Happy Birthday to Lynn!

For all of you who know our "Prague Angel", Lynn Wilhite just celebrated her XXth birthday. We had a party with a cherry pie instead of cake, sparkling juice and a big meal. Presents and Presence, aw Baba! Kittys R Us card!

It is getting brown all around this time of year here in Prague, we all went to the Christmas in the Park pageant and took a ride on the draft horse drawn "sleigh". It was a cold, clear night, a good time was had by all.

As everyone has noted below, the newsletter has been a big hit! We did get a couple dozen back for snail mail address probelems and if you didn't get one or know someone who missed out, send us an email with address at the Center, ambhc@allegiance.tv, we will send one out.

Much Joy in Baba!

Ron, AMBHC Caretaker with Miriam in Prague USA

HeartBeat

hi guys, JAI BABA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm just taking the opportunity to look thru and read the fall publication with all the lovely pictures and heartfelt stories. we are all so blessed to have this place established in Baba's heartland for anyone who wants to visit. thanks for your hard work!!!!

i would like to request that photos have captions underneath for those of us who don't recognize or know some of the people shown. as i grow older, my memory bank shrinks and my eyes dim to detail!! so any help is appreciated.

i do hope to return someday to prague and experience His Power and Love and Pain everpresent in the soil and brick and air there. in the meantime, know that your work and dedication is so very appreciated by the larger Baba community :-)

with gratitude and His Love,
vicki alberts in tucson

HeartBeat

Dear Angela,

It was great seeing the Fall 2008 issue of HeartBeat! It brought back Tim's and my wonderful visit to the Heartland Center in May of this year! We practically burst at the seams telling our companions back home about our trip and the power of Meher Baba's presence -- this is a MUST SEE! It was especially sweet joining you and other board members for lunch upon our arrival. Thank you, thank you, thank you and everyone who pours your heart and souls into this precious opportunity to anchor His love on this most sacred site. I've attach a photo I took - and wished I'd take more!

Rose petals at the accident site

Much love in Baba's wide embrace,

Jenny Letzkus

Indian Heritage Festival, Tulsa OK

Michael Ivey volunteered us for a booth at last year's Indian Heritage Festival in Tulsa. There were so many great photos he had taken, but only one of them made the newsletter... Can't help it, we have so much news! So here are some of those shots!

check out the tattoo!

: )

angela

Falling into the OK Fall!

Well we made it back to Prague! Miriam and I took a trip back to the Northwest for a couple of weeks with the family, friends and to celebrate our 22nd anniversary. We had a little fog, a little rain, some sun and gorgeous mountains! Once back in Oklahoma we’ve had to readjust to life in Baba’s Heartland. Though the grass is starting to turn brown and most of the trees are dropping their leaves it is still 75 degrees during the day and we haven’t had a frost yet. The kids are all back in school and high school football (the Prague Red Devils) is all the rage. The town paper has proclaimed that Halloween (evidently not as hallowed as football) will be celebrated on Thursday night before the Devils’ Friday home game.

Devils and cats. The town of Prague seems to be over run with them! Everyone wearing a school’s red (either the high school or the OU Sooners’). And then there are the cats. Unlike the city, there is no Humane Society here in Prague. Cats are feral and plentiful. It seems that three women in the neighborhood (Miriam included) have formed a “catch-neuter and release team”. One woman from the hospital feeds the wild cats out of an old garage next to the hospital, Miriam is working on the catch a cat part and a third woman is financing the vet bills. So far most of the felines are gray and tabby; no black cats for Halloween.

Exciting news last night. One our Board members is coming for a visit next weekend and with her will be one of the few Baba Lovers in OK coming down from the big city of Tulsa. I suppose that just being back from the NW and our long time friends we are a little lonesome for company this week. If you are going to be in the center of the country around Thanksgiving we are inviting folks to stop in for a T day feast featuring Miriam’s now almost-famous pies.

Well happy fall to you all wherever you may be,

Ron Lansing and Miriam Rose, AMBHC Prague Caretakers

After the dhuni rain

The sun is rising on a beautiful clear blue sky in the Heartland. We have had a day and night of heavy rain, the remains of Ike that hit Texas yesterday. We sat out yesterday afternoon under the back carport awning watching the torrent as it beat on the metal roof over our heads. Baba has thoroughly watered this place after we lit a dhuni fire Friday night!

This weekend our local Baba buddy from OKC has come out for a visit. We were going to attack a couple of caretaker maintenance type chores but mostly got “rained out”. The old house has lots of wood doors that warp and stick during humid times, the basement door needs to be changed and there is some moldy furniture in the basement that needs to be removed. Stuff.

Looking forward to two new pilgrims who are coming this week. One early in the week coming from the East coast, DC, and a second by the weekend from Washington state. Washington to Washington! Baba keeps attracting people to His place here. My friends back in Oregon keep asking, why anyone would move to Oklahoma! It just gives me a chance to tell them about Meher Baba and His Center here.

Don’t forget to write!

In Meher Baba’s Love,

Ron Lansing, Caretaker, AMBHC

Gustav Blows through Prague and so do Baba's Pilgrims

Hi again, sorry for the absence. We have been busy, if you can imagine that in sleepy Prague, OK. Since Labor Day weekend the weather has been overcast, wet and very bluster as the remains of Gustav swirls into town. It is nice to have 70-80 degree weather in September but everything is soggy!

We had a pilgrim unexpectedly come to the Avatar Meher Baba Heartland Center early this week. We all went out to Baba's "Crash" site (she said she didn't like the word "accident" when it came to Meher Baba!). As everywhere the grass was green and soggy, the state highway guys had just mowed leaving the vase of flowers, a Baba picture and a metal cross in the culvert depression next to the driveway cut. We all sat on the grass and marveled a the "blasts" of silence in between trucks roaring by. Our pilgrim, a meditator who came out from Norman for the day, was just hearing about Meher Baba and she was quite drawn in by the feeling at the site and (it seemed to me) in awe of His spilling His blood here.

It is always such a joy and Baba blessing when He sends someone here!

Love in Him,

Ron
AMBHC caretaker