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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, June 01, 2006

The Weight, Part 2










I need to add another reason that it is hard to be a human in this world right now:

The simplistic, black and white, hateful way of "thinking" of some outspoken people. I just read about the billboards that have popped up at 21st and California and 6th and I-25 in Denver. You can see them in New Mexico, too. I found info them on the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform site, but I don't have the inclination to post a link on this blog.

It is simplistic to make a blanket statement that "they didn't die for open borders". I have not read that this was our reason to go to Viet Nam or Iraq or WWII or... And who can speak for someone else and their reason to join the military? I'd rather see an honest billboard that says something like, "I don't want any people with dark skin to come to my country - you know, the country that used to be inhabited by people with dark skin before we moved them and/or slaughtered them."

But this issue is way to complex to put in one slogan on a billboard. We need to look at who we are as a country, what we value, how our economic policies have affected the people of other countries. We need dialogue and compassion. Due to the list in my previous post, some of us just may be looking for a country to take us in someday. Oh yeah, we're Americans. Move over everyone else!

posted by Carol at 12:16 PM

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