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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

 

Monday, October 24, 2005

Yeah, That's Me!

So my wonderful friend, Leila - who now lives in Oklahoma :-( - asks if that is me on the right near the end in the photo below. I am the one at the very end of the banner - so the second woman from the right in the photo. Three of us started a Women in Black vigil after we traveled to Camp Casey in Crawford, TX in August. We KNEW (because we witnessed it) that there is a major peace movement that is alive and well in the U.S., and we were energized to be contributors to the growth of it. Our Women in Black vigil at the Colorado Mills shopping mall on Saturdays from 12:30 to 1:30 is one of our contributions to the movement - waking up suburban America and giving voice (in silence) to people who know that killing is not the way to end killing in our world.

Back to Leila

Leila is an American Muslim. Not only is she brilliant, but she is a bridge builder. She has done so much to educate me on Islam! To be in the presence of a well-read American who CHOSE to become Muslim and sees Islam from that perspective is such a gift! Think about someone who was raised Christian and has remained Christian all of their lives. They have no experience of seeing Christianity from the outside. Leila brings an objectivity to Islam because she has studied it and chosen it as an adult. Non-Muslim Americans have such a bias against Islam, and it only shows our ignorance. Please visit Leila's Sister Scorpion blog to learn more about her. We need more people to educate us on different religions and ways of life, so that we don't get so pious and think that we are the "chosen ones".

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he [she] allow only one way to serve him [her]? ~Martin Buber

posted by Carol at 7:47 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger Leila M. said...

hey, thanks! freww I got me a plug!

4:05 PM  

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