4th July 2006
The words are out that: even students from the best colledge in US, are running to China to learn Chinese.
Because,in future, anything you deal with, will consist of Chinese. And here i am to bridge the gap. My thanks to the resources available for free now. It’s only a few minutes a day. How wonderful it is, for you, one year from the day you came to my site, http://www.myspace.com/ckr ,you will be able to read, speak and write Chinese. It’s not Mission Impossible.

My Vision for Kenya is one day All Kenyen read, speaks and write Chinese.

regards

Thank you for bringing me into that world. I loved it and look forward to its fruition.

Much love to you all.

Bob

You are doing good work, laying a great foundation for future empowerment. Your ideas are powerful and the method of spreading them to the young is great. I wish you success, and I know that much of what you are soaking up won’t really be clear to you until much later. But you can be proud that your message is being heard and I’m sure will be acted on in the future.

Jay

What is happeming here in Africa is real. The continent is realy beautiful, her people very hospital, loving, traditions valued and family life cherished.
It is very true we lack enterpreneual abilities, and we don’t value the 21st century curency-TIME.
The youth are used as stepping stones, easily bribed because they want to get fast cash.
Is it because the world is moving at a very fast rate that we are becoming impatient every second?
There is a need for the youth to keep awake, the need a vision, not just a dream.
Michael, what you have done for Kenya we remain in the hearts of many not for a short time but for a life time.
You are one person who has stood for the SPIRITS of many. You have a cause, you have a vision to unveil.
I beg you to cherish your vision, the doors are now open, opportunities await you. Lives are going to be transformed through your programmes.
What you are doing is not only for Kenyan but for the continent as a whole.

I want to personally thank the memvers who have responded to this so called World of Paradox. Members, your words have transformed my thinking. You have inspired me, and I will not settle for less.
I will do what I can to help a human spirit every day.

Thank you once again Michael and your team.

Visionary in the making.
Clovis

I see Kenya as another demension of reality. A reality in which the
Spirit within one rises from within… The Being within the Spirit or the Spirit
within the Being…either way shows up as dignity of the Human Spirit and
again we see “Honor” shows up. No matter where or how far one may go
or from where a country is “honor” sems to be universal. This Stand of Honor seems to draw ones humanity into the human endevor of a deep
passion or drive within the human existance that brings forth “Hope”
for all to strive to grasp whatever is in ones reach to better the future of whatever generation you are from into the next for “Another Stand of Honor” to Stand upon or from whereever one can rise from as a platform
for the Dignity of Humanity to rise for all no matter who, where or what ones condition or circumstance may beof or in that One has the
Power to Rise in The Stand and The Stance of Honor..”
To all at the school and others in Kenya and Micael Skye..
I Salute You and Rise in The Spirit with you as a Friend from another land,
but a Friend coming from the place of Honor….I Honor You All…and my
energy, and Empowermentgoes out to you. Remeber Honor…this place of
Honor is just a cloud away within your soul…
Blessings from America…
signing on to the Honor of The Kenya School…
Cheryl Jones-Latimer

While you’ve been in Kenya, we had the premier of Pipkin’s movie Nobelity here in Austin. Caroline Boudreaux of the Miracle Foundation who sponsored the premier said “be glad you are one of the givers.” I was struck by the same paradox from India that you blogged about here.

Her story inspired my post on Zaadz and I wanted to share it with you.
http://coplearnicus.zaadz.com/blog/2006/6/a_little_soul

Best,
Brian Massey

I come from a different culture, yet not so different, and I agree with Connie, that diversity exists everywhere. I grew up in a form of poverty. I didn’t own new clothes or new shoes until I was in my teens, yet at the same time I was rarely truely hungry, and there have been very few times in my life where I have been uncertain of my next meal – I am aware of the wealth and security that represents (perhaps because of the few days in which they were not present).

I have also experienced the insecurity of violence, of people pointing knives and guns at me, and knowing they were perfectly happy to kill me, for little more than “sport”.
I am reminded of the theme song of a 70′s BBC drama “Turtle’s progress”, where Turtle was a tough street kid, and the lyrics went “It’s rough at the top, but rougher at the bottom, and positively boring in between!” – he had no interest in transiting from the bottom to the middle – many don’t!

We need to offer them a place worth moving to.

We can do that!

Billions in the world lack the security of food.

Billions lack the security of housing.

Billions lack the security of personal safety.

Billions lack any hope of bettering themselves.

You can find them anywhere, and they are perhaps more common in Kenya than New Zealand (or USA), and I can find them here in beautiful Kaikorua – even though we are a town of only 4,000, and by world standards wealthy on average – there are people here with incomes of hundreds of thousands a year and other families who barely make $10,000 – when a cheap rent is $200 per week ( a family’s entire income).

I believe in Vision, and that what you teach is a powerful part of the picture.

We are all 99%+ the same, and we treat the minor differences between ourselves as major obstacles (they’re not).

The big obstacles are the paradigms through which we interpret the world around us.

Vision and self belief is part of that.

Responsibility for everything we d and say is another.

Fundamental to both, is being able (consistently) to break out of judging the world to be right/wrong, and to allow that there are many paths through the infinite, and just because someone is walking a different path, it is not necessarily wrong, unhealthy, bad, or anything else – it might just be different.

There are always exceptions to that of course, some things simply cannot be tollerated – damage to life, liberty, property, the environment that supports us all, one’s own word.

These things we must each be responsible for, and we can be held accountable for.

I believe it is possible to have a world where everyone experiences security in all the fundamentals I mentioned above – food, shelter, physical safety, tasport, education – and at the same time learns to experience love and respect, first of themselves, then of every other self aware entity (human and non human).

I believe we can most powerful if we create systems that we can replicate easily that create the conditions where people can make these discoveries for themselves.

Perfcecting the Vision Force training systems so that anyone can learn it effectively off the internet, or via a program that anyone can lead after downloading and studying something from the internet (for a few days) appears to me the most powerful thing you could do, and it may not call to you.

You are free to do whatever you choose.

What is it you choose?

What is it you stand for? Really!

Whatever the answer to those questions, know that there is someone in Kaikoura New Zealand who Loves YOU, and holds you in the highest regard – one of the most honourable people I have ever met, and someone whom I am proud to call friend and ally – someone worth risking my life for.

Love Vision and Empowerment

Ted

Michael, thank you for this post and for all that you’re doing. I see the fire in those kids’ eyes that you’ve stoked to new, powerful intensities. What a gift that is… for them and for you!

Lisa