A SLEEP OF PRISONERS
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes,
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us till we take
The longest stride of soul we ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise
Is exploration into God.
Where are you making for? It takes
So many thousand years to wake,
But will you wake for pity’s sake!
~Christopher Fry
It may be more important to know your enemies than your friends. But above all… know your bullies.
Another unlikely voice singing Earth’s Song…
Russell Brand takes on Rupert Murdoch:
Another place singing Earth’s Song that makes sure the credit goes where it’s due:
This is the fourth year that Voices has compiled a new edition of Words and Violence
The emphasis in this edition is on Mother Earth, and how resilient she has been in the wake of our endless “bullying.” We’ve all heard stories of climate change, deforestation, global warming, pollution, and the misuse of our natural resources. This new edition helps concretize the planet’s reality, and offers hope for a new beginning, providing ways to take our concern and move us to action.
Poet and author of
Harlem Renaissance Encyclopedia, Aberjhani, contrasts the philosophy of shared community with guerilla decontextualization—the insidious and deliberate art of manipulation in order to discredit and nullify, in
Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives.
We enter a day-long healing chamber where we begin
Awakening the Dreamer, a process of waking from the modern trance, healing the grief, and creating an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just world.
Artist and storyteller Carol Hiltner, who works with the Altai of Siberia guides us on a journey with those who have been pushed aside in favor of modern progress and with Maia Rose, we learn their story from the inside out in
Mother Earth Cannot Be Bullied.
Thanks to Rupert Murdoch, there is something you casually do every week and more often, that graphically demonstrates bullying to your children– from the time they are toddlers until they become adults. You personally escort them through a gauntlet of bullying that illustrates, in living color, precisely how to brutally bully someone, humiliate them, dehumanize them, and sometimes even dismember them publicly– for sport and entertainment. This demonstrates to your children how to take this bullying public by publishing it to a wide audience. And you do this a minimum of 500 times before they graduate from school. Your silence gives them permission. You may then wonder, “where do these kids get these ideas?” And when the principal calls to tell you that your child has been involved in an incident of bullying– and not as the victim– you may be shocked and asking yourself how in the world your child learned to be so mean. How? You taught them how and your silence was permission. You exposed your child freely and willingly to this toxic environment and you never once complained. Did you
Teach Your Children Well ?
In this edition, educator, author and admitted tree-hugger Kate Trnka takes us on a fanciful journey with her students as they explore the magic that awaits them in the forest as they communicate with trees and get to know them intimately in
If These Trees Could Talk, Park I
The Charter for Compassion has invited me to the Compassion Week Conference in San Francisco next month. I have written a book of what is included in the Words and Violence Project. Will you help me print it so that we can distribute some copies?
“Words and Violence” is dedicated to Michael and Lady Diana– the two more prolific humanitarians this world has ever seen– both of whom were bullied on a global scaled. And it could be argued– bullied to death.
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