CAREFREE TRUTH
Letters from Readers: 7/18/13
(Lyn's note: Please feel free to send us any pictures you'd like included. If your photos are for sale, let us know and we will put them under that category. We have a special section for that purpose. Check out Tom Baker's photos for sale. He's the photographer who took that gorgeous photo in the Carefree Gardens Photo Contest that was both the judges' first pick and the public favorite. It's now featured on the Town of Carefree website, and will be the cover of the 2014 Gardens calendar that will be for sale later this summer at Carefree Town Hall. If anyone would like to buy a print of any of Herbert's photos, all profits will be donated to one of the local non-profit organizations.) Here's the link to this week's Pictures of the Week.
http://carefreetruth.com/Carefree_Truth/Photos_7-15-13.html
I’d like to introduce you to Mike Wold, a recently arrived resident of Carefree.
Mike is a veteran of Vietnam, a member of the American Legion and is active in helping other veterans. While living in the Midwest, Mike introduced a workshop called “Healing of Memories for Veterans” which helped veterans deal with difficult memories of their time in service to our country. The workshop received excellent endorsements from the veterans who attended it.
Mike decided that this program would be worthwhile for veterans living in the Carefree area. Mike has arranged for “Healing of Memories” to be held at the Spirit in the Desert Retreat Center in Carefree on October 18-20, 2013.
Mike is making contact with organizations and individuals in the community to help fund “Healing of Memories”. He is doing this on his own and is finding great cooperation from the community. Mike tells me that he is meeting remarkable people and organizations who are freely giving him their support and backing. You can contact Mike Wold at 651 687-9767 for more information about “Healing of Memories”.
Mike is a wonderful example of what I see frequently in Carefree and in the entire Foothills Community. Someone has an idea to make things better and takes the initiative to make their idea a success.
Mayor David Schwan
(Lyn's note: Here is a related article from the Washington Post.)
By Sabastian Junger
The Washington Post
In America today, only soldiers bear "the moral burden of war," said Sebastian Junger. All Americans should share the responsibility for the carnage of Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 12 years, because we collectively approved these wars and sent young men and women to fight them. But the all-volunteer army has opened a yawning cultural gap between the military and 99 percent of our population; when veterans come home, people slap them on the back, call them heroes- and ignore the damage that so much death and horror has done to their souls. In tribal societies, returning warriors undergo rituals to "spiritually cleanse them" of the obscenity of war, and are asked to tell their stories to the community "in great bloody detail." This process enables the warrior to share their burden-and reminds everyone that the war was fought in their behalf. Deprived of any such catharsis, more that 500,000 of our veterans are struggling with post traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism, and other dysfunctions. They need us to listen, not throw them parades.
Video taken from Carefree Highway. Bob & Jo, Glenn & Michelle paid their respects to our fallen heroes from the Yarnell fire.
Jo Gemmill
The 7/15/13 London Times reported, "Saks Fifth Avenue has produced a special range of babywear, while The English Rose Tea Room in Arizona, with a reputation for holding events related to royal births, reported 150 visitors, including one who brought a 'diaper cake'."
The two ladies featured in the London Times photo are Carefree residents, Heidi Bonneau and Michelle Carpenter.
This was on the Channel 5 morning news, 7/15/13
Jo Gemmill
English Rose Tea Room
PO Box 5865
201 Easy Street
Carefree, AZ 85377
Tel: 480.488.4812
