Liquid Love and Human Evil
…Today, I sit with love, I hold love, for the children holding their grandparents’ hands, who know not what is happening. Who have no tools to process the bloodshed, so once again, trauma gets perpetuated down the ancestral line. I hold love for my Arab and Jewish friends, the mothers and fathers and healers, the sons and daughters and lovers and neighbors and friends. May God send you a tiny moment of strength, and love, and beauty, in spite of it all…
Just Fine in a Tsunami
“Don’t worry! I knew this was coming. It is exactly what is meant to happen. And we shall be just fine.”
Feeding in the Grey Zone
A year and half a million deaths (in my chosen home country) into this pandemic, seems like a good time for me to reflect.
Why I Dislike Walls, Part One
The prospect of yet another wall going up and mercilessly dividing a contiguous region by cutting through towns, communities, families, and friends who I deeply love and care about on both sides, and the reality already of innocent people being torn from their communities, rounded up, marked as different due to some human-made distinction expressed by a piece of paper, and shipped off to a place of no return, breaks my heart and forces me to speak up. The current hateful political discourse on building a wall and deporting “illegals” to “make America great again” touches me more deeply than any other political issue ever has in my entire adult life, and I have been around the block.
All we need is love… love… love…
I woke up on this first morning of the New Year a bit later than usual with John Lennon's song in my head, and it's been with me every since:
Love, love, love! Love, love, love! Love, love, love!
All you need is love! All you need is love!
All you need is love, love! Love is all you need!