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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, June 17, 2006

If All Goes Well

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If all goes well
The police
out of total boredom
will go home

Borders will disappear
Even the toy factories
will stop making arms

If all goes well
there will be no Premier
President
Savior of Democracy
King
Emperor
Tyrant

If all goes well
they will stop
trying to convince us
with lies.

If all goes well
Ayatollahs
Great Lamas
Popes
will allow God
to once more be human
dolphin
extraterrestrial
cedar and seagull
herb and star
sea
mountain
insect
dog
and cat.

If all goes well
If all goes well
as long as the nova's hour
doesn't come
or the black hole
doesn't absorb our dreams
we will take our children's hands
so they may feel
protected and our gentleness.
We will share our games
We will surrender our kisses
I will laugh
I will sing
I will complain of work's hassles
I'll count my gray hairs
and until the very end
I will delight
in the adventure
of the sensation
of emotion
and thought.

If all goes well
If all goes well

If all goes well.

- Juan Antillon Montealegre, translated by Joseph Richey. From Prayers for a Thousand Years, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, my teachers. I love you guys! Thanks to Janet for lending me her YES magazine (great zine - check it out) where I found this poem again.


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