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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

Monday, July 02, 2007

Oy

First it's W, now it's the rangers at Rocky Mountain National Park. Participants in the March 4 Peace walk across the U.S. were detained for wearing March 4 Peace signs on their shirts. IT'S A PARK!!! You should be able to wear what you want!

Oy! Oy! Oy!

I wasn't going to connect with the marchers, because their route doesn't come near me, but ya know what??? I just might travel on up now and support them for awhile.

Peace walkers stopped at Rocky Mountain park
By Kieran Nicholson
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 07/02/2007 05:28:08 PM MDT

Two young peace activists said they were stopped at an entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday and ordered to remove peace placards on their chests before entering the park.

Mike Israel, 18, and Ashley Casale, 19, are on a "March for Peace" from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.

The pair said they were stopped by a park ranger at a gate beyond Grand Lake and told they couldn't go inside the park wearing the placards, which read: "March 4 Peace."

"They stopped us and said our signs are too political," said Casale, a student a Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

The peace activists were detained for several hours, Casale said.

Eventually, the pair agreed not to wear the placards but wrote the same message on their T-shirts and continued their journey.

Park officials could not be reached for comment this morning.

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