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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

 

Friday, December 30, 2005

Third Road Home

Tonight's entertainment is Third Road Home, a local duo that we saw a month or so ago for the first time. They are performing tonight at La Dolce Vita coffee shop in Arvada.

Trinity has a perfect voice and Tom's guitar sings like a bird . Here is my favorite song:

HUMAN RACE
© 2004 Trinity Demask

Play the lo-fi version (streaming)

Download the mp3 hi-fi version (3.4 meg)

Listen up my friends
Don't you know there's something wrong
We've been numbed, dumbed, disempowered
And silent for too long
Those who lead us have not earned our allegiance
They have only bought the right
We are marching, sheep to the slaughter
Going down without a fight

We've grown fat on the suffering of strangers
And rich with all they lack
The cars we drive, the food we eat
The very clothes upon our backs
What do we return or offer
To set the balance right?
Find the level ground in kindness and compassion
Not in ignorance, arrogance, or military might

If we could just see beyond the lies that we foolishly embrace
See beyond the subtleties of difference and become the human race
We are one human race

Complacency has numbed our senses
To a fog of apathy
Has our freedom earned us the right
To live without honor and die without dignity?
There is no heroism in this "patriotism"
It's just a game of "us" and "them"
Let's get the story straight, learn to cooperate
Find a way we all can win

There is no safety in the rules we write
Commandments never purged the sin
There is no shelter in the walls we build
They will only box us in
Wrists extended for the chains, handing over the reins
For the falsehood of security
It isn't hard to find the truth to which we've been blind
Fear is our only enemy
Fear is our only enemy

Even the brightest colors bleed, may they fade to a paler shade of peace
And help us see beyond our differences and become the human race
We are one human race
We are one human race

© 2001-2005 Excaligurl Records/Excaligurl Music

posted by Carol at 3:32 PM

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