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SAN GABRELL VALLEY TRIBUNE OPINION Thursday, January 22, 2009 YOUR VIEW We welcome your letters on public issues. Keep them brief, please. All letters are subject to editing. Persons of the year I can't buy what Time magaxine proclaims as "The Person Of The Year" no matter who that may be. There are many qualified candidates out there doing good, they just don't have the name. Throughout the past year I have been thinking of my favorite three: First, there is Steven Kwon of Pasadena, a retired nutritionist who founded Nutrition & Education International and has introduced soybean farming to Afghanistan. This man is daily saving the lives of women and children by teaching how to make protein-rich soy milk and a soy powder used in the baking of Naan, the staple bread of the country. Second, there is Jill Robinson, a Brit in China, who founded Animals Asia. She has obtained the freedom of hundreds of moon bears that are confined to small cages where their gall bladders are milked by a permanently installed catheter for the bile juice thought to be a cure-all. Third, there is Sunnan Kum in South Korea who founded Korean Animal Protection Society. She has devoted her life to rescuing and saving the lives of cats and dogs destined to be killed and eaten in restaurants because of the misguided belief that the animal's meat is a cure-all. My "Persons of The Year" are doing what they can while fighting bureaucratic red tape, false beliefs and lack of funds just to name a few of the obstacles they face daily. John G. LaBella SAN DIMAS |
정직하지 못했으면 10분,남을 헐뜯었으면 20분,이웃의 어려움을 모른척 했으면 30분,,이처럼 생각의 자리에서 문득 스쳐지나가는 것이 있습니다.
"봐줘라,좀 봐줘라"라는 말은 예전에 우리들 어머니들이 많이 쓰시던 말씀처럼
회장님께서 그렇게 봐주시니까 오갈데 없는 버림받은 동물들이 살아가는 것이 아닐련지요.지금은 정의도 없고 사랑도 없는 세상이 되어버렸지만 그래도 회장님께서 불쌍한 애덜을 봐주시는거,사랑이 없으면 불가능한 것이겠지요.
봐준다는거,그것은 사랑이라는 이름으로 덮어주고 감싸주라는 말이겠지요.
봐주는거,,,쉬운거 같으면서도 차암 어렵습니다.친구끼리,가족끼리,아니면 그냥 사람끼리,,서로 봐주는거 어렵기 그지없건만 그 숱한 어려움을 극복하시고 여기까지 오신 회장님은 상처로 얼룩진 많은 애들의 어머니이십니다.만약,동물들이 말을 할 수 있다면 어머니께서 봐주시니까 우리는 살아있을 수 있는거라고 그런게 가족이고 친구고 사랑이라고 말했을 것입니다.