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Saturday, February 10, 2007
Lessons On A Street Corner
"The world is not perfect!"
- Anonymous young man as he drove by our Women in Black, Standing in Silence for Peace signs
Today I stood at our Women in Black corner for the first time in three weeks. Two weeks ago, some of us were at the rally in Denver. Last week, I called the vigil off, because we had shivered in ice and frigid temps for so many weeks that I thought one more of those would push me over the edge.
But today's weather was almost, well, cool - up from frigid and that's good. Something about weekends in Colorado recently...
But it didn't snow, so no complaints.
Last Monday, I started teaching my first Communicating and Listening with Compassion class. I am using Marshall Rosenberg's model of Nonviolent Communication. What "they always say" is so true. We learn by teaching.
Thanks to Marshall's teachings, today, as I stood on our corner, I felt so much appreciation when people yelled or gestured with gusto. They were expressing themselves, beginning to connect with us and creating an opening for dialog. At least if someone tells us to get a F***ing job, I know they are paying attention and that they have some feelings about something. It would be easy to watch the people in most cars as they pass and think that our country has been taken over by robots.
And our supportive police officer passed by, showing her appreciation for what we were doing. Funny, she has thanked us before, and I am touched. But irony of ironies (are you reading this, nogo?) I'm pretty darn sure that she is the officer that testified against my friends when they were on trial for blocking the recruitment station. Guess it's all about approval of the method...
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Labels: Women in Black
posted by Carol at 3:57 PM
1 Comments:
Just read it...
"Irony is the fulcrum of the Cosmos"
...nogo postal
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