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Why Do I Write This Blog???

The easiest (and probably the most honest) answer to that question is: I don't know. It all started in the summer of 2005, when I went to Crawford, Texas ( a.k.a. the home of the prez's ranch, a.k.a. the home of Camp Casey) to support Cindy Sheehan. I wanted the world to know that, contrary to what one could read in the mainstream media, the peace movement was alive and well and large numbers of Americans did not support the war in Iraq. I wanted people to know that thousands of Americans were willing to travel to Texas and tolerate the heat, humidity, and bugs in order to support a grieving mother whose new purpose was to shine a light on the lies that led to the war and to bring home our troops so that no other mother would have to know the pain that she felt.

Over time, this blog has become more of an exploration of who I am, my spirituality, and how life works. I love life's complexities, exploring the shades of gray. I want to, as Rainier Maria Rilke said,

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

Maybe my blog is just one big question about what is needed in order for people to take the time to love and cherish each other and our earth. Maybe someday, I will "live along some distant day into the answer."

In the meantime, thank you for joining me on my journey. I welcome you to share yours with me

 

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Goin' to the Desert

Tomorrow I leave for my vision quest in the desert. A rattlesnake encounter (no bites, thank God) and a bad fall the other day have changed the flavor of my intent for this quest. It is good. While recovering from the fall, I have been reading Martin Luther King Jr.'s autobiography, which was edited by Clayborne Carson. MLK and Gandhi both worked from a spiritual perspective, from a place of love, even for those who persecuted them. Their spiritual paths were the ground from which they operated, from which they measured the value of their actions. I am doubting if any good and lasting change can be made in any other way. On this quest, I will protect myself with the fierceness of the rattlesnake, and I will shed my old skin that I may see what is with new eyes.

Things do not change. We change. ~ Henry David Thoreau

posted by Carol at 12:15 PM

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