaign if our goal has been met, or exceeded.
What a wonderful project and it makes me absolutely ill that this happens to these majestic animals! My family has been following Pupy, who just got to a sanctuary in Brazil. She was confined to a cement ‘prison’ for 40; years!! What is wrong with humans!? They are so uncaring and unfeeling! Thank you for bringing this to our attention! I have missed you! Not gotten any emails in weeks! Hope you are doing good!
Celia, just wanted to tell you how much I love my MYHA t-shirt and mug!! I wash the shirt as soon as I wear it for the day, so it can be clean again for the next day… hehehehe. Maybe I need a couple more!!
REALLY??? That makes me so happy, Really it does. An interdimensional dwelling demon has been blocking almost all my attempts at succeeding in things large or small for so long that I frankly crave any version of "well done!" I was certain the demon had torpedoed the store and the T shirts and maybe even this Substack. One becomes PTSD ish with these things.
Those t-shirts are of very superior material, soft and a perfect weight fabric. And I love the mug too. You are doing a fabulous job in every way and so many of us are behind you, Celia.
React-19? New to me so I did a cursory search. I couldn't find any mention of charity donations, nor elephants. Either its a really big room or a different room.
Benevolence toward elephants brings good fortune and mine has improved already.
T didn't realize you meant the pachyderm in the pantry.
Good on you who knows better than fools who say that's all behind us now. Never forget. It's the contemporary holocaust.
As soon as your link opened I realized it was the M.W. documentary I downloaded around two weeks ago then didn't watch. I thought it was time sensitive viewing into the front end of this month and afterward donations encouraged. I'll watch it tonight, thank you.
Yes, I agree with you, Mo. Elephants are the best. So sensitive, intelligent and beautiful to boot. React-19 is the charity that gives to the vaccine-injured. It was formed by an orthopedic surgeon who got badly injured from his own Covid vax and a kindergarten teacher Brianne Dressen, who also got badly injured in the Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine trials. Follow The Silenced is a great film that just came out on the topic. Free to watch at Mikki Willis’ website - just search Follow The Silenced. It won best picture and director at the Santa Monica Film Festival this spring. Don’t miss it.
This is an amazing story. Thank you for sharing. I want to point out that under the Director's Statement on the Story of Happy (beautiful), there should be some revisions to the language as it is - well, you look at it, and read it, you will see. I would suggest a correction. I am forwarding this story to my friends and neighbors and family. Thank you again.
As always precious gorgeous golden hearted saintly adoreable Celia manages to write something unexpected ..and unforgettable.. in the age of the..rebelliion of the branches against the..tree..the age of the dumb phone zombie... that touches The,King Of Hearts.*......
Re”..Celia………1..short list.--- .a few. examples..there are many more.. of the rebellion of the branches against the.tree*….former..and current..”...Nimrod.pre abraham in babylon…..…shooting arrows into the clouds…….*the witch of endor**… aleistir crowley ..the murderous gay rapist jew fake christian .the old antichrist jew fakr messiah..the .real satanist.. ^sabbatai levi tsvi…^....menachem mendle schneerson.. geinrich yagoda..bela kuhn laventri beria..moshe pijade anna pauker bela kuhn..josip broz..anton le vey .real name Howard Levy…greaves..gavin newsome soros…jim jones..rothschild jiimmy saville ..robert durst..david berkowitz jack rubinstein..susan wojcicki..lazar kaganovich.ben geveer semion mogilevich judas iscariot ..lindsey graham..…barbra lerner specter..larry fink..schwarsmen.ackman. klaus schwab ..harari..oiel ignatiev..karl marx..jon pollard..julious and ethel rosenberg..schumer .finesteen..alan dershowitz..marina abramovich..page brin kolomoisekey zelensky rabbi joshua stanton…kushner..kagan sotomayor..nadler schiff …….kursweil..** 2..The King of Hearts is another name …title of …Allmighty Jesus Christ..The Final Judge** .we empathize..relate…to the plight of imprisoned female elephant..Happy …(”as does Christ in Heaven…the entire earth is the Lords(belongs to.Him..we are..granted utlity ..license to live on.. but we have free will agency..He will absolutelyn Not live our lives for us ..neither..will He be culpable for our misinterpretations.misunderstandings. ... sins….human unrestrained stupidity...but we..are..all..ultimately judged for our comportment-utility of the earth..including .but not limited to..how we treat animals…) hope that helps…we dont mean to be chimerical..unesecerily mysterious .or abstreuse….too harsh but we are not…supporters..apeasers or condoners of the current neoliberal stalinistic zombified nightmare..in the post modern beseiged western world..
re MYHA, I've been waiting since your last post to reference this updated version of a Substack submission by "A Midwestern Doctor" entitled Dermatology's Disastrous War Against The Sun: The forgotten side of skin health and the necessity of sunlight. btw, as a natural sunscreen elephants cover themselves in mud or dirt.
Happy makes an appearance before head-dwellers everywhere, who get limited sympathy from their own peers, as we labor beneath the ponderous weight of increasingly teratoid megatechnics, as lonesome individuals-- https://koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=141555 .
"commodified isolation." How chillingly accurate. US prisons, too, famously. Built for black men, who got caught with weed. Gangster Rap music created by music industry gangsters who were by no means black, so they would do things that would land them in prison. The evil is always mind boggling.
I haven't followed the Harvard mess. Every mess is the same ugly grey color these days.
Celia, thanks so so much for posting about Happy here. The pledges did increase today, probably because of this compassionate community. I just cannot wrap my head around her being held in a concrete barn from November to May for one more year. She has been in captivity at the Bronx Zoo for 48 years 17 in isolation. The photo of me filming is at Elephant Nature Park , a magnificent sanctuary in Thailand, Happy’s birthplace.
Happy by contrast, can only be seen from a monorail, in less than 45 seconds ( I’ve timed it) and for this the Zoo, deprives her of her right to live the rest of her life at a sanctuary in Tennessee. Thank you for pledging, and sharing!
No, in all seriously--I may look up the original Swedish this time, as TT's English translators, with the exception of Robin Fulton, did not speak Swedish. Robert Bly for example. I love much about that guy but...his Tranströmer translations...
Celia, I remember a post where you were talking about trauma and some kind of shaking exercise for trauma. Could you please link that post because I can’t find it? Thanks!
There is reputed to be only one lone Matriarch elephant silently roaming the dense Knysna forest on the South African south-east coast. But she at least is - in touch - quite literally with her stimulating, comforting natural environment. Zoo loneliness is man determined hell.
My mother never allowed us to go to zoos.
Once a friend bought my son a ticket, to take him to Ringling Bros in NY. I let him go.
My father simply hated zoos as a child and remembers being taken anyway. It was believed children loved zoos--period.
I suddenly remembered A.A. Milne's poem of 3 year old Christopher Robin At The Zoo. There were biffalo buffalo bisons and wallaboos, but he gave buns to the elephant when he went down to the zoo.
I dared read the AI review... so clearly composed by an It. The usual give-aways - platitudes and clichés. Unable to grasp the humour of small child sound games.
I would like to support this project, but prefer to not create an account on another platform or pay through Facebook. Is there another way to send money?
The link does not go to Facebook, but to Kickstarter. But perhaps Nancy will tell us if there are, in addition, other ways to donate. I have to wait until money arrives to make a donation, hopefully within a few days.
Yes, the pledges are made through Kickstarter. Kickstarter has an all or nothing model of crowdfunding. Your credit card is only charged at the end of the campaign if our goal has been met, or exceeded.
What a wonderful project and it makes me absolutely ill that this happens to these majestic animals! My family has been following Pupy, who just got to a sanctuary in Brazil. She was confined to a cement ‘prison’ for 40; years!! What is wrong with humans!? They are so uncaring and unfeeling! Thank you for bringing this to our attention! I have missed you! Not gotten any emails in weeks! Hope you are doing good!
I have followed Pupy’s journey too, from an Argentinian Zoo, to the sanctuary in Brazil. She can now live her own life, free from entertaining humans.
How dark . . . yet again. Has all the joie de vivre of, you will own nothing (freedom) and be Happy.
I just donated. Thank you.
Celia, just wanted to tell you how much I love my MYHA t-shirt and mug!! I wash the shirt as soon as I wear it for the day, so it can be clean again for the next day… hehehehe. Maybe I need a couple more!!
REALLY??? That makes me so happy, Really it does. An interdimensional dwelling demon has been blocking almost all my attempts at succeeding in things large or small for so long that I frankly crave any version of "well done!" I was certain the demon had torpedoed the store and the T shirts and maybe even this Substack. One becomes PTSD ish with these things.
Those t-shirts are of very superior material, soft and a perfect weight fabric. And I love the mug too. You are doing a fabulous job in every way and so many of us are behind you, Celia.
Mel your mug and the one on your shoulders already has a companion--you. Tell it to donate the mug money to the elephant :- )
The elephant in the room? Yes! I give to the React-19 group regularly….
React-19? New to me so I did a cursory search. I couldn't find any mention of charity donations, nor elephants. Either its a really big room or a different room.
Benevolence toward elephants brings good fortune and mine has improved already.
By elephant, I meant “the elephant in the room” that nobody wants to talk about- Covid vaccine injuries.
T didn't realize you meant the pachyderm in the pantry.
Good on you who knows better than fools who say that's all behind us now. Never forget. It's the contemporary holocaust.
As soon as your link opened I realized it was the M.W. documentary I downloaded around two weeks ago then didn't watch. I thought it was time sensitive viewing into the front end of this month and afterward donations encouraged. I'll watch it tonight, thank you.
Meanwhile this one from when I used to still visit zoos back in the 60s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1z4JfxFb6c
https://followthesilenced.com/
Yes, I agree with you, Mo. Elephants are the best. So sensitive, intelligent and beautiful to boot. React-19 is the charity that gives to the vaccine-injured. It was formed by an orthopedic surgeon who got badly injured from his own Covid vax and a kindergarten teacher Brianne Dressen, who also got badly injured in the Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine trials. Follow The Silenced is a great film that just came out on the topic. Free to watch at Mikki Willis’ website - just search Follow The Silenced. It won best picture and director at the Santa Monica Film Festival this spring. Don’t miss it.
Mel, that would have been a brilliant title. Hats off to you!
Thank you, Celia, for bringing attention to the plight of Happy and this film.
I have protested Happy's imprisonment with the Nonhuman Rights Project in front of the Bronx Zoo, and I will support the film.
This is an amazing story. Thank you for sharing. I want to point out that under the Director's Statement on the Story of Happy (beautiful), there should be some revisions to the language as it is - well, you look at it, and read it, you will see. I would suggest a correction. I am forwarding this story to my friends and neighbors and family. Thank you again.
Ok, will do.
"Do none of them see in her, their own mother, or recoil at the presence of the inconsolable?"
- priceless!
My mother was inconsolable.
At the same time, very prone to bursts of joy. Never hung out much in the middle.
I think it's an important word, "inconsolable." It suggests to my ear depth of (tragic) perception.
As always precious gorgeous golden hearted saintly adoreable Celia manages to write something unexpected ..and unforgettable.. in the age of the..rebelliion of the branches against the..tree..the age of the dumb phone zombie... that touches The,King Of Hearts.*......
"The rebellion of the branches against the tree."
I wonder if you would elaborate on this?
Also, the King of Hearts. Seems important.
Re”..Celia………1..short list.--- .a few. examples..there are many more.. of the rebellion of the branches against the.tree*….former..and current..”...Nimrod.pre abraham in babylon…..…shooting arrows into the clouds…….*the witch of endor**… aleistir crowley ..the murderous gay rapist jew fake christian .the old antichrist jew fakr messiah..the .real satanist.. ^sabbatai levi tsvi…^....menachem mendle schneerson.. geinrich yagoda..bela kuhn laventri beria..moshe pijade anna pauker bela kuhn..josip broz..anton le vey .real name Howard Levy…greaves..gavin newsome soros…jim jones..rothschild jiimmy saville ..robert durst..david berkowitz jack rubinstein..susan wojcicki..lazar kaganovich.ben geveer semion mogilevich judas iscariot ..lindsey graham..…barbra lerner specter..larry fink..schwarsmen.ackman. klaus schwab ..harari..oiel ignatiev..karl marx..jon pollard..julious and ethel rosenberg..schumer .finesteen..alan dershowitz..marina abramovich..page brin kolomoisekey zelensky rabbi joshua stanton…kushner..kagan sotomayor..nadler schiff …….kursweil..** 2..The King of Hearts is another name …title of …Allmighty Jesus Christ..The Final Judge** .we empathize..relate…to the plight of imprisoned female elephant..Happy …(”as does Christ in Heaven…the entire earth is the Lords(belongs to.Him..we are..granted utlity ..license to live on.. but we have free will agency..He will absolutelyn Not live our lives for us ..neither..will He be culpable for our misinterpretations.misunderstandings. ... sins….human unrestrained stupidity...but we..are..all..ultimately judged for our comportment-utility of the earth..including .but not limited to..how we treat animals…) hope that helps…we dont mean to be chimerical..unesecerily mysterious .or abstreuse….too harsh but we are not…supporters..apeasers or condoners of the current neoliberal stalinistic zombified nightmare..in the post modern beseiged western world..
re MYHA, I've been waiting since your last post to reference this updated version of a Substack submission by "A Midwestern Doctor" entitled Dermatology's Disastrous War Against The Sun: The forgotten side of skin health and the necessity of sunlight. btw, as a natural sunscreen elephants cover themselves in mud or dirt.
Mark, this is a fragment of a poem:
As a natural sunscreen
elephants cover themselves in mud or dirt.
Happy makes an appearance before head-dwellers everywhere, who get limited sympathy from their own peers, as we labor beneath the ponderous weight of increasingly teratoid megatechnics, as lonesome individuals-- https://koreaittimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=141555 .
This is commodified isolation . Familiar to any who survived intact the last decades .
What is nasty brings David Attenboro's insistence that this couldnt be allowed to happen in UK
without immediate natural surroundings being an option taken very seriously ..
Without Nancy this is a sign of a putative alter ego ''echo '' of Vance's free speech ,Trump's locking down of Havard ,which Vance is behind .
''Free'' speech means take no prisoners if they disagree ,toch ?
Auswitz (II ,III IV) - otherwise the most open society in the world ?
"commodified isolation." How chillingly accurate. US prisons, too, famously. Built for black men, who got caught with weed. Gangster Rap music created by music industry gangsters who were by no means black, so they would do things that would land them in prison. The evil is always mind boggling.
I haven't followed the Harvard mess. Every mess is the same ugly grey color these days.
Celia, thanks so so much for posting about Happy here. The pledges did increase today, probably because of this compassionate community. I just cannot wrap my head around her being held in a concrete barn from November to May for one more year. She has been in captivity at the Bronx Zoo for 48 years 17 in isolation. The photo of me filming is at Elephant Nature Park , a magnificent sanctuary in Thailand, Happy’s birthplace.
Happy by contrast, can only be seen from a monorail, in less than 45 seconds ( I’ve timed it) and for this the Zoo, deprives her of her right to live the rest of her life at a sanctuary in Tennessee. Thank you for pledging, and sharing!
Hi there,
I don't wish to be pedantic but
sails on modern boats ( and to an extent old square rigged ones ) lean away from the wind.
So how does the freedom metaphor tail with this?
I don't get it.
Well, let's just say it works for non sailors.
😂
No, in all seriously--I may look up the original Swedish this time, as TT's English translators, with the exception of Robin Fulton, did not speak Swedish. Robert Bly for example. I love much about that guy but...his Tranströmer translations...
Back soon.
Celia, I remember a post where you were talking about trauma and some kind of shaking exercise for trauma. Could you please link that post because I can’t find it? Thanks!