Outreach no. 091

              OUTREACH the newsletter of 7 te 57 eel ell eed euccfr T saeotert sfrcctuai zideteiwi 9ttennatwwni no 91 MARCUS BACH founder THE LETTER dear friend of the fellowship the other day when lorena won first place in a newspaper photo contest for a picture of a robin feeding its young I 1 got to thinking not about birds and pictures only but about life we are all robins in a way feeding and being fed dependent upon nature subject to the environment around us and to the predictability and unpredictability of circumstances we are all exposed to chance which as we who believe in serendipity well know may often be more than mere happenstance looking at the photograph I 1 was for some reason reminded how intimately all of us 4 robins are bound together how intimately all the world is bound together like robins in their environment we too sense a real dependence upon the earths resources the socalled so called energy crisis whatever may have been behind it all let it be known that we are inte internationally rnationally interrelated inter related once when I 1 lectured at a university in bombay my introducer asked me to carry a word of thanks back to the american midwest for help that farmers had given india during a time of food shortage think for a moment of the things you have around the house from food to furniture and ask yourself where they came from from what part of the world and consider how many americanmade american made things people in other countries use and enjoy on a canadian documentary which 1 I caught in british columbia they discussed the way american inventions have changed the world they were talking about the USA a about bout edison who turned lights on around the globe alexander graham bell who made it possible to hear a whisper around the globe samuel morse who sent dots and dashes around the globe at the touch of a finger mccormick and his reaper ford and his car the wright brothers and their flying machine and literally hundreds of life changing earthshaking earth shaking contributions that our country has given to all mankind As part of the health program in which we are interested lorena and I 1 do some jogging now of course indians jogged in their bare feet or in homemade moccasins earlier joggers wore nothing more than a loincloth and sandals and some may even have streaked but being fairly modern and modest we bought some running gear for our 40minute 40 minute stints it dawned on me that the shoes we use were made in jugoslavia the socks came from scotland the shirt and trunks from america the sweater from italy the watch from switzerland and the pedometer from germany