Tag: History and Justice

The Courage of Our Convictions

History and Justice

America and Americans are riding a rising wave, a tsunami caused by tyrants in our body politic. The winds of ill will call us to ride the powerful wave to its resolution in the renewal of this Republic in its 250th year.

Truth bubbles up whenever forces seek to push it down, down from our sight and the light of facts. Our founder reminds us, “Facts are stubborn things.”[1]

Therefore, we take the courage of our convictions and we go out. Out we go to the streets with friends; we pick up a pen, and we write from experience and the assurance of our laws; we write from our shared wisdom; we text and email our Representatives, and we stand above the fray and call upon our fellow Americans to stop the madness:

  • A powerful Executive is not synonymous with abuse of power;
  • The powerful and lasting alliances through NATO and the United Nations have kept the world from worldwide war for 80 years; wholesale destruction of those alliances imperil American lives and those of our allies for coming generations;
  • Hatred of immigrants affronts the entire history of this Republic which has stood as a refuge for the repressed and made up our population over its entire history; no nation and its people are “garbage”;
  • Oil is a bygone energy source; nations around the world are converting to clean, renewable, cheap energy and should the tyrant stay in office, America will decline.
  • No intelligent leadership declares climate change a hoax.
  • The current president is not fit for office:  mental and physical incapacity; vicious, revengeful and dangerous to our Republic, citizens and nations worldwide.
  • The cabal of unqualified ideologues who surround the president are re-writing American history in their image and imaginations. Hundreds of years and millions of citizens’ labor to faithfully and accurately record our history and culture is being defaced, altered or all together destroyed.
  • Declaration of the United States of America as a Christian country defies the Constitution’s basic tenet of separation of church and state. We honor citizens’ personal choice of faith including the right to choose none.

History and Justice are watching, and they are recording on their stone tablets the ugly record of your assaults against humanity, your sloppy footprints on the Capitol. If it is Sorcery that abides now, watch out for falling catapults and hurling marble thrown by the straight aim of monuments surrounding your little stick and mud manifestations.

Now we see you, then, we don’t.

History and Justice are watching.

[1] John Adams

The Path of Plentitude

For a new beginning. In out of the way places of the heart, where your thoughts never think to wonder, this beginning has been quietly forming, waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched your desire, feeling the emptiness growing inside you. Noticing how you willed yourself on, still unable to leave what you had outgrown. It watched you play with the seduction of safety and the gray promises that sameness whispered, heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent, wondered would you always live like this. Then the delight when your courage kindled and out you stepped onto new ground your eyes young again with energy and dream. A path of plentitude opening before you. Though your destination is not yet clear, you can trust the promise of this opening, unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning that is at one with your life’s desire. Awaken your spirit to adventure, holding nothing back. Learn to find ease in risk, soon you will be home in a new rhythm, for your soul senses the world that awaits you. ~ John O’Donohue, The Space Between Us

Dear Readers,

On my walk this morning, I chose to listen again to readings from John O’Donohue’s great works of poetry, spirit and landscape. John’s deep faith and philosophy emanate from his first experiences as a child growing up in Western Ireland in the landscape of the Burren.

Readers who have followed my blog over the years know that I, too, take my inspiration from the enduring spirit imbued withing each distinct landscape. For me that has always been the limestone region of East Tennessee and particularly along the Watauga River where my grandparent’s home was my spiritual center. I grew up in a military family, moving as frequently as once a year. But, every year possible, my parents brought my sisters and me back to the “Hilltop Farm” for summers or Christmas celebrations. Like John, this landscape form the warp and weft of me.

What brought me to remember John’s blessing quoted above, is the reminder that the path of plentitude is within us. We only have to awaken our imagination to it.

In this time in America …

The power of the people in a democracy lies within each citizen, each person living on this sacred landscape. We must return to our deepest convictions that a free people must act together in eternal vigilance against an evil that hates liberty, wishes to slash and burn the spirit that we hold as an educated and free people whose combined efforts and guardianship has made this nation great, not perfect, but striving always toward the values it holds as our sacred trust.

History and Justice