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Carolyn Lockwood-Pitkin: by our love for one another.
Submitted by Howard2 on Thursday, November 4, 2004 - 03:50
Hello, Yes, we have lost our ingenious system of checks and balances. We have failed our forefathers. They this time would come when the giants would arise and beat their chests and cause the earth and people everywhere to cry out in desolation and fear. We are the ones who have the ears to hear their cries and who cry within our own beings at the desolations going on now and the desolations to come. There is no use for us to be fodder for their tortures and their prisons. This is the time to dance and to sing, to write poetry and music and to draw and to paint and to sculpt -- to the glory of life on earth. The one thing I noticed during the campaign about the Pugs is their joylessness. They never sing. They never dance. They never praise God for the beauty and the bounty of our earth. This we can do. this we must do. this we need to do. This is our time to surrender every thought, to turn inward to the place where life or creativity reside and release into the world -- set free -- manifest -- the "voice" whatever it may be in each one of us --that speaks to us from within. The grass can never be stopped from growing. No matter how many times it is trodden down or cut it never throws up its hands crying, "What's the use!" We must laugh. We must dance. we must sing. We must bring joy into the lives of our children. Joy and love of our beautiful earth, of one another -- This is peace. To live like that is peace. Peace is not absence or inactivity. Peace is alive and ready to live, to enter the world through us. I am not talking "Pollyanna" here. I am not talking about pretending everything is as it was before. It is manifestly not. This is the time when new songs are going to be written and to be sung -- songs that address the times we live in and lift us up. What I am talking about here is this: the current situation in the world today is that we must raise our own consciousness. Then and only when we have raised our own consciousnesses can we reach out to others all across the world, all those in other nations who had hoped for us in this election, who had prayed for us, who had counted on us. We are still here. We need only to change our course a little. We no longer will have the public forum that our candidates could bring to us. We have long since lost the media. But we still have the newspapers. We can still write letters to the editor. We have Air America Radio. We need more liberal networks. We need liberal TV. I sense that we have Dan Rather -- CBS. His was the only channel and I count OUT PBS. I watched Lehrer and Margaret Warner and Brooks giddy with glee and filled with their inside jokes at our expense, the expense of our just cause, on election night. Mark Shields has become a ghost. He needs reviving. It's a time to sing and write poetry and paint and draw and compose music and tell our great story of our love of our earth and of life to the world. We can raise our own consciousnesses that way and through ourselves the consciousness of the human race. It has been said that the dogs are becoming human and people are becoming wolves. I'm not talking about opting out of our cause this way. I'm looking for a way that speaks to everyone, a way that is rising within me. I'm talking about Living this new way, every day. I'm talking about not taking those who are bent upon destroying us directly, not even with reasoning with them. That time is past. I'm talking about returning to the earth, singing How Beautiful for Spacious Skies at the site where they are bulldozing our national parks, at the factories where they are spewing out their noxious fumes. It was Jesus who said that he will know us -- that we will be known for -- by our love for one another. Carolyn Carolyn Lockwood-Pitkin Vermont
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