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If someone comes into your life and has a positive impact on you, be thankful that your paths crossed.

And even if they can’t stay for some reason, be thankful that they somehow made you happy, even if it was just for a short while.

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INTRODUCTION:

AT THIS MOMENT IT’S NOT ABOUT WHO IS RIGHT, BUT WHAT IS RIGHT.

This is a tribute to the redemptive power of truth that was abandoned far too long and now this book brings it home. The author’s quest in ALL LOVE COMES HOME – Redemptive Journey of The Heart (Book Two) is a lifeline that does not only look at history and humanity with a new perspective, but moves us to take an unyielding look at ourselves as a true revelation, and if we are fortunate enough, we may touch it and be inspired not to look away from the past, but to have a place of honor in our hearts that moves the soul.

When my parents were faced with life and death situations, they met the challenges, endured, and ultimately prevailed with virtues that shall bring the joy of human triumph into our lives for all time.
If my parents, Bronislawa and Andrew Fisch could render a greater service today, it is for the love of life not to vanish like the piles of body dust scattered namelessly in the wind. For this alone, we must never allow the presented remnants of war to serve as the buried fabric of truth.

ALL LOVE COMES HOME – Redemptive Journey of Heart published by G Sto Lat Publishing Co. exposes the hidden history and its heroic deeds during the oppressive years under Nazi and Communists governments.

This storyline reveals the last dark hidden secrets of the WWII under the Nazis which have been stored away and thoughtlessly overlooked for so long. As this story revisits WWII, one is forever moved and saddened knowing that so many nameless heroes died in silence in a hellish War.

I, for one, know that I am so lucky to be alive. And while the faint light of hope faded for so many, my family received abundant blessings all while witnessing death and experiencing life in so many ways. We were able to regain our moral consciousness through a nightmare of enslavement and torture from Eastern Poland to Western Poland, beginning in 1939 and ending in 1945. Millions of people risked life and limb for others and suffered in enumerable ways under Soviet Communists/Nazi Germany. Millions of others never lost their essence, nor was their character or their resolve to do the right thing altered at any time; the light of their values was so endowed in the innermost depth of their souls.

We lived to tell the whole story of WWII in a different way that brings back a love of life from the crystalline silence of the truth of the time; knowing full well that not one person left the field of war unaltered and without a footprint of suffering on their soul. Whenever I read a reference to WWII, I can’t help but be reminded of all those who made sacrifices to save our lives and the brave soldiers who liberated my family. I am and will always be profoundly grateful.

As author and publisher, I wish for the younger generation to benefit from memories of a past and from those who have witnessed evil in all its ways of life, but faced it with a clear mind and noble courage. Historians, humanists and ethnologists still have work to do to tell the whole story of the 20th century’s inhumanity to humanity and to accurately and properly represent history the way it really was while never forgetting those who perished namelessly in the wind and those who will only answer to God.

Now we move in silence to the Prologue of this book. That spot in the forest was not only a temporary sanctuary of life, but cultivated the quiet dignity of its peace and virtues, to be trusted with empathy on all sides of war when there were great galling sorrows all around us.

Then we all followed in this world with unassuming steps, an ordinary family so far out of reach that were written off the map of the world and refused to be conquered. For any person with a conscience and integrity would recognize the events as it relates to the whole. We all should be at peace knowing that the mothers and fathers, and their love of life, saved their children from the brink of extinction.

And from the profound depths of the soul, my mother has not taken her memoir to her grave. She was/is an amazing woman, and along with Andrew, serves as an inspiration for us all. So as we closed this soliloquy’s journey of indomitable spirit, our hearts sang and our souls danced as we were welcomed to our new home in this great new land and way of life. From a Displaced Person’s camp in Western Germany, the Fisch family was the first family to arrive on the shores of New York State to settle in Syracuse, New York.

Along the way, we mended from the physical damages and moved forward in all of our blessings to date. All Love Comes Home – Redemptive Journey of the Heart (Book Two), is a window into the joy of human triumph along with a deeper understanding of the worst and most inhumane times of the 20th Century. And for our family, it offered an opportunity to report the whole story of what truly happened in history’s greatest struggle for a free mind and soul. We were blessed with my mother’s and father’s life values and the fact that we had a chance to live them out.

Now, I look back through the avenue of life to the private life of mother’s 1984 lifeline and to its solemn retrospection of public and private, and in her own way expressed the admiration and regrets for the virtues gained and lost from the experiences of life and forever remained the remnants of a free mind and soul. I can’t help but wonder how we survived at all. Gratitude is truly good for the soul and can make the seemingly impossible – possible.

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Good News had the honor to create the 20th anniversary of Woodstock with Richie. He was a great man who taught us a great deal about life. FREEDOM. Reverend Paul Sladkus. Good news planet.
Richie Havens was an American folk singer and guitarist.
He is best known for his intense and rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings), soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

Early life

Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children.  At an early age, he began organizing his neighborhood friends into street corner doo-wop groups and was performing with the McCrea Gospel Singers at 16.

Early career

At age 20, Havens left Brooklyn, seeking artistic stimulation in Greenwich Village. “I saw the Village as a place to escape to, in order to express yourself”, he recalled. “I had first gone there during the Beatnik days of the 1950s to perform poetry, then I drew portraits for two years and stayed up all night listening to folk music in the clubs. It took a while before I thought of picking up a guitar.”

Havens’ reputation as a solo performer soon spread beyond the Village folk circles. After cutting two records for Douglas Records, he signed on with Bob Dylan‘s manager, Albert Grossman, and landed a record deal with the Verve Forecast label. Verve released Mixed Bag in 1967, which featured tracks such as “Handsome Johnny” (co-written by Havens and future Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr.), “Follow”, and a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman“.

Pre-Woodstock rise

By 1969, Havens had released five more albums. Something Else Again (1968) became his first album to hit the Billboard chart and also pulled Mixed Bag back onto the charts. Two of those albums were unauthorized “exploitation albums” released by Douglas Records (or Douglas International): Electric Havens (released June 01, 1968) and Richie Havens Record (1969):

This [Electric Havens] was one of two albums (the other being The Richie Havens Record) comprised of overdubbed solo demos, probably from sometime between 1963-1965, that Havens had done prior to recording for Verve and making his official recording debut. In the late ’60s, as Havens rose to stardom, producer Alan Douglas took the original solo demos and overdubbed them with electric instruments. The albums were pulled from circulation and are hard to find today. The eight-song set is oriented toward the kind of traditional material that he was likely doing in clubs around that time, such as “Oxford Town”, “C. C. Rider”, and “900 Miles From Home” as well as an early Dylan cover, “Boots & Spanish Leather”.

Woodstock: opening act

Havens’ reputation as a live performer earned him widespread notice. His Woodstock appearance proved to be a major turning point in his career. As the festival’s first performer, he held the crowd for nearly three hours (in part because he was told to perform a lengthy set because many artists were delayed in reaching the festival location), and he was called back for several encores. Having run out of tunes, he improvised a song based on the old spiritual “Motherless Child” that became “Freedom”. The subsequent Woodstock movie release helped Havens reach a worldwide audience. He also appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival in late August 1969.

Following the success of his Woodstock performance, Havens started his own record label, Stormy Forest, and released Stonehenge in 1970. Later that year came Alarm Clock, which included the George Harrison-penned hit single, “Here Comes the Sun“. This was Havens’ first album to reach Billboard’s Top 30 Chart. Stormy Forest went on to release four more of his albums: The Great Blind Degree (1971), Live On Stage (1972), Portfolio (1973), and Mixed Bag II (1974). Memorable television appearances included performances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. On the latter program, the audience reacted with such enthusiasm that when the applause continued even after the commercial break, Carson asked Havens to return the following night.

Havens also branched out into acting during the 1970s. He was featured in the original 1972 stage presentation of The Who’s Tommy, and appeared as Othello in the 1974 film Catch My Soul. He also appeared in Greased Lightning alongside Richard Pryor in 1977. In 1987, he landed a role in the Bob Dylan vehicle Hearts of Fire.

Havens increasingly devoted his energies to educating young people about ecological issues. In the mid-1970s, he co-founded the Northwind Undersea Institute, an oceanographic children’s museum on City Island in the Bronx. That, in turn, led to the creation of the Natural Guard, an organization Havens describes as “a way of helping kids learn that they can have a hands-on role in affecting the environment. Children study the land, water, and air in their own communities and see how they can make positive changes from something as simple as planting a garden in an abandoned lot.”. In July of 1978 he also was a featured performer at the Benefit Concert for The Longest Walk, an American Indian spiritual walk from Alcatraz to Washington DC affirming treaty rights, as a result of legislation that had been introduced to abrogate Indian treaties.

1980s–1990s

During the 1980s and 1990s, Havens continued a world touring schedule and a steady release of albums. The release of the 1993 Resume, The Best Of Richie Havens Rhinocollected his late 1960s and early 1970s recordings. In 1982, Havens composed and performed a promotional slogan for NBC‘s 1982-83 television season entitled, We’re NBC, Just Watch Us Now. He also performed slogans for CBS and ABC, and recorded commercials for Amtrak, singing the slogan “There’s something about a train that’s magic.” Havens also has done corporate commercial work for Maxwell House Coffee as well as singing “The Fabric of Our Lives” theme for the cotton industry.

In 1993, Havens performed at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Among the selections was the “Cotton” song, made famous by a series of television ads in the early 1990s. In 1999, Havens played at the Tibetan Freedom Concert for an audience of more than 100,000.

Havens also played a small role as a character named Daze in a 1990 film named Street Hunter starring John Leguizamo.

Havens was the twentieth living recipient of the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award, presented in Sherborn, Massachusetts, on April 12, 1991.

In addition to performing at charity benefit concerts, Havens formed the Northwind Undersea Institute, an oceanographic children’s museum on City Island in The Bronx. The museum led to the creation of The Natural Guard, an organization that educates children about the environment.

2000s

In 2000, Havens teamed with the electronic music duo Groove Armada for the retro 1970s-style song, “Hands of Time”. The song was featured on the soundtrack of the film Collateral starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx; the same song was also used in the films Dominostarring Keira Knightley, and Tell No One with François Cluzet. Havens was also featured on “Little By Little” and “Healing” on the band’s third album, Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub).

In 2000, Havens published They Can’t Hide Us Anymore, an autobiography co-written with Steve Davidowitz. He maintained his status as a folk icon and continued to tour. In 2002, he released Wishing Well, followed by the 2004 album Grace of the Sun.

In 2003, the National Music Council awarded Havens the American Eagle Award for his place as part of America’s musical heritage and for providing “a rare and inspiring voice of eloquence, integrity and social responsibility.”

On October 15, 2006, Havens was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.

In 2007, Havens appeared as “Old Man Arvin” in the Todd Haynes film I’m Not There. In a classic front-porch jam scene, he is shown singing the Bob Dylan song “Tombstone Blues” with Marcus Carl Franklin and Tyrone Benskin. Havens’ version of the song also appears on the I’m Not There soundtrack.

Havens was invited to perform at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival opening ceremony. He played “Freedom” in tribute to his fan and jury president, Sean Penn. He also performed at the London, Ontario, Blues Festival in July 2008.

In March 2008, Havens released a new studio album entitled, Nobody Left To Crown. The first single release was the country-tinged “The Key”.

Havens appeared in the acclaimed 2009 film Soundtrack for a Revolution, which provided a general history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, and had modern artists performing many of the era’s musical classics. In the film, Havens performed a haunting rendition of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”.

On May 3, 2009, Havens performed at the fundraising concert in honor of Pete Seeger‘s 90th birthday. In June 2009, he performed at the fifth annual Mountain Jam Festival. The event, hosted by Allman Brothers Band and Gov’t Mule guitarist Warren Haynes, was held at the Hunter Mountain Ski Resort in Hunter, New York. As is the tradition, the festival took place on the weekend following Memorial Day. On June 20, 2009, Havens performed at the Clearwater Festival. On July 4, 2009, he performed at the Woodstock Tribute festival in Ramsey, New Jersey. On August 8, 2010, he performed at Musikfest 2010 at Foy Hall at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

On March 20, 2012, Havens announced on his Facebook page that he would stop touring after 45 years due to health concerns. On April 22, 2013, Earth Day, Havens died of aheart attack at home in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was 72

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