December 5, 2005

• MONDAY READING

  Wage peace with your breath.
  Breath in the firemen and rubble,
  breathe out whole buildings
  and flocks of redwing blackbirds.
  Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children
  and freshly mown fields.
  Breathe in the confusion and breathe out maple trees.
  Breathe in the fallen
  and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.
  Wage peace with your listening:
  hearing sirens, pray loud.
  Remember your tools:
  flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.
  Make soup.
  Play music, learn the word for thank you in three languages.
  learn to knit, and make a hat.
  Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
  imagine grief as the outbreath of beauty
  or the gesture of fish.
  Swim for the other side.
  Wage peace.
  Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious.
  Have a cup of tea and rejoice.
  Act as if armistice has already arrived.
  Don’t wait another minute

  (by Judyth Hill)
  

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  Deep Thought: “Let’s be honest: isn’t a lot of what we call tap-dancing really just nerves?“
  Today I am grateful for: Being in Recovery for exactly 21 years
  Guess the Movie: “My guess might be excellent or it might be crummy, but Mrs. Spade didn’t raise any children dippy enough to make guesses in front of a district attorney, and an assistant district attorney, and a stenographer.” Answer: The Maltese Falcon, 1941. Winner: tikhead.
  Arab World Remains Hostile, Fearful Toward US
  by Jim Lobe
  WASHINGTON- While the past 15 months have brought a slight decline in anti-U.S. sentiment, public opinion in the Arab world about Washington’s policies and intentions in the Middle East remains overwhelmingly negative and deeply sceptical, according to a major new survey released here Friday. (Rest of article here.)

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