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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
4 Comments:
cool prints. :-)
I'd like to see the guy who made them!
...there's an old nursery rhyme in the UK, -in fact two versions.
The naughtier version goes:
"Mary had a little bear,
To him she was so kind
And everywhere that Mary went,
You saw her bear behind!"
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(I hope that's not too rude for your blog! ;) -It's one I've told my students from time to time and they seemed to like it!)
~Yan
(And yes, personally I love bears, most especially the Polar bears, who's habitat is now sadly threatened, ~ apparently due to us overheating the environment...)
:(
You grew up in a racier climate than I - I only knew the one about a little lamb!
re: the polar bears... How will our grandchildren be able to live here when the beauty is destroyed and things are all out of balance?
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