KANSAS SEVEN DOLLARS
Alex Hershaft paid her way to the Republican conventions in 1988 for the animal rights movement. She decided she wanted to cover the Democratic one as well. On her return trip from California with her sister’s credit card she traveled, sleeping in the car and bathing in motel and hotel pools. She had left California traveling east with 25 cents cash. She came to a Stop n Shop in Kansas and upon going in saw that the clerk was denying a man in his 30’s the right to buy beer, though he was not the driver, because he did not have ID. Disliking force, she bought it for him with the credit card. Unsolicited, he handed her $7. A few miles down the road was a toll booth, the only one she encountered on Rt 70 between California and Ohio. God gave her cash right before she needed it.
LAKE ERIE CASH
Another time she was in Sandusky, Ohio, without resources to get home.. when suddenly there was $20 floating in Lake Erie at her husband's ankle.
NIMBO OF MELSATOSA IN FLORIDA
A third time, with no money for rent, she opened the door of her Maryland home and saw a man she'd never met, Nimbo there from Melsatosa, a fruitarian temple in Miami, who told her he had $2000
left, and that God had told him to give her some of it. He handed her nine one hundred dollar bills.
GRANDMOTHER
A fourth time, she traveled to India with the money her grandmother had left for her. The money arrived 18 years after her death, just enough for 2 round the world tickets.
WILD AVOCADO TREES IN HAWAII
Running out of money on the way back from India (we had purchased around the world airplane tickets... 12 stops for $1100..) we were walking in the rainforest hills of
Hawaii... and found a feast of ripe avocado gifts at our feet.
SPACE HEATER IN TAKOMA PARK
In 1980 we arrived back in Takoma Park after 3 months in India... with perhaps $5 and no money to fill an empty oil tank in November. M Banks called and said
"I was just meditating. Baba told me to bring you a space heater.".
LANDLORD
Their home in Takona Park was a small cottage for $250. a month at a time when such
dwellings were renting for $700 to $1100 a month. W Werline, a Seventh Day Adventist, said that it was, in his opinion, wrong to profit from the need of others.
BABA GIVE ME ORANGE
DG came for a visit. With his irrepressible iconoclastic humor, mimicry, and chameleon actor talent, his response to a description of many Baba miracles was “Baba give me orange.. Baba give me orange”. In those days there was a fruit market on New Hampshire Ave in Langley Park. In the back was an area where bruised and other fruit were discarded. DW went into the back and picked up 6 huge squash, thrown away because they were so large. Coming home he cut just one into 6 bowls, and still half was left. Orange was everywhere. Then he said to Dudley “Next time you ask Baba for something, please be more specific.”
The most
constant supply of miracles has come from my mother,
my siblings and their spouses, and my friends.
Supply is a river. As delta waters flow into the sea, snowmelt brings new waters to mountain streams.
God Calling: The branch need ask no support of the vine.
