What will be
I’ve spent the last few days processing the emotions I felt when I heard on NPR Friday morning that Al Gore (and friends) won the Nobel Peace Prize. I think my feelings have been bubbling under the surface of my consciousness ever since I saw An Inconvenient Truth.
I’ve had a very hard time with the friction between the faith I am trying very hard to live and the emotional turmoil that I and many others have experienced as a result of the political choices our federal government has made since December 12, 2000 (when the SCOTUS issued Bush v. Gore). I want to have faith that the universe knows what it’s doing and that everything will be as it is supposed to be, but I also see thousands dead, tens of thousands injured, rollbacks of civil liberties and civil rights, and politicians more concerned with power than with people.
And all of a sudden in that 15 second headline before they cut to haranguing me about donating money to public radio, my dilemma unraveled. Faith won. (more…)
fanny pax and the ethic of service
as i was standing in the station, waiting for my train to come back to the house, i noticed a flash. a run-of-the-mill DC tourist: i heart DC t-shirt, check. digital camera, check. bag with smithsonian logo containing something overpriced, check. fanny pack, check.
it was this digital camera that caused the flash that made me notice her. it’s the height of tourist season in DC. the school children have finished their state tests, so the schools have to figure out how to make sure they don’t tear down the walls for the month-and-a-half of not-much-to-do until they’ve done their 180 days. so, they come to DC wearing matching t-shirts. they sort of fade into the background.
but this one, i noticed. (more…)
henry ford and the demise of the community of compassion.
henry ford is responsible for the reddening of the US map. that damned assembly line gave us cars, televisions and bubble-wrapped lives.
people are friendlier in DC than they are in Atlanta. not because of the quality of their friendliness, but because of sheer quantity. (more…)
