Keepers of A Living Tribute©: Are simply those who are awarded a Living Tribute©. These tributes will be awarded and must be accepted in humbleness and humility…not in selfishness. These tributes do not come with any status, award, scholarship, stipend, or special place in an arbitrary hierarchy. They are merely a way (in the spirit of the Five Principles© concept of Benefit©) to let the many individual unknowns in any field of endeavor know they are appreciated. The tributes are physical, living acknowledgments of the collective Spirit. For this reason we will never establish a limit to the number of Keepers in any field, nor how big or small or what form a tribute may take, or the criteria for how a keeper is established. But remember: A Keeper of a Tribute forfeits any and all claims associated with the Tribute they are keeping.
Heroes’ Hearts Inc® is the Copyrighted and Trademarked conduit of tributes. However, we will license FOR FREE any organization that wants to offer a tribute without our involvement. These requests must be in writing from a real person and acknowledged, by an active officer of the nonprofit. We at Heroes’ Hearts Inc® currently prefer living, changing tributes (as are promoted in the project Redwood Recovery©) because Life has its own rules and our human interpretation of what is being honored may change with time. Also, we will never know the full extent of our actions (good or bad) on ourselves or others. We therefore have suggested that to choose to act in a specific way based upon our own individual moral and ethical character as if what we choose matters–is the best way we’ve found to build a foundation in ones own brief life. This is often called as acting with intention and is based on what we believe are commonalities. This is what we call Aether-Etics, or ways that we acknowledge personal connection to the collective known, unknown, and the unknowable.
Keepers themselves may or may not be currently known for whatever action or attribute that is being honored, but will merely be acknowledging an awareness within their own initial intuition that a class of people pursuing a particular goal in a respectful manner is not a unique human characteristic.
This shared awareness we call collective consciousness, but again this comes with a caveat. While millions, and perhaps even billions may share the same goals, the only benefit that is usually required for happiness is the personal knowledge that our actions were good, suggesting that a human Life Strategy can be distilled into a pursuit that helps the individual be their own best example for whatever way one follows that makes them healthy, happy, successful (as defined by the individual) without hurting anyone (including oneself in most cases), and that this is all that is absolutely necessary in any life plan.
“Any step in the right direction, no matter how small or ill conceived is a step in the right direction.”
LIVING TRIBUTES in the form of a bonsai tree will be the initial preferred physical tribute for Heroes’ Hearts Inc’s involvement, but we anticipate that there will be cultural, family or other considerations that may affect the form of the tribute, just as people often purchase a certificate representing their“naming a star” in a far off galaxy on behalf of others or even themselves. There is no discernible benefit beyond the action for the purchaser of the certificate acknowledging registration.
Being One’s Own Best Example, then begins with the acknowledgement for professionals and layman, teachers and students, athletes, coaches, and fans of sports, medical professionals and their patients, survivors of trauma, victims of any kind of abuse, nonprofit volunteers or organizations, first responders, conservationists, artists, journalists, and any other heroes as defined by Heroes Hearts Inc’s mission to “oppose discrimination and abuse in all forms while helping heroes one good deed at a time.”
Gordon Richiusa adds, “Heroes’ Hearts Inc’s motto, Do Something Good is the bases for all our approved projects and attempts to be our own best example. For me, that means honoring my promise to my father.” To learn more about this promise and Heroes’ Hearts Inc please go to our website.
