Cliff Young

All of the professional athletes knew that it took about 5 days to finish the race.

In order to compete, one had to run about 18 hours a day and sleep the remaining 6 hours.

The thing is, Cliff Young didn’t know that!

When the morning of the second day came,

everyone was in for another surprise.

Not only was Cliff still in the race, he had continued jogging all night.

Eventually Cliff was asked about his tactics for the rest of the race.

To everyone’s disbelief, he claimed he would run

straight through to the finish without sleeping.

Cliff kept running.

Each night he came a little closer to the leading pack.

By the final night, he had surpassed

all of the young, world-class athletes.

He was the first competitor to cross the finish line

and he set a new course record.

When Cliff was awarded the winning prize of $10,000,

he said he didn’t know there was a prize

and insisted that he did not enter for the money.

He ended up giving all of his winnings to several other runners,

an act that endeared him to all of Australia.

December 21st, 2008 | by Debra Oakland |
LIVING IN COURAGE

When ‘one’ does something without Fear,
What ends up happening are ‘miracles’, yet,
They are not miracles at all, this is only ‘natural’.
~ pamela leigh richards

When I found out that there was in-fighting with some of the Native peoples
During this wonderful time of Awakening and Coming Together for Peace
Speaking about it through their own prophecies

I wrote this:

Within the tribes money has been a bribe
And some have been sold the lie
Taken the bait and broken the promises
It is time to unravel the mess
Come together, look one another in the eye
Forgive and let go, let’s walk in peace and know
Like the Eagle and the Condor in the sky
May it be so.
Let go of the past, release fear, forgive and may everyone know this …
What ‘one’ does, ‘one’ will reap the rewards of his actions by the highest of high.
When ‘one’ removes temptation of a weakness within the programme of life
This is when we will together fly
Like the Condor and the Eagle in the sky
Like the dolphins in the sea swimming free
Spread the love like wildfire.

Photo:
After six months living in Egypt swimming with wild dolphins
It was time to go.
One heart cannot take what it felt like for me to say goodbye.
Here I am after swimming naked all alone
With 100 wild dolphins for two hours
Saying … “until next time”.