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Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
The Spirituality of Parenting
Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
is rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis and author of many children's books.
June 17, 2010
KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: I'm Krista Tippett. Raising children is a great spiritual challenge that many of us live with day to day, yet we so rarely call it that. This hour, Rabbi Sandy Sasso offers practical wisdom on "The Spirituality of Parenting" in our time.
RABBI SANDY SASSO: I think society does a very good job of teaching us how to be consumers and a very good job in teaching us how to be competitors. The question I think parents are struggling to answer is how do we not just teach our children's minds, but how do we teach their souls? We want our children to be gracious and grateful. We want them to have courage in difficult times. We want them to have a sense of joy and purpose. That's what it means to nurture their spiritual lives.
MS. TIPPETT: This is Speaking of Faith. Stay with us.
MS. TIPPETT: I'm Krista Tippett. Many of us come to parenting these days without being anchored in a religious tradition. Or, we have a mix of traditions in our marriages or in our families. And when we have children, or grandchildren, we sense that there is a spiritual aspect to their natures. We want to support that. We want to nurture it. And many of us don't know where to begin. This hour, Rabbi Sandy Sasso offers nourishing, practical advice — wherever you are coming from — and even if you have more questions than answers.
From American Public Media, this is Speaking of Faith, public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Today, "The Spirituality of Parenting."
Parenting is a great spiritual challenge many of us live with day to day. Yet we so rarely call it that.
CHILD 1: Where does God live?
CHILD 2: Why did Grandpa die?
CHILD 3: Will you die?
CHILD 4: Why isn't life fair?
CHILD 5: Is God real?
CHILD 6: How can God be everywhere?
MS. SASSO: We want our children to be more than consumers and competitors. We want our children to be gracious and grateful. We want them to have courage in difficult times. We want them to have a sense of joy and purpose. That's what it means to nurture their spiritual lives.
MS. TIPPETT: My guest today, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, is a rabbi and a mother and grandmother. She's the author of books that help adults and children think religiously and ethically together. She is deeply rooted in Judaism, but her books have been endorsed by leaders of many traditions. She's also edited an anthology of perspectives on parenting from across the world's religions. Sandy Sasso and her husband, Dennis, were the first rabbinical couple in history to jointly lead a congregation, Beth-El Zedeck, in Indianapolis. And yet, when I spoke with her in 2006, she admitted that they were beginners too, when it came to raising their own children and teaching children in a congregation. She came to think of young children as little theologians. She discovered that they had big, deep questions.
MS. SASSO: And I also discovered that nobody was answering those questions, that most of the teaching and most of the books that existed had to do more with answers, more with ritual, more with ceremony, and not very much with those really large questions of "Why am I here?" and "What's my purpose?" and "Why is life unfair sometime?" And I noticed with my own children certain experiences that made me want to try and touch that part of a child's life.
MS. TIPPETT: I know that you also have, over the years, have delved into the scholarship on this, and, I mean, aside from that observation I think many of us have made, that there are theological questions coming out of children. And even, you know, the question "Why is life unfair?" is an early question about morality and ethics, isn't it? And about human nature.
MS. SASSO: Yes.
MS. TIPPETT: What do you know now about the spiritual potential, that spiritual impulse in children at different ages?
MS. SASSO: Well, we do know that, from research, that all children by the time they are age five have a conception of God, whether or not we've talked about God to them as parents. And we also know that children ask these really large questions. And there seems to be an innate spirituality, a great sense of wonder, spontaneity, imagination and creativity, and a connection to something larger than themselves. What children seem to lack is a language to give expression to that sense of something deeper. And I think, as parents, our responsibility is to provide them with a language, an opportunity to have a conversation about these matters that they care very deeply about. Because I think what happens is, if we don't provide the language and if we don't encourage the conversation, then children stop asking. If you don't exercise your muscles, they atrophy. If you don't exercise your soul, I think your soul atrophies as well.
MS. TIPPETT: You know, I've always been very intrigued — Maria Montessori, she's not so well-known for her ideas about the spirituality of children, but she believed that children had a capacity for spiritual knowledge and growth that was kind of like a template that was similar to our capacity for learning language. I mean, how do we learn language but that people speak around us. And that's kind of also what you're describing, that there is that template there, that foundation. But children need vocabulary to express that, for that to grow?
MS. SASSO: Yeah, definitely, they need a language, and the question is what is the language? And I've always claimed the language is story, because that's how children make sense of their world is through narrative and story. And I think the language is also through ritual and experience. The earliest spiritual experiences that children have often come through routine and ritual that are repeated over and over again. And often when I speak to children and I ask them when do they feel the presence of God, or if they could point to a particular experience, they often speak of rituals or moments where they felt very close to their parents and it helped them give expression to what they were feeling.
MS. TIPPETT: And are these necessarily religious rituals? Or would — many children now are not growing up in homes where there's a lot of formal religion in the same way that there may have been in previous generations. Are children still making religious observations on the basis of things that are happening in their lives?
MS. SASSO: I think that children, with or without religious instruction, have this deeper sense of something grander in the universe and have these deeper questions, whether or not they're involved in a religious community. On the other hand, I do feel that being involved in a religious community and participating in some traditional rituals and ceremonies really helps provide a language for a child to give expression. Perhaps it might be helpful to maybe distinguish between spirituality and religions …
MS. TIPPETT: Right.
MS. SASSO: … since those are terms that we often use and don't always know what we're talking about. To me, spirituality is a sense of transcendence or a recognition that there is something greater than ourselves and a perception that all life is interconnected. An example of that would be, from the Bible, of Moses ascending Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments. But while he is up on the mountain, he has a spiritual experience, and we know that because, when he descends, his face glows. Something extraordinary happened up there. The container for that experience is the Ten Commandments, and so the Ten Commandments is a religion. It's a way of giving expression to that extraordinary sense of divine presence or transcendence that Moses felt. So in many ways, religion in its very best form sort of anchors those spiritual experiences and gives them a language in which to speak.
MS. TIPPETT: You know, I think that's a really helpful example, because a young couple said to me, at some point recently, they are not religious in any kind of formal way. They felt, though, like they needed to be passing some basic religious tenets on, and they felt like the Ten Commandments were something that their children should know. And they didn't remember all the commandments, and they were embarrassed by this. And so, you know, in the same moment that they wanted to engage that part of their child's life, I think they felt inadequate. But I think what you just put actually the commandments in the container of a story, which suggested that there's something much larger going on in those commandments than rules.
MS. SASSO: Oh, absolutely, I know. I think much of religious education tends to be the transmission of a set of rules or dogmas or information. But the very best religious education is much broader than that and gives children a sense of a greater presence. I mean, why follow the rules, you know? Why do the rituals? Why pray? I mean, what's behind all that?
MS. TIPPETT: And children do ask those questions, too, don't they?
MS. SASSO: All the time.
MS. TIPPETT: Yeah.
MS. SASSO: They ask questions that we often are not ready to answer, I think. And I do find parents who tell me, 'Well, can I bring my child to you when my child has this question? I don't know what to say, and you're the expert.' And I always respond by saying, 'The children don't want to know what the expert has to say. They want to know what you're thinking.' It's not so important that you have an answer. What's important is that you engage in the conversation. And it's perfectly acceptable to say, 'This is a really hard question,' and 'Let's think about this together.' Just talking is what's essential.
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MS. TIPPETT: I'm Krista Tippett, and this is Speaking of Faith from American Public Media. Today, exploring "The Spirituality of Parenting" with rabbi and children's author Sandy Sasso.
As we prepared to create this program, we invited listeners to reflect on questions that the experience of parenting raises in their lives. The responses we received were rich and broad and searching. Read those stories and add your own at onbeing.org. Here's a mother of two from Knoxville, Tennessee.
CHRISTY DAVIS: Um, I was raised in the Baptist Church. I explored a variety of religions, everything from Judaism to Paganism and came back to Christianity and joined the Episcopal Church, because that's what feels right for me. What I struggle with is how to give my seven-year-old son and my three-year-old daughter that freedom to find their own path to God and to true spirituality, you know, as opposed to parent-forced religion. Both my children enjoy the social aspect of church and, you know, they've asked the usual questions about God, but I want them to find the peace I found, and I have no idea how to encourage that.
MS. TIPPETT: I'm curious about what other advice you give parents who come to you, you know, and the basic question being, 'How do I nurture this aspect of my child's being that I may not understand myself? How do I give them experiences of the sacred?' What do you say?
MS. SASSO: Well, I say a variety of things. I think it's important if we're going to nurture the spiritual lives of our children that we have to nurture our own spiritual lives. So we have to take time in our lives to reflect, perhaps be part of a community that talks about issues of spirituality, to read. We do the same thing when we're first parents. We're kind of clueless about what we're supposed to do. I mean …
MS. TIPPETT: Right, we do. We read books about how to feed them and …
MS. SASSO: We read tons of books, how to feed them, you know, how to bring them up, how to get them to sleep, how to potty-train them. We ought to also engage in educating ourselves about our own spiritual lives, because it's very difficult to share with children what you're thinking if you haven't been thinking about these issues. So I think first we need to nurture our own spiritual lives. And most of what we do in terms of nurturing our children's spirituality really happens when no one else is looking, meaning it's not all planned for. It's kind of what happens every day. I mean, what do you do when you see a homeless person on the street? How do you respond when, you know, an animal gets run over on the road, a squirrel, for example? How do we act with other people? All of these are messages to our children about what really matters in life, what's precious, what's more important than earning a living and going through our daily routine.
You know, I think society does a very good job in teaching us how to be consumers and a very good job in teaching us how to be competitors.
MS. TIPPETT: Right.
MS. SASSO: The question I think parents are struggling to answer is how do we not just teach our children's minds, but how do we teach their souls? And that's a much deeper question. And I know we want our children to be more than consumers and competitors.
MS. TIPPETT: Right.
MS. SASSO: We want something much more. We want our children to be gracious and grateful. We want them to have courage in difficult times. We want them to have a sense of joy and purpose. And that's what it means to nurture their spiritual lives.
MS. TIPPETT: You know, something that came through to me in reading some of what you've written is that, in fact, childhood is also a laboratory. I mean, we — you're right, we do think about what they have to learn academically in their, you know, the development of their motor skills, and when they're learning to read, and we're very conscious of those things. But that childhood is also a laboratory for instincts and spiritual impulses that underlie the great virtues. I mean, let's say mercy and compassion, I think, are virtues in every religious tradition I know of. You talk about children having an instinct to empathy and that that is something so important to cultivate, and that makes all these other great teachings possible, in a sense, later in life.
MS. SASSO: Well, children have wonderful capacities for being sensitive to others, for imagination, spontaneity, creativity. They notice things that we don't notice. I remember when my daughter was very little — she's now well into her 20s — that she seemed to notice when I was unhappy. And she had this wonderful way of just coming over to me and sort of patting my hand and giving me a hug. I never said anything about how I was feeling, but she seemed to have this intuition that she needed to come and show me some affection.
MS. TIPPETT: Yeah, I mean, even when you say an animal gets run over, and we kind of harden to that, but that is also a sense that children have of being connected to living things, which later on could translate into a much larger sense of ecological responsibility. I don't know.
MS. SASSO: Well, I think that's true. And I think we have to help them realize that these are important insights so …
MS. TIPPETT: That they have.
MS. SASSO: That they have. That, you know, we have seen many squirrels run over on the road, and we pass by, and we don't think anything of it. But if we stop to say something, that, you know, this is sad or there's some tragedy in this loss of life. If when a child pulls our hand and notices a butterfly that, you know, we're just too in a hurry to take the time to pay attention to, we need to stop with them. We need to acknowledge that this recognition is very precious. I really have learned a lot by listening to children, I learned about — a lot about my faith and about a spiritual life by paying attention to what kids have to tell me.
MS. TIPPETT: Say some more about that. What comes to mind when you say that? I mean, it's an intriguing statement for you to make as a rabbi, I think.
MS. SASSO: Yes. But I'll tell you another story, actually, with my own daughter. I was going through a really difficult time and — in my life, and I said to my daughter, "You know, I'm not sure that I should still be a rabbi, because I don't know if I can believe in God anymore." And my daughter looked at me without blinking and said, "Mom, you don't believe in that kind of God." And she was right, but I needed her to tell me at that moment.
MS. TIPPETT: Meaning you don't believe in that kind of God who you couldn't believe in?
MS. SASSO: Exactly. I don't believe in a God who, you know, makes bad things happen to good people. I don't believe in that kind of God. But, you know, in moments like that, you forget, and sometimes you need a child to remind you. And I think children often remind us what's true and what's most important in our lives.
MS. TIPPETT: Rabbi Sandy Sasso. Here's a prayer she included in her Sabbath prayer book The Voice of Children, which was crafted by students at Or Hadash Congregation in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.
CHILD 7: When I listen to God, I listen with my heart. I hear trees swaying with their leaves. God is all around. I hear people praying from Australia to Peru. I hear a voice coming out of nowhere. I hear the love of people.
MS. TIPPETT: You write a lot about prayer; you just mentioned prayer. I actually think this is something that feels challenging for many people, whether they are very actively religious themselves and with their children or not. There's kind of a sense that you should be, I don't know, praying at meals or praying before bed.
MS. SASSO: Right.
MS. TIPPETT: Talk to me about prayer with children and how you think about the forms that might take and what it means.
MS. SASSO: Well, I actually think it's very important, but I also know it's very difficult. I don't think it's easy to pray, and I say that as the rabbi. I have forms that I can conform to and say, but what does it really mean to speak a prayer of your heart? But I do feel that it's very important to pray with children, mostly, because our children are so bombarded with noise and activity and there's very little time for silence and reflection. We do know that of all the questions that teachers ask children, teachers answer 80 percent of them, because we abhor vacuums, we don't like silence. And I think in moments of quiet and silence, children give us a glimpse of their souls. So what would it mean, for example, at night when our children are going to bed to sit with them and reflect? And wouldn't that also be a prayer? And I think sometimes people say, 'Well, really, we don't know what to pray.' And I often say, 'Well, ask children if they would tell you a prayer from their heart.' And then children are usually very clever and they say, 'I don't have one.' So my response is, 'Well, would you mind listening while I say a prayer from mine?' And I think that provides an example of what does it mean to say deep words. I don't think it has to conform to any traditional structure, although sometimes a traditional structure makes it easier.
MS. TIPPETT: Helpful, yes.
MS. SASSO: It's helpful, because you say, 'OK, I don't know what to say, but I've got something.' But I think you just say what's in your heart. Name your hopes, name what your grateful for, name your fears. That's a prayer.
MS. TIPPETT: I think this observation you make about the importance of silence is so critical and really quite countercultural. There's a lot of, now, bemoaning of how we have overscheduled our children's lives, but you're making the point that one thing that's lost in that is silence and that is critical for the development of their souls. Not an idea that I hear out there very much.
MS. SASSO: Yeah, I agree with you. And I think it's quite critical. In fact, in creating a new children's prayer book, I made a special effort to provide some meditations so there would be moments of silence where children could just close their eyes and imagine, because we just don't provide enough of it. And I think we find, as parents, that when we sit with our children at night and we're quiet, they tell us all kinds of things they won't tell us during the day.
MS. TIPPETT: Right. But you do have to create that space. It doesn't necessarily occur naturally.
MS. SASSO: I don't think it occurs — we're so busy. I mean, we rush through our meals; we rush from one activity to another. We're always talking. We listen to music. We've got noise around us all the time. We really need that pause and the silence in our lives. And our children need it to begin to imagine and to think what's precious to them. You know, one of the books that I've written ends with questions, and …
MS. TIPPETT: Is that God's Paintbrush?
MS. SASSO: God's Paintbrush. And I remember a father telling me that he doesn't usually read to his children at night, that his wife did, the mother did. But one night, he read, and he decided to read this book. And he decided to leave out the questions, because he felt that would take too long and it would be too long a bedtime ritual.
MS. TIPPETT: Because we're always on a schedule.
MS. SASSO: We're on a schedule. And the child stopped him in the middle and said, 'No, Dad, ask the questions. Ask the questions. I want to talk.' What she wanted to do is have a conversation in this quiet time when nothing else was intruding on their lives.
MS. TIPPETT: Rabbi Sandy Sasso.
Her book God's Paintbrush sets up wondering questions with images and scenes, like this one:
READER: My class went on a hike the other day. We climbed to the top of a mountain, and I shouted, "Hello." I heard a voice call back, "Hello." It sounded just like my voice, only far away. My teacher said the sound I heard was an echo. It was fun to hear our own voices. We kept calling out and the sound from space kept calling back. I wonder what God's voice sounds like? Is it deep and gruff? Is it soft and gentle? Is it loud or quiet? I think God keeps calling out, and maybe we are the sound that calls back. Maybe people are God's echo.
MS. TIPPETT: At onbeing.org, you can find a list of Sandy Sasso's books and other titles she finds helpful in understanding and nurturing the spiritual lives of children. While there, listen to my interview with psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has spent his career exploring the inner lives of children and how they show us the fullness of our humanity. You can download free MP3s of this conversation and all our other shows. Just visit our website — or subscribe to our podcast and e-mail updates — at onbeing.org.
Also, we've created a discussion guide for this program so you can continue this conversation in your family or community. Download the guide on our site and use it in your home, school, or place of worship.
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MS. TIPPETT: After a short break, how do we cultivate spiritual awareness in our family's everyday routines? And the dilemma of introducing religion to a child when you've rejected the tradition of your own upbringing.
I'm Krista Tippett. Stay with us. Speaking of Faith comes to you from American Public Media.
MS. TIPPETT: Welcome back to Speaking of Faith, public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. I'm Krista Tippett. Today, "The Spirituality of Parenting."
My guest is rabbi and author Sandy Sasso. She's talking about practical ways for parents to respond to the deep questions and spiritual impulses children express from an early age. Children don't necessarily need answers, she says. Unlike adults, they're not afraid of mystery. At the same time, she points out, the spiritual life does not begin in the abstract; it begins in concrete, everyday experiences we are already encouraging in our children — for example, reading.
MS. SASSO: Absolutely. You know, we don't usually think of reading as a spiritual exercise.
MS. TIPPETT: No.
MS. SASSO: But I think it is, because in order to hear a story, you have to quiet yourself and you have to empathize with the characters in the story. And isn't empathy part of the spiritual life? Isn't quietude part of the spiritual life? And you also discover in the story that you don't have control. You might like the characters to do one thing or another, you might wish they would make one decision or another, but you can't control the situation. And part of the spiritual life is learning that we are not always in control. And also, if we are truly listening, then all the details matter. You know, it matters what the color of her hair is or what he's wearing or what the time of day is. And paying attention to the details of life is part of a spiritual life.
MS. TIPPETT: You are thoroughly grounded in Judaism, in Jewish faith, and you also write books which are endorsed by other kinds of religious people. You've been involved — I know I've recently seen a book and some studies of — which have brought together essays by people from many, many different traditions writing about the spirituality of children and parenting — Muslim and Baha'i and Tibetan Buddhists and Judaism and many forms of Christianity. Are there impulses that these approaches share? And I'd also be curious to hear about differences and distinctives that have intrigued you and struck you.
MS. SASSO: Well, I think there is a commonality. When we talk about spirituality, we talk about what we share. I think when we talk about religion, we talk about how we are different in expressing that spirituality. I mean, we have all the same deep questions. Everybody has the question of why life is unfair or why do we die or how do we matter, what's our purpose, you know, is there something more in the world than we are? Every religious tradition raises that question and asks how do we live a purposeful life? So I think we all begin with the same questions and the same quest. And the way in which we answer those questions is sometimes different because our languages are different.
MS. TIPPETT: Back at language, aren't we?
MS. SASSO: Yeah, we are. I mean, I really see religions as different languages to express our spirituality. And I think it's important to recognize that some languages we speak with comfort and some we don't. We find a home. I mean, it's wonderful that there are so many different expressions of spirituality. It's just that we need to find the home that fits for us.
MS. TIPPETT: And that will sometimes be the home we're born into, but not necessarily.
MS. SASSO: Right. And I always tell people, please explore the place you come from, the place you're born into. See if that is a comfortable fit. Because it many times — most times it is, if we're willing to explore it deeply enough, and not to be discouraged, because when we were young we had bad experiences.
MS. TIPPETT: Right. That would be your mother tongue, really, in a way, to think about that.
MS. SASSO: It is. It is your mother tongue.
MS. TIPPETT: But what you just said is important, because I have heard many people say, 'I was so turned off by, you know, X or Y in my childhood, and I don't want to inflict that on my child.' And yet they still find themselves in a position of being a parent, having a child, and realizing they want something to give them. How do you respond to that?
MS. SASSO: Don't let the people who gave you a bad impression of your religious tradition be the only ones to define it. You, too, are a part of that tradition, and you're not just a descendent, you are also an ancestor, and you helped to create the future of that tradition. So give it a second chance. Many times we have bad experiences with particular religious tradition, but that is not the best of the tradition. We need to look to the best of the tradition, because there are wonderful things within religious traditions, and they give us this language that allows us to speak. One experience from my own family, I think, might be illustrative. When our children were little, we, on the Sabbath, Friday evening, would always light Shabbat candles, Sabbath candles, and, you know, I would wave my hands over the light and cover my eyes and say the blessing. And then we would take our hands, and then we would wrap them around our children, and we would say a traditional blessing for them for the week to come. I never really thought much about it. It was a ritual that we did. But many years later, when our children were away from the home, they would often call on Friday night just to get the blessing, and they still remember the warmth of that moment.
So rituals have that capacity partly because they contain something greater than themselves, and also because they're routine. Children love repetition, and a ritual is repetition over and over again, and they give them a sense of security and comfort and familiarity, and that's so very important. So we shouldn't give up on our traditions just because we might have had bad experiences when we were younger. We just don't want to give those bad experiences to our children.
MS. TIPPETT: And it's true, also, that if we're looking for rituals, those are the obvious places to find those kinds of forms. Let's say people who are alienated or estranged from religious tradition know what they're rejecting. I mean, there's a way in which, if we just refuse to give them the whole because we have turned our backs on part of it, we're not giving them anything to wrestle with. Is that making sense?
MS. SASSO: No, I think that's actually a great image, because I think sometimes we feel that religion is all about answers, but I really think it's all about questions, and it's all about wrestling, that it's perfectly OK to doubt and to challenge and to be open to more and more questions. I think sometimes parents get nervous when children ask all these questions, saying, 'Well, you know, I don't believe in God,' and — as they get older, and 'This doesn't make sense to me anymore.' But that's really part of the spiritual journey. If you don't ask those questions, you really haven't made the religion your own, you're just accepting what someone's told you. We need to ask those questions, and life forces us to ask those questions if we're really honest with ourselves. So I think wrestling with these — with the tradition and wrestling with the stories, that's the most important part of the spiritual journey. It's not a smooth journey.
MS. TIPPETT: And that it's OK to pass that wrestling on to our children as well.
MS. SASSO: I think it's so important. In fact, I once had a student tell me when I was trying to present a different point of view than had been presented in the past, the student said, "You want to tell me what to think." And I answered, "No, I just want to tell you to think." Religion is not about, you know, putting our minds on hold or our thinking on hold. It's engaging our minds as well as our hearts.
MS. TIPPETT: Rabbi Sandy Sasso.
NEIL MALLEY: My spiritual tradition is Taoism. When my kids were younger, I was most — more focused on imparting my spiritual tradition, Taoism, to them. We'd have some ceremonies and read from the Tao Te Ching or meditate or do some simple qigong, but it became obvious to me very quickly that they just weren't into it. So gradually I stopped forcing them and just tried to be a good example without really formally teaching them anything. I came to realize that they needed to find their own way, which may be different than mine, that they have their own souls and shouldn't have to follow in my footsteps.
MS. TIPPETT: Hear more reflections of parents at onbeing.org. I'm Krista Tippett, and this is Speaking of Faith from American Public Media. Today, "The Spirituality of Parenting" with Rabbi Sandy Sasso. Her books help children and adults of many backgrounds discuss religion and ethics together.
MS. TIPPETT: I'm kind of wanting you to tell some of the stories that you tell. One is the story of God's name, and what I think is very moving about that is you come out in a Jewish place, I mean with, you know, with the idea of one God, but you get there in a way that is very embracing of human reality, of the spectrum of human reality. And I believe that those two things are possible, both being rooted and being open to the world. It cuts a bit against the grain of some of the assumptions our culture's been living with for a while. So talk to me a little bit about how you came to write that and what happens and what that means to you, if you would.
MS. SASSO: Well, the book is called In God's Name, and it's probably one of the only stories I have written that came to me all in one piece. I actually remember the night it happened. I couldn't get to sleep and this story kept repeating itself over and over in my head, and I decided I better get up and write at least a version of it down or I would never sleep. It came out of a number of experiences. You know, certain children would say, you know, 'This is the name for God, and this is the only right name and all the other names are not right. This is the best name.' And I said, you know, 'This can't be right.' And so I wrote a story about calling God by different names. It was also written about the time of the Persian Gulf War when people were going to war, quote, unquote, "in God's name," and I said, you know, 'I've got to write a story about this.'
So in the story, people call God by different names, each person naming God out of his or her experience. So the farmer would call God, "Creator of Life," the artist who would sculpt out of stone would call God, "My Rock," and the daddy who held his baby's hand called God, "Father," and the child who was lonely called God, "Friend," and a variety of other names. And each time the names came up, people in the story would say, "Well, my name is better than your name. And my name is best, and your name is wrong." And they would have this constant argument until, at the end, all the people came together and they looked in a lake that was like a mirror, God's mirror.
MS. TIPPETT: Here's how Sandy Sasso ends that story in her book, In God's Name. She writes: "Then, each person who had a name for God looked at the others who had a different name. They looked into God's mirror and saw their own faces and the faces of all the others. And they called out their names for God: Source of Life, Creator of Light, Shepherd, Maker of Peace, My Rock, Healer, Redeemer, Ancient One, Comforter, Mother, Father, Friend, all at the same time. At that moment, the people knew that all the names for God were good and no name was better than another. Then all at once, their voices came together and they called God One. Everyone listened, most of all God."
MS. SASSO: I used the idea of the lake as a mirror, because there is a statement in — by the rabbis that says, "God is like a mirror, and everyone who looks into it sees a different face." And I feel that children look into God's mirror. We just need to give them a chance to tell us what they see.
MS. TIPPETT: When we started out, you talked about the importance of stories as a way to — just to nurture this part of children's life and imagination, their spiritual imagination. Where would you recommend that people find stories? I mean, your books are out there; there are other books out there. Where would they look, people who have not been looking for this kind of story? And then, how much do you need to work with the child to understand the story? How do you help them take the story in? Or do you need to help them at all?
RABBI SASSO: Well, first let me mention how you go about finding these books. There are tremendous books on children's literature on issues of spirituality, and they aren't just books that have God in the title. There are books that deal with things that really matter, the deeper concerns of life. And I would go to a children's bookstore, and I would ask for those books that deal with the deeper questions. Sometimes they will be religious books; sometimes they will be secular books. The only thing I would say about finding good children's literature is the following: If it's not interesting to you, it won't be interesting to your child.
MS. TIPPETT: It's not supposed to be like taking medicine.
RABBI SASSO: Right. It's not like — it's not — and also, I would say a book shouldn't preach. It should be a book that's open to the child that seems to be in touch with where the child is and the child's experiences. Just because a book has a good moral at the end doesn't mean it's good spiritual literature.
MS. TIPPETT: Right.
RABBI SASSO: It should be imaginative. And how do we help a child understand a story? Well, when I began doing storytelling early on in my career, I used to tell a story, and then I would proceed to say what the story meant. I thought that was my job as a rabbi, you know, to tell you what you were supposed to learn from the story. But I realized that, as a storyteller, I was only telling people what the story meant to me, and I wasn't allowing them to develop their own relationship to the narrative. So I don't do that anymore. I tell a story, and I ask open-ended questions, questions like 'What part of the story did you like the best? What do you think is the most important part of the story?' And then the question that I like the best is 'Where are you in this story, or what part of the story is about you?' When we ask those kinds of questions, we get to hear what meaning our children take from the story, and we also get to learn where they are in their lives.
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MS. TIPPETT: All right, let's say — and I think that this is a situation that is not really uncommon these days. Let's say there's a young couple, religion has maybe not been too much a part of either of their lives and has not been part of their courtship before their marriage. They have children, they don't have kind of their native traditions to draw on, and then as they try to think about how to nurture this part of their child's life, they are not in agreement. I mean, they don't have a vocabulary for figuring this out or figuring out how to address this in their child. What would be your best rabbinical advice on that?
MS. SASSO: I would suggest just explore your roots, just give it a chance. See if there might not be something there. Become part of the community where people talk about these issues. Just like there are other parenting groups that you talk about, you know, 'How do I get my child to go to sleep?' How do I — you know, all these other really, you know, compelling issues when you're a parent. Talk to other people who share your common spiritual values, who live a life that you value. I think, you know, we have all kinds of mentors for our children. You know, we have music educators. We have, you know, coaches in sports. We might look for spiritual mentors.
Who are those people that live the kind of life that is gracious and compassionate and kind and loving and courageous? Those are the kinds of people we ought to be talking to, to see how we might share that kind of life with our children. And then, of course, you know, there are — I wouldn't say — there's no book that is an expert book. There are no answers to these really big questions. I think that's what everybody's afraid of. You know, 'Oh, I don't have the answer' and, you know, 'There are people who've thought about this for so many years.' That's not what's important. There are no absolute answers. There are questions, and there is the conversation, and there is the journey.
I think if you can take the hand of your child on that journey, you not only enrich his or her life, you really enrich your own. Children open windows for us, or can crawl through windows that we can't crawl through, and they open a part of our lives that maybe has been dormant for a long time.
MS. TIPPETT: Sandy Eisenberg Sasso is senior rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck in Indianapolis. Her books include God's Paintbrush and In God's Name.
[Sound bite of song "Why, Oh Why"]
WOODY GUTHRIE (SINGING): Why can't a dish break a hammer? / Why, oh why, oh why / 'Cause a hammer's a hard head. / Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. / Why, oh why, oh why, oh why? / Why, oh why, oh why?
REBECCA NEIGER: Becoming a parent awakened dormant spirituality in me. My first child has special needs, and that, too, has propelled my search. I returned to my Christian roots initially, followed that to the contemplative level, and then actually found more resonance with Buddhist teachings. I still deeply value my Christian heritage, and we're actually raising our children in a Christian church. I have appreciated every step in my spiritual journey and mostly just want each of my children to pursue their own journey regardless of where it takes them.
WOODY GUTHRIE (SINGING): Why does a horn make music? / Why, oh why, oh why? / Because the horn-blower blows it. / Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. / Why don't you answer my questions? / Why, oh why, oh why? / 'Cause I don't know the answers. / Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
MS. TIPPETT: The listeners' voices you heard woven into this show today are responses to our invitation for you to reflect on the spiritual questions that parenting raises. We took the time to record many more stories, including one from Autumn Skeen, a mother living in Japan who tells her story about her sense of the importance — and comfort — of religious rituals and the loss of her child. Look for the "Your Voices, Your Stories" feature on this week's show page at onbeing.org.
I also recommend you check out some of our recent entries on Pertinent Posts from the On Being Blog, our staff blog. Watch a time-lapse video of Buddhist monks building a sand mandala — it's a two-minute meditation on beauty, mental focus, and the nature of impermanence. Read a guest contribution from Chelsea Roff — one of our podcaster listeners and a self-described "spiritual nomad" who reflects on her quest for sacred spaces. And there's an exercise, asking you to decide which piece of music you would have chosen to complement Wendell Berry reading his poem in last week's show. Be a part of our process. Speakingoffaith.org.
Speaking of Faith is produced by Colleen Scheck, Chris Heagle, Nancy Rosenbaum, and Shubha Bala. Trent Gilliss is our senior editor.
Kate Moos is the managing producer of Speaking of Faith. And I'm Krista Tippett.


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Test kitchens may spring up for new food businesses
NEW HAVEN -- The city and Gateway Community College have cooked up a plan to start a culinary incubator that could eventually make use of dormant corporate kitchens across the region.
On Monday, Michael Piscatelli, New Haven's deputy economic development administrator, joined with consultants from Boston-based Next Street to discuss a plan to use Gateway Community College's Sargent Street kitchen as a space for caterers, food truck vendors and manufacturers.
"We're about six to nine months from go/no-go stage," Piscatelli told about 50 people who attended a meeting about the potential program.
Culinary incubators provide space for people whose businesses have grown beyond the capacity of their home ovens. A large industrial kitchen is rented out to multiple users who pay membership and other fees, like storage, to use the space, allowing them a transitional location before they expand to having their own restaurant or storefront.
The Sargent Street kitchen was freed up when Gateway opened its new facility in downtown New Haven this year.
Piscatelli said the idea was born about a year ago when the school and city realized it had this space. For now, it's still just an idea, as more research has to be done to determine whether the facility makes sense in one of Connecticut's premiere cities for dining.
So far, New Haven has brought in a consultant to do some prep work and find out what kind of market there is for this type of program.
The initial assessment by Next Street analyzed the kitchen space and other programs nationally to try to determine what would work best on Sargent Drive.
Trevor Brown, a Next Street director working out of the company's New York City office, said the space seems conducive to caterers, small-run bakers including those making cookies, food truck operators who need a prep kitchen and more established businesses looking for test kitchen space.
He said other cities have converted former corporate kitchens for this type of use, pointing to Pfizer's former Brooklyn site as an example.
What has to be determined in New Haven is how much to charge for the space and whether it can be economically viable at that price, he said.
Brown said the model they're proposing would charge a monthly or yearly membership fee, which would include training on machinery and safety. People would also be charged a storage fee if they keep anything in the freezer or in dry storage, and they might have to purchase hours.
Piscatelli said a basic fee structure is being discussed, but has not been set. The group plans to have more discussions with members of the community as they move forward on launching, or scrubbing the idea.
Overall, Jon Aram, also with Next Street, said the kitchen and community, with its network of existing food-based industries, looks promising. And the idea has an important driver behind it as well, he said: "People have to eat."

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This week (19th June to 26th June) is breast feeding awareness week and all across the country proud mothers are taking to the streets, the shopping centers, the parks, and showing that breast feeding is natural, it's normal, it's nothing to be scared of, or embarrassed about, and it's proven to be the best start for our babies.
Everyone who's had a baby and given breastfeeding a go has a breastfeeding story – well this is mine.
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This forum is a private business. It was funded by and started by Toby and whatever investment he made. If he wants to have this rule in place (which i agree with) that's fine.
If this was some government forum or a service provided by taxes we pay then the free speech thing has a point. BUT, it is not. In that case, dont use or participate on this forum if you dont like it. Start one without such horrible dictator like rule (sarcasm).
Switch may in fact have a business model and policy not to advertise excessively in an effort to keep costs down, and that's fine. But how is that Toby's problem. He runs a forum that provides a service but it is a for-profit busienss. This isn't a charity.


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John E. Lateer, Jr., 92, of Sussex, died Monday, December 31, 2012 at Barn Hill Care Center in Newton. He was a member of the Sussex Wesleyan Church. Mr. Lateer was born August 28, 1920.
He was a farmer, union bricklayer and stone mason for most of his adult life and was a charter member of the Pochuck Valley Fire Department in Vernon.
A beloved husband, father, grandfather and brother to his family, he is survived by his beloved wife of over 75 years, Louiza Lateer, of Sussex; his son, John Lateer, III, and his wife, Kelli, of Honesdale, PA; step-granddaughter, Kacie, also of Honesdale, PA; grandson, John Lateer, IV, and wife, Terri of Seattle, WA; his daughter, Brenda Preston, of Sussex; granddaughter, Heather DeVries and her husband, Rich DeVries of Pine Bush, NY; and three great-grandchildren: Robert Dakota, and Amber and Jessica DeVries, also of Pine Bush, NY; as well as his sister, Genevieve Connell of Sparta, NJ.
Visitation will be Friday, January 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Pinkel Funeral Home, 31 Bank St., Sussex, NJ 07461. Funeral services will be held Friday at 1 p.m., at the funeral home. Interment will follow at North Hardyston Cemetery, Hamburg.
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It isn't access to public records such as birth, marriage or death records, or the Social Security Master Death Index that cause identity theft, now is it?
Tomorrow there will be a major announcement from RPAC and I'd like you to be primed and ready to assist. What is RPAC? "The genealogical community works together through The Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC), which today includes The National Genealogical Society (NGS), the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) as voting members. The Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG), the American Society of Genealogists (ASG), ProQuest and Ancestry.com serve as participating members. RPAC meets monthly, and more often if needed, to advise the genealogical and historical communities, as well as other interested parties, on ensuring proper access to vital records, on means to effect legislation, and on supporting strong records preservation policies and practices." Source: http://www.fgs.org/rpac/about-2/
RPAC announces the "Stop ID Theft NOW!" Campaign
What if:
(1) The Social Security Death Index were no longer available online or
(2) Birth certificates in every state were not made public for 125 years, nor death certificates, marriages and divorce records available until after 75 years?
These and similar proposals further limiting genealogical access to "public" records are actively being considered by policy-makers at the state and federal level.
The most recent example is the hearing held by the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee held on 2 February and found at: http://waysandmeans.house.gov/Calendar/EventSingle.aspx?EventID=276835
Recent posts here at the RPAC Blog at http://www.fgs.org/rpac/ give additional information.
We expect to launch a significant petition drive on Tuesday, the 7th of February. It will urge the Administration to take steps that should curtail the filing of fraudulent tax refund claims based upon identity theft from deceased infants and adults almost immediately. Please plan to check back at the RPAC Blog at that time.
What can individual genealogists and local societies do? In essence, our message is "Get Involved!"
Start by asking these two questions:
(1) Do I know who my legislators (state & federal) are?
(2) Do they know who I am?
OK, DearREADERS, tomorrow I'll let you know about the link to the petition drive, so you, your friends and neighbors can sign it.
Here's where to look for your Senators' contact info:
Here's where to look for your Congressman's contact info:
Be READY! Writing letters doesn't work any more. We'll be asked to sign the petition and to send an email and a fax to our senators and congressmen.
Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
Your friend in genealogy.
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We have everything we need in America. We have natural gas, oil, coal, solar and wind energy. We should utilize everything at our disposal to end our dependence on foreign oil. It is time to stop flooding the Middle East with money. These people hate us. Why do we buy their oil?
America has enough oil. It is estimated North Dakota has as much as 500 billion gallons of oil that is in the process of being drilled. The Marcellus shale fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and West Virginia promises more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil.
We can run automobiles and the large trucks of America on natural gas. It's time to start using it. Automobile companies are converting some of their vehicles to operate on natural gas. Service stations across the nation must move forward with natural gas pumps.
I like coal. My father was a coal miner for 30 years. He raised five kids on a coal miner's salary. We must continue to work toward burning coal cleaner, more efficiently and environmentally safer. It is a powerful source of energy and we should use it. We hear reports that power plants are moving closer to burning cleaner energy. We hear other reports that power plants are moving to natural gas.
We are learning more each year on how to better use solar and wind energy. We should utilize both of these to meet our heating and cooling needs. The windmills are dotting a lot of landscape in the western part of the United States. They are not the complete answer for power but they are a welcome part of the formula.
As long as we are dependent on foreign energy there will be wars in the Middle East. We need to stop the senseless wars that are ongoing over Middle Eastern oil. Once we become an energy independent nation gasoline prices will decrease. Plus we will not be burning our money in fighting senseless wars to protect our oil interests. Thousands of lives will be spared from wars in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
The goal of every American should be to utilize American energy. This will create more jobs and wealth for Americans instead of sending our wealth overseas.
An energy independent America will be a happier America. Cutting our entanglements with Middle Eastern oil insures a brighter future for America.
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Developed over seventy years ago by Joseph H. Pilates, the focus of this discipline is to strengthen and stretch the abdomen and torso by solely using the body. Technique involves proper breathing and control over various muscles. Progress to more advanced exercises that integrate core control, correct breathing and proper alignment with smooth, continuous movements for all of the muscle groups by incorporating the stability ball and weights.


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Ravens safety Ed Reed has gotten to know Denver Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey pretty well over the past decade. They didn't exactly plan it that way, to vacation together in Hawaii pretty much every winter since Reed came into the NFL in 2002. But they have lined up next to each other in eight of the past 10 Pro Bowls.
Both are among the NFL's active leaders in interceptions. Both will probably wind up in the Hall of Fame. Both are 34, and while their play has understandably tailed off as they age, they still flash the pure talent and play-making ability that has made them two of the most feared defensive backs of this era.
"I have a lot of respect for Champ, man," Reed said in a rare podium appearance Wednesday. "I got a chance to play with him in the Pro Bowl a couple of times. He's just a great player and a great person, a great man."
With his interception of Oakland Raiders quarterback Carson Palmer last Thursday, Bailey moved into a tie for 26th all-time with 52 interceptions. He is third on the active list behind Reed, who is the active leader and 10th all-time with 61, and Green Bay Packers defensive back Charles Woodson, who has 55.
Nowadays, quarterbacks are challenging Bailey more than they did a few years ago, when just 20 passes were thrown his way in 2008, according to Pro Football Focus. From 2009 to 2011, he was targeted an average of 76.3 times a season. He has been targeted 67 times in 13 games this season, which is tied for 38th in the NFL. Still, he has been targeted just once every 7.2 snaps in coverage, which ranks fifth among all NFL cornerbacks.
Palmer threw for 273 yards and two touchdowns in Denver's 26-13 win. He targeted Bailey five times, completing just two passes for 30 yards. Palmer's passing rating targeting Bailey was 20.8.
Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith grew up watching Bailey, who first played for the Washington Redskins, blanket his positional predecessors. He says that he isn't in awe of defenders of Bailey's ilk -- that's because he has been in the same locker room as Reed and linebacker Ray Lewis for nearly two seasons now -- but Smith still thinks it will be special lining up against Bailey, who could draw the assignment of covering him on Sunday.
"I remember him growing up. He was just a fast, play-making [cornerback], and he's still the same guy," Smith said. "I'm excited to play against him, but it's weird. You watch him growing up and when you think of a shutdown corner, you think of Champ Bailey. I'm excited about the challenge. … He's one of the greatest."
Of course, Joe Flacco will have to worry, too, about Bailey and the Broncos' seventh-ranked pass defense. While chatting with both Baltimore and Denver reporters, he talked about the threat that Broncos pass rushers Von Miller and Elvis Dumervil pose. Without name-dropping Bailey, he also mentioned the secondary.
"They've always been an aggressive defense that can get up and stop the run and has some good pass coverage on the outside and secondary and has the outside guys that can rush," the fifth-year quarterback said. "Obviously, I don't think we've played against Von and he adds another element to those guys being able to head to the passer and have a guy on each side and also be a very good player in the run. You guys are a good defense. They can do all those things -- stop the run, get to the passer, cover the pass well -- so it will be a good challenge for us."
He probably won't avoid Bailey altogether like other quarterbacks did in the past, but Flacco would be wise to be wary of him.
Like another 34-year-old ballhawk, Bailey has entered the twilight of his career, but that doesn't mean the old man still can't shine.
"I have a lot of respect for what he has done, obviously. For this long. At that position," Reed said.


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Look – Simple Green & Dark Green Eyes
This is the look I wore to the Benefit breakfast yesterday 🙂 (This is, obviously, before Benefit made me over!) I didn't think something this simple would turn out this lovely!
You will need the following…
- Eyes: Soft Ochre paint pot (neutral beige base), Juxt eyeshadow (pastel green), Bottle Green eyeshadow (dark green), Prussian eyeshadow (dark blue), Soft Force eyeshadow (highlighter), Prescriptives Grotto Liner (green), Plushlash mascara (black)
- Cheeks: Margin blush (coral-pink)
- Lips: Brave New Bronze lipstick (pinky nude), Chanel Tangerine Dream (coral)
- Brushes: 266 (firm, angled brush), 226 (fluffy crease brush), 219 (pointed crease brush), 214 (smudge brush), 249 (flat, firm brush), 239 (fluffy shadow brush), 129 (dense blush brush)
- Substitutes: Brave New Bronze = Honeylove
Directions: Define brows using a coordinating powder shadow applied with the 266 brush. Apply Soft Ochre paint pot all over the lid as the base with the 249. On the lid, pack Juxt eyeshadow on using the 239. Darken crease with Bottle Green eyeshadow using the 226, then deepen with Prussian eyeshadow with the 219. Sweep Soft Force eyeshadow underneath the brow bone to highlight. Finish with Prescriptives Grotto Liner on lower lash line. Apply Plushlash mascara on lashes. Sweep apples of cheeks with Margin blush using the 129. Apply Brave New Bronze lipstick to lips, and then top with Chanel Tangerine Dream for color and shine.
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Navy Yard suspect arrested in '04 Seattle shooting
The man identified as the shooter in the Washington Navy Yard slayings had been arrested in Seattle in 2004 for shooting out the tires of a parked car in what he described as an anger-fueled "black out."
Two construction workers building a new home told police that Aaron Alexis walked out of a home next door on May 6, 2004, pulled a pistol from his waistband and fired three shots into the rear tires of their parked car.
Alexis later told police he thought the victims had "disrespected him" and "mocked him" earlier that morning after he discovered that his own vehicle had been tampered with. Alexis also told detectives he didn't remember firing his weapon until about an hour later, according to the police report.
Seattle police said in a statement Monday that detectives later spoke with Alexis' father, who told police Alexis had anger management problems associated with PTSD, and had participated in rescue attempts on Sept. 11th, 2001.
When police interviewed the construction workers and manager in 2004, they told police Alexis had "stared at the construction workers every morning for about 30 days prior to the shooting." The owner of the construction business said he believed Alexis was angry over the parking problem outside the construction site, according to Seattle police.
Alexis was booked into King County Jail on June 3, 2004, after making several attempts to find him, police records show.
Court records show he had a hearing and was released on the condition he not have contact with any of the construction workers. A message left for the attorney who represented him at that hearing, Raymond Connell, was not immediately returned.
Seattle police said Monday the case was referred to Seattle Municipal Court for charges of property damage and discharge of a firearm.
There's no record that he was ever prosecuted, and a spokeswoman for the Seattle City Attorney's Office, Kimberly Mills, said Monday that her office never received the report from police so did not review it for possible charges.
According to public documents, Alexis lived in Seattle in 2004 and 2005. He voted in 2004, and received several traffic violations in the Seattle area.
Nobody answered the door Monday afternoon at a home in south Seattle where Alexis lived at the time. The home is near the end of a dead-end street that backs up against Interstate 5, sits under heavy airplane traffic and is across from a park marred by graffiti.
Neighbors said two older women lived in the home. Juan Martinez, 32, lives next door and said he has had brief, friendly encounters with his neighbors but hasn't seen any male relatives at the home or heard of them mentioned. He's lived in the area for five years.


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"Red Adair" – a blast from the past
Published: 07 January, 2010
To celebrate Industrial Fire Journal's 20th anniversary we will be re-publishing throughout 2010 some of the best articles from the last 20 years. Here, from issue number 1 (1990) of Industrial Fire Journal, is an interview with Red Adair, described by one US president as "the man who has probably saved more oil than any single individual in the world".
What has been the worst incident of your career?
Every assignment is tough. Even the smallest one can be most dangerous. I remember one small fire for Mobil Oil where every time we approached it, the wind would just fan up the flames over us - that fire just seemed to follow us about whichever angle we approached it. So you can see – small size doesn't mean small risk.
Certainly in offshore operations, the more wells there are the more difficult things get. Like the Piper Alpha fire in 1988 – that had 36 wells we had to deal with. And it doesn't have to be on fire to be a problem.
I remember one platform in 250 feet of water which had 37 wells – it blew but the oil didn't fire and it still took us a week and a half to bring it under control.
As a fire and blowout specialist, who has been the biggest influence on your career?
I certainly regard Myron Kinley as my teacher. I joined his company, M.M. Kinley, in 1946 after I came out of Bomb Disposal. He was one of the original pioneers of oil well fire and blowout controls. Together we did a lot of innovative firefighting and invented a whole range of new equipment, such as callipers and perforators, for the industry.
In your opinion, is the industrial firefighter in greater demand than ever before?
He's in greater demand, certainly. He's a very special guy. Here in Houston, for example, we had a refinery fire initiated by a lightning strike on oil storage tanks. The firefighters had done an excellent job of containing the fire behind a dike and were using water with just the right amount of foam to extinguish it. I was really proud of the way these firefighters handled it.
How important is having the right equipment to you?
Essential. We have a lot of new equipment, capping devices, foams, fire retardant chemicals, sprinkler systems, a semi-submersible firefighting vessel, breathing apparatus sets and the best fire firefighting clothing we can buy – we all wear Nomex underwear too. This is just so important.
I was at a well fire in Mexico recently with Brian Krause and while we were approaching the blaze, one of the workers shut the pumping equipment off – it felt just like being a baked potato! You appreciate at moments like that, having the right equipment, the right protection.
What training do your own firefighters have to undergo?
I have trained all of my men personally. In my company we take on firefighters when they're young, and work 'em through well-head schools and on the job training.
For us, a firefighter isn't just born – he's moulded by the company. We currently have three apprentice firefighters working in our warehouse operation. You know how you tell if a man will make a good firefighter when you're at the scene of a fire?
You watch his feet and his eyes – if either of them gets jittery, then you know he's looking for a place to run. That man won't make it in the firefighting business.
For myself, when I go on missions and I watch my men tackling a blaze, I'm like an old hen laying an egg – it makes me so nervous watching someone else operate, in case things go wrong for them.
We were dealing with one well in Venezuela and the foreman and this one other guy were so scared to death that they practically knocked me down in their haste to get away when the well blew like a cannon. Do you know, the only man that did his job was the driller? He stayed to shut down the engines and put the well-head fire-restraints in place. You've got to admire that.
What can you tell us about the four key men who head your firefighting teams?
Raymond Henry is a senior firefighter. He joined us in 1964 and has participated in every facet of the Red Adair operations, both in firefighting and management. Since joining the company, Raymond has worked very closely with the industry, developing and refining the skills that he uses in controlling wild wells all over the world.
Some examples of the jobs that Raymond has successfully completed include a blowout in the Persian Gulf in 1978 that was making 800 million cubic feet of gas per day, and a land fire in Mexico in 1980 producing 68,000 barrels of oil per day. In addition, he was part of the crew at the Piper Alpha disaster. Raymond's includes all methods of well control. He is also an expert in the use of explosives.
Richard Hatteberg joined us in 1965 and is currently a senior firefighter. He has been instrumental in controlling some of the world's largest and most dangerous blowouts. In his 25 years of experience, Richard has worked in all of the known oil fields in the world.
In addition to his expertise in subsea, surface and downhole blowouts, Richard is experienced in capping some of the most dangerous hydrogen sulphide wells on earth. He is experienced in handling explosives and capping blowouts, subsea blowouts and burning wells.
Danny Clayton, who joined the Red Adair Company in 1980, is a well control specialist. He specialises in the design of blowout prevention equipment, control systems and wellhead equipment. Danny has been involved in the successful control of wild wells and blowouts in most oil-producing areas of the world. He is also experienced in handling explosives and capping blowouts and burning wells.
Brian Krause is a well control specialist who has been with the firm since 1977. His area of expertise includes specialising in the control of domestic and international petroleum fires and blowouts. His work in wild well control has taken him all over the world and altogether he has 13 years of well control experience.
Brian is experienced in the use of explosives. When not on a job, he takes care of equipment design and contingency planning, sales, and assists customers with the selection of company equipment and services.
What gives you the most satisfaction in your work?
I suppose it's approaching a technical problem – like a well on fire – and solving it. It's a good feeling when you put out the fire and everyone has the best grin you've ever seen. Everyone remembers these occasions. Do you know we still get letters, cards and faxes from guys around the world in places where we've worked? Even one well I put out in 1947!
What areas in industry present the biggest threat?
Refineries by far. Around 85% of the incidents we're called into deal with have been caused by human error – a foul-up – or an Act Of God such as a lightning strike. So many fires could be prevented by good preventative maintenance.
What accomplishment are you proudest of?
Here at Red Adair Company we're proudest of the fact we have had no fatalities. Our worst accident ever was a broken leg caused by falling debris from a burning derrick.
For myself, I played a game of golf the other day and shot even par! I'm 75 and still working – and that's what I enjoy the most.
Are your services in big demand around the world?
Absolutely. Some of us have just spent 20 months in South America, others have been to Muscat, dealt with blown wells in Libya, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Wyoming.
We charter a plane and off we go at a moment's notice – response time is important. When we were called in to put out the Piper Alpha oilrig fire we were on-site in under 12 hours from the first phone-call.
How did you feel about being immortalised in that 1969 John Wayne movie, 'Hellfighters'?
It was a real pleasure working with John. And the thing about that film – it did demonstrate the real and serious risks involved in drilling.
Did you know that people praised the special effects?
That's because they were real! The crew came with me to film me fighting fires at five wells in Venezuela.
John Wayne even took the opportunity to come with me into a real fire – and he came out with his clothes actually smoking off his back.
It's always been a real tough business – and still is, even in the 1990s.


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Just a silly film with lots of laughs. If you just want a night out with mindless humour, this is the film to see.
We enjoyed the first movie and we enjoyed this one even more. Great cast with lots of laughs. Are the jokes silly, yes. But thats the point.
Loved it. Hilarious 🎄must see
Could have been so much more with the talented cast. Underdeveloped dialogue and characters. I have not seen"daddy's home 1" and glad. Waste of time and money
Watched this with my kids age 10,15,17. Who loved it.
Lots of funny parts and great cast.
Cute, amusing movie; well chosen actors for the fathers of Farrell and Wahlberg. A fun holiday movie if that's what you're looking for. Heads up critical movie goers, this ain't supposed to be an academy award contender.
Amazing movie! Hilarious family film!
Better ways to spend $12.
Not funny. Just a bunch of idiots
Don't bother - waste of time
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