ZGram - 10/26/2003 - Prisoner of Conscience Letter # 26

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Zgram - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever!

October 26, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Yesterday's letter was just incredibly sad.  This morning, I found 
this uplifting letter in my mailbox.  It is dated October 14, 2003 - 
and was written in response to a John Kaminiski letter that I had 
sent to Ernst and a book I had arranged for him to have. 

You will see yet another side of Ernst - a man whose body is in 
shackles and yet, a man, who finds the time to help a total stranger 
with artistic suggestions to launch his own line of books:

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Dear Ingrid -

I have stamps and envelopes again - thus you will be one of the first 
people after the long weekend to get a bunch of drawings which you 
might be able to use as envelope stuffers.  The ones I enclose are 
all usable in the newsletters - you can group your text around them.

By the way:  I drew a most beautiful dandelion blossom - and one 
going to seed sending its parachutes out - for John Kaminski whose 
book company is called Dandelion Books.  I'll be interested to see 
how he will react to this.  I suggested a slogan for him: "Spreading 
the Seeds of Freedom".  As you can see, [there are] three little 
parachutes still on the dandelion, while others sail off in the 
distance.  He is terribly negative, horribly frustrated, but a very 
gifted wordsmith.  He has lots of phrases, eminently useful.  Thanks 
for making that contact and sending me his stuff. 

He has a few observations in there by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which 
parallel mine, about the futility of travel.  Emerson, too, in 
different parts of the world came to realize that, regardless of what 
new, beautiful vistas he beheld - same face, same feelings, same 
groping for answers he felt and saw at home!

How often did I look into the mirror in Europe, Africa, Asia, 
surrounded by all these strange people - and after months of travel, 
months of soaking up magnificent vistas, visiting all the famous 
ruins of ancient civilizations, I suffered image information 
overload!  I simply overloaded my memory bank.  I remember standing 
by the sea shore in some out-of-the-way Hawaiian island - being me, I 
had to go visit all of them, each and every one of them! - and 
letting the salty spray from the roaming, incoming breakers of a 
stormy sea blow in my fevered face until I was drenched, saying out 
loud to myself:  "If I see one more ancient ruin, one more temple, I 
think I will go crazy!"

Here I was, surrounded by this incredible, romantic, magnificent 
vista - and I, the artist, had circuit overload!  That taught me a 
valuable lesson!  Like Marco Polo, I had to get home to digest all I 
had seen and heard during all those conversations and interviews I 
had absorbed over almost a year of travel to the far corners of the 
planet.  It was then that the foundations were laid, from which I 
have drawn ever since - that all things need their time, almost like 
a gestation period after conception, time to develop until a thought, 
or a vision, gets born.  To rush it would amount to a risky, 
premature birth or even a tragic abortion.

This is one of the things which helps me sustain my equilibrium in 
solitary confinement - to know that, cosmically, a birth will take 
place after conception has occurred. 

Therefore, our dreams and visions, all those magnificent plans will 
come to fruition when their gestation period is over.  Will you  and 
I be present at the birth?  I don't know, for I am not God - just 
Ernst, your husband, partner, and friend.  So keep the dream. 
Nurture it.  Let us always divest each day some of our energy and any 
money [we can spare], even if it is only a postage stamp, for one 
more letter, or time for one more email, to reach out, to touch 
someone, to make the dream come true. 

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