Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Could get a...
[white paper #28]
by Martha Collins
by Martha Collins
could get a credit card loan car
come and go without a never had
to think about a school work job
to open doors to buy a rent a nice
place yard park beside a walk
in any store without a never had
to dress to buy a dress shoes under-
wear to understate or –play myself
to make myself heard to get across
a street a never mind point I never
had to earn the right to climb
my own if I should lose my key or
all I own my open door world was all
before me where to choose to and I
[LINK: Martha Collins at Poets.org ]
Monday, March 21, 2011
Because, peace, peace is implicit in women.
"And I wondered, what message do you have for us Gen X’rs?”
“Ah yes, crossroads." Nodding briskly. "Well, in the West, you have education, and this is good. And you have technology. And this is good. But, you do not educate your people in values. Values of the heart. Compassion. This you must do."
"And you see, it does not matter whether you are Buddhist or Christian." he went on. "Compassion lives in heart, beyond religion. Even me, Buddhist, I can say, you do not need Buddhism, just the compassion of the heart." Call me cynical, but I just can't see The Pope being so flexible.
"Women know this," he went on. "Because, peace, peace is implicit in women. You put boys together, they make war. You put women together, they make peace. Women are the leaders of the future." He spoke of Jimmy Carter as a leader with feminine-based principles, and Benazir Bhutto as a "very aggressive woman, but good leader...very good leader." And he laughed. And laughed.
[ LINK: Whitehot Truth <= the Dalai Lama looked me in the eye and said... ]
Our true and full self
Our true and full self
"What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are . . . because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing."
Frederick Buechner
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When the radical preacher come to get me released...
Daniel Ellsberg, Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, David Swanson, Medea Benjamin, Mike Malloy and over a hundred others were arrested in front of the White House today to protest President Obama’s torture of Bradley Manning.
Picture: twolf1/Firedoglake
Sunday, March 20, 2011
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