Finding a new use for Chap-stick
Thanks Raven for these photos of the Central Park war protest that I mentioned yesterday. These make me shiver!! I could get naked for peace fairly easily on a warm sunny hillside; this takes so much more determination.....but also makes the statement stronger. No one can doubt that these women believe in what they are saying down to their shivering core!
Must work for peace
“We can no longer afford to confuse peaceability with passivity. Authentic peace is no more passive than war. Like war, it calls for discipline and intelligence and strength of character, though it calls also for higher principles and aims. If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we now prepare for war.”
----From A
Citizen’s Response to the National Security Strategy of the United States of America, by Wendell Berry, published in Orion magazine.
Thanks Mark of :::wood s lot::: for pointing me to this!
You are the author
Moxie has started a
story for all of us to finish. It is taking some interesting turns, go add yours!
I’ll miss the berries!
When I arrived home tonight after work I found my mulberry tree uprooted and blocking my backdoor! Granted, the tree was very old; mulberries are typically bushes not trees, but it was still very much alive and had in fact started to form buds for the approaching spring. There also wasn’t any wind today to speak of.....very strange. In falling, it had ‘picked’ the one spot that damaged nothing...narrowly missing the house, a gazing ball that was
12" from its trunk and a four foot potted Norfolk that was sitting under it. Although it took a saw to be able to get access to my backdoor, I still can’t believe my luck. And it has given me firewood for next winter! In a few months, I am going to plant another mulberry in that spot. I love the spring berries (mulberry shortcake, mulberry pie, mulberry jelly!) and I will really miss them this year.
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