By: Mike Ghouse
In the past I have posted articles about Muslims managing and maintaining Hindu temples in Bengal or the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and Sikh Gurudwara near Baghdad. Hindus are managing and keeping up with Mosques including maintaining the first Mosque in India in Kerala built around 725 AD, good stories abound about people every where. Pakistan has set aside funds to restore the temples there; Malaysia punished the guys who desecrated a Hindu Temple. Good things are happening 99:1 Ratio; we just don’t hear them all. How many people know about the good things you have done today?
Dr. Harbans Lal, a Sikh Scholar shared the story of Sikhism, and the beauty and birth of the Sikh tradition germinating from interfaith practice. He told me that the land for the Golden Temple (Sikh’s holiest shrines) was granted by a Muslim King, and the foundation stone was laid by a Muslim…. and then most of the Guru Granth Saheb was written by people from every possible faith that existed in India some five centuries ago. That reminds me of my own father who contributed towards building the Hanuman Temple in my Town and funded other temples on the occasion of festivals.
In the following article, Joga Singh shares this, “it was just a gesture towards restoring the collective heritage of our village” and I wish every Earthling cares about every religious sanctity, particularly of others with the same sentiments. Joga Singh, you are my hero.
Our media focuses on bad things giving the impression that only bad things happen, indeed they do, but statistically insignificant. Watch the Six o Clock news for the full 22 minutes, you see murder, mayhem, arson, fire, rape… that is indeed the fact of the life but only a tiny-weeny speck of the whole truth. In Dallas Metroplex, we are nearly 4 million people, sadly less than 1/100th of 1% of people (400) are a witness and some are a victim to this tragedy. Where as the 99.99% of the Dallasite may not even notice it – All of us go to work and get back home, go to schools and back to the nest.
When will our Media report Good/Bad news in the same proportion; 99:1?
Mike Ghouse is a speaker, writer and a conflict mitigater and a goodwill nurturer offering pluralistic solutions on issues of the day and is a frequent guest on the media. His work is reflected at three websites & twenty two Blogs listed at http://www.mikeghouse.net/
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Florence's bridge is among those created under the WPA.(Cannon Beach, Oregon) - The Great Depression hit the Oregon coast like a giant sneaker wave back in the 1930’s. Businesses shut down, families moved across country to find work and displaced workers were offered relief through government programs.Cannon Beach and the North Coast experienced a revitalization during the years following the Depression through President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. The New Deal offered jobs building bridges, creating state parks and even documenting the success of relief programs through photography, art and writing.The Cannon Beach History Center and Museum’s new exhibit will showcase these federal work programs in a six-month display of Depression Era photography and artifacts from August through February. The exhibit will feature photos by Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee and Arthur Rothstein, along with vintage camera equipment and historical documents. The exhibit will also showcase CCC tools and memorabilia, as well as photos from the 1940 Oregon Coast Tour of the WPA.
Overlooks at Neahkahnie, above at Manzanita: also has its roots in the WPA.Numerous Oregon coast landmarks still visible today were the direct result of the WPA, including five of its bridges and much of Highway 101 – the basis of all coastal tourism.Known as the “alphabet administration,” Roosevelt’s team created programs like the Farm Securities Administration (FSA), where photographers like Dorothea Lange gained notoriety for photos of migrant workers in farming camps across the country.“She made over 550 photos in Oregon alone,” said Linda Gordon in an Oregon Historical Quarterly article. “In the summer and fall of 1939 she made two trips into the Northwest. She traveled up and down US 99, following the routes of the migrant farm workers she photographed.”Lange’s photography has become almost synonymous with the Great Depression, and features striking images of down-trodden families across the West. 
The New Deal also created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which built Ecola State Park and hundreds of other campgrounds, roads and recreation areas throughout Oregon.The New Deal’s Federal Writers Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), wrote guidebooks for each state in the union, and Oregon: End of the Trail was created for tourists and Oregonians alike, to promote the natural splendor of our beaches, mountains and rivers. “The Depression is an era not so unlike our own,” History Center Program Director Grace Saad said. “This exhibit will remind people that there is always hope, even in the darkest of economic times.”A dedication will ceremony, as well as a lecture on the Great Depression will also take place soon after the exhibit opens, Saad said. For more information, please contact the History Center at 503-436-9301, cbhs@seasurf.net, or visit www.cbhistory.org or stop by the Center Wednesday through Monday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. 
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