[Austin-ghetto-list] Sticking with my lowbrow art
EarthAnjel@aol.com
EarthAnjel@aol.com
Sun, 23 Sep 2001 09:57:29 EDT
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Dear Jaxon,
I am most heartily sorry if my recent posting made you feel unwelcome or
disliked. My posting probably was a kneejerk reaction, but my intention was
not to injure your feelings or dishonor you in any way. It is just that I am
afraid right now and endeavoring to hold fast, with shaky knees, to the
Highest Place within me. I am afraid of what can happen if people rush
toward hate and condemnation and perhaps injure innocent people or add fire
to the flames of fear and accusation that are already burning brightly now.
In the tiny, rural, South Louisiana village near where I live, some people
are ostracizing a gas station and convenience store which has recently been
purchased by some Muslims. It seems wrong to me to judge someone like that
before we know them. I think I would rather give up a level of security
before I exclude people on that basis. I am not "religious", really. I do
not belong to a church. My church is really everywhere and, especially, out
in nature. I also validate Telebob's point of view, although it feels
totally out of my realm, that it is necessary to respond to what happened on
September 11th -- that it is necessary to defend against attacks like this.
I am so grateful to the people who can do that. I am just hoping that while
they do, they look at the big picture, including ourselves as a nation, and
that we try to do whatever we need to do from the perspective that we are a
global community. I sent to all of you recently an essay written by Jim
Garrison, President of the State of the World Forum, in which he described an
interesting facet of this situation where George W. Bush, a unilateralist
since his oath of office, is engaged in a fight with Osama bin Laden, the
ultimate unilateralist, who was created from the alliances of George Bush,
Sr. And how George W. is now required to be the penultimate multilateralist
in order to successfully combat bin Laden. I hope something Good can come
out of this tragedy. I don't have the answers. I am writing this in a hurry
because the Grandmothers' Circle to which I belong is giving my two young
granddaughters a coming of age ceremony -- a First Moontime Ceremony -- this
afternoon, and preparations remain to be done. It feels strange to be doing
this -- honoring the life-creating changes occurring in their young bodies
-- when I am quivering inside, while the war drums are beating, the sabers
rattling. Everything seems strange and surreal. I appreciate and honor the
men and women who are going to fight for and defend us. My own 18 year-old
grandson may soon be one of them, and others to come, if this war goes on
very long. What is wrong? What is right? I have so many questions and so
few answers. I do feel safe within our group, though, to pour out the
anguish and confusion in my heart as I am doing right now. And I want Jaxon
and everyone else to feel that way, too.
So I am writing this email to apologize to Jaxon and any others I may have
unintentionally offended by my kneejerk posting.
Love,
Carol
I honor your gods.
I drink from your well.
I bring an unprotected heart to our meeting place.
I hold no cherished outcome.
I will not negotiate by withholding.
I am not subject to disappointment.
-Druid vow of friendship
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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Dear Jaxon,
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<BR>I am most heartily sorry if my recent posting made you feel unwelcome or disliked. My posting probably was a kneejerk reaction, but my intention was not to injure your feelings or dishonor you in any way. It is just that I am afraid right now and endeavoring to hold fast, with shaky knees, to the Highest Place within me. I am afraid of what can happen if people rush toward hate and condemnation and perhaps injure innocent people or add fire to the flames of fear and accusation that are already burning brightly now. In the tiny, rural, South Louisiana village near where I live, some people are ostracizing a gas station and convenience store which has recently been purchased by some Muslims. It seems wrong to me to judge someone like that before we know them. I think I would rather give up a level of security before I exclude people on that basis. I am not "religious", really. I do not belong to a church. My church is really everywhere and, especially, out in nature. I also validate Telebob's point of view, although it feels totally out of my realm, that it is necessary to respond to what happened on September 11th -- that it is necessary to defend against attacks like this. I am so grateful to the people who can do that. I am just hoping that while they do, they look at the big picture, including ourselves as a nation, and that we try to do whatever we need to do from the perspective that we are a global community. I sent to all of you recently an essay written by Jim Garrison, President of the State of the World Forum, in which he described an interesting facet of this situation where George W. Bush, a unilateralist since his oath of office, is engaged in a fight with Osama bin Laden, the ultimate unilateralist, who was created from the alliances of George Bush, Sr. And how George W. is now required to be the penultimate multilateralist in order to successfully combat bin Laden. I hope something Good can come out of this tragedy. I don't have the answers. I am writing this in a hurry because the Grandmothers' Circle to which I belong is giving my two young granddaughters a coming of age ceremony -- a First Moontime Ceremony -- this afternoon, and preparations remain to be done. It feels strange to be doing this -- honoring the life-creating changes occurring in their young bodies -- when I am quivering inside, while the war drums are beating, the sabers rattling. Everything seems strange and surreal. I appreciate and honor the men and women who are going to fight for and defend us. My own 18 year-old grandson may soon be one of them, and others to come, if this war goes on very long. What is wrong? What is right? I have so many questions and so few answers. I do feel safe within our group, though, to pour out the anguish and confusion in my heart as I am doing right now. And I want Jaxon and everyone else to feel that way, too.
<BR>
<BR>So I am writing this email to apologize to Jaxon and any others I may have unintentionally offended by my kneejerk posting.
<BR>
<BR>Love,
<BR>Carol
<BR>
<BR>I honor your gods.
<BR>I drink from your well.
<BR>I bring an unprotected heart to our meeting place.
<BR>I hold no cherished outcome.
<BR>I will not negotiate by withholding.
<BR>I am not subject to disappointment.
<BR> -Druid vow of friendship</FONT></HTML>
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