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May 14, 2004
hello, world
hello, world
Posted by zeynep at May 14, 2004 04:37 AM
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Thank you for your new blog! I hope to hear more
of your life story as it has influenced you to
being who you are and who you are becoming.
I believe it would help me to become a little bit
more of who I may yet become - age 81.
The URL space puzzles me with my limited knowhow
in computers. Haven't run into the "remember me"
at other sites.
Sharing a poem I wrote some years ago:
Freedom is a seamless robe,
For none is free
If some are bound.
The jailer's jailed
As well as he behind the bars.
The man who stands upon
His brother's throat
Courts creeping numbness
From his sole to soul.
For brother's sake,
And yet my own,
I must strike out
At shackles of all sort.
For sister's sake,
And yet my own,
I must mother freedom's
Frail fetus,
Lest it yet abort.
written: April 4, 1974
(unaware while writing it
that it was the anniversary
of Martin Luther King's
assassination. Being
Maundy Thursday, I
began thinking of Christ's
seamless robe, and then
moving to the thought of
freedom as a seamless robe.)
Reid L. Seastrand
Redmond,Oregon
Posted by: Reid Seastrand at May 18, 2004 03:41 PM
Beautiful writing and an important , if depressing aspect of dealing with warriors. I find that I have no patience for racists or sexists but I bend over backwards for veterans. I guess I feel that some of my pacifism must come from priviledge...including never having to take orders...risking imprisonment for diobeying them. We allow these monsters to run our country and the poor are always on the front lines...sometimes, at least, because they are trying desperately to be accepted in a country they see lived all around them...from which they find themselves excluded. Then there's certainly enough reinforcement for any violence they are forced to participate in.
Thanks for your work.
Posted by: Edmund at May 18, 2004 05:23 PM