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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

 

Saturday, March 25, 2006

More on Camp Casey on the Quad

Radical Quaker Activist Grrl of the Rockies posts photos and her experience with Camp Casey on the Quad here in Denver at Regis University. Thank you to Elle and the others for bringing to our attention the casualties of this war - one more time. Guess it has to be done until we reach a critical mass of people who aren't going to take it anymore.

I met Elle working with a group to do counter recruitment education at Auraria Campus. I mostly collected photographs of wounded and dead U.S. soldier and Iraqi civilians for the display. Doing that work put me in a depression for a few days.

posted by Carol at 10:56 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger tigger grrl said...

thank you so much for posting about Camp Casey on the Quad! I heard that you had stopped by campus (the morning after we had to dismantle our tents). I'm sorry that I missed you. if it's okay, I'd like to put a link to your blog from mine -- we peaceworkers need to keep up with each other!

peace,
namaste,
habibi,
~~elle~~

12:45 AM  
Blogger Carol said...

Thank YOU for what you are doing! On one hand, I think, "wow! making 2,309 crosses and planting them is a lot of work!", then I think "Oh my God! Killing that many people (thank you, W) and wounding thousands and thousands more is a lot of karma - and a lot suffering for many more thousands.

8:42 AM  

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