Saturday, December 23, 2017

WELCOME - AUTHOR'S NOTES

Have a seat, the journey is about to begin.

To honor my ancestors, Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aesops and those of their following, Virgil, and Ovid; I humbly tell my stories.

Abraham and Einstein, exist in "unity and order"; the master (s) of space and time, elude all through the use of imagination.
Albert Einstein: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

(Η αγάπη είναι το μελάνι, η σοφία είναι το μήνυμα.)
Love is the ink; wisdom is the message!

"Those who fear life, worship imaginary Gods of others; those who love life, imagine."

***** Please follow the stories in the order in which they have been written: *****

By "clicking" on the highlighted text as you read, you will discover the "nuggets of gold" for each story.

EPISODE I IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE LIGHT

EPISODE II THE GYPSY

EPISODE III THE PHOENIX HAS RISEN

EPISODE IV THE SECRET GARDEN

EPISODE V THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?

EPISODE VI THE PHOTOGRAPHER

EPISODE VII THE NATIVE

EPISODE VIII WILL, THE WHEELS AWAY!

EPISODE IX THERE IS CHAOS IN MY HEART

EPISODE X LOVE, TRUST, AND FORGIVENESS

EPISODE XI THE JESSICA STORY

EPISODE XII THE PARACHUTE BABY

EPISODE XIII ELYSIAN FIELDS, IMAGINATION IS THE PATH

EPISODE XIV THE AGE OF RAGE AND THE BUTTERFLY

EPISODE XV THE WISDOM OF ANDREW

EPISODE XVI NEEDS, WANTS, AND DEMANDS

EPISODE XVII WILL THEY REMEMBER, THE PRICE PAID FOR THEIR INNOCENCE?

EPISODE XVIII YOUR IDENTITY AND THE SHADOWS OF THE CAVE

EPISODE XIX YOUR IDENTITY, YOUR CLAIM, YOUR FLIGHT

EPISODE XX DECEPTION DETECTION AND THE PREDICTION OF THE ORACLE

EPISODE XXI NORTH-SOUTH, WE CHOOSE THE WORLD WE WANT - Dōitsu no

EPISODE XXII "COUCHE-TARD" and SELF HARM

EPISODE XXIII THE BUNNY, THE BEGGAR, AND THE ISLAND OF SHAME

EPISODE XXIV I WAS NEVER BORN, I DON'T EXIST, except in THE SANCTUARY

EPISODE XXV I WAS NEVER BORN, I DON'T EXIST, IN CHINA

EPISODE XXVI WARRIORS WHO MUST NOW CHANGE DIAPERS

EPISODE XXVII THE LAND OF EARTHQUAKES AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE JUGGLER

EPISODE XXVIII WILL YOU WAIT FOR ME, MOMMY, DADDY.

EPISODE XXIX DANCE WITH ME TO THE MUSIC OF THE ELYSIAN FIELDS

EPISODE XXX THE LOSS AND THE FAILURE OF A VILLAGE

EPISODE XXXI WHICH REALITY?

EPISODE XXXII PEEK A BOO, I CAN SEE YOU!

EPISODE XXXIII SNITCH OR STITCH

EPISODE XXXIV "MAM, KAKA, NANI" AND THE SIXTEENTH DOG.

EPISODE XXXV GUIDEPOSTS TO WISDOM

EPISODE XXXVI I WISH YOU WERE DEAD!

EPISODE XXXVII YOU INSPIRED ME!

EPISODE XXXVIII I AM ON DRUGS!

EPISODE XXXIX A VISITOR FROM ANOTHER REALITY

EPISODE XL LOVE IS THE INK; WISDOM IS THE MESSAGE.

EPISODE XLI                     THE STUDENT' NOTES:

EPISODE XLII    OPEN LETTER TO GRETA THUNBURG

EPISODE XLIII FIND YOUR TRIBE

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AUTHOR'S NOTE TO YOUNG PEOPLE,

"WHO KNOW THE CALLING OF THE LIGHT".

As you listen to my stories and you look around you and see and hear the reaction of your peers enjoying, some mocking and some having a good laugh, if "you know," that this is beyond just a story and entertainment for some. If you feel it deep inside you, that there is something there that you want to share from "Your Light," you may share with the author, "Your Story." Please put it all in writing and send it to me via e-mail, I will respond and thank you for "sharing"... the rest will evolve with time. Many events in our life experiences are beyond imagination and cannot be explained - you may be one of the chosen few.

Questions, Answers: Revelations to think about.

1- MY AGE: THREE THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN (3018).
2-THE PATH TO THE ELYSIUM FIELDS.
3- THE "PIRETO".
4- INDIRECT MESSAGE FROM THE LIGHT.
5- SOUNDS FROM THE LIGHT.
6- INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE LIGHT.

7-AND WHAT ABOUT ADOLESCENCE AND GOD?

8- WANT TO SEE A YOUNG AND PROUD HELLENE?

(Anybody can be a Hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit... Socrates.)

9- The ONE and the Many.
10- LIFE IS EASY!
11- THE WORLD OF ABUNDANCE AND HOPE.
12- A GIFT TO YOU; I HAVE A DREAM!
13- WHAT HIDDEN BEAUTY LOOKS LIKE.
14- THE LEGACY OF F. HARRY STOWE-POLLY.
15- Other's inspirational Stories:

Please send me an e-mail to canadianstoryteller@gmail.com

About the author: Author's Philosophy

"Abraham and Einstein, exist in "unity and order"; the master(s) of space and time, elude(s) all through imagination."

ELIAS LEOUSIS (Eleusis)

Mr. Elias Leousis, was born in Tripolis, Hellas, on Earth Day.

Education: His “formal” education includes, Socrates School of the Communauté Hellénique De Montréal, Bancroft Elementary, and Baron Byng High School under the P.S.B.G.M.. He graduated from John Oliver Secondary, Vancouver, B.C. He attended Sir George Williams as well as Concordia University in Montreal, where he attained a B.Sc. and M.Sc. From McGill University, he has earned his Diploma in Education.

He has taught at various elementary schools, served as department head of science at the high school level, taught at both Concordia as well as McGill University and held the post of a school principal. He is recognized as a pioneer in the int roduction of the microcomputer at the elementary school level. During his visit to Hellas, he established a TEE (Technical Educational Institute) certified by the Hellenic Government Department of Education. He was the first in Hellas to acquire the MOUS certification, recognition by Microsoft USA. He served as director of Comp Ellas Academy: He holds a large number of certificates in the computer sciences.

Mr. Leousis' favorite topic of interest, is helping the young cope and understand this critical period of their development, through guidance in the form of storytelling:

He is a member of the National Story Tellers of Canada (http://www.storytellers-conteurs.ca ) as well as a member of Quebec Writers' Federation.

About "The Light":

"I", was created by the thought of Gods and "Their", desire to allow all mortals to know that, "They", are always with them: As humankind grows and seeks absolute independence from "Them", "They", will remain by their side, guiding them and directing them, in their growth to absolute "WISDOM", the way to "Their Essence" and the Elysium Fields. As you look out beyond the now, into the heavens, "I", will be there, guiding you and helping you know that, "I", be visible or invisible, "My Essence", will guide you beyond all what is sensed in your reality. So let it be now revealed to you, that both "I" and "He", in mortal being, who speaks to you through the thoughts of children are but one. Eleusis.

Let The Light within you, guide you to the entrance of the Elysian Fields, your inner beauty is expected.

To my sons and everyone's sons. (click)

The Singularity- behold the future

One Tin Soldier Run Away - Avoid the loud and the hypocrites.

A key concept which should be part of your name: The secret of Hellenes, Philotimo

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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

EPISODE XII - THE PARACHUTE BABY

EPISODE XII - THE PARACHUTE BABY

(It is Tuesday morning day 5; Mr. Leousis is once again replacing the gym teacher but not for gym. Today, the class was supposed to have CPR. He addresses the students :)

"Normally, you people bug me to tell you a story but today, I am excited because the story I am about to tell you, fits in with this course of CPR. I do not think a teacher could devise a better strategy to teach the importance of this subject than to speak about an actual personal life experience. There are three such short stories I wish to share with you. So here we go:

I was teaching at Bancroft Elementary school in Montreal when the importance of training teachers and administrators in CPR was beginning to take hold. It was the time of watching films on reels, there were no CD's or NetFlicks, so you can imagine how long ago that would be; I would say almost thirty-two years ago. At one such staff professional day, we were going to watch a film on procedures of CPR, to get a general understanding; after that, we would be trained using a manikin. In this lengthy 45 min. film, we observed such techniques as Chest compression, clearing airways, mouth-to-mouth technique and so many others. By the end of the film, my head was spinning from overload.

I ended my school day and headed for home; it was an hour-long drive to the suburbs. I longed to get home and be with my young children, Yllet and Eiffe: Yllet was almost a toddler of two and newborn Eiffe was only weeks old. I would normally attend to my son, Yllet and read to him a children's story while my wife would nurse Eiffe, just before we turned in for the night. I had gone to bed, waiting for my wife to arrive when her normal lullaby songs she would sing the baby stopped; this was not the way it was normally done: She would place the baby in her crib and continue the lullaby until she reached our bedroom, so that the baby would continue hearing the maternal sounds, yet now she went silent!

Seconds later, she appears at the door, gasping for air, calling out to me, "Louis, the baby isn't breathing"! I immediately jumped up, went into the baby's room and sure enough, the baby had gone silent. I picked her tiny body up and moved towards the bathroom sink where I tried desperately to think of what I must do; what had I seen in the film that I could use.

Sure enough, in the CPR film, there was a five-minute scene of someone holding a doll, fully rested on their left arm and using their right hand to try to dislodge whatever was stuck in the baby's mouth or throat. I tried doing this but to no avail; the baby's pink color was getting blue, and my panic was hitting the roof of my throbbing pulse! I called out to my wife to run and get the neighbor to care for our toddler while I tried mouth to mouth and whatever else came to my mind to try to save our baby. There was no time to call for an ambulance. We got into our car, a standard, VW, Rabbit model car. My wife could not drive a standard car so now, I had to manage all. Press the clutch, change gears while holding the baby in one hand, blowing into her mouth and doing much praying: "Please ancients save my baby!"

For a moment, I felt this calm as if the entire world around me was moving at incredibly slow, slow; I mean, "slow motion" (Mr. Leousis emphasis). In the haze of sight and illusion, I could see a mother bearing her infant child in a nursing position, the infant content, Mono Lisa elusive smile, staring right at me. She spoke:

" Δεν υπάρχει δημιουργία χωρίς θυσία και τον πόνο. Κάθε φορά που η Γη φέρει βουνά υπάρχει ένα δάκρυ, κάθε φορά που μια μητέρα φέρει ένα παιδί υπάρχει πόνος. Μπορείτε δεν μπορεί να βλάψει ένα παιδί με σωματικό πόνο, αν είναι η αγάπη μετριέται και ζωογόνος - χτυπήσει το βρέφος τώρα!"

(There is no creation without sacrifice and pain. Each time the Earth bears mountains there is a tear, each time a mother bears a child there is pain. You cannot hurt a child with physical pain, if it is love measured and life-giving, strike the infant now!)

I could not believe what I was being told to do, how could I strike my infant, I hesitated. The hospital was at least 15 min away, the baby was not breathing, anger and tears filled my eyes and I cried out, please forgive me!

We arrived at the hospital gates, I got out holding my limp infant in my hand, there was no time. I gave her a crushing blow in the back, so hard that if she were not suffocated already from whatever was choking her, certainly I would have killed her from my powerful blow!

As I saw this monstrous horror in my mind's eye, at the same time I heard the most precious cry, which I will never forget… Our baby burst into a nagging, "wonderfully piercing cry," she was saved! We rushed to the emergency, placed her on a bed where the attending physician just pinched her baby fat and said, "She will be o.k." I dropped to my knees as if I had carried the world of Atlas. I now knew that I should have followed through, and listened to the words of the Elysium.

Till this very day, I always say, "Take Eiffe, put her on a plane and parachute her down, anywhere in the world. She will survive", she is "The Parachute Baby":

My "CPR," experience does not end there. Years later, at a Pizza Hut, in Waterdown, Ontario,while having lunch with my younger son, we heard some commotion around the bend of the restaurant. A mother's crying call for an ambulance, a father desperately trying to revive this six-year-old boy, the child was choking! I rushed over and asked the parents for permission to intervene; there were no vital signs.

I maneuvered my finger right down the child's throat searching and hoping to reach whatever was blocking his esophagus, without success. I thought of the Elysium's advice of persistent, loving pain, and I pressed deeper. I persisted and noticed that he was still alive when I pressed deeper into his throat and noticed that he was gagging. He popped out a finger-sized piece of bread. He was saved!

I am no hero, but I always remember the skills of CRP and the wisdom of "The Light". Sometimes, we have to cause pain in order to save lives, as long as, "it is love measured and life-giving." We must take the risk at our peril if we are wrong; the only way to take ownership of your decisions and live up to your responsibilities towards others.

If I have not convinced you of the vital importance of learning CPR through my story, please accept the gift below, I hope it will someday help you save a life and make you a hero.

Oh, by the way, at the introduction, I mentioned that there are three stories I wish to relate to you; the next one will follow next time we have a class together... wait for the adventure!

By Elias Leousis,
(Η αγάπη είναι το μελάνι, η σοφία είναι το μήνυμα.)
Love is the ink wisdom is the message!

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Teacher's comment.

From time to time we all ask ourselves what type of story would our lives comprise if we were to narrate it: what it means, what it emphasizes, what form will it assume. Mr. Leousis in this installment gives us (and his students) an image of his childhood experiences in his home town and draws us in to his world, making us think critically about our own life experiences. He delivers his story in a dramatically engaging way and thus creates a link between literary form and life itself. His use of characters, plot and points of view (his giagia, mother, soldiers, doctor, etc.) in a dramatic way tells us that we all make sense of the events of our lives by weaving them in narratives such as the one narrated here. Mr. Leousis's type of storytelling is an asset in the classroom, and as an educator I appreciate it tremendously and take comfort in the knowledge that teachers like him can teach us something about how to reach young learners.