A worthy place for Him to be at.

Chef

New Member
Mr. Beno Sterlicht from Niskayuna, NY wishes to start a organization he calls SeniorCorps, patterened after the Peace Corps, which would give seniors an opportunity to put their talent and energy to use. He would have it centered in Istanbul, Turkey, which he sees as a bridge between Europe and Asia.

This is from a article in The Business Review out of Albany, NY Opinion p.39 May 30- June 5, 2008 edition.

This is where I see Him being as He uses His Ways into the future. Beno is 80 years young and advised Congress USA that a car sould be based on life cycle not sticker price and he warned of $5.00 a gallon gas price more than a quarter century ago.

He Beno was not heeded as He and His Ways are not heeded. And look where we are now
 
Hi Chef!

Please tell me more about this SeniorCorps, and this Mr. Beno Stirlicht. I am very Interested in finding out more....Thanks!

Love Always Your Sister,
Eagle/Stacey
 

Chef

New Member
CountryEagle;186617 said:
Please tell me more about this SeniorCorps, and this Mr. Beno Stirlicht. I am very Interested in finding out more....Thanks!

Love Always Your Sister,
Eagle/Stacey

This was in The Business Review out of Albany, NY USA such details about great people often get overlooked.

I thought if anyone was interested they would google Mr. Beno and find out more.

This SeniorCorps is his brainchild and I hope he gets to fulfill his vision. I also hope He sees this infoprmation and helps Mr. Beno so that He will have a high place to retire to here on Earth and thereby be in a place that is safe and where he can help others.

The SeniorCorps is going to be where senior citizens get to be productive instead of being outcast. Where a person who is 80 can do much for this world. Presently a person who is 80 like Mr. Beno has no professional place to go where he can spread his wings and soar. Just because people are old does not mean thay are used up. This is the kind of thing Mr. Beno has in mind.

I hope it becomes a reality and Mr Beno and He can meet I know they will have much to discuss and do together.

Jim USA
 
Hi Chef!

I hope it becomes a reality for Mr. Beno, too. I will look up the info. tonight, via the internet... ever since I was a little girl -Up to now off & on throughout my life, I would always volunteer to sit with elderly within our community & and visit nursing homes.... I agree with you, that just because elderly can't move around, does not mean they can not do anything productrively!!! They have so much wisdom to share & offer.... I Loved sitting and talking with elderly.... Hope you have a blessed Day!

Love Always Your Sister,
Eagle/Stacey
 

halkush

Member
Recently I had the pleasure to loive with my 89 year old mother, who was born just after the Russian Revolution, lived through the Great Famine in Ukraine, The terrible pogroms which Stalin infliceted on his people, The second world war, being interned in concentration camp by the Nazis, living in Refugee camps with little food, solace or hope, then being transported into migration to Australia, living in poverty and starvation while studying to have her qualifications recognised in a new foreign land.
Her body is wasting away, yet she struggles onto the tiny threads of life, science and pills keep her alive, but her mind is so fertile, she is as sharp as a tack, and listening to her stories, her bits of wisdom, I want to write a book about her wisdom and her zest for life and living.
Halkush
 
Hi Halkush!

I am so sorry to hear about your mothers health! I will pray for her and for the LORD ADONAI, to help give your mother's doctors wisdom how to help her best. That is so great, you are able to spend precious time with your mother, like that and learn from her. Also, to help understand her and relate to her better, you can read these Two very greatly informative Books entitled: "The Russia Civil War", by Evan Mawdsley AND "The Whisperers -Private Life in Stalin's Russia", by Orlando Figes - Author of "Natasha's Dance"....Very very informative filled with so many personal stories of great suffering.....I have not read either of the books in their entirety, but what I have read just makes me cry for them, for what all they suffered and went throug! Two other books I have, I suggest for reading, are entitled: "Russia" by Hyman Kublin and "The Empire of the Tsars -The Splendour and the Fall-Pictures and Documents 1896 -1920 -by Elisabeth Heresch (Translated from German by Paul Williams...That last book, I don't know if you can even find it in the USA or in Australia....My oldest daughters father-my late-exhusband, brought it back from Russian for me.

That is great that she is "sharp as a tack"! I encourage you to write a book about your mothers stories of enduring and overcoming the Stalin Reign of Terror. So many could learn from your mothers wisdom. Is she Jewish Russian or just Russian with a different faith? Now I know why you understood my Russian when I tried to "post-speak" to V....K in Russian. (I forgot how to spell that persons web site name; sorry). My friend Irene is living in Isreal, but she is a Russian Jew from Russia. She moved to Israel with her husband, where they are Messianic Jewish CHRISTian Missionaries.

That is so wonderful that you take the time out, to spend with your mother. I know you are a gift to her. Not too many people, these days will do that. That is why, when I could, I would go visit the elderly in the Nursing Homes & Retirement Home Communities; knowing that a lot of them have no family living any more or have family who do not come see them very often. One lady I use to visit in a Harahan Nursing Home/Retirement Community Home, was Deaf. I was one of the only ones who would come see her, and communicate with her in American Sign Language. You should have seen her face, everytime I came to see her. She smiled so big, almost the whole time I was there and she was just so excited that she even had someone to talk to her in sign language. No one working there, even bothered trying to learn any sign language to help her best, when she needed it. That really hurt me to see...GOD Bless You for being so Good to Your Mother, especially after all she has been through!

Love Your Sister,
Eagle/Stacey

 

Sue

c/o naughty corner
I agree that the wisdom and experience of our older people should be valued more. I think there are some schemes in the UK which encourage this, usually in a mentoring capacity. It's important to pass on knowledge to the next generations.

Halkush I am sorry to hear that your mother is ill and all the suffereing she has had to endure in her life. I think it would be good if you could record it in a book. Young people cannot imagine what the world is like under certain conditions and the only way they will learn not to let some things happen is to know what has happened in the past. An individual's account of their life lived through those times is more powerful than dry facts in a history book. I hope you have the time to write that book.
 

halkush

Member
I've made attempts to write my mother's story but when i tried to interview her, she refused as it was too painful for her. yet I do remember so many stories about he life that she told me. she said I should wirte her story asw a novel, about someone fictitious, but i don't want to just yet. I will wait.

My mother was born in Sevastopol and lived in Kharkov as well as Kiev, she is Ukrainian, but most Ukrainins speak Russian , hence i was exposed to Russian as a child.

I try to spend time withg my mother at least tywice a year, to gladden her heart, she is very special. Has a zest for life and living , is a treasurer for the Ukrainian Arts and Craft club as well as a treasurer for the cossacks club in Melbourne which keeps in touch with politics in the Ukraine.

Halkush
 

Sue

c/o naughty corner
Halkush writing your mother's story as a ficticious novel could work well and perhaps be a little less painful for her to talk about as she could talk more generally about what was happening around her rather than having to be so specific about her own suffering.

It sounds like she is a busy lady! Any chance that she has time to write down a few notes about the stories for you? That way she could stop and start as the mood takes her.
 

Mystery Mom

Queen of the Mist
halkush

I made the same mistake you are making.

I swore I would put facts and tales together told to me by my father into a story one day- I put it off far too long - once he was gone it was as if he took all those stories with him. When I tried to do it after his death I came away with a scant handful of half finished stories and no way of checking them for accuracy or filling in the blanks.

I suggest, as Sue has done, that you do it in a third person narrative and brief chapters of each memory. Give them to you mother to read in small doses and ask her how to improve them.

You will not regret it.

You do not have to act on anything until you feel secure with what you have in hand- Who knows you may be adding to history for someone somewhere.

Good luck with this precious project.
Myst
 

Chef

New Member
CountryEagle;186636 said:
I hope it becomes a reality for Mr. Beno, too. I will look up the info. tonight, via the internet... ever since I was a little girl -Up to now off & on throughout my life, I would always volunteer to sit with elderly within our community & and visit nursing homes.... I agree with you, that just because elderly can't move around, does not mean they can not do anything productrively!!! They have so much wisdom to share & offer.... I Loved sitting and talking with elderly.... Hope you have a blessed Day!

Love Always Your Sister,
Eagle/Stacey

I found a site for senior corps I wonder if He will do that as He ages?

THank you for your blessing and also may He give blessings to you.

Jim USA
 
Hi Chef Jim

Thanks Chef Jim, my brother! I will look it up tomorrow evening or no later than Saturday. Hope you continue to have a Blessed Day.

Love Your Sister,
Stacey/Eagle
 
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