Over oceans of ideas, cultures, countries raised hands rise to support, supplant the rulers whether democrats, dictators oligarchs they face each other for a time then time rolls on fading them into sepia images rattling history. They leave a thread of wounds and horror littering the globe with tears, mourning hands uplifted, pleading for justice, […]
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watercolor aceo 2018 ‘A warrior’s strength is measured by the size of her heart. She is respectfully humble. She will stand with honor. She will fight with love. In the face of adversity and for the ones she loves, she will be a voice and a…
“We carry the world in our hearts: the oppression of all peoples, the suffering of our friends, the burdens of our enemies, the raping of the Earth, the hunger of the starving, the joy of every laughing child.” —Sister Joan D. Chittister, O.S.B (b. 1936), Benedictine nun, author, and speaker As we wage peace in […]
once upon a chapter i was rubbing your parched lips with sand while date-trees shadowed your masochism. you kept asking for water with a raucous voice, and camels ignored us. you died in my arms then, smearing my cheek with your last breath and naming me Maya and i sieved my sand over you to […]
Sun-god sitting still on Mount Horeb amidst the stark clouds, sweeping towards the swept open space between trees and pawing at white and dark fleshy flesh. Sun-god your pale, smirky lemon face like the grapefruit in Ago-Iwoye Market scribbles dirt patches on my face and made my throat to swill water enough to fill up […]
The rest of the world sits in complete amazement that the US can’t come to grips with this problem. What regrets the forefathers must have. They were thinking muskets, not submachine guns. And they’d just come out of a revolution, not the general store. Luckily I know that those who comment here already know this.
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That’s all true, Peggy, and most people do recognize that. You’re right. However, changing things is not as simple as knowing the roots of the Second Amendment “right to bare arms.” That issue is not really what stands in the way of better gun control. Ninety percent of Americans want stricter gun-control laws and yet our legislators have chosen not to hear the voice of the people. The people are fighting the oligarics and the industry that manufactures guns, their army of lobbyists, the monied advocacy groups and the legislators who are in the pockets of industry and special interest groups. We are fighting the disassembling of our mental health system in the ’60s and problems with our education system and youth and adults who are disaffected, unhappy and without hope or employment for reasons too complicated to detail here. It is all much more complex and dirty than it might appear to be on the surface.
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Whoops! I meant to reply further and hit the “like” botton. LOL! … Actually, if you go to the Michael’s site and read his article in it’s entirety, you’ll see that he is severely castigating lawmakers for not respecting the will of the people.
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Jamie, your points are exactly right. We know this outside the USA, and we ache along with you and the government’s overall inability/unwillingness to fix the situation. Very dirty politics and industry indeed.
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Thank you, Peggy! xo
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NO to guns.
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OH, Jamie, the situation is so difficult.nwhat have we become as a culture? Or rather, what stops us collectively from facing our history and its aftermath? So very painful!
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Those are the essential questions. I wish – as so many of us do – that I had answers. Here’s what Sanders had to say. http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/sanders-reacts-to-ore-campus-shooting-536939587812
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