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5. For reasons to vote for Marianne Williamson instead of “uncommitted” so as to voice your objection to President Biden’s Israel/Gaza stance, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-super-tuesday-dont-be-uncommitted.html>click here</a> and <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/super-tuesday.html>here</a>.<br>
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7. And here is Marianne’s take:<br>
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9. <blockquote>A vote for me means that you align with the <a href=https://marianne2024.com/issues>issues</a> [my <a href=https://marianne2024.com>campaign</a>] talks about. And with every vote there is a greater possibility of [. . .] influencing the agenda at the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Democratic_National_Convention>Democratic convention</a>.<br>
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11. [Some may be] wondering, “Do I vote 'uncommitted’ or do I vote for Marianne Williamson?” A vote for “uncommitted” still gives those delegates to Joe Biden. If you give the delegates to me, then what you’re doing is giving delegates to a woman who can call-up <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu>Bibi Netanyahu</a> and say, “No more!”</blockquote><br>
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13. It’s important to remember that the sending of “uncommitted” delegates to the convention is dependent on state and party thresholds. In other words, the party still gets to call the shots when it comes to the impact of any kind of write-in campaign.<br>
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15. More significantly, it’s been <a href=https://www.notus.org/biden-2024/uncommitted-delegate-biden-super-tuesday>reported</a> that a DNC spokesperson has said that “any 'uncommitted’ delegate that does get sent to the convention must vote for a candidate that is eligible for the nomination otherwise their vote will count as 'present’.”<br>
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17. In short, an “uncommitted” vote is a vote taken from the sole potentially-eligible <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-super-tuesday-dont-be-uncommitted.html>“cease fire” candidate</a>, Marianne Williamson.<br>
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20. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
21. <a href=https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/2024-election/marianne-williamson-2024-election>Marianne Williamson: “The System is Bleeding Voters”</a> – Urja Sinha (<i>NewsNation</i>, May 19, 2024).<br>
22. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24lZrEf28l0>Marianne Williamson: “The Presidential Debate on June 27th Should Include More Than Trump and Biden” – <i>YouTube</i> (May 16, 2024)
23. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/love-democracy-and-gangster-politics>Love, Democracy, and Gangster Politics</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, May 5, 2024).<br>
24. <a href=https://www.hercampus.com/culture/marianne-williamson-gen-z-2024-election-exclusive>Marianne Williamson on Why She’s Fighting for Gen Z in This Election</a> – Julia Merola (<i>Her Campus</i>, May 3, 2024).<br>
25. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/one-season-passes-and-another-begins>One Season Passes and Another Begins</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, April 11, 2024).<br>
26. <a href=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marianne-williamson-democratic-presidential-bid-campaign-isnt-winning/story?id=108316131>Marianne Williamson, Still in Democratic Presidential Bid, Says Campaign Isn’t About Winning: “There’s More Than the Horse Race”</a> – Isabella Murray (<i>ABC News</i>, March 29, 2024).<br>
27. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/why-i-keep-going>Why I Keep Going</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 16, 2024).<br>
28. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/in-hopes-of-a-future-harvest>In Hopes of a Future Harvest</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 13, 2024).<br>
29. <a href=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-cease-fire-activists-use-marianne-williamson-primary-vessel-rcna143831>How Marianne Williamson’s Name Became the Placeholder for “Uncommitted” Protesters in Arizona</a> – Alex Tabet (<i>NBC News</i>, March 19, 2024).<br>
30. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/primary-purpose-and-power>Primary Purpose and Power</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 12, 2024).<br>
31. <a href=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marianne-williamson-surprises-coming-second-multiple-states-leapfrogging-dean-phillips>Marianne Williamson Surprises by Coming In Second in Multiple States, Leapfrogging Dean Phillips</a> – Timothy H.J. Nerozzi (<i>Fox News</i>, March 6, 2024).<br>
32. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/i-remain-in-the-race>I Remain in the Race</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 6, 2024).<br>
33. <a href=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marianne-williamson-returns-presidential-race-saying-biden-vulnerable-trump>Marianne Williamson Returns to Presidential Race, Saying Biden Is Vulnerable Against Trump</a> – Anders Hagstrom (<i>Fox News</i>, February 28, 2024).<br>
34. <a href=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/20/biden-economy-campaign-message-better>Biden and Other Centrist Democrats Keep Bragging About the Economy. But Here’s the Problem</a> – Perry Bacon Jr. (<i>The Washington Post</i>, February 20, 2024).<br>
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38. <center><b>See also:</b> <a href=https://marianne2024.com>Marianne 2024 Official Site</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/meet-marianne>About</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/issues>Issues</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/latest-news>News</a> | <a href=https://events.marianne2024.com>Events</a> | <a href=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/marwilliamson2024>Donate</a></center>
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41. <b>For <i>The Wild Reed</i>’s coverage of Marianne Williamson’s 2024 presidential campaign, see the following chronologically-ordered posts:</b><br>
42. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/marianne-2024.html>Marianne 2024</a><br>
43. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/marianne-williamson-launches-2024.html>Marianne Williamson Launches 2024 Presidential Campaign</a><br>
44. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/progressive-perspectives-on-marianne.html>Progressive Perspectives on Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Run</a><br>
45. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/more-progressive-perspectives-on.html>More Progressive Perspectives on Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Run</a><br>
46. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/quote-of-day_0894107181.html>Ben Burgis: Quote of the Day – March 10, 2023</a><br>
47. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/despite-undemocratic-antics-of-dnc.html>Despite the Undemocratic Antics of the DNC, Marianne Williamson Plans on “Winning the Nomination”</a><br>
48. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-biblical-roots-of-from-each.html>The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”</a><br>
49. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/marianne-williamson-on-next-revolution.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton</i> – 05/30/23</a><br>
50. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/marianne-williamsons-economic-bill-of.html>Marianne Williamson’s Economic Bill of Rights</a><br>
51. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/three-progressive-voices-on-war-in.html>Three Progressive Voices on the War in Ukraine</a><br>
52. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/quote-of-day_27.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 27, 2023</a><br>
53. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/marianne-williamson-on-issue-is-with.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>The Issue Is</i> with Elex Michaelson – 07/20/23</a><br>
54. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/voters-not-dnc-should-choose-nominee.html>Voters, Not the DNC, Should Choose the Nominee</a><br>
55. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/marianne-williamson-in-new-hampshire.html>Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire</a><br>
56. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-repairing-our.html>Marianne Williamson: “Repairing Our Hearts Is Essential to Repairing Our Country”</a><br>
57. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-on-trumps-day-in.html>Marianne Williamson on Trump’s Day in Court</a><br>
58. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-on-news-nation.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>NewsNation</i> – 08/25/23</a><br>
59. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/09/presidential-candidate-marianne.html>Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson Joins NYC’s March to End Fossil Fuels</a><br>
60. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamson-on-your-world-10623.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>Your World</i> – 10/6/23</a><br>
61. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamsons-radical-idea.html>Marianne Williamson’s “Radical Idea” of Putting People First</a><br>
62. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamson-we-need-to-disrupt.html>Marianne Williamson: “We Need to Disrupt the Corrupt”</a><br>
63. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/we-are-surging.html>“We Are Surging”</a><br>
64. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/let-people-decide-marianne-williamson.html>“Let the People Decide”: Marianne Williamson on the DNC’s Efforts to Deny and Suppress the Democratic Process</a><br>
65. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/live-democratic-presidential-debate.html>Democratic Presidential Debate: Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips – 1/8/24</a><br>
66. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-democrats-challenging-biden.html>The Democrats Challenging Biden</a><br>
67. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/bannering-for-marianne.html>Bannering for Marianne</a><br>
68. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in.html>Campaigning for Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire – Day 1</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_21.html>2</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_23.html>3</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_2.html>4</a><br>
69. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/marianne-williamson-i-have-decided-to.html>Marianne Williamson: “I Have Decided to Continue”</a><br>
70. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/marianne-williamson-in-nevada-2424.html>Marianne Williamson in Nevada – 2/4/24</a><br>
71. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/forever-grateful.html>Forever Grateful</a><br>
72. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-marianne-williamson-learned-from.html>What Marianne Williamson Learned from Running for President</a><br>
73. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/marianne-williamson-playing-it-big.html>Marianne Williamson: Playing It Big</a><br>
74. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/minnesotans-launch-super-tuesday-push.html>Minnesotans Launch Super Tuesday Push for “Suspended But Not Ended” Candidate Marianne Williamson</a><br>
75. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-welcome-return.html>A Welcome Return</a><br>
76. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-super-tuesday-dont-be-uncommitted.html>This Super Tuesday, Don’t Be “Uncommitted” . . .</a><br>
77. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/super-tuesday.html>Super Tuesday in Minnesota</a><br>
78. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/marianne-williamson-cassandra-of-us.html>Marianne Williamson, the Cassandra of U.S. Politics, on the “True State of the Union”</a><br>
79. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/marianne-williamson-in-arizona-31724.html>Marianne Williamson in Arizona – 3/17/24</a><br>
80. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-is-moment.html>“This Is the Moment”</a><br>
81. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/marianne-williamson-on-washington.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>Washington Journal</i> (4/2/24) and <i>The Letterhack</i> (4/4/24)</a><br>
82. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/for-marianne-williamson-one-season.html>For Marianne Williamson, One Season Passes and Another Begins</a><br>
83. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/cylvia-hayes-why-im-voting-for-marianne.html>Cylvia Hayes: “Why I’m Voting for Marianne Williamson”</a><br>
84. <br>
85. <b>See also:</b><br>
86. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/we-must-challenge-entire-system.html>Marianne Williamson: “We Must Challenge the Entire System”</a><br>
87. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/marianne-williamson-on-current.html>Marianne Williamson on the Current Condition of the U.S.</a><br>
88. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/09/marianne-williamsons-politics-of-love.html>Marianne Williamson’s Politics of Love: The Rich Roll Interview</a><br>
89. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/03/if-only-we-could-hear-voices-like-this.html>Now Here’s a Voice I’d Like to Hear Regularly on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows</a><br>
90. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-deeper-perspective-on-whats-really.html>A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking American Democracy</a><br>
91. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/marianne-williamson-on-10th-anniversary.html>Marianne Williamson on the Tenth Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street</a><br>
92. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/marianne-williamson-on-how-centrist.html>Marianne Williamson on How Centrist Democrats Abuse Voters with False Promises</a><br>
93. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/two-of-most-dedicated-and-enlightened.html>“Two of the Most Dedicated and Enlightened Heroes of Present Day America”</a><br>
94. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/04/deep-gratitude.html>Deep Gratitude</a><br>
95. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-beautiful-message-full-of-greatness.html>“A Beautiful Message, So Full of Greatness”</a><br>
96. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/11/marianne-williamson-anything-that-will.html>Marianne Williamson: “Anything That Will Help People Thrive, I’m Interested In”</a><br>
97. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/08/caitlin-johnstone-status-quo.html>Caitlin Johnstone: “Status Quo Politicians Are Infinitely ‘Weirder’ Than Marianne Williamson”</a></span><br />
98. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/8919173616319693541/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=8919173616319693541' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/8919173616319693541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/8919173616319693541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/marianne-williamson-on-newsnation-51924.html' title='Marianne Williamson on &lt;I&gt;NewsNation&lt;/i&gt; – 5/19/24'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/8cLEPoWQ77g/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-3016183484730702068</id><published>2024-05-14T02:05:00.019-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-15T20:28:51.743-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Australian Sojourn – April-May 2024"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photo of the Day"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Port Macquarie"/><title type='text'>Guruk Sunset</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7o0BXrCl4V6ud5vF3aDyJIpduYK6Yzkj60L9Tk0kvesIvV3l6-iD5ZiPgaPkwf2XOmUNDi2pdw-oX92vBddwy3wTUsdRfcwnhz6PE6BUwPbgN4LItwPeqp5UaVj5TvYC9rHABuFGAjGlenz6VQP_04UHEdO_vTZQ1ok-S8fThW6f9A-qEYQP0qQ/s1080/thumbnail-2.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;810&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1080&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7o0BXrCl4V6ud5vF3aDyJIpduYK6Yzkj60L9Tk0kvesIvV3l6-iD5ZiPgaPkwf2XOmUNDi2pdw-oX92vBddwy3wTUsdRfcwnhz6PE6BUwPbgN4LItwPeqp5UaVj5TvYC9rHABuFGAjGlenz6VQP_04UHEdO_vTZQ1ok-S8fThW6f9A-qEYQP0qQ/s400/thumbnail-2.jpeg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
99. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
100. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/08/guruk-sunrise.html>Guruk Sunrise</a><br>
101. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2019_7.html>On Sacred Ground</a><br>
102. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/07/guruk-seascapes-from-dawn-to-dusk.html>Guruk Seascapes, from Dawn to Dusk</a><br>
103. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-rocks.html>On the Rocks</a><br>
104. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/last-days-in-australia.html>Last Days in Australia (2023)</a><br>
105. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/10/return-to-guruk-august-1929-2019.html>Return to Guruk (2019)</a><br>
106. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2019.html>Guruk (2019)</a><br>
107. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/07/guruk-seascapes-from-dawn-to-dusk.html>Last Days in Australia (2017)</a><br>
108. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/07/return-to-guruk.html>Return to Guruk (2017)</a><br>
109. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/09/australian-sojourn-may-2016.html>Port Macquarie (2016)</a><br>
110. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/03/australian-sojourn-march-2015_11.html>Port Macquarie, Wingham, and Ellenborough Falls (2015)</a><br>
111. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/04/port-macquarie-days.html>Port Macquarie Days (2014)</a></span><br>
112. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/3016183484730702068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=3016183484730702068' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3016183484730702068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3016183484730702068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/guruk-sunset.html' title='Guruk Sunset'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7o0BXrCl4V6ud5vF3aDyJIpduYK6Yzkj60L9Tk0kvesIvV3l6-iD5ZiPgaPkwf2XOmUNDi2pdw-oX92vBddwy3wTUsdRfcwnhz6PE6BUwPbgN4LItwPeqp5UaVj5TvYC9rHABuFGAjGlenz6VQP_04UHEdO_vTZQ1ok-S8fThW6f9A-qEYQP0qQ/s72-c/thumbnail-2.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-4703500689176279105</id><published>2024-05-14T00:21:00.085-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-23T03:57:14.954-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Eva Perón"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quote of the Day"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social Justice"/><title type='text'>Remembering Evita</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsvmxhfSFQ8CQ8jTe7QIhdXgLJkEO-vVN1fQpWroLA0pEMQoMbCVEjBsmFGr3LSJg00q0SYUt2BkDF8R1tllBMuRo4MFhneNOraZWjwPP-vW43CEC-trMOtg55goAmsqEY7CF5FiVG8POupRFJRHe8kuCdE1ZjiUqBFGzTNtc5X4eMCgysMe-9g/s698/EvaPeron-6b.jpg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;471&quot; data-original-width=&quot;698&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsvmxhfSFQ8CQ8jTe7QIhdXgLJkEO-vVN1fQpWroLA0pEMQoMbCVEjBsmFGr3LSJg00q0SYUt2BkDF8R1tllBMuRo4MFhneNOraZWjwPP-vW43CEC-trMOtg55goAmsqEY7CF5FiVG8POupRFJRHe8kuCdE1ZjiUqBFGzTNtc5X4eMCgysMe-9g/s400/EvaPeron-6b.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
113. <br>
114. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> strive every day to remove from my soul all sentimentalistic attitude in the face of what those who suffer and work the most ask of me. I don’t want to be ashamed of myself in front of them. I go to my job to perform my duty and to serve justice. No lyricism or chatter, no comedy, no poses or romances. Not even when I come in contact with the most needy can anyone say I play the charitable lady who abandons her welfare for a moment to figure out that she performs a work of mercy.</blockquote><br>
115. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Eva Perón</i></b></div><br />
116. <br>
117. Last Tuesday (May 7) was the 125th birthday of the late <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Per%C3%B3n>Eva Perón</a> (1919-1952).<br>
118. <br>
119. Popularly known as Evita, Eva Perón was an Argentine actress, politician, and social justice activist who, as the spouse of President <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Per%C3%B3n>Juan Perón</a> (1895-1974), served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death on July 26, 1952.<br>
120. <br>
121. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_raE2wQD55MD8Y8OjA9APv7mnEaQ8aI4LKFQxjCt_pFsIeoSWUSTJgpZihVdksFLjPlqVGuBEqQskQrtWS1E_3wSWq8UyioQx4RlUNSlsxKTrOiDtH1aNk-akY17WgCTBjGmyWKLfoY2lXz5snkDfiWMsv2nkej2dUfxqnjoCS1ajV9myRm2WA/s586/DCFMA-Cover.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="575" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_raE2wQD55MD8Y8OjA9APv7mnEaQ8aI4LKFQxjCt_pFsIeoSWUSTJgpZihVdksFLjPlqVGuBEqQskQrtWS1E_3wSWq8UyioQx4RlUNSlsxKTrOiDtH1aNk-akY17WgCTBjGmyWKLfoY2lXz5snkDfiWMsv2nkej2dUfxqnjoCS1ajV9myRm2WA/s200/DCFMA-Cover.PNG"/></a></div>I first became aware of Eva Perón’s life and story when as a young teenager I found myself intrigued by images and newsreel footage of her in the music video for “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don’t_Cry_for_Me_Argentina>Don’t Cry for Me Argentina</a>” by <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Covington>Julie Covington</a>. The song, from the 1976 <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evita_(album)>concept album</a> (and soon-to-be <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evita_(musical)>musical</a>) <i>Evita</i>, was written by <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber>Andrew Lloyd Webber</a> and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Rice>Tim Rice</a>. It was a No. 1 hit in the UK in February 1977 and then later that year in countries around the world, including Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Australia.<br>
122. <br>
123. Sorcha O’Higgins <a href=https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/argentina/articles/the-untold-story-behind-the-song-dont-cry-for-me-argentina>writes</a> that “the song book-ended the original [concept album and] theatre performance and was sung at both the beginning and the end to evoke the generosity of Evita’s spirit in death by asking the public not to mourn her. Upon its release in 1976, the song went to number one in the UK, and went on to win . . . an Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. . . . [It] is one of the most memorable parts of [<i>Evita</i>], if not one of the things that people from abroad associate most with Argentina.”<br>
124. <br>
125. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk2JZL6okzeWvlovH5VYCNcL72p9BSTQeGNPlF4abNh4gzZIYq7w2R9emidGchlDIVxQitOu11cam9LKTN9bsU2Vvl11tu7TY0ZT2DAJSqz1wjkaXt6btsbCCeS8MSYa02QiWPKUenw_wvrQc9XqtQkKQHrvJDdnwxYv6adjBd0GuWhTNMf92STg/s600/IMG_4491.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk2JZL6okzeWvlovH5VYCNcL72p9BSTQeGNPlF4abNh4gzZIYq7w2R9emidGchlDIVxQitOu11cam9LKTN9bsU2Vvl11tu7TY0ZT2DAJSqz1wjkaXt6btsbCCeS8MSYa02QiWPKUenw_wvrQc9XqtQkKQHrvJDdnwxYv6adjBd0GuWhTNMf92STg/s320/IMG_4491.JPG"/></a></div>I was intrigued enough as a teenager by Eva Perón to choose her as the subject of a 5-minute “talk” I had to give for one of my Year 8 classes, probably either English or General Studies, I can’t remember for sure.<br>
126. <br>
127. What I <i>do</i> clearly remember is how when I went to the front of the room and announced the subject of my talk, derisive howls of <i>"Who?"</i> were directed my way by a number of my classmates. Our teacher, however, was having none of that. Mr. Hammond was his name, and he silenced the room by roaringly ordering my detractors to shut-up so that they might actually learn something.<br>
128. <br>
129. I don’t think anyone had ever before stood up for me and the different-kind-of-things I was interested in. It was an unforgettable moment for sure, and one that I’m sure helped build my self-confidence, even if at the time I wasn’t consciously aware of it. So thanks, Mr. Hammond!<br>
130. <br>
131. Anyway, to (belatedly) mark the 125th anniversary of the birth of María Eva Duarte de Perón, aka Evita, I share today not only the great quote from the woman herself that opens this post but also the song about her that first sparked my interest in her life <i>and</i> an excerpt from María Teresa Hernández’s article, “<a href=https://apnews.com/article/eva-peron-evita-argentina-peronism-7c23a6d3cb53cf35dc13a951b79ebfbd>A Prayer for Evita</a>,” published earlier this year.<br>
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135. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1kBwDTIDh_0?si=cknSIZyov8IeoF3O" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
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137. <br>
138. <br>
139. <i>Writes María Teresa Hernández . . .</i><br>
140. <br>
141. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">E</span>arly every morning, just as she reaches her workplace at a labor union in Buenos Aires, Ángeles Celerier heads to the chapel and prays to <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cajetan>Saint Cajetan</a>, Saint Teresa and Eva Perón.<br>
142. <br>
143. Perón – unlike the others – has not been canonized by the Vatican, but this doesn’t matter to Celerier.<br>
144. <br>
145. “For me, she is the saint of the people,” the 56-year-old Argentine said.</blockquote><br>
146. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMfT_iGcu96f_yYBBK0XwtRvsPstpXZXe53eMFuw-DAVUMzzZGJEWGq2QuyiVwRXSw7v4kryiscv-mMnYTuHHXh41MdhN2xgj62Mr8JtOEzJ3BroC1FvYen-81FScBgMr6VAsu2WyUFNmXxrsKdUdPsfiVxx6Fgi-nSD8hutBEY51flSbduJxMdw/s454/EvaPeron-2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMfT_iGcu96f_yYBBK0XwtRvsPstpXZXe53eMFuw-DAVUMzzZGJEWGq2QuyiVwRXSw7v4kryiscv-mMnYTuHHXh41MdhN2xgj62Mr8JtOEzJ3BroC1FvYen-81FScBgMr6VAsu2WyUFNmXxrsKdUdPsfiVxx6Fgi-nSD8hutBEY51flSbduJxMdw/s200/EvaPeron-2.PNG"/></a></div><blockquote>Many union members think of Evita as their patron or gaze at her photos with nostalgia, feeling that she and her husband, three-time President Juan Domingo Perón, brought prosperity to their country through an equality and social justice-driven movement that was named after him in the 1940s: <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peronism>Peronism</a>.<br>
147. <br>
148. That movement is currently the biggest opposition force in Argentina. And some political observers attribute the recent vote to elect President <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Milei>Javier Milei</a> as a means to defeat Peronism and its previous hold on the presidency.<br>
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150. “For us, she is the spiritual reservoir of the people,” said Julio Piumato, human rights director at the largest union in Argentina. He signed a 2019 document requesting Evita’s beatification.</blockquote><br>
151. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh89fkhbfmhAsP_iIbxhSL1BtVkDlWsvnv6hbtEQuO4o9nIzPyTfPRjEa7stLgaJJqKp6pfznOfUH55B9KERA31AMWlqblhvbRzGlq75Q9KQ2kJ7aqNrJtwy2XnhhuLwxURRkBxrRd57gzVmijU8G7YdmypiE6xYWCYbx0LyZRLcWREgFfvP_eilg/s748/IMG_E4553.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="656" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh89fkhbfmhAsP_iIbxhSL1BtVkDlWsvnv6hbtEQuO4o9nIzPyTfPRjEa7stLgaJJqKp6pfznOfUH55B9KERA31AMWlqblhvbRzGlq75Q9KQ2kJ7aqNrJtwy2XnhhuLwxURRkBxrRd57gzVmijU8G7YdmypiE6xYWCYbx0LyZRLcWREgFfvP_eilg/s200/IMG_E4553.JPG"/></a></div><blockquote>“No other figure has a deeper significance,” Piumato said. “The humble sectors are synthesized in Evita.”<br>
152. <br>
153. According to the union leader, between 1946 and 1952, when Evita died of cancer at age 33 and Perón concluded his first term, the couple dignified the working class and prioritized social justice.<br>
154. <br>
155. “Saints show us paths to reach Christ and intercede before God for us,” reads the beatification request delivered to the archbishop. “In our homeland, one generation after another continues to be converted by the humanist and Christian message of the standard bearer of the humble.”<br>
156. <br>
157.  Aside from a <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evita_(1996_film)>1996 movie</a> starring Madonna or Andrew Lloyd Weber’s <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evita_(musical)>1978 musical</a>, many foreigners know relatively little about this former first lady who died 71 years ago.<br>
158. <br>
159. But in Argentina, Evita is a constant presence. Her face is printed on 100-peso bills, decorates a mural on a key government building, and greets guests from an altar placed in a restaurant called <a href=https://www.facebook.com/elsantaevita>Saint Evita</a>.<br>
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161. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZooHoIV5coeIQZPEsLZ3bkXALrsLsSgPEDO5VyC6-cZISY71CqFqK1_LU0hLML8SoJTAXK7L8ZnS1wgw08xt20wc5alvhA5Ktkvo9K55lR7Dhbuan0UTfVeuMzzA3BfJE8J8d3SBUORyh5Ut6dMU4nUBFgnSOpCj4TP9-cGct_54RCTIRkRcqA/s1217/EvitaRestaurant-2.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="1217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZooHoIV5coeIQZPEsLZ3bkXALrsLsSgPEDO5VyC6-cZISY71CqFqK1_LU0hLML8SoJTAXK7L8ZnS1wgw08xt20wc5alvhA5Ktkvo9K55lR7Dhbuan0UTfVeuMzzA3BfJE8J8d3SBUORyh5Ut6dMU4nUBFgnSOpCj4TP9-cGct_54RCTIRkRcqA/s320/EvitaRestaurant-2.jpg"/></a></div><br>
162. The secret behind the fascination that she awakens might be hidden in her name.<br>
163. <br>
164. Long before becoming first lady, she called herself María Eva, a girl who left the town of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Toldos>Los Toldos</a> to try her luck as an actress in Buenos Aires. As a modest film star she was known as Eva Duarte and afterwards became Eva Perón, the president’s wife. Then came Evita.<br>
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166. “Evita is the one who is close to the people,” said Santiago Regolo, a researcher at <a href=https://museoevita.org.ar/>Museum Evita</a>. “People began to call her that, and that construction is linked to the political and social work that distinguished her from the women who preceded her and take her as an example to this day.”<br>
167. <br>
168. Evita was the one who paid visits to elders and single mothers. The one who handed out toys for children and bread for families. The one who promoted paid vacations for workers who had never been able to afford a break and gave a final push to achieve the women’s right to vote in 1947.<br>
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170. She has also inspired some feminists – who carry her photo along with their green scarves during protests – as well as a political organization that asks for social transformation using her image as a logo.<br>
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172. “Having Evita on our flag represents being with those in the lower classes and trying to vindicate her name over time,” said Iván Tchorek, from the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evita_Movement>Evita Movement</a>, which has 155,000 members nationwide and was created after an economic crisis in 2001.<br>
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174. She’s relevant as ever, Tchorek said, because Peronism is. Thousands of workers like him recently led a general strike against the right-wing Milei, who defeated Peronist candidate <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Massa>Sergio Massa</a> last November. Soon after, Milei issued a decree that would revoke or modify hundreds of existing laws in order to limit the power of unions and deregulate an economy that has traditionally featured heavy state intervention.<br>
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176. Even as a union standard-bearer in polarized times, Evita and her memory have the ability to transcend politics. “Certain issues are linked to matters of a sentimental, sacralized nature,” Regolo said. “She is seen as a companion, a sister, a mother for the humble.”<br>
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178. At her home in an impoverished neighborhood outside Buenos Aires, 71-year-old Rita Cantero says she almost met Evita. When her mother asked the first lady for help, she was pregnant with her.<br>
179. <br>
180. “My mother used to say that Evita was very supportive, that people really liked her for the service she provided.”<br>
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182. Aware of the challenges of being a single mother, Rafaela Escobar attended a public event held by Evita in a plaza near her home. After being able to approach her and confide in her distress, Evita hugged her and said: “Don’t worry, I will help.”<br>
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184. Three weeks later, Escobar received a cradle and clothes for her unborn child.<br>
185. <br>
186. Cantero says her mother never met Evita again, but she sent her letters and the first lady replied with envelopes carrying money.<br>
187. <br>
188. “For us she is like a saint,” Cantero said. “Many judged her because she was a woman, but she was an honest, hard-working girl. She fought for our nation and was the force of Perón.”<br>
189. <br>
190. Perón died two decades after Evita, in 1974, but his name continues to spark both admiration and hatred, yearning and blame.<br>
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192. His critics – among them legislator <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Iglesias_(Argentine_politician)>Fernando Iglesias</a>, who has published several books contending Peronism ruined the country – claim that Perón was an authoritarian leader and his movement’s social assistance disguised corruption and patronage while generating too much dependence on the government.<br>
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194. Critics address Eva too. Her foundation pressed donors for resources, some say. She was careerist and a hypocrite, others assert. On the one hand, she claimed to defend the poor and on the other, she dressed in Dior.<br>
195. <br>
196. “Would she be the saint of the lazy?” a user tweeted when the union requested her beatification. “Patron of criminals,” someone else wrote.<br>
197. <br>
198. Erasing her from history was once a command. After a coup overthrew Perón in 1955, it was forbidden to say her name, display her image or keep her gifts. The military removed her embalmed body from a union’s headquarters, where it was initially kept, and sent it to Europe.<br>
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200. The body came back after 14 years, and when the military took over again in the 1970s, it was given to her family under one condition: She would be buried eight meters underground, sealed in a marble crypt so that no one would ever see her again.<br>
201. <br>
202. . . . Víctor Biscia, 36, says that he doesn’t keep photos of Evita at home, but he does have images of the late President <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9stor_Kirchner>Néstor Kirchner</a> and his wife and successor <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina_Fern%C3%A1ndez_de_Kirchner>Cristina Fernández</a>, another Peronist couple that prompts devotion and resentment among Argentines.<br>
203. <br>
204. “They were key to achieving rights that are being curtailed by the current government,” said Biscia, who thinks of Fernández as a sort of 21st-century Evita.<br>
205. <br>
206. “She reflects a lot of what we are as Argentines,” says Gimena Villagra, 27, standing next to Evita’s tomb. “I don’t think there’s anyone for whom she doesn’t mean something.”</blockquote><br>
207. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>María Teresa Hernández</i></b><br />
208. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://apnews.com/article/eva-peron-evita-argentina-peronism-7c23a6d3cb53cf35dc13a951b79ebfbd>A Prayer for Evita:<br>
209. Here’s Why Many Argentines Are Devoted<br>
210. to a First Lady Who Died in 1952</a>”<br />
211. Associated Press<br>
212. February 19, 2024</span></div><br />
213. <br />
214. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
215. <a href=https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-poverty-obituaries-buenos-aires-ff7553b9191269449f3eaf13f92fd3ca>Argentines Yearn for Evita, 70 Years After Her Death</a> – Daniel Politi (<i>AP News</i>, July 27, 2022).<br>
216. <a href=https://www.sbs.com.au/language/spanish/en/article/eva-peron-an-iconic-mystery-who-continues-to-polarise-the-masses/299uofikk>Eva Perón, An Iconic Mystery Who Continues to Polarise</a> – Esther Lozano (SBS, May 17, 2019).<br>
217. <a href=https://english.elpais.com/people/2023-11-15/the-poor-like-to-see-me-beautiful-how-eva-peron-used-fashion-as-a-political-tool.html>“The Poor Like to See Me Beautiful”: How Eva Perón Used Fashion As a Political Tool</a> – Lucía Franco (<i>El Pais</i>, November 15, 2023).<br>
218. <a href=https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/argentina/articles/the-untold-story-behind-the-song-dont-cry-for-me-argentina>The Untold Story Behind the Song “Don't Cry For Me Argentina”</a> – Sorcha O’Higgins (<i>Culture Trip</i>, December 11, 2023).<br>
219. <a href=https://dctheaterarts.org/2023/09/21/evita-at-stc-flips-the-shows-script-to-reveal-the-real-eva-peron><i>Evita</i> at STC Flips the Show’s Script to Reveal the Real Eva Perón</a> – Alexandra Bowman (<i>DC Theater Arts</i>, September 21, 2023).<br>
220. <a href=https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/ballet-hispanico-offers-new-take-on-controversial-figure-eva-evita-peron>Ballet Hispanico Offers New Take on Controversial Figure Eva “Evita” Perón</a> – Eric Volmers (<i>Calgary Herald</i>, September 8, 2023).</span><br />
221. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/4703500689176279105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=4703500689176279105' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/4703500689176279105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/4703500689176279105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/remembering-evita.html' title='Remembering Evita'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsvmxhfSFQ8CQ8jTe7QIhdXgLJkEO-vVN1fQpWroLA0pEMQoMbCVEjBsmFGr3LSJg00q0SYUt2BkDF8R1tllBMuRo4MFhneNOraZWjwPP-vW43CEC-trMOtg55goAmsqEY7CF5FiVG8POupRFJRHe8kuCdE1ZjiUqBFGzTNtc5X4eMCgysMe-9g/s72-c/EvaPeron-6b.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-1059727919937931258</id><published>2024-05-12T20:00:00.016-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-15T20:30:55.341-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Bayly Family"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gunnedah"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Port Macquarie"/><title type='text'>Australian Sojourn – April-May 2024</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #274e13;&quot;&gt;Part 4:&lt;/span&gt; Family Time in Melbourne, Guruk, and Gunnedah&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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223. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Rb0I01wHvH96GJRbgmsz7XIsSdI4BsmwaXt1d5I1L9O79s144LSfg6uQ8H3zICNYXTFsAgrpF9x1s9r1ubJhBJ19kPHo_xdxO6fdEVR4zQmOxD22pUr7dY2MxwAb7Nt-_m5YStd0y4IA7BLt1g84qAfaE2TJcLZzS7ZriXsqzxWQb98Tm6BMag/s3165/IMG_0440b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2425" data-original-width="3165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Rb0I01wHvH96GJRbgmsz7XIsSdI4BsmwaXt1d5I1L9O79s144LSfg6uQ8H3zICNYXTFsAgrpF9x1s9r1ubJhBJ19kPHo_xdxO6fdEVR4zQmOxD22pUr7dY2MxwAb7Nt-_m5YStd0y4IA7BLt1g84qAfaE2TJcLZzS7ZriXsqzxWQb98Tm6BMag/s400/IMG_0440b.JPG"/></a></div>
224. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: 85%;"><b><span style="color: #783f04;">Above:</span></b> With my mum, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/happy-birthday-mum.html>Margaret Bayly</a> (née Sparkes), in <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Macquarie>Port Macquarie</a> (<a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/guruk.html>Guruk</a>) – Wednesday, May 8, 2024.</span></center></blockquote><br />
225. <br />
226. My <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html>2024 Australian sojourn</a> continues! . . .<br>
227. <br>
228. After our <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024_6.html>visit to Hanging Rock</a> on Wednesday, May 1, my friend Kate and I parted ways. We had spent a wonderful week in <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html>Newtown</a>, the <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html>Southern Highlands</a>, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024.html>Batemans Bay</a>, and <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024.html>Goulburn</a>. But now it was time for Kate to make her way back to Sydney and, in time, Minnesota, and for me to catch-up with my family. It was a time of reconnection that started with my taking the train to Melbourne from the little town of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodend%2C_Victoria>Woodend</a>, close to <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Rock,_Victoria>Hanging Rock</a>.<br>
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230. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVoDxUHaUedI0xCdpjWXdbRKQ2uRQ-Ypgbt_ye6mPo1oX-1sWBih7BKVJlx6Xnh2V2ZJUusBm7O5-Gm0QY90HnNY2jvAs5e_aXbePIyJQvjND0pHx4qM0S2YsbkYHHT7K4FdwC3Q8UZ1KLEp2D5BpnjQ_4fSkftlAj5htr81jtEWQR0zlIzea-MA/s978/IMG_0592b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="704" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVoDxUHaUedI0xCdpjWXdbRKQ2uRQ-Ypgbt_ye6mPo1oX-1sWBih7BKVJlx6Xnh2V2ZJUusBm7O5-Gm0QY90HnNY2jvAs5e_aXbePIyJQvjND0pHx4qM0S2YsbkYHHT7K4FdwC3Q8UZ1KLEp2D5BpnjQ_4fSkftlAj5htr81jtEWQR0zlIzea-MA/s200/IMG_0592b.JPG"/></a></div>After a lovely five days with family there, I caught a flight to <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Macquarie>Port Macquarie</a> (via Sydney) where my <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/happy-birthday-mum.html>mum</a> lives. And just this past weekend, mum and I travelled to our hometown of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnedah>Gunnedah</a> where we caught up with a number of family members and friends, along with my Aunt Ruth’s two Italian Greyhounds! (<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>right</b></span>).<br>
231. <br>
232. Following are some images of my family time in Melbourne, Guruk (Port Macquarie), and Gunnedah.<br>
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234. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJcAwGV7B2F90zey5JqdHfrQHwGFQFFpoXeycXOGm3Z1_Mq4iyDQNpjA2jEewEJ8nObQlSnUeH20exz2MUmql2JlnnSLcne9DWEe7xcyS0jH8kGirU0TocELaE0l1OqFTLIs2iFpClyWZwUkbmajO5fNy5T-NUrwT3rUcpsLHxPBDXmxEyP6K5yw/s3642/IMG_0110b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="3642" data-original-width="2613" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJcAwGV7B2F90zey5JqdHfrQHwGFQFFpoXeycXOGm3Z1_Mq4iyDQNpjA2jEewEJ8nObQlSnUeH20exz2MUmql2JlnnSLcne9DWEe7xcyS0jH8kGirU0TocELaE0l1OqFTLIs2iFpClyWZwUkbmajO5fNy5T-NUrwT3rUcpsLHxPBDXmxEyP6K5yw/s400/IMG_0110b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
235. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaUgVOOnEsPZcIve-oQ8okytpd2vzrzGNi_pzajcvfgRezhQ5_5o_z0tNf04K84eSz4AY3tNTtB3Yi5iQasdugIRKsXRT96ckwNlxujHhvh1ptHuKst4VoCI7gNT4DuCMvTXmuUa-XeuvXbSRWTiQiktQNv0RQR5TAmBs43PdzNndUzwUQicVsJA/s4032/IMG_0140b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaUgVOOnEsPZcIve-oQ8okytpd2vzrzGNi_pzajcvfgRezhQ5_5o_z0tNf04K84eSz4AY3tNTtB3Yi5iQasdugIRKsXRT96ckwNlxujHhvh1ptHuKst4VoCI7gNT4DuCMvTXmuUa-XeuvXbSRWTiQiktQNv0RQR5TAmBs43PdzNndUzwUQicVsJA/s200/IMG_0140b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
236. In <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne>Melbourne</a> I stayed with my oldr brother Chris and his partner Viv (<b><span style="color: #274e13;">left</span></b>). I also caught up with the many young people in my life for whom I’m uncle and great-uncle, including my two great-nephews Ramy and Jacob (<b><span style="color: #274e13;">above</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #274e13;">below</span></b>).
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243. On Tuesday, May 7, I flew from Melbourne to <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Macquarie>Port Macquarie</a> (<b><span style="color: #274e13;">above</span></b>) via Sydney.<br>
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245. For the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birrbay>Birrbay</a>, the Indigenous people of the area, the New South Wales coastal town of Port Macquarie is known as Guruk.<br>
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247. My parents moved to Port Macquarie from our hometown of Gunnedah in 2002. Dad <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/08/remembering-and-celebrating-dad.html>passed in 2019</a> but mum still lives in Port and we’ve been enjoying our time together since I arrived from Melbourne last Tuesday.<br>
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252. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Mum at the look-out in our hometown of Gunnedah – Friday, May 10, 2024.<br>
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254. Gunnedah and its surrounding area were <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamilaraay>originally inhabited</a> by Indigenous Australians who spoke the Kamilaroi (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamilaraay_language>Gamilaraay</a>) language. The area now occupied by the town was settled by Europeans in 1833. Through my maternal grandmother’s family, the Millerds, my family can trace its connection to Gunnedah back to the town’s earliest days. For more about the town’s history and my family’s connection to it, see the previous Wild Reed posts, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-bone-country.html>My “Bone Country”</a> and <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/02/journey-to-gunnedah.html>Journey to Gunnedah</a>.<br>
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259. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> With mum, my Aunt Ruth, and our family friends Denise, Wendy, and Gary – Saturday, May 11, 2024.<br>
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264. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Right:</span></b> Henry and Lewis, my first cousins, once removed.<br>
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269. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> With (from left) mum, Wendy (seated), Denise, my cousin Emily, and Gary – Saturday, May 11, 2024.<br>
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274. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Standing across from the Gunnedah Town Hall with my childhood friend and neighbor Jillian. In the summer of 2018, Jillian and her husband David visited me in Minneapolis. For some pics of their time there, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/09/out-and-about-summer-2018.html>click here</a>.<br>
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279. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b>Visiting long-time family friends Delores and Peter – Saturday, May 11, 2024.<br>
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284. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> With Bella and Betty, my Aunt Ruth’s two <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Greyhound>Italian Greyhounds</a>.</center><br>
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288. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Mum (second from left) with longtime family friend <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/gunnedah-part-iv_05.html>Heather</a> (left) and relatives <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/09/family-time-in-gunnedah.html>Joan and Matthew</a> – Saturday, May 11, 2024.<br>
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293. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> With school friends Mick and David – Saturday, May 11, 2024. I’m pretty sure I was in every class from kindergarten (1971) to Year 12 (1983) with David! 😄<br>
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297. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Gingers Creek, a rest stop and “bush resort” in the mountains between <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wauchope%2C_New_South_Wales>Wauchope</a> and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walcha,_New_South_Wales>Walcha</a>.<br>
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299. When <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/08/across-mountains.html>travelling between Port Macquarie and Gunnedah</a>, a stop at Gingers Creek for coffee, a toasted sandwich, and/or a sweet treat has become a tradition for mum and I.<br>
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302. <center><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>NEXT:</b></span><br>
303. <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/guruk-sunset.html>Guruk Sunset</a></center><br>
304. <br>
305. <br>
306. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Australia Sojourn – April-May 2024</b><br>
307. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/farewell-minnesota-spring.html>Farewell Minnesota Spring</a><br>
308. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html>Hello Australia Autumn!</a><br>
309. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024.html>Bundanoon, Batemans Bay, Braidwood and Goulburn</a><br>
310. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024_6.html>Hanging Rock</a><br>
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312. <br>
313. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
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315. <b>MELBOURNE</b><br>
316. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/melbourne.html>Melbourne (2023)</a><br>
317. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/07/australian-sojourn-may-2016_30.html>Melbourne (2016)</a><br>
318. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/03/australian-sojourn-march-2015_25.html>Family Time in Melbourne (2015)</a><br>
319. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-visit-to-melbourne.html>A Visit to Melbourne (2014)</a><br>
320. <br>
321. <b>GURUK</b><br>
322. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/guruk.html>Guruk (2023)</a><br>
323. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/09/family-time-in-guruk.html>Family Time in Guruk . . . and Glimpses of Somaliland (2019)</a><br>
324. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/10/return-to-guruk-august-1929-2019.html>Return to Guruk (2019)</a><br>
325. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2019_7.html>On Sacred Ground (2019)</a><br>
326. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2019.html>Guruk (2019)</a><br>
327. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/08/guruk-sunrise.html>Guruk Sunrise (2017)</a><br>
328. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/07/guruk-seascapes-from-dawn-to-dusk.html>Guruk Seascapes, from Dawn to Dusk (2017)</a><br>
329. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/07/guruk-seascapes-from-dawn-to-dusk.html>Last Days in Australia (2017)</a><br>
330. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/07/return-to-guruk.html>Return to Guruk (2017)</a><br>
331. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/09/australian-sojourn-may-2016.html>Port Macquarie (2016)</a><br>
332. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/03/australian-sojourn-march-2015_11.html>Port Macquarie, Wingham, and Ellenborough Falls (2015)</a><br>
333. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/04/port-macquarie-days.html>Port Macquarie Days (2014)</a><br>
334. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-in-australia.html>Christmas in Australia (2010)</a><br>
335. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/02/town-beach.html>Town Beach (2010)</a><br>
336. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/12/swallows-ledge.html>Swallows Ledge (2009)</a><br>
337. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/12/port-macquarie.html>Port Macquarie (2008)</a><br>
338. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/01/everglades-exhibition.html>Everglades Exhibition (2007)</a><br>
339. <br>
340. <b>GUNNEDAH</b><br>
341. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/gunnedah.html>Gunnedah (2023)</a><br>
342. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/photo-of-day_25.html>Photo of the Day – March 25, 2023</a><br>
343. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/08/across-mountains.html>Across the Mountains . . . From Guruk to Gunnedah (2019)</a><br>
344. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/09/family-time-in-gunnedah.html>Family Time in Gunnedah (2019)</a><br>
345. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/10/a-visit-to-gunnedah.html>A Visit to Gunnedah (2017)</a><br>
346. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/09/australian-sojourn-may-2016_19.html>Australian Sojourn, May 2016 – Gunnedah</a><br>
347. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/05/australian-sojourn-march-2015.html>Australian Sojourn, March 2015 – Gunnedah</a><br>
348. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-visit-to-gunnedah.html>A Visit to Gunnedah (2014)</a><br>
349. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/02/journey-to-gunnedah.html>Journey to Gunnedah (2011)</a><br>
350. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-corner-of-earth.html>This Corner of the Earth (2010)</a><br>
351. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/02/afternoon-at-gunnedah-convent-of-mercy.html>An Afternoon at the Gunnedah Convent of Mercy (2010)</a><br>
352. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/01/my-bone-country.html>My “Bone Country” (2009)</a><br>
353. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/01/white-rooster.html>The White Rooster</a><br>
354. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/remembering-nanna-smith.html>Remembering Nanna Smith</a><br>
355. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/09/one-of-these-boys.html>One of These Boys is Not Like the Others</a><br>
356. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/gunnedah-part-i.html>Gunnedah (Part 1)</a><br>
357. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/gunnedah-part-ii.html>Gunnedah (Part 2)</a><br>
358. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/gunnedah-part-iii.html>Gunnedah (Part 3)</a><br>
359. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/gunnedah-part-iv_05.html>Gunnedah (Part 4)</a><br>
360. <br>
361. <b>Images:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br>
362. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/1059727919937931258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=1059727919937931258' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/1059727919937931258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/1059727919937931258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024_01216607084.html' title='Australian Sojourn – April-May 2024'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Rb0I01wHvH96GJRbgmsz7XIsSdI4BsmwaXt1d5I1L9O79s144LSfg6uQ8H3zICNYXTFsAgrpF9x1s9r1ubJhBJ19kPHo_xdxO6fdEVR4zQmOxD22pUr7dY2MxwAb7Nt-_m5YStd0y4IA7BLt1g84qAfaE2TJcLZzS7ZriXsqzxWQb98Tm6BMag/s72-c/IMG_0440b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-2333757970343112264</id><published>2024-05-06T08:00:00.262-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-12T21:09:13.581-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Australian Sojourn – April-May 2024"/><title type='text'>Australian Sojourn – April-May 2024</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #274e13;&quot;&gt;Part 3:&lt;/span&gt; Hanging Rock&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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364. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkI4n5HgEbx07gpr3Df-t8YXPX5Ilb1C_QaOayYYJ63Dgs088f6xE2ZzIODK4kPV-SmPV7jgllFC0JCNrSZjo6dJqsfe-C8OPPKP0sHLp0AIiyQTtiOj_Q6UO4CzQjKQfoYFfv9wO3yG3FrghYyld2hm_ULB-iX8T_wPsTfK4C9VfzK0IUy5vug/s4032/IMG_9943c.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkI4n5HgEbx07gpr3Df-t8YXPX5Ilb1C_QaOayYYJ63Dgs088f6xE2ZzIODK4kPV-SmPV7jgllFC0JCNrSZjo6dJqsfe-C8OPPKP0sHLp0AIiyQTtiOj_Q6UO4CzQjKQfoYFfv9wO3yG3FrghYyld2hm_ULB-iX8T_wPsTfK4C9VfzK0IUy5vug/s400/IMG_9943c.JPG"/></a></div>
365. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwgeBio9Pr5QaZbE7HWbZ9AsWVZSle2pKgc_XdX6RQfrj6l-Bg2Cv-ELOyikulirYqVSa0O-yptTuRnNdGBqAbe8KS-Va-EQn8z7nfk3I9nz1LrG4UMovc6xDrB0TlEqMo9VH5IZ_6M8AJDQF_wVOwpU0X9ZrqNZYlQy5hrS6Hl-7KpFoMUJvtnw/s3088/IMG_9962b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwgeBio9Pr5QaZbE7HWbZ9AsWVZSle2pKgc_XdX6RQfrj6l-Bg2Cv-ELOyikulirYqVSa0O-yptTuRnNdGBqAbe8KS-Va-EQn8z7nfk3I9nz1LrG4UMovc6xDrB0TlEqMo9VH5IZ_6M8AJDQF_wVOwpU0X9ZrqNZYlQy5hrS6Hl-7KpFoMUJvtnw/s200/IMG_9962b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
366. My <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html>2024 Australian sojourn</a> continues! . . .<br>
367. <br>
368. Last Wednesday I travelled from “Australia’s oldest inland city” of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulburn>Goulburn</a> to the geological site of <a href=https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Our-Region/Natural-Attractions/Hanging-Rock>Hanging Rock</a> in rural Victoria. Accompanying me on this trip was my Minnesota friend Kate.<br>
369. <br>
370. This was my fourth visit to Hanging Rock. My first was in 1985 as a 19-year-old college student; my second was in April of 2003, during a visit home to Australia from the U.S.; and the third was during my May 2016 Australian sojourn (documented <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/08/australian-sojourn-may-2016.html>here</a>).<br>
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372. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXD7cBckdUdeKRp0LK4VYAXFigPtLu6okxW4Kl_YYX8L4ajLLgvsj-IU3YhZ4IEYqfqis3_mY_fOfb4Lj9HjbcuQ_RqHl_g3vkO3akNUPjFgMOBLwGwRGks0d4UcUav0sWV0WVLFnyq7WeNIC2hSLlVBJYxkJrVS-M0kGfij8amPdHeU3MGYEaw/s4032/IMG_9948b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYXD7cBckdUdeKRp0LK4VYAXFigPtLu6okxW4Kl_YYX8L4ajLLgvsj-IU3YhZ4IEYqfqis3_mY_fOfb4Lj9HjbcuQ_RqHl_g3vkO3akNUPjFgMOBLwGwRGks0d4UcUav0sWV0WVLFnyq7WeNIC2hSLlVBJYxkJrVS-M0kGfij8amPdHeU3MGYEaw/s400/IMG_9948b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
373. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKX7A-NuWNHze-CzklfdCRESW1N-yHCKoy-9lZYeFL0OEFkDv3PQp1XgipHWjBYLSbE0lanU9C2JWHt8Cj8q5mO4q1cA0Nfc17G9nZW85bkfIC1hOLvJg7hWjBymfvHudxiD8/s1600/Picnic-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKX7A-NuWNHze-CzklfdCRESW1N-yHCKoy-9lZYeFL0OEFkDv3PQp1XgipHWjBYLSbE0lanU9C2JWHt8Cj8q5mO4q1cA0Nfc17G9nZW85bkfIC1hOLvJg7hWjBymfvHudxiD8/s320/Picnic-2.jpg" /></a></div>My interest in and attraction to Hanging Rock began when, as a 10-year-old boy in Australia, I saw <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Weir">Peter Weir</a>’s film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock"><i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i></a>. This was in 1975, when Weir’s adaptation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Lindsay">Joan Lindsay</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(novel)">novel</a> (also titled <i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i>) was first released. Both Lindsay’s book and Weir’s film tell the story of a group of students from an exclusive girls’ boarding school who mysteriously vanish from a picnic on St. Valentine’s Day 1900. Weir’s film is widely credited as a key work in the “Australian film renaissance” of the mid-1970s. It was also the first Australian film of its era to both gain critical praise and be given a substantial international theatrical release. <br />
374. <br />
375. Often described as “lush,” “atmospheric,” and “Gothic,” the haunting qualities of <i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i> certainly left a deep and long-lasting impression on me as a child. Later, as I grew into awareness of my sexuality, the film’s themes of oppression and liberation became meaningfully and appealingly apparent to me. I wrote the first version of my essay <i>Rock of Ages: Theological Reflections on Picnic at Hanging Rock</i> in 1996 for <i>Vertigo</i>, a journal of thought and reflection on sexuality and spirituality published by the theology department of the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul. A second version (which can be found at <i>The Wild Reed</i> <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/02/rock-of-ages.html">here</a>) was written in 2002 as part of my studies in film and theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.<br />
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377. For all these reasons, and for the sheer beauty and uniqueness of the place, Hanging Rock is a very special place for me; a <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/03/on-sacred-ground.html"><i>sacred</i></a> place, really. <br />
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380. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9CGFRrMiM3naqVDfHr2TYx1j3xugnp8FxFDraf3yq06SyXeVlLbUfTpYxI8mByFG8v2MCvdpS7RQgIy_DPeHAxbF6-xCtjt-K8NsfPAELk1ihoQjmABt4jSmrvTTOc4NzNI2B1h9HL3XNBXmjqP5z3calcHhMK0sbrZkvANO8YQToEARCOmVog/s1600/AtHangingRock-2016.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK9CGFRrMiM3naqVDfHr2TYx1j3xugnp8FxFDraf3yq06SyXeVlLbUfTpYxI8mByFG8v2MCvdpS7RQgIy_DPeHAxbF6-xCtjt-K8NsfPAELk1ihoQjmABt4jSmrvTTOc4NzNI2B1h9HL3XNBXmjqP5z3calcHhMK0sbrZkvANO8YQToEARCOmVog/s400/AtHangingRock-2016.JPG"/></a></div>
381. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: 85%;"><b><span style="color: #783f04;">Above:</span></b> At Hanging Rock in <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/08/australian-sojourn-may-2016.html>2016</a>.</span></center></blockquote><br />
382. <br />
383. Here’s a little of what <i>Wikipedia</i> has to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Rock,_Victoria">say</a> about the “geological marvel” that is Hanging Rock:<br />
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385. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6L0GflfFiL3qxq8rDHQmJG3qv20nqJ1EJ5N1gokj0e7Y9oCQRlWWGMzPvgZ618BktFGwxZjehXbydHRizu6_N6AkOj9kwgBxkZcPIsJxG5sizRjIdM-_KTkSNK40Qe-MFfQO9idYXWDVsgrFIzXE5NuVEgeByBEih8jXTTQkQ3njlHz0yPDmOQ/s2901/IMG_0027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="2901" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB6L0GflfFiL3qxq8rDHQmJG3qv20nqJ1EJ5N1gokj0e7Y9oCQRlWWGMzPvgZ618BktFGwxZjehXbydHRizu6_N6AkOj9kwgBxkZcPIsJxG5sizRjIdM-_KTkSNK40Qe-MFfQO9idYXWDVsgrFIzXE5NuVEgeByBEih8jXTTQkQ3njlHz0yPDmOQ/s200/IMG_0027.JPG"/></a></div><blockquote>Hanging Rock (also known as Dryden’s Mount or Dryden’s Rock, and to some Aboriginal Australians as Ngannelong) is a distinctive geological formation in central Victoria, Australia. A former volcano, it lies 718 metres above sea level on the plain between the two small townships of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newham,_Victoria">Newham</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesket,_Victoria">Hesket</a>, approximately 70 km north-west of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne">Melbourne</a> and a few kilometres north of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Macedon">Mount Macedon</a>.<br>
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387. In the middle of the 19th century, the original occupants of the area – tribes of the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djadjawurrung>Dja Dja Wurrung</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woiwurrung%E2%80%93Taungurung_language>Woi Wurrung</a> and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taungurung>Taungurung</a> – were forced from it. They had been its occupants for thousands of years and, colonisation notwithstanding, continue to maintain cultural and spiritual connections to it.</blockquote><br>
388. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA6mF7-iEGGJeVZK4LHj0ZrlmhpEqW7fG46zBPDf5ovovQhUUOZxW43-anVJHlyhX4oRsAN7PAiL9OF2NFfCytj60uIQrNkbAXCJ4Rc26jxLzfA5pt_v0lhz6fcGUN-4ie5z6_fmA8_OIqgZmiRDbH_z8XVReqjRYbgJjU0qBDGZBlbqnuxMy_Ug/s840/PAHR-Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA6mF7-iEGGJeVZK4LHj0ZrlmhpEqW7fG46zBPDf5ovovQhUUOZxW43-anVJHlyhX4oRsAN7PAiL9OF2NFfCytj60uIQrNkbAXCJ4Rc26jxLzfA5pt_v0lhz6fcGUN-4ie5z6_fmA8_OIqgZmiRDbH_z8XVReqjRYbgJjU0qBDGZBlbqnuxMy_Ug/s200/PAHR-Cover.jpg"/></a></div><blockquote>In the late 20th century, the area became widely known as the setting of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Lindsay">Joan Lindsay</a>’s novel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(novel)"><i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i></a>.<br>
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390. Attempts to uncover Hanging Rock’s Aboriginal name have proven difficult. Some think it is “Anneyelong” because of an inscription underneath an engraving of the rock made by German naturalist William Blandowski during an expedition in 1855–56. Historian and toponymist Ian D. Clark believes Blandowski misheard the name, and the word was possibly “Ngannelong” or something similar. The name ”Diogenes Mount” was bestowed on the rock by the surveyor Robert Hoddle in 1843, in keeping with the spirit of several ancient Macedonian names given by <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mitchell_(explorer)>Major Thomas Mitchell</a> during his expedition through Victoria in 1836, which passed close to Hanging Rock. Others include <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Macedon>Mount Macedon</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Alexander>Mount Alexander</a>, and the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaspe_River>Campaspe River</a>. Six other European names (Mount Diogenes, Diogenes’ Head, Diogenes Monument, Dryden’s Rock, Dryden’s Monument and Hanging Rock) have also been recorded.</blockquote><br>
391. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBkht8d1ytQMVzIFCzb0-bCOOw0pK1qi8HsoqNXG9bB_R4BiYPtvTB-xQsaIDYLv9ooVuBRnnCCAw-zsvL45k5wtxmvVJJq7DTNf93BKzIHOo9kGjYNxRof7kyE1LljkrA-ZZKsShjxbvRJBzCyYWJ8G8gqUlnx-xI3lkgc14N8CdEmlQlIctDgQ/s2452/IMG_9984b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="2452" data-original-width="2324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBkht8d1ytQMVzIFCzb0-bCOOw0pK1qi8HsoqNXG9bB_R4BiYPtvTB-xQsaIDYLv9ooVuBRnnCCAw-zsvL45k5wtxmvVJJq7DTNf93BKzIHOo9kGjYNxRof7kyE1LljkrA-ZZKsShjxbvRJBzCyYWJ8G8gqUlnx-xI3lkgc14N8CdEmlQlIctDgQ/s200/IMG_9984b.JPG"/></a></div><blockquote>Hanging Rock is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamelon_(volcanology)">mamelon</a>, created 6.25 million years ago by stiff magma pouring from a vent and congealing in place. Often thought to be a volcanic plug, it is not. Two other mamelons exist nearby, created in the same period: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Macedon">Camels Hump</a>, to the south on Mount Macedon and, to the east, Crozier’s Rocks. All three mamelons are made of solvsbergite, a form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachyte">trachyte</a> only found in two or three other places in the world. As Hanging Rock’s magma cooled and contracted it split into rough columns. These weathered over time into the many pinnacles that can be seen today.<br />
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393. The three mamelons demonstrate the mechanism of plate tectonics. As the Australian Plate moved northwards towards East Asia over 27 million years, it passed over a volcanic hotspot. This resulted in a chain of volcanoes stretching from <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Hillsborough,_Queensland>Hillsborough</a> (33 million years ago) in Northern Queensland to Hanging Rock (6.5 million years ago), which is part of the southernmost end of this volcanic activity. This chain also includes the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrumbungles>Warrumbungles</a> (New South Wales, 15.5 million years ago) and the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_House_Mountains>Glass House Mountains</a> (Southern Queensland, 24.3 million years ago). These volcanoes all have the same chemical composition.</blockquote><br>
394. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1jPv-vQ8j9pyVFgvn_ed_Lhqqc0VaFyrUO9uNSicXM3owYPV8tN4_hkGRy3pdYKis_4kVy30pjzBCqUua018khtRGNmKpaES2QqieZY0ex3AL_Llt971h7NYgY12XkDUlIYk9o50_ncFSg_CSR5TKXV1P0hDK0htFCTCDiUHKRr5OHrmvMtj8A/s4032/IMG_0012b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir1jPv-vQ8j9pyVFgvn_ed_Lhqqc0VaFyrUO9uNSicXM3owYPV8tN4_hkGRy3pdYKis_4kVy30pjzBCqUua018khtRGNmKpaES2QqieZY0ex3AL_Llt971h7NYgY12XkDUlIYk9o50_ncFSg_CSR5TKXV1P0hDK0htFCTCDiUHKRr5OHrmvMtj8A/s200/IMG_0012b.JPG"/></a></div><blockquote>Hanging Rock contains numerous distinctive rock formations, including the “Hanging Rock” itself (a boulder suspended between other boulders, under which is the main entrance path), the Colonnade, the Eagle, and the UFO. Hanging Rock’s highest point is 718 metres above sea level and 105 metres above the plain below.<br>
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396. . . . Hanging Rock is the centrepiece for the <a href="http://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/Council_the_Region/Things_to_See_Do/Natural_Attractions/Hanging_Rock">Hanging Rock Recreation Reserve</a>, a public reserve managed by the Macedon Ranges Shire Council. The reserve includes a horse racing track, picnic grounds, creek, interpretation centre and cafe. The reserve is a habitat for endemic flora and fauna, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala">koalas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallaby">wallabies</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possum">possums</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phascogale">phascogales</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge-tailed_eagle">wedge-tailed eagles</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra">kookaburras</a>.</blockquote><br>
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399. <blockquote><span style="font-size: 85%;"><b><span style="color: #783f04;">Above:</span></b> An image of Hanging Rock from the website of the <a href="https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Our-Region/Natural-Attractions/Hanging-Rock">Macedon Ranges Shire Council</a>. <i>(Photographer unknown)</i></span></blockquote><br />
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401. Following are more images from my May 1, 2024 visit to Hanging Rock . . .<br>
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406. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: 85%;"><b><span style="color: #783f04;">Above:</span></b> My friend Kate at Hanging Rock – May 1, 2024.</span></center></blockquote><br />
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408. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n the steep southern facade the play of golden light and deep violet shade revealed the intricate construction of long vertical slabs; some smooth as giant tombstones, others grooved and fluted by prehistoric architecture of wind and water, ice and fire. Huge boulders, originally spewed red hot from the boiling bowels of the earth, now come to rest, cooled and rounded in forest shade.</blockquote><br />
409. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– Joan Lindsay</b><br />
410. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(novel)"><i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i></a><br />
411. p. 29</span></div><br />
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417. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>s the vertical facade of the Rock drew nearer, the massive slabs and soaring rectangles repudiated the easy charms of its fern-clad lower slopes. Now outcrops of prehistoric rock and giant boulders forced their way to the surface above layers of rotting vegetation and animal decay: bones, feathers, birdlime, the sloughed skins of snakes; some with jagged horns and jutting spikes, obscene knobs and scabby carbuncles; others smoothly humped and rounded by the passing of a million years.</blockquote><br />
418. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– Joan Lindsay</b><br />
419. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(novel)"><i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i></a><br />
420. p. 78</span></div><br />
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425. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">U</span>pon its release, <i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i> was praised for its atmospheric cinematography – one which captures beautifully and hauntingly, the unique colors, sounds and contours of the Australian bush. <br />
426. <br />
427. The opening scene for instance, depicts a forest of eucalyptus trees shrouded in an impenetrable mantle of mist. Silently the mist settles, obscuring the trees but revealing the jagged escarpments and pinnacles of Hanging Rock, aglow in the early morning light.<br />
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429. It is an image that exudes a sense of paradox and mystery, for the towering bulk of volcanic rock appears to hover in space, to hang miraculously within the firmament as if suspended in a timeless realm. The silence accompanying this image is broken only by occasional bird song and by a faint yet ominous sound – the source of which seems to be the very core of the Rock itself.<br />
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431. It is a deeply primordal sound – one that will be echoed on the afternoon of the picnic when Miss McCraw’s attention is inexplicibly drawn from her book of trigonometry to the jutting crags of the Rock, and when the schoolgirls Miranda, Marion  and Irma explore in awed fascination the time-encoded patterns and formations of the monolith. They are patterns that speak mesmerizingly of transcendence and timelessness, and formations that increasingly seem to invite passage to such realms.</blockquote><br />
432. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– Michael Bayly</b><br />
433. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/02/rock-of-ages.html"><i>Rock of Ages:<br />
434. Theological Reflections on Picnic at Hanging Rock</i></a></span></div><br />
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439. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>irectly ahead, the grey volcanic mass rose up slabbed and pinnacled like a fortress from the empty yellow plain. [They] could see the vertical lines of the rocky walls, now and then gashed with indigo shade, patches of grey green dogwood, outcrops of boulders even at this distance immense and formidable. At the summit, apparently bare of living vegetation, a jagged line of rock cut across the serene blue of the sky.</blockquote><br />
440. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– Joan Lindsay</b><br />
441. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(novel)"><i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i></a><br />
442. p. 18</span></div><br />
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448. <br />
449. <center><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>NEXT:</b></span><br>
450. <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024_01216607084.html>Family Time in Melbourne, Guruk, and Gunnedah</a></center><br>
451. <br>
452. <br>
453. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Australia Sojourn – April-May 2024</b><br>
454. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/farewell-minnesota-spring.html>Farewell Minnesota Spring</a><br>
455. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html>Hello Australia Autumn!</a><br>
456. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024.html>Bundanoon, Batemans Bay, Braidwood and Goulburn</a><br>
457. <br>
458. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
459. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-season-of-listening.html>A Season of Listening</a><br>
460. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/08/australian-sojourn-may-2016.html>Hanging Rock (2016)</a><br>
461. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/02/rock-of-ages.html>Rock of Ages: Theological Reflections on Picnic at Hanging Rock</a><br>
462. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/boorganna-part-i.html>Boorganna (Part I)</a><br>
463. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/boorganna-part-ii.html>Boorganna (Part II)</a><br>
464. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/03/on-sacred-ground.html>On Sacred Ground</a><br>
465. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/07/i-caught-glimpse-of-god.html>“I Caught a Glimpse of a God”</a><br>
466. <br>
467. <b>Images of Hanging Rock:</b> Michael J. Bayly (5/1/24), unless where otherwise noted.</span><br>
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469. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrZEuqnaA4LsysGSQxHrFz6nxV8ikytf5cleIb7hltp24o-k2GBeknMNKt5Cxbku9CDM9Wua-iMoooptjn6T22VRqXcjwzc7TZ9MjQGZlAqFIS5-t3qhGT3OMZ41G0jfD3FY75piVoAKl2H-kdF0qvdxjX3eW0jeEGOWBgwwzO7w-ukcKtqhlnQ/s239/CylviaHayes.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrZEuqnaA4LsysGSQxHrFz6nxV8ikytf5cleIb7hltp24o-k2GBeknMNKt5Cxbku9CDM9Wua-iMoooptjn6T22VRqXcjwzc7TZ9MjQGZlAqFIS5-t3qhGT3OMZ41G0jfD3FY75piVoAKl2H-kdF0qvdxjX3eW0jeEGOWBgwwzO7w-ukcKtqhlnQ/s200/CylviaHayes.PNG"/></a></div>Author and activist <a href=https://marianne.com>Marianne Williamson</a> (pictured <b><span style="color: #274e13;">above</span></b>) may have effectively <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/for-marianne-williamson-one-season.html>wound-down</a> her 2024 <a href=https://marianne2024.com>presidential campaign</a> but she is still on the ballot in a number of primary states where many people remain committed to voting for her, even though the Democratic nomination has been clinched by incumbent Joe Biden. One of these people is the former First Lady of Oregon, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylvia_Hayes>Cylvia Hayes</a> (<b><span style="color: #274e13;">right</span></b>).<br>
470. <br>
471. Following is an op-ed by Hayes, <a href=https://www.bendbulletin.com/opinion/guest-column-why-im-voting-for-marianne-williamson/article_5ad9e0a4-08ac-11ef-827d-fbed24ed7f99.html>first published</a> May 2 in <a href=https://www.bendbulletin.com><i>The Bulletin</i></a>.<br>
472. <br>
473. <center>___________________</center><br>
474. <br>
475. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: large;">Why I’m Voting for Marianne Williamson</span><br>
476. <br>
477.  <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">By Cylvia Hayes</span></b><br>
478. <br>
479. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><i>The Bulletin</i><br>
480. May 2, 2024</span></center><br>
481. <span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>adly, in this critical election we have two aged candidates who remain anchored to the past, at a time when America needs to focus on the future. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump have won their party’s nomination and will be facing each other in the general election. Though the candidates are already locked in, there is still a way to inject into this campaign the real policy issues that must be courageously confronted if we are to secure a brighter future. The vehicle to do so is Marianne Williamson. Given the options we will be presented in November, a vote for Biden is the only sane choice and I will support him in the general election.<br>
482. <br>
483. In the primary, however, I’m going to vote Marianne Williamson – a candidate I am actually excited about. Williamson has been a Democratic candidate for President for the entire election cycle but the Democratic National Committee has shut her out and mainstream media has refused to give her coverage. In other words, the national party and associated media have taken it upon themselves to decide which candidates the people get to hear from. This is one of the many reasons I’ve been outspoken about the need to evolve beyond the current two-party system and the relationship between political parties, money in elections, and corporate, for-profit media.<br>
484. <br>
485. I’ve been tracking Marianne Williamson for years, have met her several times, and we have had detailed conversations. She is brilliant, savvy, and the only candidate speaking honestly about the deep, challenging systems change that we must undertake in order to solve pressing problems like economic inequality, homelessness, health care that is increasingly unaffordable, and climate change.<br>
486. <br>
487. Here are some of the things she stands for and is committed to:<br>
488. <br>
489. <blockquote>• An immediate cease-fire in Gaza.<br>
490. <br>
491. • Reproductive freedom for all women.<br>
492. <br>
493. • A 21st-century Economic Bill of Rights. (See her <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxAq-3nVw6o>video</a> on economic system change and fairness.)<br>
494. <br>
495. • Declaring a Climate Emergency and getting serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions.<br>
496. <br>
497. • A health care system that is focused on health, not just medical care – that is, a system that ensures everyone has timely access to quality, affordable health care, and to food, housing, child care, education, and a good job; all of which contribute to health.</blockquote><br>
498. <br>
499. Williamson correctly points out that though our founders established a government “of, for, and by the people”, what we now have is a government of, for, and by corporations – the very same corporations that essentially control both political parties and status quo politicians.<br>
500. <br>
501. Marianne Williamson is on the ballot in 40 states (including Oregon) and if she gets 15% of the primary vote in any of those states she will earn delegates and be able to speak to the nation at the Democratic National Convention in August. Her message and policy proposals can infuse into the fall campaign, the critical issues that both Trump and Biden should be debating.<br>
502. <br>
503. Giving Marianne Williamson this forum – that she has so far been denied – will serve the overall policy debate, other candidates, and the elected leaders who need to hear what she has to say.<br>
504. <br>
505. Voting for Marianne Williamson in the primary election is not a vote that benefits Trump. It is a vote for a saner system and brighter future. And importantly, it is a vote for democracy.</blockquote><br>
506. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– Cylvia Hayes</b><br />
507. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><i>The Bulletin</i><br />
508. May 3, 2024</span></div><br />
509. <br>
510. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
511. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/love-democracy-and-gangster-politics>Love, Democracy, and Gangster Politics</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, May 5, 2024).<br>
512. <a href=https://www.hercampus.com/culture/marianne-williamson-gen-z-2024-election-exclusive>Marianne Williamson on Why She’s Fighting for Gen Z in This Election</a> – Julia Merola (<i>Her Campus</i>, May 3, 2024).<br>
513. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/one-season-passes-and-another-begins>One Season Passes and Another Begins</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, April 11, 2024).<br>
514. <a href=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marianne-williamson-democratic-presidential-bid-campaign-isnt-winning/story?id=108316131>Marianne Williamson, Still in Democratic Presidential Bid, Says Campaign Isn’t About Winning: “There’s More Than the Horse Race”</a> – Isabella Murray (<i>ABC News</i>, March 29, 2024).<br>
515. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/why-i-keep-going>Why I Keep Going</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 16, 2024).<br>
516. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/in-hopes-of-a-future-harvest>In Hopes of a Future Harvest</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 13, 2024).<br>
517. <a href=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-cease-fire-activists-use-marianne-williamson-primary-vessel-rcna143831>How Marianne Williamson’s Name Became the Placeholder for “Uncommitted” Protesters in Arizona</a> – Alex Tabet (<i>NBC News</i>, March 19, 2024).<br>
518. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/primary-purpose-and-power>Primary Purpose and Power</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 12, 2024).<br>
519. <a href=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marianne-williamson-surprises-coming-second-multiple-states-leapfrogging-dean-phillips>Marianne Williamson Surprises by Coming In Second in Multiple States, Leapfrogging Dean Phillips</a> – Timothy H.J. Nerozzi (<i>Fox News</i>, March 6, 2024).<br>
520. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/i-remain-in-the-race>I Remain in the Race</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 6, 2024).<br>
521. <a href=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marianne-williamson-returns-presidential-race-saying-biden-vulnerable-trump>Marianne Williamson Returns to Presidential Race, Saying Biden Is Vulnerable Against Trump</a> –  Anders Hagstrom (<i>Fox News</i>, February 28, 2024).<br>
522. <a href=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/20/biden-economy-campaign-message-better>Biden and Other Centrist Democrats Keep Bragging About the Economy. But Here’s the Problem</a> – Perry Bacon Jr. (<i>The Washington Post</i>, February 20, 2024).<br>
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525. <br>
526. <center><b>See also:</b> <a href=https://marianne2024.com>Marianne 2024 Official Site</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/meet-marianne>About</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/issues>Issues</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/latest-news>News</a> | <a href=https://events.marianne2024.com>Events</a> | <a href=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/marwilliamson2024>Donate</a></center>
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528. <br>
529. <b>For <i>The Wild Reed</i>’s coverage of Marianne Williamson’s 2024 presidential campaign, see the following chronologically-ordered posts:</b><br>
530. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/marianne-2024.html>Marianne 2024</a><br>
531. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/marianne-williamson-launches-2024.html>Marianne Williamson Launches 2024 Presidential Campaign</a><br>
532. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/progressive-perspectives-on-marianne.html>Progressive Perspectives on Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Run</a><br>
533. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/more-progressive-perspectives-on.html>More Progressive Perspectives on Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Run</a><br>
534. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/quote-of-day_0894107181.html>Ben Burgis: Quote of the Day – March 10, 2023</a><br>
535. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/despite-undemocratic-antics-of-dnc.html>Despite the Undemocratic Antics of the DNC, Marianne Williamson Plans on “Winning the Nomination”</a><br>
536. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-biblical-roots-of-from-each.html>The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”</a><br>
537. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/marianne-williamson-on-next-revolution.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton</i> – 05/30/23</a><br>
538. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/marianne-williamsons-economic-bill-of.html>Marianne Williamson’s Economic Bill of Rights</a><br>
539. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/three-progressive-voices-on-war-in.html>Three Progressive Voices on the War in Ukraine</a><br>
540. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/quote-of-day_27.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 27, 2023</a><br>
541. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/marianne-williamson-on-issue-is-with.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>The Issue Is</i> with Elex Michaelson – 07/20/23</a><br>
542. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/voters-not-dnc-should-choose-nominee.html>Voters, Not the DNC, Should Choose the Nominee</a><br>
543. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/marianne-williamson-in-new-hampshire.html>Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire</a><br>
544. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-repairing-our.html>Marianne Williamson: “Repairing Our Hearts Is Essential to Repairing Our Country”</a><br>
545. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-on-trumps-day-in.html>Marianne Williamson on Trump’s Day in Court</a><br>
546. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-on-news-nation.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>NewsNation</i> – 08/25/23</a><br>
547. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/09/presidential-candidate-marianne.html>Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson Joins NYC’s March to End Fossil Fuels</a><br>
548. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamson-on-your-world-10623.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>Your World</i> – 10/6/23</a><br>
549. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamsons-radical-idea.html>Marianne Williamson’s “Radical Idea” of Putting People First</a><br>
550. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamson-we-need-to-disrupt.html>Marianne Williamson: “We Need to Disrupt the Corrupt”</a><br>
551. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/we-are-surging.html>“We Are Surging”</a><br>
552. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/let-people-decide-marianne-williamson.html>“Let the People Decide”: Marianne Williamson on the DNC’s Efforts to Deny and Suppress the Democratic Process</a><br>
553. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/live-democratic-presidential-debate.html>Democratic Presidential Debate: Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips – 1/8/24</a><br>
554. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-democrats-challenging-biden.html>The Democrats Challenging Biden</a><br>
555. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/bannering-for-marianne.html>Bannering for Marianne</a><br>
556. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in.html>Campaigning for Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire – Day 1</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_21.html>2</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_23.html>3</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_2.html>4</a><br>
557. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/marianne-williamson-i-have-decided-to.html>Marianne Williamson: “I Have Decided to Continue”</a><br>
558. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/marianne-williamson-in-nevada-2424.html>Marianne Williamson in Nevada – 2/4/24</a><br>
559. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/forever-grateful.html>Forever Grateful</a><br>
560. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-marianne-williamson-learned-from.html>What Marianne Williamson Learned from Running for President</a><br>
561. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/marianne-williamson-playing-it-big.html>Marianne Williamson: Playing It Big</a><br>
562. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/minnesotans-launch-super-tuesday-push.html>Minnesotans Launch Super Tuesday Push for “Suspended But Not Ended” Candidate Marianne Williamson</a><br>
563. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-welcome-return.html>A Welcome Return</a><br>
564. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-super-tuesday-dont-be-uncommitted.html>This Super Tuesday, Don’t Be “Uncommitted” . . .</a><br>
565. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/super-tuesday.html>Super Tuesday in Minnesota</a><br>
566. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/marianne-williamson-cassandra-of-us.html>Marianne Williamson, the Cassandra of U.S. Politics, on the “True State of the Union”</a><br>
567. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/marianne-williamson-in-arizona-31724.html>Marianne Williamson in Arizona – 3/17/24</a><br>
568. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-is-moment.html>“This Is the Moment”</a><br>
569. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/marianne-williamson-on-washington.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>Washington Journal</i> (4/2/24) and <i>The Letterhack</i> (4/4/24)</a><br>
570. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/for-marianne-williamson-one-season.html>For Marianne Williamson, One Season Passes and Another Begins</a><br>
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572. <b>See also:</b><br>
573. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/we-must-challenge-entire-system.html>Marianne Williamson: “We Must Challenge the Entire System”</a><br>
574. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/marianne-williamson-on-current.html>Marianne Williamson on the Current Condition of the U.S.</a><br>
575. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/09/marianne-williamsons-politics-of-love.html>Marianne Williamson’s Politics of Love: The Rich Roll Interview</a><br>
576. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/03/if-only-we-could-hear-voices-like-this.html>Now Here’s a Voice I’d Like to Hear Regularly on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows</a><br>
577. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-deeper-perspective-on-whats-really.html>A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking American Democracy</a><br>
578. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/marianne-williamson-on-10th-anniversary.html>Marianne Williamson on the Tenth Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street</a><br>
579. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/marianne-williamson-on-how-centrist.html>Marianne Williamson on How Centrist Democrats Abuse Voters with False Promises</a><br>
580. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/two-of-most-dedicated-and-enlightened.html>“Two of the Most Dedicated and Enlightened Heroes of Present Day America”</a><br>
581. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/04/deep-gratitude.html>Deep Gratitude</a><br>
582. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-beautiful-message-full-of-greatness.html>“A Beautiful Message, So Full of Greatness”</a><br>
583. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/11/marianne-williamson-anything-that-will.html>Marianne Williamson: “Anything That Will Help People Thrive, I’m Interested In”</a><br>
584. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/08/caitlin-johnstone-status-quo.html>Caitlin Johnstone: “Status Quo Politicians Are Infinitely ‘Weirder’ Than Marianne Williamson”</a></span><br />
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589. My <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html>2024 Australian sojourn</a> continued April 28-30 with a road-trip from <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundanoon,_New_South_Wales>Bundanoon</a> to <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulburn>Goulburn</a>, via <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batemans_Bay>Batesmans Bay</a> and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidwood,_New_South_Wales>Braidwood</a>. Accompanying me on this trip were my friends Kerry and Kate.<br>
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591. Following are some photos of our travels.<br>
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593. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho5PMPIo7ruOqmqVcJgi9sRe5BREHgXhH5pS3nrUvyMekBN24W_imdcFEa7Xa9snmNnWcUa1js1W0FnrXsfS3GMHfC0vnPSOjHo1-YebFsni1mJSRB3DK4mXE6JDei0-_R0uwMh1OFSuHSZKE0dILW6ThuAk0f-DOJJI6Qa8eNpr_4K0CkqB-iog/s3946/IMG_9579b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2937" data-original-width="3946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho5PMPIo7ruOqmqVcJgi9sRe5BREHgXhH5pS3nrUvyMekBN24W_imdcFEa7Xa9snmNnWcUa1js1W0FnrXsfS3GMHfC0vnPSOjHo1-YebFsni1mJSRB3DK4mXE6JDei0-_R0uwMh1OFSuHSZKE0dILW6ThuAk0f-DOJJI6Qa8eNpr_4K0CkqB-iog/s400/IMG_9579b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
594. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiEF7oJElWHuA4IsTY-KurjkGtlfeNOgfREEyLOEjq51PXjNa1J01uhJmkHexEZb_g1p41uofGV9QE42jScUs9OYMlOqOudvqTXZ5mUVFBkwaHDGTK6cR9LthKXzOC9qTT1RKVq1Ksq31y84ODMgYgMPPhM1uGMrNvhaTk62RyZrlEJU51QT-fA/s3426/IMG_9582b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAiEF7oJElWHuA4IsTY-KurjkGtlfeNOgfREEyLOEjq51PXjNa1J01uhJmkHexEZb_g1p41uofGV9QE42jScUs9OYMlOqOudvqTXZ5mUVFBkwaHDGTK6cR9LthKXzOC9qTT1RKVq1Ksq31y84ODMgYgMPPhM1uGMrNvhaTk62RyZrlEJU51QT-fA/s200/IMG_9582b.JPG"/></a></div><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> While in the Southern Highlands town of Bundanoon, Kate and I stayed at the <a href=https://www.bundanoonhotel.com.au>Bundanoon Hotel</a>, built in 1922.<br>
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598. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Left:</span></b> A sweeping view of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_National_Park>Morton National Park</a> from a look-out just outside of Bundanoon.<br>
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601. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Typical Australian road signs.</center><br>
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604. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> When in Batemans Bay we stayed at <a href=https://quayshotel.com.au>Quays Hotel</a>.</center><br>
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606. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0hNrUt8SbVebR98HHbIYprRIjDLAACzkeDyIcqgiu83-tkdtDrB32eD7qhLYfcWrfINoNvxNgrgqXzJPJAlbhbCLoi18azgDVqUb39nKaxi0dGRxAo_eUaeEzXhemzBej5mOuuIY64fFF9I6ufT1VBFN2PK2uqXKwm6aU67O4zGd7NqsUhUyBfA/s4032/IMG_9678.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0hNrUt8SbVebR98HHbIYprRIjDLAACzkeDyIcqgiu83-tkdtDrB32eD7qhLYfcWrfINoNvxNgrgqXzJPJAlbhbCLoi18azgDVqUb39nKaxi0dGRxAo_eUaeEzXhemzBej5mOuuIY64fFF9I6ufT1VBFN2PK2uqXKwm6aU67O4zGd7NqsUhUyBfA/s400/IMG_9678.JPG"/></a></div><br>
607. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtzjP3Z_XqHAbTNFSd721b5r1SW1mvv-m4O8ckaiMQsmMopSzA57Xj83C0C18lVD-bqqo29hIXOk6gz7Cp_KuxdcQJJwcbTn5PT9lPGY2NjIVM-CCNOI_Wam-Hv16cWCFE1lzS9uop54oyKKRVXh5YVzFXiR8h35w-fcr7JIgXjEukO5gO9LzYpw/s1267/IMG_9697b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="1267" data-original-width="1124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtzjP3Z_XqHAbTNFSd721b5r1SW1mvv-m4O8ckaiMQsmMopSzA57Xj83C0C18lVD-bqqo29hIXOk6gz7Cp_KuxdcQJJwcbTn5PT9lPGY2NjIVM-CCNOI_Wam-Hv16cWCFE1lzS9uop54oyKKRVXh5YVzFXiR8h35w-fcr7JIgXjEukO5gO9LzYpw/s200/IMG_9697b.JPG"/></a></div><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Dusk at Batemans Bay – Sunday, April 28, 2024.<br>
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611. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Right:</span></b> With my friend Kerry on Surf Beach, just south of Batemans Bay.
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616. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above and below:</span></b> Sunrise at Surf Beach – Monday, April 29, 2024.</center><br>
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620. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>nce again the earth has completed its 24-hour turnaround and again has come to face the brilliance of our sun-star. As its light floods the darkness of space, may the Spirit that sings its ageless song continuously in the cave of my heart now flood my heart with the rays of light eternal.<br>
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622. As the sounds of life begin this Monday, may my voice be one with the chorus of all creation which rejoices in the ripeness of autumn. May this morning prayer echo through my every deed of this new day.</blockquote><br>
623. <div style="text-align: right;">– <b><i>Edward Hays</i></b><br>
624. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “The Season of Autumn – Monday Morning Prayer”<br>
625. in <a href=https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/prayers-for-a-planetary-pilgrim-a-personal-manual-for-prayer-and-ritual-9780939516100><i>Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim</i></a><br>
626. Forest of Peace Books, 1989</span></div><br>
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629. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-tailed_black_cockatoo>Yellow-tailed black cockatoos</a> depicted in the style of Indigenous Australians.<br>
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631. <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batemans_Bay>Notes</a> Wikipedia:<br>
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633. <blockquote>The traditional custodians of the land surrounding Batemans Bay are the Walbunja people of the Yuin nation. The language spoken by the Walbunja people is Dhurga, one of the Yuin-Kuric languages. A number of sites in the region are considered culturally significant to the Walbunja people, such as Bhundoo [now generally known as the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_River_(New_South_Wales)>Clyde River</a> Estuary].</blockquote><br>
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638. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> The <a href=https://royalmailhotelbraidwood.com.au>Royal Mail Hotel</a> in <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidwood,_New_South_Wales>Braidwood</a>, a New South Wales town inland from Batemans Bay.<br>
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642. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Kate and I enjoying lunch at Braidwood’s Royal Mail Hotel – Monday, April 29, 2024.<br>
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646. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> A view of the starkly beautiful landscape between Braidwood and Goulburn.<br>
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652. <span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulburn>Goulburn</a>, Australia’s oldest inland city and a place I once called home.<br>
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654. I lived and <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/fragments-from-past-life.html>taught</a> in Goulburn from 1988 until the end of 1993, prior to my <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/12/20-years-stateside.html>relocation to the U.S.</a> in January of 1994.<br>
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656. While in Goulburn this past Monday and Tuesday (April 29-30), I caught up with three of my former teaching colleagues – Mike, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/goulburn.html>Gerry</a> and Carmel (pictured <b><span style="color: #274e13;">below</span></b>), at the <a href=https://www.goulburnworkers.com.au/>Goulburn Workers Club</a>. It was a very meaningful and enjoyable experience.<br>
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660. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Kate, my dear Minnesotan friend . . . and my traveling companion on this first week of my Australian sojourn – Goulburn, Tuesday, April 30, 2024.<br>
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664. On Wednesday, May 1, Kate and I left Goulburn and drove 7 hours south to Hanging Rock. On our way we stopped to visit the famous “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_on_the_Tuckerbox>Dog on the Tuckerbox</a>,” just outside of the town of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundagai>Gundagai</a>.<br>
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669. <center><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>NEXT:</b></span><br>
670. <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024_6.html>Hanging Rock</a></center><br>
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673. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
674. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/farewell-minnesota-spring.html>Farewell Minnesota Spring</a><br>
675. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html>Hello Australia Autumn!</a><br>
676. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-season-of-listening.html>A Season of Listening</a><br>
677. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/08/journey-to-southern-highlands.html>Journey to the Southern Highlands & Tablelands</a> – Exeter and Mt. Alexandra (2017)<br>
678. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/08/journey-to-southern-highlands-tablelands.html>Journey to the Southern Highlands & Tablelands</a> – Bundanoon and the Sunnataram Forest Monastery (2017)<br>
679. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/fragments-from-past-life.html>Remnants of a Past Life (Part I)</a><br>
680. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-fragments-from-life-past.html>Remnants of a Past Life (Part II)</a><br>
681. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/08/goulburn-revisited.html>Goulburn Revisited (2006)</a><br>
682. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/09/goulburn-landmarks.html>Goulburn Landmarks (2006)</a><br>
683. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/09/goulburn-reunion.html>Goulburn Reunion (2006)</a><br>
684. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/01/southern-highlands.html>The Southern Highlands (2007)</a><br>
685. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/04/australian-sojourn-march-2015.html>Australian Sojourn – March 2015: Goulburn</a><br>
686. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/08/australian-sojourn-may-2016_22.html>Australian Sojourn – May 2016: Goulburn</a><br>
687. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/08/journey-to-southern-highlands-tablelands_18.html>Australian Sojourn – May 2017: Goulburn and Canberra</a><br>
688. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/goulburn.html>Australian Sojourn – March 2023: Goulburn</a><br>
689. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-australian-roots-of-my-progressive.html>The Australian Roots of My Progressive Catholicism</a><br>
690. <br>
691. <b>Images:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br>
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693. <br>
694. I find it to be a very worthwhile interview; perhaps you will too. Following is an excerpt.<br>
695. <br><center>______________________</center><br>
696. <br>
697. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Sc_9wf6QTR3bXeKUVldtvFXP63OiTh3XFVLBJRzrNWk6s9BlHCcrojYbu9VqUbV0Kb2obOI-Jrl7-rf6kKi49R5J8anq-JsV9HsN0knEqBf4hj9eKQF3DFg9MTxwbssq45uhlfTydcu4JCxnBn1xQDWkzH2QdwmzdG4rLHZopIP3BDF6GFYD2w/s416/StudentProtester-1.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Sc_9wf6QTR3bXeKUVldtvFXP63OiTh3XFVLBJRzrNWk6s9BlHCcrojYbu9VqUbV0Kb2obOI-Jrl7-rf6kKi49R5J8anq-JsV9HsN0knEqBf4hj9eKQF3DFg9MTxwbssq45uhlfTydcu4JCxnBn1xQDWkzH2QdwmzdG4rLHZopIP3BDF6GFYD2w/s200/StudentProtester-1.PNG"/></a></div><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">V</span>ery often when it comes to Israel–Palestine, we hear people say, “Well, it’s so complex.” I think for many of the young people, it’s not that complex. This is a genocidal violence being enacted against the Palestinian people in Gaza. And it is obvious and it is clear, and they have the footage and they circulate the footage and they know it.<br>
698. <br>
699. They’re also reading: They’re getting the history of Zionism. They’re getting the history of occupation. They’re getting the history of Gaza. They’re learning online and in seminars and in their own colleges. And the mobilization is born of an unequivocal conviction – not just that the bombardments and killings, the loss now of over 34,000 Palestinian lives is horrific. Not just that, but the history of Zionism, the history of occupation, the structure of apartheid within the state of Israel, the fact that Palestinians remain stateless or living within administrative authorities that do not have full state powers and do not represent full political self-determination. And that even now, Palestinians who live within the state of Israel, within its current boundaries, they also are suffering harassment, violence, and second-class citizenship in many different ways.<br>
700. <br>
701. I think that there is a broad educational effort happening here. And I like the fact that education is being mixed with activism because activism should be informed. And sometimes we see ill-informed instances, like somebody yelling, “Jews go back to Poland.” No, that’s not acceptable.<br>
702. <br>
703. What does the liberation of Palestine mean? What does it look like? Well, in my view, it means that Palestinians and Jews and other inhabitants of that land will find a way to live together. Either next to each other or with one another, under conditions of radical equality, where occupation is dismantled and all the colonial structures associated with occupation is dismantled.<br>
704. <br>
705. It doesn’t mean pushing Jews off the land. It does mean, in my mind and in many people’s minds, the taking down of settlements and the redistribution of that land to Palestinians who lived there. And it does mean, in my mind and in the mind of many others, a just way of thinking about the right of return for Palestinians who have suffered forcible exile and who wish to return to the lands or at least to the region, or to have compensation or acknowledgment for what they have suffered.<br>
706. <br>
707. . . . [W]hat’s behind the slogan [“Free Palestine”]? . . . Yes, I want to free Palestine from colonization, from bombardment violence, from settlements, from military and police detention. I want to see freedom from all of those things. But then we also have to ask: Freedom to do what? What will freedom look like? How will it be organized? How will people live together in a free Palestine, or in a free Palestine–Israel, whatever it may be called, or in two states who will have to have a negotiated agreement or a federated model?<br>
708. <br>
709. A lot of people have been thinking about this for a long time, so I think I would like to see more seminars in the street, seminars on college campuses that try to take apart the slogans – distinguish the hateful slogans, the ignorant ones, the antisemitic ones from those that are actually helping to realize justice and freedom and equality in that land.<br>
710. <br>
711. So if we were to have another public seminar on these campuses where everybody is assembled, it should surely be on academic freedom as well. Academic freedom means that educators have a right to teach what they want, to build their own curriculum, to express their ideas without the interference of state and without the interference of donors.<br>
712. <br>
713. But I think that’s also collapsing right now as donors, we see at Columbia University, are making threats to withdraw funds, that also happened at Harvard and elsewhere. Also state powers, governments pressuring universities to suppress the rights of speech and assembly that their students have. These are forms of interference in university and college environments that ought properly to be protected from that interference. That is what academic freedom is.</blockquote><br>
714. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Judith Butler</i></b><br />
715. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/judith-butler-israel-hamas-freedom-speech>Judith Butler Will Not Co-Sign<br>
716. Israel’s Alibi for Genocide</a>”<br />
717. <i>The Intercept</i><br>
718. May 1, 2024</span></div><br />
719. <br>
720. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdotyuhO9CdMIDZgjAv6vYx3x2lH6KGRXjXARB0MUQ5Mh98W5K21kOYG3z8d7wv6cWJKR9iuLyhtgAfo9uGfdovtFTtDriVO3wwYt-GlsfKnURbxZvIsBvq28pFs2pH1rsvIrnWN2XaKjy3igQLUqqyFYsAS0tNiTwRNlwPFWQwUlt5-EKNo3AIQ/s1080/IMG_0057.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdotyuhO9CdMIDZgjAv6vYx3x2lH6KGRXjXARB0MUQ5Mh98W5K21kOYG3z8d7wv6cWJKR9iuLyhtgAfo9uGfdovtFTtDriVO3wwYt-GlsfKnURbxZvIsBvq28pFs2pH1rsvIrnWN2XaKjy3igQLUqqyFYsAS0tNiTwRNlwPFWQwUlt5-EKNo3AIQ/s400/IMG_0057.JPG"/></a></div><br>
721. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
722. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/1/columbia_university_israel_gaza_police_raid>Campus Crackdown: 300+ Arrested in Police Raids on Columbia and CCNY to Clear Gaza Encampments</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (May 1, 2024).<br>
723. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/nationwide-crackdown-campus-protests>“Are We in a Police State?” Progressives Demand End to Crackdown on Campus Protests</a> – Jake Johnson (<i>Common Dreams</i>, May 1, 2024).<br>
724. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/biden-hypocrisy-campus-protests>The Biden Administration's Hypocrisy on College Protests Must End</a> – Edward Ahmed Mitchell and Shafiquil Mushna (<i>Common Dreams</i>, May 1, 2024).<br>
725. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/30/omer_bartov>Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponizing Antisemitism, and  Silencing Dissent</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 30, 2024).<br>
726. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/holocaust-survivors-gaza-genocide>Holocaust Survivor Tells Student Anti-Genocide Protesters: “Just Keep Doing It”</a> – Bret Wilkins (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 25, 2024).<br>
727. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/23/columbia_university_joseph_slaughter>Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU, and Yale</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 23, 2024).<br>
728. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/22/west_bank>“Collective Punishment”: As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 22, 2024).<br>
729. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/mass-grave-gaza-nasser-hospital>“Obvious Evidence of Genocide”: Mass Grave Discovered in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital</a> – Olivia Rosane (<i>Common Dreams</i>,April 21, 2024).<br>
730. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdRk7Wptjg>The Memory of the Holocaust Is Abused by Zionists as a “Weapon”: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein</a> – <i>TRT World</i> (April 19, 2024).<br>
731. <a href=https://truthout.org/articles/nicaragua-takes-germany-to-the-world-court-for-facilitating-israels-genocide>Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide</a> – Marjorie Cohn (<i>TruthOut</i>, April 13, 2024).<br>
732. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-still-blocking-aid>“Genocidal Actions” Persist in Gaza as Israel Blocks Aid and U.S. Weapons Flow</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 12, 2024).<br>
733. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgGq-N8Q7d0>Journalist Abby Martin Explains Why She Considers Israel’s Actions in Gaza to Constitute Genocide</a> – <i>Middle East Eye</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
734. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEltgY-Z8nY>Briahna Joy Gray Unpacks IDF Lies About the Slaughter of World Central Kitchen Aid Workers in Gaza</a> – <i>Rising</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
735. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/3/israel_aid_attack_jan_egeland>“A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza Faces Famine</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
736. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-2667597341>Draft U.N, Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide</a> – Brett Wilkins (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 25, 2024).<br>
737. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/25/gaza>As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of “Most Intense Famine” Since WW2</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 25, 2024).<br>
738. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/22/nahreen_ahmed_medglobal_gaza_healthcare_crisis>“Children Are Dying”: Doctor Just Back from Gaza Describes Severe Malnutrition and Preventable Infections</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 22, 2024).<br>
739. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-child-rights-gaza>U.N. Panel Says IDF Appears Set on “Physical Destruction of Palestinian Children”</a> – Jake Johnson (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 22, 2024).<br>
740. <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/21/sale-weapons-israel-palestinian-human-rights>There Is No Moral Argument That Justifies the Sale of Weapons to Israel</a> – Mary Lawlor (<i>The Guardian</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
741. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-israel-support>Former U.S. Diplomat Says “Collaboration” in Gaza Genocide Could Make Biden “Target of Prosecution”</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
742. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQDaC5enGY&t=158s>The West Is Complicit in Israel’s Genocide</a> – Yanis Varoufakis amd Raoul Martinez (Novara Media, February 17, 2024).<br>
743. <a href=https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/10/29/hala-alyan-why-must-palestinians>Why Must Palestinians Audition for Your Empathy?</a> – Hala Alyan (<i>Salt Lake Tribune</i>, October 29, 2023).<br>
744. <br>
745. <b>UPDATES:</b> <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-campus-protests>Biden Condemned for Ahistorical and “Politically Suicidal” Attack on Campus Protests</a> – Jake Johnson (<i>Common Dreams</i>, May 2, 2024).<br>
746. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/kent-state-gaza>On Kent State Massacre Anniversary, Progressives Decry Repression of Student Protests</a> – Brett Wilkins (<i>Common Dreams</i>, May 4, 2024).<br>
747. <br>
748. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
749. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/naomi-kleins-powerful-words-on-gaza.html>Naomi Klein’s Powerful Words on Israel’s and the West’s Ongoing Gaza Genocide</a><br>
750. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/outrage-and-despair.html>Outrage and Despair</a><br>
751. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/this-is-genocidal-project.html>“This Is a Genocidal Project”</a><br>
752. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-genocide-has-been-normalized.html>“A Genocide Has Been Normalized”</a><br>
753. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on_22.html>Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
754. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/more-voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on.html>More Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
755. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/quote-of-day.html>Josh Paul: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
756. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/quote-of-day.html>Phyllis Bennis: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
757. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/quote-of-day_049051479.html>Michael Fakhri: Quote of the Day – February 27, 2024</a><br>
758. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/quote-of-day.html>Sabrina Salvati: Quote of the Day – January 2, 2024</a><br>
759. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/christmas-2023-reflections-activism-art.html>Christmas 2023 – Reflections, Activism, Art, and Celebrations</a><br>
760. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/quote-of-day.html>Jehad Abusalim: Quote of the Day – December 8, 2023</a><br>
761. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/quote-of-day.html>Ta-Nehisi Coates: Quote of the Day – November 2, 2023</a><br>
762. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/in-midst-of-great-unraveling-visit-to.html>In the Midst of the “Great Unraveling,” a Visit to the Prayer Tree</a><br>
763. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/prayer-of-week.html>Prayer of the Week – October 16, 2023</a><br>
764. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/something-to-think-about.html>Something to Think About – October 12, 2023</a><br>
765. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/quote-of-day_11.html>Eric Levitz: Quote of the Day – October 11, 2023</a><br>
766. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/phyllis-bennis-if-we-are-serious-about.html>Phyllis Bennis: “If We Are Serious About Ending This Spiraling Violence, We Need to Look at Root Causes”</a><br>
767. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/nothing-about-today-is-unprovoked.html>“Nothing About Today is ‘Unprovoked’”</a><br>
768. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-mistreatment-and-discrimination.html>“The Mistreatment and Discrimination Against Palestinians Is Not Unprecedented. It’s Baked Into the Foundation of the Political System in Israel”</a><br>
769. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/05/progressive-perspectives-on-ongoing.html>Progressive Perspectives on the Ongoing Israeli-Palestinian “Nightmare” (2021)</a><br>
770. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/07/something-to-think-about_29.html>Something to Think About – July 29, 2018</a><br>
771. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/05/quote-of-day_15.html>Noura Erakat: Quote of the Day – May 15, 2018</a><br>
772. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/for-some-jews-israels-treatment-of.html>For Some Jews, Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians is Yet Another Jewish Tragedy</a><br>
773. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/06/remembering-six-day-war-and-its-ongoing.html>Remembering the Six-Day War and Its Ongoing Aftermath</a><br>
774. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/quote-of-day_12.html>David Norris: Quote of the Day – August 12, 2014</a></span><br>
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776. <center><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Australian Sojourn 2024</span> • Part 1</span></center><br>
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778. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WFVC87efD19bYih6llV9AC2is_huTjUFe4nJpBwQwmYYEXX1zGFQC7XH15AKydLHWVrCegxoCAEGcTfl0BaJl2u-iBZBlskUuWjEFxLlfSQgL5gbZ56zkiwV7oxXRjZkxesyt9C_2DbixAO1RqHNDfWoHltq0b7T3UaBhhdB4IjUIi3noSBjNw/s542/IMG_9351b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WFVC87efD19bYih6llV9AC2is_huTjUFe4nJpBwQwmYYEXX1zGFQC7XH15AKydLHWVrCegxoCAEGcTfl0BaJl2u-iBZBlskUuWjEFxLlfSQgL5gbZ56zkiwV7oxXRjZkxesyt9C_2DbixAO1RqHNDfWoHltq0b7T3UaBhhdB4IjUIi3noSBjNw/s200/IMG_9351b.JPG"/></a></div>I arrived two days ago from <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/farewell-minnesota-spring.html>spring in Minnesota</a> to autumn in my homeland of Australia. I’ll be in the Great South Land for a month, and as it’s been over a year since I was <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/central-station.html>last in my <i>first</i> home</a>, I’m very much looking forward to reconnecting with family and friends.<br>
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780. Although in leaving Minnesota at this time of year I will be missing the <i>literal</i> blossoming of spring – one of my favorite natural occurences of the year, I’m already enjoying the autumn colours of Australia as, with my American friend Kate, I’m currently in the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Highlands_(New_South_Wales)>Southern Highlands</a> of New South Wales.<br>
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782. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj06O-pIYvePOrtNM_RDtnUNkE01rXMDgSSG-FVn-6QYl-_Y4zOxuLxKGEc8eLfyQAhb0BfqyHN3mUbqhdWgxJAZDO4Vy_e0afw6bQgrse7AKm3TRNpRttXRfwF4r-_TnFRohejwsvU5WYAYMd7NFAGXQ4UJxY9ZjgPJW5jYRIwerqfWyKv00eD5w/s4032/IMG_9311.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj06O-pIYvePOrtNM_RDtnUNkE01rXMDgSSG-FVn-6QYl-_Y4zOxuLxKGEc8eLfyQAhb0BfqyHN3mUbqhdWgxJAZDO4Vy_e0afw6bQgrse7AKm3TRNpRttXRfwF4r-_TnFRohejwsvU5WYAYMd7NFAGXQ4UJxY9ZjgPJW5jYRIwerqfWyKv00eD5w/s400/IMG_9311.JPG"/></a></div><br>
783. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNa5S9jZSQgAG0DTzamPZOmRStDG61HvMMlSFb-GtvENnMOm3d23uiv00FJHaWCLkftumnDxyKI8U7Q6BeDt1dgiJ1nW3mS5KuRR84vX_gEAbPFaq5IRNFrAIjgGzQQNMp2j4PFzaYmk2yeak_APvfDTcpk3c27dsjkwzOJIEoBuNGEW6hYnrU3A/s2818/IMG_9317b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; clear: right; float: right;"><img alt="" border="0" height="200" data-original-height="2818" data-original-width="2117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNa5S9jZSQgAG0DTzamPZOmRStDG61HvMMlSFb-GtvENnMOm3d23uiv00FJHaWCLkftumnDxyKI8U7Q6BeDt1dgiJ1nW3mS5KuRR84vX_gEAbPFaq5IRNFrAIjgGzQQNMp2j4PFzaYmk2yeak_APvfDTcpk3c27dsjkwzOJIEoBuNGEW6hYnrU3A/s200/IMG_9317b.JPG"/></a></div><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> As we were coming in to land, I gave my phone to the boy sitting two seats over from me so he could snap this pic of Sydney Harbour. I had the aisle seat in our row – by choice! 😄<br>
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786. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Right:</span></b> Looking a bit bleary-eyed after the 14-hour flight to Sydney from San Francisco, but ready to “Disrupt the Corrupt”! . . . This is the rally-cry for <a href=https://marianne.com>Marianne Williamson</a>’s 2024 <a href=https://marianne2024.com>presidential campaign</a>.<br>
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791. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWKEbPQjhE0cFyG2mfmTHsVEvTLH5UWjESIvalgShYcl90-QlbvmsxRv4RfbibPuYzcFb3khLNZnetEA0BGKA62enb9_8D8zc0P8akO5QgYX17f4_H7DnN_CNwNuztZ1wJBli2DcGPb6HIM_Wy-zjViF709Q8pbVUady8RZHB4MURFcScTDm5pcg/s3253/IMG_9336b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" data-original-height="3253" data-original-width="2727" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWKEbPQjhE0cFyG2mfmTHsVEvTLH5UWjESIvalgShYcl90-QlbvmsxRv4RfbibPuYzcFb3khLNZnetEA0BGKA62enb9_8D8zc0P8akO5QgYX17f4_H7DnN_CNwNuztZ1wJBli2DcGPb6HIM_Wy-zjViF709Q8pbVUady8RZHB4MURFcScTDm5pcg/s320/IMG_9336b.JPG"/></a></div><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> My American friend <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in.html>Kate</a> with my Australian friends <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/08/journey-to-southern-highlands.html>Kerry and Max</a> – <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundanoon,_New_South_Wales>Bundanoon</a>, N.S.W., Sunday, April 28, 2024.<br>
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794. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Right:</span></b> Outside the <a href=https://www.babydragon.bar>Baby Dragon Bar</a> in <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown,_New_South_Wales>Newtown</a>, an inner-city suburb (or neighborhood) of Sydney – Friday, April 26, 2024.<br>
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796. Kate has been in Australia for over two weeks. She’s based herself in Newtown and has been enjoying the sights of Sydney and the Blue Mountains. Before returning to the U.S. in mid-May, Kate is accompanying me to the New South Wales locales of the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Highlands_(New_South_Wales)>Southern Highlands</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batemans_Bay>Batemans Bay</a>, and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulburn>Goulburn</a>, and to <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Rock,_Victoria>Hanging Rock</a> in Victoria.<br>
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799. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Newtown streetscape – Friday, April 26, 2024. I was last in Newtown in <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/12/newtown.html>2008</a>.<br>
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803. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> The <a href=https://www.theurbannewtown.com.au>Urban Newtown</a>, where my friend Kate stayed while in Sydney.<br>
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807. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> The <a href=https://www.theoldnunnery.com>Old Nunnery Bed-and-Breakfast</a> in the Southern Highlands town of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss_Vale>Moss Vale</a>, where Kate and I stayed on my first night back in Australia – Friday, April 26, 2024.<br>
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810. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnoiGzivwBOXaBuyeYz07RBB8x9q09QEIlBL0v_zskRiRztrZbdK_lbM1z1cSzW6jhYE9_pSzP89ExqW-rndHPNkfAMyARYH6SGLxNnQg61mzoYzDYBwXv-FavTOMCq7ewmEjBeOW3poI2qagdMtlwgRyUie_rgoc-htaxdE4Dx3xQbPS_ioluuw/s3824/IMG_9487b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2868" data-original-width="3824" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnoiGzivwBOXaBuyeYz07RBB8x9q09QEIlBL0v_zskRiRztrZbdK_lbM1z1cSzW6jhYE9_pSzP89ExqW-rndHPNkfAMyARYH6SGLxNnQg61mzoYzDYBwXv-FavTOMCq7ewmEjBeOW3poI2qagdMtlwgRyUie_rgoc-htaxdE4Dx3xQbPS_ioluuw/s400/IMG_9487b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
811. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above and below:</span></b> Visiting the historic town of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berrima,_New_South_Wales>Berrima</a> – Saturday, April 27, 2024.<br>
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815. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above and below:</span></b> <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroy_Falls,_New_South_Wales>Fitzroy Falls</a> in <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_National_Park>Morton National Park</a> – Saturday, April 27, 2024.<br>
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819. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> With friends Sandra, Kerry and Max – <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/08/australian-sojourn-may-2016_30.html>Exeter</a>, Saturday, April 27, 2024.<br>
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822. <center><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>NEXT:</b></span><br>
823. <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/australian-sojourn-april-may-2024.html>Bundanoon, Batemans Bay,<br>
824. Braidwood and Goulburn</a></center><br>
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826. <br>
827. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
828. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/farewell-minnesota-spring.html>Farewell Minnesota Spring</a><br>
829. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-season-of-listening.html>A Season of Listening</a><br>
830. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/12/newtown.html>Newtown</a> (2008)<br>
831. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/08/journey-to-southern-highlands.html>Journey to the Southern Highlands & Tablelands</a> – Exeter and Mt. Alexandra (2017)<br>
832. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/08/journey-to-southern-highlands-tablelands.html>Journey to the Southern Highlands & Tablelands</a> – Bundanoon and the Sunnataram Forest Monastery (2017)<br>
833. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/08/australian-sojourn-may-2016_30.html>Exeter</a> (2016)<br>
834. <br>
835. <b>Images:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br>
836. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/6432489703186858461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=6432489703186858461' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/6432489703186858461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/6432489703186858461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html' title='Hello Australia Autumn!'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL7rvz4wlS2UEYAB-nxIpNpfa_DhLuBQcJdiBzEr_gxM54VC5XGd-DfkeJxYDy7bdoVIk0AAxN_0LO6TC1ce9_YHn0pbOlHbJeYqtlkr0IebtPsv6KCp0vgOil0-Z-zxIi5M09BNWxeY9KMgyK307Yge6IBY6M3VP3qL0s5HqdVgL4q7ZlwMHl_A/s72-c/IMG_9710c.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-3028685442191346662</id><published>2024-04-24T08:00:00.080-05:00</published><updated>2024-05-04T20:42:08.697-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spring"/><title type='text'>Farewell Minnesota Spring</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGJ4MVxNZhj64wOWXcEFKkhnnx4vFDa8MRAV2d1js3bapsCo1xsPwLLUERmnicgVZpDQsDlmr_fyD456mvVYDijw3JNMke6VCKfVHTInI90EG-JO_wFMVzk_EYt1ZwC3SvlXKUORkrkkXGGLF_tqdmcy0SJJXA1OzVuDmJS1Hs-Cy-_D-cQpYk2w/s4032/IMG_9160b.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;4032&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGJ4MVxNZhj64wOWXcEFKkhnnx4vFDa8MRAV2d1js3bapsCo1xsPwLLUERmnicgVZpDQsDlmr_fyD456mvVYDijw3JNMke6VCKfVHTInI90EG-JO_wFMVzk_EYt1ZwC3SvlXKUORkrkkXGGLF_tqdmcy0SJJXA1OzVuDmJS1Hs-Cy-_D-cQpYk2w/s400/IMG_9160b.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
837. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2y-mdG251W1L8e7A_0KsZ9apWJUxGbBk-04UHw97l5Ke5hUrZU4H-PG1VE-VERXTLJJ-kFlqbaM3sIJnJ7fpmf0bWSiTCb5pbZ0jeh219slLmGgDJheRLVjRWuUrJxJkssXfO883x4kiacbkZEFkRuuXWSLS5j4tYWJMmTXD0eeX_gOJ-aSTkw/s3088/IMG_4765c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2y-mdG251W1L8e7A_0KsZ9apWJUxGbBk-04UHw97l5Ke5hUrZU4H-PG1VE-VERXTLJJ-kFlqbaM3sIJnJ7fpmf0bWSiTCb5pbZ0jeh219slLmGgDJheRLVjRWuUrJxJkssXfO883x4kiacbkZEFkRuuXWSLS5j4tYWJMmTXD0eeX_gOJ-aSTkw/s200/IMG_4765c.JPG"/></a></div>I leave later today for my homeland of Australia. I’ll be gone for a month, and as it’s been over a year since I was <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/central-station.html>last in my <i>first</i> home</a>, I’m very much looking forward to reconnecting with family and friends.<br>
838. <br>
839. It’s been on my mind that in leaving Minnesota at this time of year I will be missing the <i>literal</i> blossoming of spring – one of my favorite natural occurences of the year. But then just yesterday the pear tree in the backyard burst forth in all its color and fragrance. What a wonderful send-off!<br>
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841. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirrFAXAyhFtlHSQN77ByVCiPZq3TXac80XiTgDKFYyKj9U9lty0Z_yfR_o16MGlcUsokoksdrYOkaNojj7T57UtKE8pvnSjmXQf3ATyEcL9kId1g5ULxkOdpnZP3oLR_ZiaYGsLimPS6iSizEawwqK5hX026K7IniCKKm87FglbXH-LCqn6x3x6Q/s3232/IMG_9291b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="2932" data-original-width="3232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirrFAXAyhFtlHSQN77ByVCiPZq3TXac80XiTgDKFYyKj9U9lty0Z_yfR_o16MGlcUsokoksdrYOkaNojj7T57UtKE8pvnSjmXQf3ATyEcL9kId1g5ULxkOdpnZP3oLR_ZiaYGsLimPS6iSizEawwqK5hX026K7IniCKKm87FglbXH-LCqn6x3x6Q/s320/IMG_9291b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
842. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaP_XdtVstuWS9V43bVjtmZahRzaPW_r5J_AFwyOy9zoGS3SACIKku44sF50LC9CsamsPO5VMNB2xwrT-6H-zTd_QCsHCV_SFKLwpOCUusNudmMS_GX2wQ0Qp-oTKsH4t9VtH4IF2-mUEww_NMU54Ko5SV9lEcxsbz4fhsFMJkLYFJyOrb6g-FQ/s2911/IMG_7573c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="2911" data-original-width="2897" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaP_XdtVstuWS9V43bVjtmZahRzaPW_r5J_AFwyOy9zoGS3SACIKku44sF50LC9CsamsPO5VMNB2xwrT-6H-zTd_QCsHCV_SFKLwpOCUusNudmMS_GX2wQ0Qp-oTKsH4t9VtH4IF2-mUEww_NMU54Ko5SV9lEcxsbz4fhsFMJkLYFJyOrb6g-FQ/s200/IMG_7573c.JPG"/></a></div>In the past few weeks – I guess since Easter, really – I’ve been making the most of the numerous days of warm (sometimes unseasonably <i>hot</i>) weather we’ve been experiencing here in the Twin Cities. This includes bringing my <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-summer-of-my-wildebeest-of-bike.html>wildebeest-of-a-bike</a> out of the garden shed and onto the bike paths along the Mississippi River near my south Minneapolis home. I’ve even twice cycled over to my friends John and Noelle’s place in the Merriam Park neighborhood of St. Paul.<br>
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844. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiumEAJJDv2Tt_eWzSczFT_MNJNiq7JvmV69jFWoUUaHJWbohMzZVKA1tQLwJ2I4tj8aMqRrJgr6C0yZOj_U1bm2In2jTisc9m0YMSjzYazonyRcv8imz83PfHacCHQpA-C5493ceVykSLEvAdD_uplHduPBqnPUnrSKu0qsZIUcjgR01cTZR6xSw/s3928/IMG_9032.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="3928" data-original-width="2950" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiumEAJJDv2Tt_eWzSczFT_MNJNiq7JvmV69jFWoUUaHJWbohMzZVKA1tQLwJ2I4tj8aMqRrJgr6C0yZOj_U1bm2In2jTisc9m0YMSjzYazonyRcv8imz83PfHacCHQpA-C5493ceVykSLEvAdD_uplHduPBqnPUnrSKu0qsZIUcjgR01cTZR6xSw/s400/IMG_9032.JPG"/></a></div>
845. <br>
846. In bidding farewell (at least for a while) to my life here in the North Star State, I share this morning some photos I’ve taken these past few weeks of both the return of spring <i>and</i> how I’ve been enjoying this welcome return.<br>
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849. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEaNHjeSojO_9V4BAY-XOxyrSN4kfXjlJv-Yyq1WfCKzWloyIPwwLDOXcBhIbzhR00nS42LYvuOpE_ckgqN777CpENd4Sq894yeMm9JNw1mJDx54Ostb8aH5_tY3W-Pgegub1PKUyHA4OLf-tZmEv9Phkgt_-TYFy4JrmJ_PDJXQtP6zO80oD69Q/s3912/IMG_7593b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="3912" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEaNHjeSojO_9V4BAY-XOxyrSN4kfXjlJv-Yyq1WfCKzWloyIPwwLDOXcBhIbzhR00nS42LYvuOpE_ckgqN777CpENd4Sq894yeMm9JNw1mJDx54Ostb8aH5_tY3W-Pgegub1PKUyHA4OLf-tZmEv9Phkgt_-TYFy4JrmJ_PDJXQtP6zO80oD69Q/s400/IMG_7593b.JPG"/></a></div>
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851. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYHl5oUzf7k90FrO0b3IdTzd5pz5u7MQCUKAtB9NmkIc7xafareBzTRjW9P7B2t4yGSIfMGOh9YNwKrMA3U9pS90IBW0wSwSnBdz8xunGKz5iwKl4kJMhcnowf5_HEy6zaDKdZvwnkxyDLK2AVeMbw4gyfoOBbDzwxMn-6NUEqtBgVpO3DPpIWnA/s3379/IMG_8206b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="3379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYHl5oUzf7k90FrO0b3IdTzd5pz5u7MQCUKAtB9NmkIc7xafareBzTRjW9P7B2t4yGSIfMGOh9YNwKrMA3U9pS90IBW0wSwSnBdz8xunGKz5iwKl4kJMhcnowf5_HEy6zaDKdZvwnkxyDLK2AVeMbw4gyfoOBbDzwxMn-6NUEqtBgVpO3DPpIWnA/s400/IMG_8206b.JPG"/></a></div>
852. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDoXXkBP9B9H4VaLfapfCK6uA1apmxBpI1ssvqhJuVekm7-72pBvatHg2FtGMRSbDkmFiL46XJWlQB0DURizl58P0pbSwxwBecowTPPlF4EZa7uCbHAmU5Dm3otKYtbOjdbk2iML5dgI2hDNwtcLRmYwC27pr0SZzmqUbcWT8H19-rLhReZTR3w/s4032/IMG_8194b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDoXXkBP9B9H4VaLfapfCK6uA1apmxBpI1ssvqhJuVekm7-72pBvatHg2FtGMRSbDkmFiL46XJWlQB0DURizl58P0pbSwxwBecowTPPlF4EZa7uCbHAmU5Dm3otKYtbOjdbk2iML5dgI2hDNwtcLRmYwC27pr0SZzmqUbcWT8H19-rLhReZTR3w/s200/IMG_8194b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
853. <br>
854. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above, right and below:</span></b> With my Palliative Care work colleagues at an after-work event on Friday, April 12, 2024.<br>
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857. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPnaXbzl3x8-wDgJJ8GEFCBR7BXkdmPRPmQMzcA0IpfAvdKTc3qD82K0HJiSb-q5-2tWIg0tWujWYSBBw_Ah4I0kYXPoDB2oq3Fg9L_mvNZX1XfEgxt6He781-vbIUk7MNZYh_mRToZrm5y42toErdKr_LrbpvFpmYITK8DMQwNVoJXBtJHRHbLw/s4032/IMG_8215b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPnaXbzl3x8-wDgJJ8GEFCBR7BXkdmPRPmQMzcA0IpfAvdKTc3qD82K0HJiSb-q5-2tWIg0tWujWYSBBw_Ah4I0kYXPoDB2oq3Fg9L_mvNZX1XfEgxt6He781-vbIUk7MNZYh_mRToZrm5y42toErdKr_LrbpvFpmYITK8DMQwNVoJXBtJHRHbLw/s400/IMG_8215b.JPG"/></a></div>
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859. Throughout the past year we tied to a wreath a ribbon for every patient we had walked with and cared for as they approached death.<br>
860. <br>
861. At our April 12 gathering we had a ritual in which we committed this wreath to the flames of a fire.<br>
862. <br>
863. As part of this ritual we shared the following words of Suzanne Guthrie from her book <a href=https://www.booktopia.com.au/grace-s-window-suzanne-guthrie/book/9780819223258.html><i>Grace’s Window: Entering the Season of Prayer</i></a>.<br>
864. <br>
865. <blockquote>A hospital can be a mysterious place, a threshold, both challenging and rewarding, upon the boundary of feelings and meanings deep within ourselves and others; a depth that some call the soul.<br>
866. <br>
867. When we interact with ourselves and others at this level, when we elicit and listen with compassion to what others say is most meaningful  in the midst of crisis and loss, we may discover we’re being invited to experience and embrace unexpected aspects of the deepest dimensions of the human condition, dimensions that some understand as sacred.</blockquote><br>
868. <br>
869. The reading from <i>Grace’s Window</i> was followed by this prayer/reflection that I wrote for our ritual.<br>
870. <br>
871. <blockquote>With Suzanne Guthrie’s words in our hearts and minds, let us honor all those life journeys that have merged with ours within the context of our work; all those life energies that have gone beyond this world and which are represented by the ribbons of this wreath.<br>
872. <br>
873. Let us also honor  the range of emotions we may feel, perhaps even be burdened by when we  remember some of the more challenging cases that we’ve given our energies to.<br>
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875. In honoring all of these journeys, lives and emotions, may we also release them to the transforming Love at the heart of all things. May we recognize the flames of this fire as a symbol of this transforming Love.<br>
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877. And in the glow of this fire, and from this moment onwards, may we and those we remember know peace.</blockquote>
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883. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> My friend Deandre and his animal companion Tyga.</center><br>
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887. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Friends John and Noelle. We enjoyed our first outdoor meal of the spring at their home in St. Paul on Sunday, April 14, 2024.<br>
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891. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Right:</span></b> With Amelia, John and Noelle’s granddaughter – Sunday, April 21, 2024.<br>
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895. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Amelia with her mother Liana, discovering how a tape recorder from the 1980s works. <br>
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899. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Left:</span></b> Amelia, rocking out to ’90s music being played on her mum’s old tape recorder – Tuesday, April 9, 2024.<br>
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902. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Penny.</center><br>
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905. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Dinner at <a href=https://soberfishrestaurant.com>Soberfish</a> with my friends Barson and Germaine – Sunday, April 7, 2024.<br>
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909. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> With my friend Kate on the day she left for a month-long visit to Australia – Monday, April 8, 2024. You may recall that in January Kate and I <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in.html>travelled to New Hampshire</a> to work with and for <a href=https://marianne.com>Marianne Williamson</a>’s <a href=https://marianne2024.com>presidential campaign</a>.<br>
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913. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> Friends Kathleen and Lori, chillin’ in my attic abode in south Minneapolis – Monday, April 15, 2024.<br>
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917. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> On Friday, April 19, 2024, a number of my Palliative Care colleagues and I enjoyed lunch at the <a href=https://midtownglobalmarket.org>Midtown Global Market</a>, close to where we work at <a href=https://www.allinahealth.org/abbott-northwestern-hospital>Abbott Northwestern Hospital</a> in Minneapolis.<br>
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921. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> My friend Joseph at <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Lake_Nature_Center>Wood Lake Nature Center</a> in Richfield, MN – Monday, April 22, 2024.<br>
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925. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above and below:</span></b> Spring in Minnesoa – April 2024.</center><br>
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931. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> My <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Saaxiib%20Qurux%20Badan><i>saaxiib qurux badan</i></a> by lamplight – Thursday, April 18, 2024.<br>
932. <br>
933. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>ur greatest power during times of chaos is to <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/02/cultivating-stillness.html>cultivate internal stillness</a>. Finding that space within ourselves – whether through prayer, mindfulness, meditation or however – we claim a <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-kind-of-light-source.html>magnetic power</a> that attracts harmony and good. You can’t bring order to a pile of iron shavings by sticking your fingers into it and trying to rearrange them. You can only do that by using a magnet. In human affairs, the Light within us is that magnet.<br>
934. <br>
935. The <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/08/being-light.html>Light within</a> us has many names, but in essence it is Love. Compassion. Forgiveness. Peace.<br>
936. <br>
937. Love is so needed now. We are starving for it. It’s painful living in such a tumultuous moment. . . . The [Light within] is the voice of Love, and it will guide us to a better place.</blockquote><br>
938. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Marianne Williamson</i></b><br />
939. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href=https://www.facebook.com/michael.bayly.904/posts/pfbid02ZWCwGPYcWxSgJQKdbQUpMpqZKJ24xa447T8QoZ36PqAfiQ5Edx6dWsbZtyKmdgH3l>via Facebook</a></span></div><br>
940. <br>
941. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGLr-Y5ubNQ21szprCP92pibJwPP3ndg_WVOC8dy2xKPyy5n8U416ansMpg8d7Pgo-lqyU1erAtE0pfYy2a-DHOpBu2BN-1aoWlisGN64qkfOY92J5KcrgN2bOkbNaatbuoZai5HuxaeSSYljgDYsdNQ9-UuCDmC4BMAn-7QnaNxWpqIzlz3s80A/s3940/IMG_9155d.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2927" data-original-width="3940" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGLr-Y5ubNQ21szprCP92pibJwPP3ndg_WVOC8dy2xKPyy5n8U416ansMpg8d7Pgo-lqyU1erAtE0pfYy2a-DHOpBu2BN-1aoWlisGN64qkfOY92J5KcrgN2bOkbNaatbuoZai5HuxaeSSYljgDYsdNQ9-UuCDmC4BMAn-7QnaNxWpqIzlz3s80A/s400/IMG_9155d.JPG"/></a></div><br>
942. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> The wild reeds of Wood Lake – April 22, 2024.</center><br>
943. <br>
944. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioSgG_A-eZgDX7Nkti5G6-8B5IdAUej9oNe4f3b0GqE3G9iHxSEaRlepJOjZvfHmGBrAauyQZbmD0FTNHHHaDeiCKiPyi2v-wY4Y7J6lxFLrVgrF6JyqHYg4aWd8dnjzR3QGgNifF6XspgtDXaEyxLX9zGIWfn6oDhJsSpHmWb3m8M4j-30Lhylw/s3926/IMG_9101.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="3926" data-original-width="2927" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioSgG_A-eZgDX7Nkti5G6-8B5IdAUej9oNe4f3b0GqE3G9iHxSEaRlepJOjZvfHmGBrAauyQZbmD0FTNHHHaDeiCKiPyi2v-wY4Y7J6lxFLrVgrF6JyqHYg4aWd8dnjzR3QGgNifF6XspgtDXaEyxLX9zGIWfn6oDhJsSpHmWb3m8M4j-30Lhylw/s400/IMG_9101.JPG"/></a></div><br>
945. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> The Mississippi in moonlight – Sunday, April 21, 2024.</center><br>
946. <br>
947. <blockquote><center><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span>oon river, wider than a mile<br>
948. I’m crossing you in style some day<br>
949. Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker<br>
950. Wherever you’re goin’, I’m goin’ your way<br>
951. <br>
952. Two drifters, off to see the world<br>
953. There’s such a lot of world to see<br>
954. We’re after the same rainbow’s end<br>
955. Waitin’ ’round the bend<br>
956. My huckleberry friend<br>
957. Moon river and me</i></center></blockquote><br>
958. <div style="text-align: right;">–  “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_River>Moon River</a>”<br>
959. <span style="font-size: 85%;">by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer</span></div><br>
960. <br>
961. To hear <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/02/ocean-trip.html>Frank Ocean</a>’s version of “Moon River,” <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXiFHDfvn4A>click here</a>.<br>
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963. <br>
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965. <b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above and below:</span></b> My attic abode and sanctuary in south Minneapolis – April 2024.<br>
966. <br>
967. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJvOto0IpJWafxEGSRNCf2t7ZZ77pINdrV4FWty7pET9Rftr5FGnga6se2yrBOLrq2VlJ8aWcJZOKhgwsq2TEJgNZDRoIiz0vBlcKql65cj9heMp0kIGTCgUlpdO0J8-xKUsZKCom_tLiKM9spktLDKDH396hV32ls3EMUyAZ9Ivibl4MdzI6g8w/s3974/IMG_7879c.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2928" data-original-width="3974" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJvOto0IpJWafxEGSRNCf2t7ZZ77pINdrV4FWty7pET9Rftr5FGnga6se2yrBOLrq2VlJ8aWcJZOKhgwsq2TEJgNZDRoIiz0vBlcKql65cj9heMp0kIGTCgUlpdO0J8-xKUsZKCom_tLiKM9spktLDKDH396hV32ls3EMUyAZ9Ivibl4MdzI6g8w/s400/IMG_7879c.JPG"/></a></div><br>
968. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span> Beloved One, I rise from sleep to join the great dance of life. One with stars and planets no longer visible because of the dawning light of our one star, the sun, yet which are still blazing in beauty all about me, I enter into prayer. One with this whole planet, whose northern hemisphere is awakening to the season of spring, I now awake to your hidden presence in my life as I descend into my heart to be one with you.<br>
969. <br>
970. I rejoice that [my prayer] rises in harmony with temple chants, with the prayers of hermits as well as the life-prayer of those preparing to begin a new workday. While silent to my ears, I acknowledge the cosmic chorus of gratitude and praise of which my prayer has ben a part.</blockquote><br>
971. <div style="text-align: right;">– <b><i>Edward Hays</i></b><br>
972. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “The Season of Spring – Wednesday Morning Prayer”<br>
973. in <a href=https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/prayers-for-a-planetary-pilgrim-a-personal-manual-for-prayer-and-ritual-9780939516100><i>Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim</i></a><br>
974. Forest of Peace Books, 1989</span></div><br>
975. <br>
976. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHe9JRbP2ZmtzZw2esWkyJBEXrlEOfybTqBrjmlU0RocR-OJvZJ5jWiuE4pZpTCZtFBpPAwfd745Qflz4-bluw3MVW_Xbr6x3SGdzbR3Ukna6q1jG3oRaHgfHnQGo5QU8pfN2qyUoNqTXR3JPwHi5dpVI4JO0fQTfoihKNCHXk57AN0op6tPefPg/s4032/IMG_7908.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHe9JRbP2ZmtzZw2esWkyJBEXrlEOfybTqBrjmlU0RocR-OJvZJ5jWiuE4pZpTCZtFBpPAwfd745Qflz4-bluw3MVW_Xbr6x3SGdzbR3Ukna6q1jG3oRaHgfHnQGo5QU8pfN2qyUoNqTXR3JPwHi5dpVI4JO0fQTfoihKNCHXk57AN0op6tPefPg/s400/IMG_7908.JPG"/></a></div><br>
977. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span> Beloved One, this spring evening is green-edged with hope and filled with promise. With each passing day, the light of the sun lingers longer upon this planet. Even in the darkness of this night, one can feel the earth stirring with life. The night wind is full of promise as I reflect upon my actions this Thursday. I ponder if they, like this season of spring, have been full of hope and rich in life.<br>
978. <br>
979. Open my heart and pour in all that is lacking. Saturate my words with love and encouragement, so that I may be truly an expression of your presence in this world. I thank you for the countless blessings of this day: gifts of sight, sound, hearing and smell, for wonders without end.<br>
980. <br>
981. . . . O Gracious Creator of the moon and stars, of galaxies spreading outward beyond my vision, I marvel that you have chosen to dwell within the temple of my heart. I ask your understanding, for that temple is a crowded place where I have stored concerns and conflicts, work and worries as well as all the content of this day. I take springtime hope that all those things that clutter my heart, while they seem so distant from you, in reality hold your presence.</blockquote><br>
982. <div style="text-align: right;">– <b><i>Edward Hays</i></b><br>
983. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “The Season of Spring – Thursday Evening Prayer”<br>
984. in <a href=https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/prayers-for-a-planetary-pilgrim-a-personal-manual-for-prayer-and-ritual-9780939516100><i>Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim</i></a><br>
985. Forest of Peace Books, 1989</span></div><br>
986. <br>
987. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicTa84KJ-YOAeuNBjXV1Uhap0h8Ka-YAWHMemuogVlswt0GgqxKuJ8msaxW_L96ovr4QIGM1mRKlZVGy5QcKqJ7wIvyJxqiu0bp92jJa7tAIhJxBUwasKztBwomeOPJKHFNzq0wOKIqS83GYq45vu6cKnabMnN-wB-DAPJN8hksrWgJogxxyqCIQ/s4032/IMG_9289.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicTa84KJ-YOAeuNBjXV1Uhap0h8Ka-YAWHMemuogVlswt0GgqxKuJ8msaxW_L96ovr4QIGM1mRKlZVGy5QcKqJ7wIvyJxqiu0bp92jJa7tAIhJxBUwasKztBwomeOPJKHFNzq0wOKIqS83GYq45vu6cKnabMnN-wB-DAPJN8hksrWgJogxxyqCIQ/s400/IMG_9289.JPG"/></a></div>
988. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-Zg2DwHdfxfeeQPDp0IT3Hoq5rmexFiL9vJOAcCDpdLksq6GUQAPM5LRV9OLJyOT2lHk24DCz5Q8Ddn-aW-6qWqsjnduzx9jtnW9B3-T9gjvVn5MVWZfDB2Bu4gdj1N4n4DhViKNK9EGZo0CC4bKEd4EHsytJwTS9G-CgYkMdTmqlo-NJ8wTXQ/s3088/IMG_3460b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-Zg2DwHdfxfeeQPDp0IT3Hoq5rmexFiL9vJOAcCDpdLksq6GUQAPM5LRV9OLJyOT2lHk24DCz5Q8Ddn-aW-6qWqsjnduzx9jtnW9B3-T9gjvVn5MVWZfDB2Bu4gdj1N4n4DhViKNK9EGZo0CC4bKEd4EHsytJwTS9G-CgYkMdTmqlo-NJ8wTXQ/s400/IMG_3460b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
989. <center><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Above:</span></b> A (Minnesota) spring 2024 <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/11/self-portrait.html>self portrait</a>.</center><br>
990. <br>
991. <br>
992. <center><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>NEXT:</b></span><br>
993. <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/hello-australia-autumn.html>Hello Australia Autumn!</a></center><br>
994. <br>
995. <br>
996. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
997. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-season-of-listening.html>A Season of Listening</a><br>
998. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/05/let-greening-begin.html>Let the Greening Begin</a><br>
999. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/05/new-spring-green.html>New Spring Green</a><br>
1000. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/green-destiny.html>Green Destiny</a><br>
1001. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/04/welcoming-return-of-spring.html>Welcoming the Return of Spring</a><br>
1002. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/04/celebrating-color-of-spring-and-cosmic.html>Celebrating the “Color of Spring” and a Cosmic Notion of the Christ</a><br>
1003. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/spring-truly-season-for-joy-and-hope.html>Spring: “Truly the Season for Joy and Hope”</a><br>
1004. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-visiting-spring-breeze.html>A Visiting Spring Breeze</a><br>
1005. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-vignettes.html>April Vignettes</a><br>
1006. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/04/spring-rain.html>Spring Rain</a><br>
1007. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/spring-skies.html>Spring Skies</a><br>
1008. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/05/spring-within-and-beyond.html>Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2022)</a><br>
1009. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/06/spring-within-and-beyond.html>Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2021)</a><br>
1010. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/in-footsteps-of-spring.html>In the Footsteps of Spring: Introduction</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/light-within.html>Part I</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/06/shards-of-summer.html>II</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/06/intimate-soliloquies.html>III</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/02/coming-out.html>IV</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/05/no-stranger-am-i.html>V</a><br>
1011. <br>
1012. <b>Images:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br>
1013. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/3028685442191346662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=3028685442191346662' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3028685442191346662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3028685442191346662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/farewell-minnesota-spring.html' title='Farewell Minnesota Spring'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGJ4MVxNZhj64wOWXcEFKkhnnx4vFDa8MRAV2d1js3bapsCo1xsPwLLUERmnicgVZpDQsDlmr_fyD456mvVYDijw3JNMke6VCKfVHTInI90EG-JO_wFMVzk_EYt1ZwC3SvlXKUORkrkkXGGLF_tqdmcy0SJJXA1OzVuDmJS1Hs-Cy-_D-cQpYk2w/s72-c/IMG_9160b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-5531182854873798092</id><published>2024-04-22T08:00:00.032-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-23T14:38:30.432-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Meditation"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Thoughts on Transformation"/><title type='text'>The Now</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDtoaVrx2TlTyFGRqvjXXMLKtZgJlyLpjESDXEikgxTYYfqBusICyypMI6M87DfJuiZBax0lEiBWRaDEKxxpybB_zWdfF8Nl4QqMI7iWzL0LJIn_YisiIgfnRInspnRnU10rApx92lMvRCnXbl0YqAbTZh36zeaTRCg5x0ufIlQ8SI5hQ7MmNHgw/s2942/IMG_9168b.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;2171&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2942&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDtoaVrx2TlTyFGRqvjXXMLKtZgJlyLpjESDXEikgxTYYfqBusICyypMI6M87DfJuiZBax0lEiBWRaDEKxxpybB_zWdfF8Nl4QqMI7iWzL0LJIn_YisiIgfnRInspnRnU10rApx92lMvRCnXbl0YqAbTZh36zeaTRCg5x0ufIlQ8SI5hQ7MmNHgw/s400/IMG_9168b.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
1014. My “<a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-season-of-listening.html>season of listening</a>” continues.<br>
1015. <br>
1016. As I’ve mentioned <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/eckhart-tolle-on-silence-and-stillness.html>previously</a>, one writer whose words I’m using as a guide throughout this season is <a href=https://eckharttolle.com/about>Eckhart Tolle</a>, who in his book <a href=https://shop.eckharttolle.com/products/stillness-speaks><i>Stillness Speaks</i></a>, writes the following.<br>
1017. <br>
1018. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not “this moment”?<br>
1019. <br>
1020. This one moment – Now – is the only thing you can never escape from, the one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens, no matter how much your life changes, one thing is certain: it’s always Now.<br>
1021. <br>
1022. Since there is no escape from the Now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it?<br>
1023.  <br>
1024. <center><span style="font-size: x-large;">~</span></center><br>
1025. When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are. When you don’t feel at home in the Now, no matter where you go, you will carry unease with you.<br>
1026.  <br>
1027. <center><span style="font-size: x-large;">~</span></center><br>
1028. The present moment is as it is. Always. Can you let it be?<br>
1029. <br>
1030. <center><span style="font-size: x-large;">~</span></center><br>
1031. The division of life into past, present, and future is mind-made and ultimately illusory. Past and future are thought forms, mental abstractions. The past can only be remembered Now. What you remember is an event that took place in the Now, and you remember it Now. The future, when it comes, is the Now. So the only thing that is real, the only thing there ever is <i>is</i> the Now.<br>
1032. <br>
1033. <center><span style="font-size: x-large;">~</span></center><br>
1034. To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognizing what is primary. Then you can deal with what is secondary with great ease. It is not saying, “I’m not dealing with things anymore because there is only the Now.” No. Find what is primary first, and make the Now into your friend, not your enemy. Acknowledge it, honor it. When the Now is the foundation and primary focus of your life, then your life unfolds with ease.<br>
1035. <br>
1036. <center><span style="font-size: x-large;">~</span></center><br>
1037. Putting away the dishes, drawing up a business strategy, planning a trip – what is more important: the doing or the result that you want to achieve through the doing? This moment or some future moment?<br>
1038.  <br>
1039. Do you treat <i>this moment</i> as if it were an obstacle to be overcome? Do you feel you have a future moment to get to that is more important?<br>
1040. <br>
1041. Almost everyone lives like this most of the time. Since the future never arrives, except <i>as</i> the present, it is a dysfunctional way to live. It generates a constant undercurrent of unease, tension, and discontent. It does not honor life, which is Now and never not Now.<br>
1042. <br>
1043. <center><span style="font-size: x-large;">~</span></center><br>
1044. Feel the aliveness within your body. That anchors you in the Now.</blockquote><br>
1045. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Eckhart Tolle</i></b><br />
1046. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from <a href=https://shop.eckharttolle.com/products/stillness-speaks><i>Stillness Speaks</i></a><br>
1047. Hodder & Stoughton, 2003<br>
1048. pp. 39-42</span></div><br>
1049. <br>
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1051. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1052. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OJydjCA378>Honoring the Present Moment</a> – Eckhart Tolle (via <i>YouTube</i>, November 9, 2023).<br>
1053. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UklFtkyOVK8>The Power of the Present Moment and Conscious Living</a> – Eckhart Tolle (via <i>YouTube</i>, January 16, 2024).<br>
1054. <a href=https://medium.com/@vivien.tai1012/transform-through-presence-book-review-of-power-of-now-by-eckhart-tolle-eda533c9af29>Transform Through Presence: a Review of Eckhart Tolle’s <i>The Power of Now</i></a> – Vivien Tai (<i>Medium</i>, July 17, 2023).<br>
1055. <br>
1056. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1057. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-season-of-listening.html>A Season of Listening</a><br>
1058. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/eckhart-tolle-on-silence-and-stillness.html>Eckhart Tolle on Silence and Stillness</a><br>
1059. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/eckhart-tolle-on-going-beyond-thinking.html>Eckhart Tolle on Going Beyond the Thinking Mind</a><br>
1060. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/to-be-still.html>To Be Still</a><br>
1061. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/in-stillness-and-silence-of-this.html>In the Stillness and Silence of This Present Moment</a><br>
1062. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-beauty-and-challenge-of-being.html>The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment</a><br>
1063. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/09/resting-in-presence-of-beloved.html>Resting in the Presence of the Beloved</a><br>
1064. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/time-to-go-inwards.html>Time to Go Inwards</a><br>
1065. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-prayer-of-anchoring.html>A Prayer of Anchoring</a><br>
1066. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/05/child-of-universe.html>Today I Will Be Still</a><br>
1067. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/02/cultivating-stillness.html>Cultivating Stillness</a><br>
1068. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/05/inner-peace.html>Inner Peace</a><br>
1069. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-sacred-pause.html>A Sacred Pause</a><br>
1070. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-kind-of-light-source.html>Aligning With the Living Light</a><br>
1071. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/08/mystical-participation.html>Mystical Participation</a><br>
1072. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/12/i-need-do-nothing.html>I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light</a><br>
1073. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/09/stepping-out-of-time.html>Stepping Out of Time and Resting Your Mind</a><br>
1074. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/12/active-waiting-radical-attitude-toward_23.html>Active Waiting: A Radical Attitude Toward Life</a><br>
1075. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/01/threshold-musings.html>Threshold Musings</a><br>
1076. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/12/to-dream-to-feel-to-listen.html>To Dream, to Feel, to Listen</a><br>
1077. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-most-sacred-and-simple-mystery-of.html>The Most Sacred and Simple Mystery of All</a><br>
1078. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-source-is-within-you.html>The Source is Within You</a><br>
1079. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/11/prayer-of-week.html>Forever Oneness</a><br>
1080. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/in-midst-of-great-unraveling-visit-to.html>In the Midst of the “Great Unraveling,” a Visit to the Prayer Tree</a><br>
1081. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/11/as-last-walls-dissolve-everything-is.html>As the Last Walls Dissolve . . . Everything is Possible</a><br>
1082. <br>
1083. <b>Image 1:</b> <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Lake_Nature_Center>Wood Lake Nature Center</a>, Richfield, MN – Michael J. Bayly (4/22/24).<br>
1084. <b>Image 2:</b> <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Saaxiib%20Qurux%20Badan>Saaxiib Qurux Badan</a> (“Beautiful Friend”), Minneapolis, MN – Michael J. Bayly (4/18/24).</span><br>
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1101. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
1102. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/urbanscapes.html>Urbanscapes – 6/28/23</a><br>
1103. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/urbanscapes.html>Urbanscapes – 11/20/22</a><br>
1104. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/spring-light-in-skyway.html>Spring Light in Skylight</a><br>
1105. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/smoke-plume-in-minneapolis.html>“Smoke Plume” in Minneapolis</a><br>
1106. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/07/storm-clouds-over-minneapolis.html>Storm Clouds Over Minneapolis</a><br>
1107. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/03/moon-over-minneapolis.html>Moon Over Minneapolis</a><br>
1108. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/02/high-rise-in-winter-light.html>High-Rise in Afternoon Light</a><br>
1109. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/06/photo-of-day_28.html>Photo of the Day – June 28, 2022</a><br>
1110. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/05/photo-of-day_20.html>Photo of the Day – May 20, 2022</a><br>
1111. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/02/photo-of-day.html>Photo of the Day – February 2, 2020</a><br>
1112. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/10/photo-of-day.html>Photo of the Day – October 14, 2014</a><br>
1113. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/08/photo-of-day_31.html>Photo of the Day – September 1, 2012</a><br>
1114. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/12/photo-of-day_6851.html>Photo of the Day – December 20, 2010</a><br>
1115. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/07/photo-of-day_27.html>Photo of the Day – July 27, 2010</a><br>
1116. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/05/photo-of-day.html>Photo of the Day – May 8, 2010</a><br>
1117. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/12/sydney-sojourn.html>Sydney Sojourn</a><br>
1118. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-visit-to-melbourne.html>A Visit to Melbourne</a><br>
1119. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/08/europe-2005.html>Europe 2005: London</a><br>
1120. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/09/europe-2005_25.html>Europe 2005: Venice</a><br>
1121. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/10/europe-2005.html>Europe 2005: Rome and Florence</a><br>
1122. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/12/europe-2005.html>Europe 2005: Paris</a><br>
1123. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/08/weekend-in-chicago-part-i.html>Weekend in Chicago</a><br>
1124. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/06/weekend-in-kansas-city.html>Weekend in Kansas City</a><br>
1125. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/08/road-trip-to-st-louis.html>Road Trip to St. Louis</a><br>
1126. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/02/puerto-vallarta.html>Puerto Vallarta</a><br>
1127. <br />
1128. <b>Images:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br />
1129. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/5462861341589955988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=5462861341589955988' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5462861341589955988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5462861341589955988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/urbanscapes.html' title='Urbanscapes'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1LAGnOgUSKer2gj6QQyNZM82ZyY8Iko0GX8STi_ZSf4Jni2g7E6_iZmEXIfvYFe3y7-IYoBJG7MATNvnO6oxDc_Y6btcta6jiCgVuQa0XhW87poiKLP5V0Lcj0ip5cTMGhGV4yHpdhVfSbjO3So4ZwcvRYKOfU39uKxmtwtdry7d8HQ-Jjb1nQ/s72-c/IMG_1524b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-8275152146919692715</id><published>2024-04-21T13:00:00.014-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-23T12:51:03.241-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gaza Genocide"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Justice and Peace"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Naomi Klein"/><title type='text'>Naomi Klein’s Powerful Words on Israel’s and the West’s Ongoing Gaza Genocide</title><content type='html'>The following 6-minute video is an excerpt from a much lengthier interview that &lt;a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis&gt;Yanis Varoufakis&lt;/a&gt; conducted with author &lt;a href=https://naomiklein.org/&gt;Naomi Klein&lt;/a&gt; this past Friday, April 19, 2024.&lt;br&gt;
1130. <br>
1131. As one Facebook viewer notes: “Naomi Klein's analysis is indispensable [and] thorough; it heals you at the same time as it informs you. She crystallizes history.”<br>
1132. <br>
1133. (<b>NOTE:</b> To view the full interview, <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhz0RWJxRyg&t=0s>click here</a>.)<br>
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1136. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pS8Vs2yR1t0?si=l4jtzABaXUMf-XPf" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
1137. <br>
1138. <br>
1139. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1140. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdRk7Wptjg>The Memory of the Holocaust Is Abused by Zionists as a “Weapon”: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein</a> – <i>TRT World</i> (April 19, 2024).<br>
1141. <a href=https://truthout.org/articles/nicaragua-takes-germany-to-the-world-court-for-facilitating-israels-genocide>Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide</a> – Marjorie Cohn (<i>TruthOut</i>, April 13, 2024).<br>
1142. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-still-blocking-aid>“Genocidal Actions” Persist in Gaza as Israel Blocks Aid and U.S. Weapons Flow</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 12, 2024).<br>
1143. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgGq-N8Q7d0>Journalist Abby Martin Explains Why She Considers Israel’s Actions in Gaza to Constitute Genocide</a> – <i>Middle East Eye</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
1144. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEltgY-Z8nY>Briahna Joy Gray Unpacks IDF Lies About the Slaughter of World Central Kitchen Aid Workers in Gaza</a> – <i>Rising</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
1145. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/3/israel_aid_attack_jan_egeland>“A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza Faces Famine</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
1146. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-2667597341>Draft U.N, Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide</a> – Brett Wilkins (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 25, 2024).<br>
1147. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/25/gaza>As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of “Most Intense Famine” Since WW2</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 25, 2024).<br>
1148. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/22/nahreen_ahmed_medglobal_gaza_healthcare_crisis>“Children Are Dying”: Doctor Just Back from Gaza Describes Severe Malnutrition and Preventable Infections</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 22, 2024).<br>
1149. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-child-rights-gaza>U.N. Panel Says IDF Appears Set on “Physical Destruction of Palestinian Children”</a> – Jake Johnson (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 22, 2024).<br>
1150. <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/21/sale-weapons-israel-palestinian-human-rights>There Is No Moral Argument That Justifies the Sale of Weapons to Israel</a> – Mary Lawlor (<i>The Guardian</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
1151. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-israel-support>Former U.S. Diplomat Says “Collaboration” in Gaza Genocide Could Make Biden “Target of Prosecution”</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
1152. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQDaC5enGY&t=158s>The West Is Complicit in Israel’s Genocide</a> – Yanis Varoufakis amd Raoul Martinez (Novara Media, February 17, 2024).<br>
1153. <a href=https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/10/29/hala-alyan-why-must-palestinians>Why Must Palestinians Audition for Your Empathy?</a> – Hala Alyan (<i>Salt Lake Tribune</i>, October 29, 2023).<br>
1154. <br>
1155. <br>
1156. <b>UPDATES:</b> <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/mass-grave-gaza-nasser-hospital>“Obvious Evidence of Genocide”: Mass Grave Discovered in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital</a> – Olivia Rosane (<i>Common Dreams</i>,April 21, 2024).<br>
1157. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/22/west_bank>“Collective Punishment”: As Gaza Assault Continues, Israel Ramps Up Violence in Occupied West Bank</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 22, 2024).<br>
1158. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/23/columbia_university_joseph_slaughter>Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU, and Yale</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 23, 2024).<br>
1159. <br>  
1160. <br>
1161. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1162. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/outrage-and-despair.html>Outrage and Despair</a><br>
1163. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/this-is-genocidal-project.html>“This Is a Genocidal Project”</a><br>
1164. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-genocide-has-been-normalized.html>“A Genocide Has Been Normalized”</a><br>
1165. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on_22.html>Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
1166. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/more-voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on.html>More Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
1167. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/quote-of-day.html>Josh Paul: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
1168. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/quote-of-day.html>Phyllis Bennis: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
1169. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/quote-of-day_049051479.html>Michael Fakhri: Quote of the Day – February 27, 2024</a><br>
1170. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/quote-of-day.html>Sabrina Salvati: Quote of the Day – January 2, 2024</a><br>
1171. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/christmas-2023-reflections-activism-art.html>Christmas 2023 – Reflections, Activism, Art, and Celebrations</a><br>
1172. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/quote-of-day.html>Jehad Abusalim: Quote of the Day – December 8, 2023</a><br>
1173. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/quote-of-day.html>Ta-Nehisi Coates: Quote of the Day – November 2, 2023</a><br>
1174. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/in-midst-of-great-unraveling-visit-to.html>In the Midst of the “Great Unraveling,” a Visit to the Prayer Tree</a><br>
1175. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/prayer-of-week.html>Prayer of the Week – October 16, 2023</a><br>
1176. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/something-to-think-about.html>Something to Think About – October 12, 2023</a><br>
1177. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/quote-of-day_11.html>Eric Levitz: Quote of the Day – October 11, 2023</a><br>
1178. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/phyllis-bennis-if-we-are-serious-about.html>Phyllis Bennis: “If We Are Serious About Ending This Spiraling Violence, We Need to Look at Root Causes”</a><br>
1179. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/nothing-about-today-is-unprovoked.html>“Nothing About Today is ‘Unprovoked’”</a><br>
1180. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-mistreatment-and-discrimination.html>“The Mistreatment and Discrimination Against Palestinians Is Not Unprecedented. It’s Baked Into the Foundation of the Political System in Israel”</a><br>
1181. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/05/progressive-perspectives-on-ongoing.html>Progressive Perspectives on the Ongoing Israeli-Palestinian “Nightmare” (2021)</a><br>
1182. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/07/something-to-think-about_29.html>Something to Think About – July 29, 2018</a><br>
1183. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/05/quote-of-day_15.html>Noura Erakat: Quote of the Day – May 15, 2018</a><br>
1184. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/for-some-jews-israels-treatment-of.html>For Some Jews, Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians is Yet Another Jewish Tragedy</a><br>
1185. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/06/remembering-six-day-war-and-its-ongoing.html>Remembering the Six-Day War and Its Ongoing Aftermath</a><br>
1186. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/quote-of-day_12.html>David Norris: Quote of the Day – August 12, 2014</a></span><br>
1187. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/8275152146919692715/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=8275152146919692715' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/8275152146919692715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/8275152146919692715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/naomi-kleins-powerful-words-on-gaza.html' title='Naomi Klein’s Powerful Words on Israel’s and the West’s Ongoing Gaza Genocide'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/pS8Vs2yR1t0/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-5653895795248131156</id><published>2024-04-20T16:04:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-22T11:11:52.467-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photo of the Day"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spring"/><title type='text'>Photo of the Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivF-k8gkja8eKa4VFd6EXNtZtqjSd5DaI9af6fgevaf5f7qMNu-7tuS2_jlXRYpJPMHOkEflDhivhpIlBbFQuMPGdTaDtiy21TlaEJZ7Jc5WE5IvVWE5JoTkZZLMpCN7hXMvwKmJ-prY2alFxODqTjBcvBsVLNNz0rCApl1YcGnwVDeYMbosArNA/s3611/IMG_8987b.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3611&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2697&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivF-k8gkja8eKa4VFd6EXNtZtqjSd5DaI9af6fgevaf5f7qMNu-7tuS2_jlXRYpJPMHOkEflDhivhpIlBbFQuMPGdTaDtiy21TlaEJZ7Jc5WE5IvVWE5JoTkZZLMpCN7hXMvwKmJ-prY2alFxODqTjBcvBsVLNNz0rCApl1YcGnwVDeYMbosArNA/s400/IMG_8987b.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
1188. <br>
1189. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1190. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/05/let-greening-begin.html>Let the Greening Begin</a><br>
1191. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/05/new-spring-green.html>New Spring Green</a><br>
1192. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/green-destiny.html>Green Destiny</a><br>
1193. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/04/welcoming-return-of-spring.html>Welcoming the Return of Spring</a><br>
1194. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/04/celebrating-color-of-spring-and-cosmic.html>Celebrating the “Color of Spring” and a Cosmic Notion of the Christ</a><br>
1195. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/spring-truly-season-for-joy-and-hope.html>Spring: “Truly the Season for Joy and Hope”</a><br>
1196. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-visiting-spring-breeze.html>A Visiting Spring Breeze</a><br>
1197. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-vignettes.html>April Vignettes</a><br>
1198. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/04/spring-rain.html>Spring Rain</a><br>
1199. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/spring-skies.html>Spring Skies</a><br>
1200. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/05/spring-within-and-beyond.html>Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2022)</a><br>
1201. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/06/spring-within-and-beyond.html>Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2021)</a><br>
1202. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/in-footsteps-of-spring.html>In the Footsteps of Spring: Introduction</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/light-within.html>Part I</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/06/shards-of-summer.html>II</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/06/intimate-soliloquies.html>III</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/02/coming-out.html>IV</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/05/no-stranger-am-i.html>V</a><br>
1203. <br>
1204. <b>Image:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br />
1205. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/5653895795248131156/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=5653895795248131156' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5653895795248131156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5653895795248131156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/photo-of-day.html' title='Photo of the Day'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivF-k8gkja8eKa4VFd6EXNtZtqjSd5DaI9af6fgevaf5f7qMNu-7tuS2_jlXRYpJPMHOkEflDhivhpIlBbFQuMPGdTaDtiy21TlaEJZ7Jc5WE5IvVWE5JoTkZZLMpCN7hXMvwKmJ-prY2alFxODqTjBcvBsVLNNz0rCApl1YcGnwVDeYMbosArNA/s72-c/IMG_8987b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-2773278698730092547</id><published>2024-04-19T21:00:00.030-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-23T12:55:06.066-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gaza Genocide"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Justice and Peace"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quote of the Day"/><title type='text'>Outrage and Despair</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWJ826rRszqzd002v33WRS77FAcKY7KZCuhGa6PaN3pZErSbnVxVwpEeZp_ddixYV8QMWdurSGboiAa40zcKYZLFL6A21a6jHGSdOLB9ZDRAW_3hr724QtQ4jl5GFW26WkVB2esvmOhc0FpB7mpihwP1xD6qLkGu2c714MVVUl-NfYbteoJ_Q6dQ/s378/BelalKhaled-2.PNG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;345&quot; data-original-width=&quot;378&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWJ826rRszqzd002v33WRS77FAcKY7KZCuhGa6PaN3pZErSbnVxVwpEeZp_ddixYV8QMWdurSGboiAa40zcKYZLFL6A21a6jHGSdOLB9ZDRAW_3hr724QtQ4jl5GFW26WkVB2esvmOhc0FpB7mpihwP1xD6qLkGu2c714MVVUl-NfYbteoJ_Q6dQ/s200/BelalKhaled-2.PNG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; am an 83-year-old American Jew. Whole swaths of my family were wiped out in the Holocaust. When Israel was born, my community celebrated. Israel was a source of pride and elation for many years.&lt;br&gt;
1206. <br>
1207. Slowly this glow began to dim, as facts came to light about the historic and ongoing Israeli mistreatment of the Palestinians who shared that land.<br>
1208. <br>
1209. And now, Israel has turned the savage Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas into an excuse to rain unimaginable destruction on the Gaza Strip. I feel outrage and despair.<br>
1210. <br>
1211. How can a people who have known so much pain throughout history turn around and inflict it on others? It is a betrayal of all the humane Jewish values that I was brought up with.<br>
1212. <br>
1213. Incredibly, the U.S. continues to support this catastrophe. We provide Israel with arms and funds and hinder the efforts of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) to provide relief.<br>
1214. <br>
1215. As the lives and safety of Gazans are imperiled, Israelis and Americans imperil their souls.</blockquote><br>
1216. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Grace Bertalot</i></b><br />
1217. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Letter-to-the-Editor<br>
1218. <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br>
1219. April 7, 2024</span></div><br />
1220. <br>
1221. The official death toll in Gaza is nearing 34,000 Palestinians killed, over 14,000 of them children. Thousands more are missing and presumed dead under the rubble. Nearly 77,000 have been wounded. That’s 100,000 Palestinians killed or wounded since <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/nothing-about-today-is-unprovoked.html>October 7th</a>.<br>
1222. <br>
1223. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP9ryyFgvBtbyuW9cRAH-3DqjD8SUsYe0p3A99r5wJWVbsSRUZvWOytjhrPcAa66cA8_NPCkgcAnV6O-DYDOFeWO4jY1UkA6QwOyEaEJVnCPOSP-IJFLQvPk3mcVkYxTDC9N75hCCa4mk5eVU0z49jCla5LjWiTqTE0KwQu5uWCTucimHPHM4-2A/s520/SaherAlghorra.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP9ryyFgvBtbyuW9cRAH-3DqjD8SUsYe0p3A99r5wJWVbsSRUZvWOytjhrPcAa66cA8_NPCkgcAnV6O-DYDOFeWO4jY1UkA6QwOyEaEJVnCPOSP-IJFLQvPk3mcVkYxTDC9N75hCCa4mk5eVU0z49jCla5LjWiTqTE0KwQu5uWCTucimHPHM4-2A/s400/SaherAlghorra.PNG"/></a></div>
1224. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 75%;">– Saher Alghorra</span></div><br>
1225. The first five images included in this post are from the Gaza Collective Photo Essay project, one entitled “Gaza’s Carnage Through the Eyes of Palestinian Photojournalists.” Without doubt the photographs that feature in this project are hard to view. At the same time they are <i>essential</i> to view as the world must awaken to not only the humanitarian crisis but also to what's been called a “crisis of humanity” taking place in Gaza as a result of the Israeli government’s “<a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/this-is-genocidal-project.html>genocidal project</a>” against the Palestinian people. It’s a genocide in which many western nations, including the U.S., Britain, and Germany, are <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/this-is-genocidal-project.html>complicit</a>.<br>
1226. <br>
1227. The Gaza Collective Photo Essay project was coordinated by Charlotte Cans, head of photography for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). For an informative interview with Charlotte, in which she talks about the photos featured in this post, <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/19/charlotte_cans>click here</a>.<br>
1228. <br>
1229. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_6wQ8ZqM31H2IYySVnYCQggqNAydjc4sj-I642qBZ600s4nJvCLjafztkmKnrFXhD0QgQ9oo9ZiHZ-OBUqKDg2x6t5TvUfWMtd2sndWTafAnhjdydULOEqx5vdOEeR4k2GnGdq0ZaKb1OvpXbTCJHPNiOhGIcG8a_c28r7xoVMvb-50LO0VdPw/s552/JehanKawera.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_6wQ8ZqM31H2IYySVnYCQggqNAydjc4sj-I642qBZ600s4nJvCLjafztkmKnrFXhD0QgQ9oo9ZiHZ-OBUqKDg2x6t5TvUfWMtd2sndWTafAnhjdydULOEqx5vdOEeR4k2GnGdq0ZaKb1OvpXbTCJHPNiOhGIcG8a_c28r7xoVMvb-50LO0VdPw/s400/JehanKawera.PNG"/></a></div>
1230. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 75%;">– Jehan Kawera</span></div><br>
1231. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSfDJbYbY3ID9qqE3UTbwuKPFB0qwsk0q6Mo-oeY1O3MkttYOYj5s7DxQerLx2kEaOGHyGOJ2ijEKd-vcTehhLHiwGo-2FXNq7moa9pMiYy62QD2pax_25c8pcsmiN05zN012MdOEjzHg6vlwPe4nt1EhvpeCmo3gyaFSw2beljheifSA7NuBd2g/s435/BelalKhalel-1.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSfDJbYbY3ID9qqE3UTbwuKPFB0qwsk0q6Mo-oeY1O3MkttYOYj5s7DxQerLx2kEaOGHyGOJ2ijEKd-vcTehhLHiwGo-2FXNq7moa9pMiYy62QD2pax_25c8pcsmiN05zN012MdOEjzHg6vlwPe4nt1EhvpeCmo3gyaFSw2beljheifSA7NuBd2g/s400/BelalKhalel-1.PNG"/></a></div>
1232. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 75%;">– Belal Khalel</span></div><br>
1233. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5OcBsN2UCrobSbYU7r_uRHDod6qZkiMDdYzm2vVRYBHnrUY3zTcvIoJGEEL5M0xVGQ16ddjzzt4SStXVqVzqOiSwHkRw9W5-2hTAoau3bpXQDToMPz18VOUgVR9HQZET3RpuVP3r0YemIQ29JoFeGiQUjbc3rJd086BbpOrC9DJN0sy-YVqrrw/s520/MahmudHams.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj5OcBsN2UCrobSbYU7r_uRHDod6qZkiMDdYzm2vVRYBHnrUY3zTcvIoJGEEL5M0xVGQ16ddjzzt4SStXVqVzqOiSwHkRw9W5-2hTAoau3bpXQDToMPz18VOUgVR9HQZET3RpuVP3r0YemIQ29JoFeGiQUjbc3rJd086BbpOrC9DJN0sy-YVqrrw/s400/MahmudHams.PNG"/></a></div>
1234. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 75%;">– Mahmud Hams</span></div><br>
1235. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLgl-mZ3dAE2gOhRzxnLyFKAzmSVnnezdbNxtdqgIaS1qBxAeS-DEWteWRrp6k5U6sNPodCrr8P-DgmsGlSpAI7xO3fnEWfxPD_hLMHwR7gteYDfOljTtoefaJjXuU2ID7OAFvnmu9cuXa5kAAvXMvtk2MeWWOkVtyG4J9GXkB4Sjs9sqt_Bwn9g/s601/MohammedSalem.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLgl-mZ3dAE2gOhRzxnLyFKAzmSVnnezdbNxtdqgIaS1qBxAeS-DEWteWRrp6k5U6sNPodCrr8P-DgmsGlSpAI7xO3fnEWfxPD_hLMHwR7gteYDfOljTtoefaJjXuU2ID7OAFvnmu9cuXa5kAAvXMvtk2MeWWOkVtyG4J9GXkB4Sjs9sqt_Bwn9g/s400/MohammedSalem.PNG"/></a></div>
1236. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 75%;">– Mohammed Salem</span></div><br>
1237. Yesterday, Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem <a href=https://apnews.com/article/world-press-photo-year-award-reuters-gaza-205161b1b447a1bba942f427a5ba24c9>won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award</a> for his image of a Palestinian woman, Abu Maamar (35), cradling the body of her five-year-old niece Saly in the Gaza Strip (<b><span style="color: #274e13;">above</span></b>). The picture was taken on October 17, 2023, at Nasser Hospital in <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Yunis>Khan Younis</a> in southern Gaza, where families were searching for relatives killed during Israeli bombing of the Palestinian city.<br>
1238. <br>
1239. <br>
1240. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1241. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/19/ahmed_zakot>“Fear and Terror”: Gaza Photographer Ahmed Zakot on Documenting the Carnage of Israel’s Assault</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 19, 2024).<br>
1242. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/19/charlotte_cans>U.N. Photo Collection Shows Gaza War Through the Lens of Palestinian Journalists</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 19, 2024).<br>
1243. <a href=https://apnews.com/article/world-press-photo-year-award-reuters-gaza-205161b1b447a1bba942f427a5ba24c9>Reuters Photographer Mohammed Salem Wins World Press Photo of the Year With Poignant Shot From Gaza</a> – Thomas Adamson (<i>AP News</i>, April 18, 2024).<br>
1244. <a href=https://truthout.org/articles/nicaragua-takes-germany-to-the-world-court-for-facilitating-israels-genocide>Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide</a> – Marjorie Cohn (<i>TruthOut</i>, April 13, 2024).<br>
1245. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-still-blocking-aid>“Genocidal Actions” Persist in Gaza as Israel Blocks Aid and U.S. Weapons Flow</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 12, 2024).<br>
1246. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-problem-in-gaza>In Gaza and Beyond, War Itself Is the Problem</a> – Robert C. Koehler (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 6, 2024).<br>
1247. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgGq-N8Q7d0>Journalist Abby Martin Explains Why She Considers Israel’s Actions in Gaza to Constitute Genocide</a> – <i>Middle East Eye</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
1248. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEltgY-Z8nY>Briahna Joy Gray Unpacks IDF Lies About the Slaughter of World Central Kitchen Aid Workers in Gaza</a> – <i>Rising</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
1249. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/3/israel_aid_attack_jan_egeland>“A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza Faces Famine</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
1250. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u02XFXLoM4Q>Trump Breaks with Pro-Netanyahu Corner; Tells Israeli Media He Supports Ending War in Gaza</a> – <i>Rising</i> (April 2, 2024).<br>
1251. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-2667597341>Draft U.N, Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide</a> – Brett Wilkins (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 25, 2024).<br>
1252. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/25/gaza>As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of “Most Intense Famine” Since WW2</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 25, 2024).<br>
1253. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/22/nahreen_ahmed_medglobal_gaza_healthcare_crisis>“Children Are Dying”: Doctor Just Back from Gaza Describes Severe Malnutrition and Preventable Infections</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 22, 2024).<br>
1254. <a href=https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-03-23-2024-2939dce94ce6c4f1084ff3cb8444ce3a>UN Chief Says It’s Time to “Truly Flood” Gaza with Aid and Calls Starvation There an Outrage</a> – Samy Magdy, Amr Nabil and Sam Metz (<i>AP News</i>, March 22, 2023).<br>
1255. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-the-netanyahu-gov-t-should-not-receive-another-penny-from-us>Sen. Bernie Sanders: “The Netanyahu Government Should Not Receive Another Penny from the U.S.”</a> – <i>Common Dreams</i>, March 23, 2024).<br>
1256. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-child-rights-gaza>U.N. Panel Says IDF Appears Set on “Physical Destruction of Palestinian Children”</a> – Jake Johnson (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 22, 2024).<br>
1257. <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/21/sale-weapons-israel-palestinian-human-rights>There Is No Moral Argument That Justifies the Sale of Weapons to Israel</a> – Mary Lawlor (<i>The Guardian</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
1258. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-israel-support>Former U.S. Diplomat Says “Collaboration” in Gaza Genocide Could Make Biden “Target of Prosecution”</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
1259. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinians-killed-by-israel>“Everyone in the World Needs to See This”: Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans</a> – Jessica Corbett (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
1260. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/21/gaza_doctor_nick_maynard>British Surgeon Describes Children Suffering “Appalling Injuries” in Gaza, Demands Immediate Ceasefire</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 21, 2024).<br>
1261. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQDaC5enGY&t=158s>The West Is Complicit in Israel’s Genocide</a> – Yanis Varoufakis amd Raoul Martinez (Novara Media, February 17, 2024).<br>
1262. <a href=https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/10/29/hala-alyan-why-must-palestinians>Why Must Palestinians Audition for Your Empathy?</a> – Hala Alyan (<i>Salt Lake Tribune</i>, October 29, 2023).<br>
1263. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuB5SeahL-E&t=565s>Israeli Society Is Fascist: An Interview with Abby Martin of <i>The Empire Files</i></a><br>
1264. <br>  
1265. <br>
1266. <b>UPDATES:</b> <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS8Vs2yR1t0>Naomi Klein’s Powerful Words on the Gaza Genocide</a> – <i>Eye of the Storm Podcast</i> (April 19, 2024).<br>
1267. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1FgTmQmFug>CNN Report Shows Tragedy of Children Killed By Israel</a> – Novara Media (April 20, 2024).<br>
1268. <br>
1269. <br>
1270. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1271. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/this-is-genocidal-project.html>“This Is a Genocidal Project”</a><br>
1272. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-genocide-has-been-normalized.html>“A Genocide Has Been Normalized”</a><br>
1273. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on_22.html>Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
1274. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/more-voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on.html>More Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
1275. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/quote-of-day.html>Josh Paul: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
1276. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/quote-of-day.html>Phyllis Bennis: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
1277. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/quote-of-day_049051479.html>Michael Fakhri: Quote of the Day – February 27, 2024</a><br>
1278. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/quote-of-day.html>Sabrina Salvati: Quote of the Day – January 2, 2024</a><br>
1279. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/christmas-2023-reflections-activism-art.html>Christmas 2023 – Reflections, Activism, Art, and Celebrations</a><br>
1280. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/quote-of-day.html>Jehad Abusalim: Quote of the Day – December 8, 2023</a><br>
1281. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/quote-of-day.html>Ta-Nehisi Coates: Quote of the Day – November 2, 2023</a><br>
1282. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/in-midst-of-great-unraveling-visit-to.html>In the Midst of the “Great Unraveling,” a Visit to the Prayer Tree</a><br>
1283. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/prayer-of-week.html>Prayer of the Week – October 16, 2023</a><br>
1284. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/something-to-think-about.html>Something to Think About – October 12, 2023</a><br>
1285. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/quote-of-day_11.html>Eric Levitz: Quote of the Day – October 11, 2023</a><br>
1286. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/phyllis-bennis-if-we-are-serious-about.html>Phyllis Bennis: “If We Are Serious About Ending This Spiraling Violence, We Need to Look at Root Causes”</a><br>
1287. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/nothing-about-today-is-unprovoked.html>“Nothing About Today is ‘Unprovoked’”</a><br>
1288. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-mistreatment-and-discrimination.html>“The Mistreatment and Discrimination Against Palestinians Is Not Unprecedented. It’s Baked Into the Foundation of the Political System in Israel”</a><br>
1289. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/05/progressive-perspectives-on-ongoing.html>Progressive Perspectives on the Ongoing Israeli-Palestinian “Nightmare” (2021)</a><br>
1290. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/07/something-to-think-about_29.html>Something to Think About – July 29, 2018</a><br>
1291. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/05/quote-of-day_15.html>Noura Erakat: Quote of the Day – May 15, 2018</a><br>
1292. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/for-some-jews-israels-treatment-of.html>For Some Jews, Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians is Yet Another Jewish Tragedy</a><br>
1293. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/06/remembering-six-day-war-and-its-ongoing.html>Remembering the Six-Day War and Its Ongoing Aftermath</a><br>
1294. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/quote-of-day_12.html>David Norris: Quote of the Day – August 12, 2014</a><br>
1295. <br>
1296. <br>
1297. <b>Image 1:</b> Belal Khalel.<br>
1298. <b>Image 2:</b> Saher Alghorra.<br>
1299. <b>Image 3:</b> JehanKawera.<br>
1300. <b>Image 4:</b> Belal Khalel.<br>
1301. <b>Image 5:</b> Mahmud Hams.<br>
1302. <b>Image 6:</b> Mohammed Salem.</span><br>
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1304. I’m on the mailing list of author, philosopher and all-round visionary thinker <a href=https://www.jeanhouston.com/Jean-Houston>Jean Houston</a>. Earlier today I received the following message from her. It resonates with me; perhaps it will resonate with you too.<br>
1305. <br>
1306. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>pril 8th, was a day unlike any before it. Millions of people looked towards the heavens to discover what many called a spiritual experience. For in the dance between light and dark, we had come together as citizens of a powerful and humbling cosmos.<br>
1307. <br>
1308. All that had divided us, was subsumed by a rare and precious sense of belonging to an extraordinary home of land, sea and stars. We were drawn into the mystery of light and dark by a childlike awe that initiated us into an unexpected relationship of community, reverence and possibilities.<br>
1309. <br>
1310. I couldn’t help but feel this sky ritual as a metaphor for the light of your presence often being overcome with events that challenge the belief in yourselves, each other, and in our societies’ futures. We witnessed the symbolic dance of light and dark, just as our lives alternate between promise and anxiety.<br>
1311. <br>
1312. Spontaneous cheering welcomed back the return of our brilliant sun. Those joyous voices were the sounds of the victory of light, hope and the return of all that sustains our collective lives.<br>
1313. <br>
1314. For me, you are that light, offering yourself, against all odds, against all challenges, to a holy world.<br>
1315. <br>
1316. Sometimes your light may be overshadowed by outdated old patterns, by challenging situations, by witnessing unnecessary tragedies or by an overwhelming fatigue at the foolishness of decisions being made at every level.<br>
1317. <br>
1318. When your Light emerges again it can be filled with a powerful new energy, one creatively and spiritually prepared for this extraordinary time of transformation. Against all odds, you can help wisdom and good prevail, and use your imagination, experiences, allies and actions to make your visions a reality and help create a better world.</blockquote><br>
1319. <br>
1320. Jean goes on to talk about an upcoming online program she’s offering. Entitled “Against All Odds,” this program will offer participants opportunities “to expand their consciousness, step into interdependent relationships with the physical and non-physical worlds, grow new dimensions of intuition and creativity, and explore deeper responses to the critical choices and challenges of our times.”<br>
1321. <br>
1322. For more information about “Against All Odds,” <a href=https://jeanhouston.mykajabi.com/againstallodds>click here</a>.<br>
1323. <br>
1324. <br>
1325. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1326. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/light-and-dark-both-holy-both-life.html>Light and Dark: “Both Holy, Both Life-Giving”</a><br>
1327. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/dark-light.html>Dark Light</a><br>
1328. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/honoring-darkness-while-remembering.html>Honoring the Darkness While Remembering the Light</a><br>
1329. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/08/being-light.html>Being the Light</a><br>
1330. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/shining-on-into-new-year.html>Shining On . . . Into the New Year</a><br>
1331. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-kind-of-light-source.html>Aligning With the Living Light</a><br>
1332. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/light-within.html>The Light Within</a><br>
1333. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/12/chadwick-boseman-and-that-heavenly-light.html>Chadwick Boseman and That “Heavenly Light”</a><br>
1334. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-sun-is-around-you.html>The Sun Is All Around You</a><br>
1335. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/12/how-light-comes.html>How the Light Comes</a><br>
1336. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/03/like-sun.html>Like the Sun</a><br>
1337. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/in-chill-of-winter-prayer-of-light-and.html>In the Chill of Winter, a Prayer of Light and Love</a><br>
1338. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/12/i-need-do-nothing.html>I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light</a><br>
1339. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/loves-only-dance.html>Love’s the Only Dance</a><br>
1340. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/08/theres-light-in-love-you-see.html>“There’s Light in Love, You See”</a><br>
1341. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/02/morning-light.html>Morning Light</a><br>
1342. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/afternoon-light.html>Afternoon Light</a><br>
1343. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-light-of-this-new-years-day.html>The Light of This New Year’s Day</a><br>
1344. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-sacred-journey-pilgrim-path.html>A Sacred Journey, a Pilgrim Path</a><br>
1345. <br>
1346. <b>Image:</b> Photographer unknown.</span><br />
1347. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/6301620235758283474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=6301620235758283474' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/6301620235758283474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/6301620235758283474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/jean-houston-on-what-we-can-learn-from.html' title='Jean Houston on What We Can Learn From the “Awesome” Eclipse of April 8'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSbVRtNoL0o_BF4iG-Vej9IOr4SnGkm4FSt8eKd80LQBBNQJavrPoAqMEs4ZqqRIu5cHlXkEv_zXHqMc04M7KgmQYXs0ikt_OVCsHTYE6cplEQzvh3vYOfNfAWhWUIxDL0NXHVMTjwvKoTb2qeo-VEeeOdX0DZRquPiH02IayYY955C0S0lzlO0w/s72-c/Eclipse2024.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-259272949923261710</id><published>2024-04-15T00:21:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-18T10:14:57.747-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Real Question</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKEmkFLFVfFA_tlSSFS7m2DiKzk2IWzT5m38k47RuCWxnitc1qy1QLkwMYrw1tOSfe4fmTSWVUtzAvoS2SV7pUaWH82wHUu8uACQLONJsOuWcjDG-NxqOkYXVYyF611r0QxcStw8VqCuvniZAX-g9qjIDVeIVjE2aUYCR58M8BMxsso3mdvLu3kQ/s1152/IMG_0594.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1152&quot; data-original-width=&quot;864&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKEmkFLFVfFA_tlSSFS7m2DiKzk2IWzT5m38k47RuCWxnitc1qy1QLkwMYrw1tOSfe4fmTSWVUtzAvoS2SV7pUaWH82wHUu8uACQLONJsOuWcjDG-NxqOkYXVYyF611r0QxcStw8VqCuvniZAX-g9qjIDVeIVjE2aUYCR58M8BMxsso3mdvLu3kQ/s400/IMG_0594.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
1348. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>nyone who walks out of your life, this is a gift.<br>
1349. You do not want people who are half in, half out.<br>
1350. And you are such a lovely and beautiful person<br>
1351. that anyone would be lucky<br>
1352. to have you in their life.<br>
1353.  <br>
1354. And so, you must not let those<br>
1355. who fail to see your worth or appreciate you,<br>
1356. distract you from seeing those who do not.<br>
1357. <br>
1358. And though you may gaze back<br>
1359. at the door where they left and ask yourself<br>
1360. “Why didn’t they stay?”<br>
1361. The real question you must ask is<br>
1362. “Why would I want someone to stay in my life<br>
1363. who doesn’t want to be there?”<br>
1364. <br>
1365. And once they leave,<br>
1366. be grateful that they have made space<br>
1367. for someone whose love is not half-hearted<br>
1368. but who will love you as much as you love them.<br>
1369. And appreciate that it was only<br>
1370. a small time that they remained in your life<br>
1371. rather than a lifetime,<br>
1372. as with each person who exits,<br>
1373. you are closer to finding the one<br>
1374. who will wish to stay.<br>
1375. <br>
1376. And with each person who leaves,<br>
1377. you must remember that love<br>
1378. is merely a portal to the divine,<br>
1379. which can come in many forms,<br>
1380. and no one person can ever compare to<br>
1381. or come close to replacing your connection<br>
1382. with the ultimate source of love.<br>
1383. <br>
1384. And there is never only one person<br>
1385. who is destined to be in your life.<br>
1386. And so, you must not overvalue one person<br>
1387. but remember that everyone<br>
1388. is beautiful and special<br>
1389. and what you experienced with them,<br>
1390. you will find again: It has shown you<br>
1391. what is possible for you.<br>
1392. <br>
1393. And though when you were young,<br>
1394. you may have confused love for being<br>
1395. someone you must chase and beg to stay,<br>
1396. in time, you will come to appreciate<br>
1397. that it is exactly the opposite:<br>
1398. it is someone who feels like home.<br>
1399. Someone who will not hesitate to stay,<br>
1400. and will never look twice at the door.</center></blockquote><br>
1401. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i><a href=https://taliahunter.com>Tahlia Hunter</a></i></b></div><br>
1402. <br>
1403. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1404. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/11/walking-away.html>Walking Away</a><br>
1405. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/taking-high-road.html>Taking the High Road</a><br>
1406. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/jeff-foster-on-healing-power-of-holding.html>Jeff Foster on the Healing Power of “Holding Space”</a><br>
1407. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/02/like-sure-thing.html>Like a Sure Thing</a><br>
1408. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/05/what-we-crave.html>What We Crave</a><br>
1409. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/12/something-worth-remembering.html>Something Worth Remembering</a><br>
1410. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/06/passion-tide-and-time.html>Passion, Tide and Time</a><br>
1411. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/12/empty-beach.html>The Empty Beach</a><br>
1412. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/03/wendy-matthews.html>Wendy Matthews: Free, Like the Wind</a><br>
1413. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/12/dewy-kissed.html>Dew[y]-Kissed</a><br>
1414. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/06/intimate-soliloquies.html>Intimate Soliloquies</a><br>
1415. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-gravity-of-love.html>The Gravity of Love</a><br>
1416. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/11/awakening-wild-soul.html>Awakening the Wild Soul</a><br>
1417. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-souls-beloved.html>The Soul’s Beloved</a><br>
1418. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/02/love-is-my-guide.html>Love Is My Guide</a><br>
1419. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-path-ahead.html>The Path Ahead</a><br>
1420. <br>
1421. <b>Image:</b> <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Saaxiib%20Qurux%20Badan>Saaxiib Qurux Baden</a> (“Beautiful Friend”) St. Paul, MN – Michael J. Bayly (<a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/november-vignettes.html>11/12/23</a>).</span><br />
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1427. <br>
1428. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1429. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/04/in-this-in-between-time.html>In This In-Between Time</a><br>
1430. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/march-vignettes.html>March Vignettes</a><br>
1431. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/spring-light-in-skyway.html>Spring Light in Skyway</a><br>
1432. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/04/welcoming-return-of-spring.html>Welcoming the Return of Spring</a><br>
1433. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/spring-truly-season-for-joy-and-hope.html>Spring: “Truly the Season for Joy and Hope”</a><br>
1434. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-visiting-spring-breeze.html>A Visiting Spring Breeze</a><br>
1435. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/04/spring-rain.html>Spring Rain</a><br>
1436. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/05/spring-within-and-beyond.html>Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2022)</a><br>
1437. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/06/spring-within-and-beyond.html>Spring . . . Within and Beyond (2021)</a><br>
1438. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/06/calhoun-skies.html><i>Bde Maka Ska</i> Skies</a><br>
1439. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/08/pacific-skies.html>Pacific Skies</a><br>
1440. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/in-footsteps-of-spring.html>In the Footsteps of Spring: Introduction</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/light-within.html>Part I</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/06/shards-of-summer.html>II</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/06/intimate-soliloquies.html>III</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/02/coming-out.html>IV</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/05/no-stranger-am-i.html>V</a><br>
1441. <br>
1442. <b>Images:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br />
1443. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/7656586845476340335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=7656586845476340335' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/7656586845476340335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/7656586845476340335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/spring-skies.html' title='Spring Skies'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrvdKhP1W1292bjQXivnCeaN1US1fbZrk3W_nxFFzYkPOfUA-hOyEFGC4Ynp2kNNLkf-J3ElhXA1MgAKZwam7luTcVTATGo0M-8JvRDHVCOiedXeEcZ0Z4R0w91tDfwu_fi8WGxyibmElCe-eFA8_4Bv25_8uSn-RlHU59ljJICQYUwVlpyey5hw/s72-c/IMG_8075b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-964079520010068541</id><published>2024-04-11T22:01:00.039-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-21T15:11:50.079-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Justice and Peace"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Marianne 2024"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Marianne Williamson"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social Justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Thoughts on Transformation"/><title type='text'>For Marianne Williamson,  One Season Passes and Another Begins</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWM4-pSZvdQmyBSrxi1bZaX5PEMivRmt1upR-MN3iURy0iA643MdqYuPA_2ybwEDpxsde4hUAfZ4e0g39t2EfEudGn6jtmzQsvbET_ZRqwlQ7pzshm5aZ3CB1wPcmkdeOJwtUv7fHGXrxcGzAG7o-LWPFKDyiy90E1doBMRP42BoUo9qLq57NqBg/s434/MW-WeThe66.PNG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;378&quot; data-original-width=&quot;434&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWM4-pSZvdQmyBSrxi1bZaX5PEMivRmt1upR-MN3iURy0iA643MdqYuPA_2ybwEDpxsde4hUAfZ4e0g39t2EfEudGn6jtmzQsvbET_ZRqwlQ7pzshm5aZ3CB1wPcmkdeOJwtUv7fHGXrxcGzAG7o-LWPFKDyiy90E1doBMRP42BoUo9qLq57NqBg/s200/MW-WeThe66.PNG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Earlier today author and activist &lt;a href=https://marianne.com&gt;Marianne Williamson&lt;/a&gt; joined the &lt;a href=https://www.youtube.com/@WeThe66&gt;&lt;i&gt;We the 66&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; podcast to discuss her experience as an “outsider” &lt;a href=https://marianne2024.com&gt;presidential candidate&lt;/a&gt; in the Democratic Party. It will probably be one of her last interviews as a candidate, as with Biden having secured the necessary delegates to &lt;a href=https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-primary-georgia-washington-mississippi-hawaii-15bb0084ad656903ffef14cfae822abd&gt;clinch the nomination&lt;/a&gt; and the final state primaries taking place in the next few days, Marianne is winding down her campaign by &lt;a href=https://marianne2024.com/events&gt;visiting a number of those last states where she’s on the ballot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
1444. <br>
1445. As Marianne <a href=https://www.facebook.com/williamsonmarianne/posts/pfbid05Ph128uBF7reFzvCrXhDZXCv4edb2rfSDZYR6h7BDzJcSC4SaWHbCsij8mCNau3Rl>reminds us</a>, “People can still vote for our agenda in every state left where I’m still on the ballot: New Mexico, Oregon, Wyoming, Idaho, Guam, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Maryland, and DC. While those votes won’t win the nomination, they continue to impact the ethers and shine light on the fact that millions of people in America still wish to forge a better way.”<br>
1446. <br>
1447. In her appearance this morning on<i> We the 66</i> (a reference to the <a href=https://knightfoundation.org/reports/american-views-trust-media-and-democracy>66% of Americans who do not trust news media</a>), Marianne shared her thoughts and insights on a range of topics, including why the Democratic Party establishment is so hostile towards her, how being a woman has made her candidacy more difficult, why her father took her to Vietnam when she was 12, and the biggest health issues facing Americans today.<br>
1448. <br>
1449. <i>We the 66</i>’s 54-minute interview with Marianne is below. It’s followed by Marianne’s <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/one-season-passes-and-another-begins>latest substack piece</a> in which she reflects on both the ending of her campaign and what’s next for her.<br>
1450. <br>
1451. “The universe is recalibrating itself in all of us, giving rise to new portals of possibility,” she writes. “If we’re alert, we see changes in both our circumstances and in ourselves. But there is a mystery to change and we should respect it. Sometimes we have to let go of what is no longer ours in order to receive what is calling to us now.”<br>
1452. <br>
1453. <br>
1454. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HdfO81_WUNs?si=7uzYdFRhSttSIPeX" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
1455. <br>
1456. <br>
1457. <br>
1458. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: large;">One Season Passes and Another Begins</span><br>
1459. <span style="font-size: 110%;">The Mystery of How Things Change</span><br>
1460. <br>
1461.  <b><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">By Marianne Williamson</span></b><br>
1462. <br>
1463. <i>Transform</i><br>
1464. April 11, 2024</center><br>
1465. <span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>omorrow I go to New Mexico, then <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c529T5VMQEc>Oregon</a>. I will end the trip with a talk in Baltimore and then <i>finit!</i> Politically, I will have said my piece. I’ll have done all that I can do this political season to suggest to the American people that there might be a better way.<br>
1466. <br>
1467. Now for healing, grieving, processing, forgiving, and moving on to the next chapter of life. In May I have <a href=https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-mystic-jesus-awaken-to-the-divine-light-marianne-williamson/19567203>a book coming out</a>, which I wrote two years ago and then asked my publisher to please delay publishing while I went off to run for President. Actually that was my request to them about the same book when I ran in 2020! Deep thanks to Harper San Francisco for their patience and understanding.</blockquote><br>
1468. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUfevtvExptlVGqtKXy4mjyfKJiOZU8HrMTsYKBEBpns4YZQ08WRaZ-0kaQYtvKNYR-j89CRrM8bgQJ4M1Ihfs6pd9tNnncJOC5QIT2YJii9jpI0wiu82S468p2vzwJCDhWbxAWewF5baQqbJBbALEsBrJG9WIM_W5pHtZbmWmgohbxGsr6b1VRg/s540/Baltimore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUfevtvExptlVGqtKXy4mjyfKJiOZU8HrMTsYKBEBpns4YZQ08WRaZ-0kaQYtvKNYR-j89CRrM8bgQJ4M1Ihfs6pd9tNnncJOC5QIT2YJii9jpI0wiu82S468p2vzwJCDhWbxAWewF5baQqbJBbALEsBrJG9WIM_W5pHtZbmWmgohbxGsr6b1VRg/s200/Baltimore.jpg"/></a></div><blockquote>My <a href=https://www.eventbrite.com/e/join-marianne-in-baltimore-md-tickets-880956784457?aff=oddtdtcreator>last campaign event</a> will be April 21st, and the book will be published on May 7. I do wish, as I’m sure they do as well, that we had a bit more time to transition from my political to my spiritual offerings. But such schedules work the way they work, so we have seventeen days to switch from one part of the brain to the other.<br>
1469. <br>
1470. Maybe it’s my Gemini ascendant that’s responsible for the way I go back and forth between two different mental operating systems. In my mind they’re not contradictory, however. As <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.>Martin Luther King</a> said, “The desegregation of the American South is the political externalization of the goal of the civil rights movement, but the ultimate goal is the establishment of the beloved community.” He was a movement leader and also a Baptist preacher, saying it was “time to inject a new dimension of love into human civilization.” He, like <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi>Mahatma Gandhi</a> before him, urged inner as well as outer change. By both realms of life I am intrigued, and to both I’m equally devoted. We need horizontal change that transforms our politics and vertical change that transforms our souls.<br>
1471. <br>
1472. The universe is recalibrating itself in all of us, giving rise to new portals of possibility. If we’re alert, we see changes in both our circumstances and in ourselves. But there is a mystery to change and we should respect it. Sometimes we have to let go of what is no longer ours in order to receive what is calling to us now.<br>
1473. <br>
1474.  The French philosopher <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal>Blaize Pascal</a> said “all the world’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Only in silence can we hear the whispers of destiny. We receive the deeper answers in life when we take the time to ask deeper questions.<br>
1475. <br>
1476. All of us would do well to ask ourselves such things as this . . .<br>
1477. <br>
1478. What in your life is ending, and what is trying to begin? Are you seeing beyond appearances, to recognize the larger patterns at work in your life?<br>
1479. <br>
1480. What needs to be laid down, and what needs to be embraced? What needs to be atoned for, and what needs to be forgiven?<br>
1481. <br>
1482. What season of your life is passing away, and what season is preparing to dawn? Are you willing to see how deeply life is working through you, and stand in awe before forces so much greater than yourself?<br>
1483. <br>
1484. There was such a mystical hush during the eclipse on Monday, reminding me of when our electronics are on the fritz and we turn everything off for a few seconds to let the system reset itself. Surely the world is trying to do that. We are trying to change. We are trying to renew ourselves. One season passes and another now begins.</blockquote><br>
1485. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Marianne Williamson</i></b><br />
1486. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><i>Transform</i><br />
1487. April 11, 2024</span></div><br />
1488. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8dTWCek0DyvtE2qa_N2Qza00X_-uGA-lHOwJun8-KX2ht8ryKYfx9e4j6nRZEGgmD_a8hHf64fOksf6FInGLCSD_gzGc3TtaqbtiSRAeOXL3fSZDpee77btyxVk72aVlfVVHvZPAI0f2Y53yI_r95oxhebWwAhKapQYrASzFjwgsz2VBObCMsLw/s392/MW-WeThe66-2.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8dTWCek0DyvtE2qa_N2Qza00X_-uGA-lHOwJun8-KX2ht8ryKYfx9e4j6nRZEGgmD_a8hHf64fOksf6FInGLCSD_gzGc3TtaqbtiSRAeOXL3fSZDpee77btyxVk72aVlfVVHvZPAI0f2Y53yI_r95oxhebWwAhKapQYrASzFjwgsz2VBObCMsLw/s320/MW-WeThe66-2.PNG"/></a></div><br>
1489. <br>
1490. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_CWH0b4d6CKRFWnHR2CwqsE_0513GRtu8SleUVfJEpa8HgxRHGL-aIGJndI_8f5uaJo2Cbrarbl8x8OrnxhCsch3MTYp1LSwtp8NXkHycfeMUlZkdYQObrS0S74DRll1aln8NWbauE_R-CkNWbmLCcNglGV68Gn_kURD1R4Wjf0ZwDYNHR_-5g/s2277/IMG_2569b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="1709" data-original-width="2277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_CWH0b4d6CKRFWnHR2CwqsE_0513GRtu8SleUVfJEpa8HgxRHGL-aIGJndI_8f5uaJo2Cbrarbl8x8OrnxhCsch3MTYp1LSwtp8NXkHycfeMUlZkdYQObrS0S74DRll1aln8NWbauE_R-CkNWbmLCcNglGV68Gn_kURD1R4Wjf0ZwDYNHR_-5g/s200/IMG_2569b.JPG"/></a></div><b><i>Thank you, Marianne!</i></b> . . . Thank you for all you’ve done in running for president. I trust you made a difference . . . and will <i>continue</i> to make a difference; it’s just who you are. You certainly continue to inform and inspire me.<br>
1491. <br>
1492. Through your presence, words, and actions on the campaign trail, you not only advanced a much-needed <a href=https://marianne2024.com/issues>progressive agenda</a> but also embodied the <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/in-midst-of-great-unraveling-visit-to.html>shift in consciousness</a> that I believe <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-kind-of-light-source.html>the Sacred</a> is calling all of humanity to manifest in and through our individual and communal actions.<br>
1493. <br>
1494. It’s a shift that invites all to consciously choose love over and above fear. You remind us, Marianne, that when such a choice is realized in our politics as well as in our individual lives, we will bring to birth in our world an era of justice, peace and healing.<br>
1495. <br>
1496. So, again, <i>thank you!</i><br>
1497. <br>
1498. <br>
1499. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1500. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/one-season-passes-and-another-begins>One Season Passes and Another Begins</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, April 11, 2024).<br>
1501. <a href=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marianne-williamson-democratic-presidential-bid-campaign-isnt-winning/story?id=108316131>Marianne Williamson, Still in Democratic Presidential Bid, Says Campaign Isn’t About Winning: “There’s More Than the Horse Race”</a> – Isabella Murray (<i>ABC News</i>, March 29, 2024).<br>
1502. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/why-i-keep-going>Why I Keep Going</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 16, 2024).<br>
1503. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/in-hopes-of-a-future-harvest>In Hopes of a Future Harvest</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 13, 2024).<br>
1504. <a href=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-cease-fire-activists-use-marianne-williamson-primary-vessel-rcna143831>How Marianne Williamson’s Name Became the Placeholder for “Uncommitted” Protesters in Arizona</a> – Alex Tabet (<i>NBC News</i>, March 19, 2024).<br>
1505. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/primary-purpose-and-power>Primary Purpose and Power</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 12, 2024).<br>
1506. <a href=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marianne-williamson-surprises-coming-second-multiple-states-leapfrogging-dean-phillips>Marianne Williamson Surprises by Coming In Second in Multiple States, Leapfrogging Dean Phillips</a> – Timothy H.J. Nerozzi (<i>Fox News</i>, March 6, 2024).<br>
1507. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/i-remain-in-the-race>I Remain in the Race</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 6, 2024).<br>
1508. <a href=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marianne-williamson-returns-presidential-race-saying-biden-vulnerable-trump>Marianne Williamson Returns to Presidential Race, Saying Biden Is Vulnerable Against Trump</a> –  Anders Hagstrom (<i>Fox News</i>, February 28, 2024).<br>
1509. <a href=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/20/biden-economy-campaign-message-better>Biden and Other Centrist Democrats Keep Bragging About the Economy. But Here’s the Problem</a> – Perry Bacon Jr. (<i>The Washington Post</i>, February 20, 2024).<br>
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1513. <center><b>See also:</b> <a href=https://marianne2024.com>Marianne 2024 Official Site</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/meet-marianne>About</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/issues>Issues</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/latest-news>News</a> | <a href=https://events.marianne2024.com>Events</a> | <a href=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/marwilliamson2024>Donate</a></center>
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1515. <br>
1516. <b>For <i>The Wild Reed</i>’s coverage of Marianne Williamson’s 2024 presidential campaign, see the following chronologically-ordered posts:</b><br>
1517. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/marianne-2024.html>Marianne 2024</a><br>
1518. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/marianne-williamson-launches-2024.html>Marianne Williamson Launches 2024 Presidential Campaign</a><br>
1519. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/progressive-perspectives-on-marianne.html>Progressive Perspectives on Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Run</a><br>
1520. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/more-progressive-perspectives-on.html>More Progressive Perspectives on Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Run</a><br>
1521. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/quote-of-day_0894107181.html>Ben Burgis: Quote of the Day – March 10, 2023</a><br>
1522. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/despite-undemocratic-antics-of-dnc.html>Despite the Undemocratic Antics of the DNC, Marianne Williamson Plans on “Winning the Nomination”</a><br>
1523. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-biblical-roots-of-from-each.html>The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”</a><br>
1524. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/marianne-williamson-on-next-revolution.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton</i> – 05/30/23</a><br>
1525. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/marianne-williamsons-economic-bill-of.html>Marianne Williamson’s Economic Bill of Rights</a><br>
1526. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/three-progressive-voices-on-war-in.html>Three Progressive Voices on the War in Ukraine</a><br>
1527. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/quote-of-day_27.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 27, 2023</a><br>
1528. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/marianne-williamson-on-issue-is-with.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>The Issue Is</i> with Elex Michaelson – 07/20/23</a><br>
1529. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/voters-not-dnc-should-choose-nominee.html>Voters, Not the DNC, Should Choose the Nominee</a><br>
1530. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/marianne-williamson-in-new-hampshire.html>Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire</a><br>
1531. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-repairing-our.html>Marianne Williamson: “Repairing Our Hearts Is Essential to Repairing Our Country”</a><br>
1532. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-on-trumps-day-in.html>Marianne Williamson on Trump’s Day in Court</a><br>
1533. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-on-news-nation.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>NewsNation</i> – 08/25/23</a><br>
1534. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/09/presidential-candidate-marianne.html>Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson Joins NYC’s March to End Fossil Fuels</a><br>
1535. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamson-on-your-world-10623.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>Your World</i> – 10/6/23</a><br>
1536. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamsons-radical-idea.html>Marianne Williamson’s “Radical Idea” of Putting People First</a><br>
1537. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamson-we-need-to-disrupt.html>Marianne Williamson: “We Need to Disrupt the Corrupt”</a><br>
1538. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/we-are-surging.html>“We Are Surging”</a><br>
1539. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/let-people-decide-marianne-williamson.html>“Let the People Decide”: Marianne Williamson on the DNC’s Efforts to Deny and Suppress the Democratic Process</a><br>
1540. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/live-democratic-presidential-debate.html>Democratic Presidential Debate: Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips – 1/8/24</a><br>
1541. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-democrats-challenging-biden.html>The Democrats Challenging Biden</a><br>
1542. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/bannering-for-marianne.html>Bannering for Marianne</a><br>
1543. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in.html>Campaigning for Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire – Day 1</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_21.html>2</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_23.html>3</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_2.html>4</a><br>
1544. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/marianne-williamson-i-have-decided-to.html>Marianne Williamson: “I Have Decided to Continue”</a><br>
1545. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/marianne-williamson-in-nevada-2424.html>Marianne Williamson in Nevada – 2/4/24</a><br>
1546. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/forever-grateful.html>Forever Grateful</a><br>
1547. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-marianne-williamson-learned-from.html>What Marianne Williamson Learned from Running for President</a><br>
1548. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/marianne-williamson-playing-it-big.html>Marianne Williamson: Playing It Big</a><br>
1549. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/minnesotans-launch-super-tuesday-push.html>Minnesotans Launch Super Tuesday Push for “Suspended But Not Ended” Candidate Marianne Williamson</a><br>
1550. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-welcome-return.html>A Welcome Return</a><br>
1551. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-super-tuesday-dont-be-uncommitted.html>This Super Tuesday, Don’t Be “Uncommitted” . . .</a><br>
1552. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/super-tuesday.html>Super Tuesday in Minnesota</a><br>
1553. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/marianne-williamson-cassandra-of-us.html>Marianne Williamson, the Cassandra of U.S. Politics, on the “True State of the Union”</a><br>
1554. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/marianne-williamson-in-arizona-31724.html>Marianne Williamson in Arizona – 3/17/24</a><br>
1555. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-is-moment.html>“This Is the Moment”</a><br>
1556. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/marianne-williamson-on-washington.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>Washington Journal</i> (4/2/24) and <i>The Letterhack</i> (4/4/24)</a><br>
1557. <br>
1558. <b>See also:</b><br>
1559. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/we-must-challenge-entire-system.html>Marianne Williamson: “We Must Challenge the Entire System”</a><br>
1560. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/marianne-williamson-on-current.html>Marianne Williamson on the Current Condition of the U.S.</a><br>
1561. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/09/marianne-williamsons-politics-of-love.html>Marianne Williamson’s Politics of Love: The Rich Roll Interview</a><br>
1562. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/03/if-only-we-could-hear-voices-like-this.html>Now Here’s a Voice I’d Like to Hear Regularly on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows</a><br>
1563. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-deeper-perspective-on-whats-really.html>A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking American Democracy</a><br>
1564. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/marianne-williamson-on-10th-anniversary.html>Marianne Williamson on the Tenth Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street</a><br>
1565. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/marianne-williamson-on-how-centrist.html>Marianne Williamson on How Centrist Democrats Abuse Voters with False Promises</a><br>
1566. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/two-of-most-dedicated-and-enlightened.html>“Two of the Most Dedicated and Enlightened Heroes of Present Day America”</a><br>
1567. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/04/deep-gratitude.html>Deep Gratitude</a><br>
1568. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-beautiful-message-full-of-greatness.html>“A Beautiful Message, So Full of Greatness”</a><br>
1569. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/11/marianne-williamson-anything-that-will.html>Marianne Williamson: “Anything That Will Help People Thrive, I’m Interested In”</a><br>
1570. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/08/caitlin-johnstone-status-quo.html>Caitlin Johnstone: “Status Quo Politicians Are Infinitely ‘Weirder’ Than Marianne Williamson”</a></span><br />
1571. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/964079520010068541/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=964079520010068541' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/964079520010068541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/964079520010068541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/for-marianne-williamson-one-season.html' title='For Marianne Williamson,  One Season Passes and Another Begins'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWM4-pSZvdQmyBSrxi1bZaX5PEMivRmt1upR-MN3iURy0iA643MdqYuPA_2ybwEDpxsde4hUAfZ4e0g39t2EfEudGn6jtmzQsvbET_ZRqwlQ7pzshm5aZ3CB1wPcmkdeOJwtUv7fHGXrxcGzAG7o-LWPFKDyiy90E1doBMRP42BoUo9qLq57NqBg/s72-c/MW-WeThe66.PNG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-5181015718828232034</id><published>2024-04-09T20:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-09T22:45:45.817-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Resisting Corporatism and Fascism"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social Justice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Something to Think About"/><title type='text'>How Everything Changed . . . </title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQ-tcqCdzvuzc_8ePz5ygMbws6zwypp_0TLEOXSfn_MTMuOE_O08KnbG019qBpEZ9DOR3NAXxdqeykZA3PKYJU89U6DvoU6HmUTurUpF2VJDZMWyvDASyq0f0ZyEcrctFU6mxVP_EXUby8wJHeSLzuQgFOeqwi3L00qonAIsmaxnqLfNxlvp0Vw/s465/HowEverythingChanged.jpg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;410&quot; data-original-width=&quot;465&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQ-tcqCdzvuzc_8ePz5ygMbws6zwypp_0TLEOXSfn_MTMuOE_O08KnbG019qBpEZ9DOR3NAXxdqeykZA3PKYJU89U6DvoU6HmUTurUpF2VJDZMWyvDASyq0f0ZyEcrctFU6mxVP_EXUby8wJHeSLzuQgFOeqwi3L00qonAIsmaxnqLfNxlvp0Vw/s400/HowEverythingChanged.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
1572. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1573. <a href=https://robertreich.org/post/5993482080>The Truth About the American Economy</a> – Robert Reich (<i>RobertReich.org/</i>, May 29, 2011).<br>
1574. <a href=https://www.davemanuel.com/investor-dictionary/the-great-prosperity>The Great Prosperity: What Does It Mean?</a> – Dave Manuel (<i>DaveManuel.org</i>).<br>
1575. <a href=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/great-regression>The Great Regression</a> – Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins (<i>The Nation</i>, February 25, 2013).<br>
1576. <a href=https://www.thetriangle.org/opinion/the-great-regression-america-in-the-last-50-years>The Great Regression: America in the Last 50 Years</a> – Robert Zaller (<i>The Triangle</i>, March 1, 2019).<br>
1577. <a href=https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/the-true-story-of-reaganomics-8-simple-graphs/86146186>The True Story of Reaganomics in 9 Simple Graphs</a> – Leon Trout (<i>eBaum’s World</i>, December 19, 2019).<br>
1578. <a href=https://roarmag.org/essays/gerbaudo-great-recoil>The Great Recoil of Neoliberal Globalization</a> – Paolo Gerbaudo (<i>Roar</i>, October 23, 2021).<br>
1579. <a href=https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-great-regression>The Great Regression: All Hail Our Globalist Overlords</a> – Victor Davis Hanson (<i>The American Mind</i>, July 5, 2022).<br>
1580. <a href=https://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/usa-the-great-prosperity-the-great-regression-5-charts>The Great Prosperity and the Great Regression: 5 Charts</a> – David Ruccio (<i>Real-World Economics Review</i>, September 7, 2011).<br>
1581. <br>  
1582. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1583. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/09/capitalism-on-trial.htmll>Capitalism on Trial</a><br>
1584. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-biblical-roots-of-from-each.html>The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”</a><br>
1585. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/quote-of-day_16.html>Bernie Sanders: Quote of the Day – February 16, 2023</a><br>
1586. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/richard-wolff-on-necessity-of.html>Richard Wolff on the Necessity of Transforming Capitalism</a><br>
1587. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-good-and-just-society.html>The Good and Just Society</a><br>
1588. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/12/quote-of-day.html>Cornel West: Quote of the Day – December 3, 2020</a><br>
1589. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/05/paul-field-this-crisis-is-not-about.html>Paul Field: “This Crisis Is Not About the Virus”</a><br>
1590. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/11/marianne-williamson-anything-that-will.html>Marianne Williamson: “Anything That Will Help People Thrive, I’m Interested In”</a><br>
1591. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-neoliberal-economic-doctrine-view.html>The Neoliberal Economic Doctrine: A View from Australia</a><br>
1592. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/four-spot-on-responses-to-united.html>Four Spot-on Responses to the United Airlines Debacle</a><br>
1593. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/04/hope-history-and-bernie-sanders_18.html>Hope, History, and Bernie Sanders</a><br>
1594. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/01/martin-luther-king-jr-democratic.html>Martin Luther King, Jr. and Democratic Socialism</a><br>
1595. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/11/something-to-think-about_28.html>Pope Francis: Quote of the Day – November 28, 2014</a><br>
1596. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/11/something-to-think-about_26.html>Something to Think About – November 26, 2013</a><br>
1597. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/08/quote-of-day_17.html>Jonty Langley: Quote of the Day – August 17, 2011</a><br>
1598. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/04/quote-of-day.html>Joseph E. Stiglitz: Quote of the Day – April 5, 2011</a><br>
1599. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/03/quote-of-day_28.html>Terry Eagleton: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2011</a><br>
1600. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/02/quote-of-day_11.html>David Sirota: Quote of the Day – February 10, 2011</a><br>
1601. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-blow-to-democracy-us-supreme-court.html>In a Blow to Democracy, U.S. Supreme Court Affirms Corporate Personhood</a><br>
1602. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/09/socialist-response-to-financial-crisis.html>A Socialist Response to the Financial Crisis</a><br>
1603. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/09/remembering-radical-ethic-of-catholic.html>Remembering the “Radical Ethic” of the Catholic Worker Movement</a><br>
1604. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/06/john-pilger-on-resisting-empire.html>John Pilger on Resisting Empire</a><br>
1605. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/09/john-le-carrs-dark-suspicions.html>John le Carré’s Dark Suspicions</a><br>
1606. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/08/rip-neoclassical-economics.html>R.I.P. Neoclassical Economics</a></span><br>
1607. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/5181015718828232034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=5181015718828232034' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5181015718828232034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5181015718828232034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-everything-changed.html' title='How Everything Changed . . . '/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmQ-tcqCdzvuzc_8ePz5ygMbws6zwypp_0TLEOXSfn_MTMuOE_O08KnbG019qBpEZ9DOR3NAXxdqeykZA3PKYJU89U6DvoU6HmUTurUpF2VJDZMWyvDASyq0f0ZyEcrctFU6mxVP_EXUby8wJHeSLzuQgFOeqwi3L00qonAIsmaxnqLfNxlvp0Vw/s72-c/HowEverythingChanged.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-2934759167999325340</id><published>2024-04-08T19:00:00.026-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-17T11:16:48.584-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Human Sexuality"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quote of the Day"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Transgender"/><title type='text'>Quote of the Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5E6pAXZkNfLebFMVNN_4r9_hwdsYyvGpYyCNgatLxWb0lliM6S-ytBzPlMBq9HPr9qsidPcMFsAsqtnE3nWCoAwGo8VET48rRBvUwxGtgfps6TKJSpb4bhW5JIO-32rdDCj8dZAICv7qQSjR3iUGwLps3st9mn7TKBegcZl9x5Nv8VrsefRE3Lw/s647/MaddieMarlett-1.PNG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;586&quot; data-original-width=&quot;647&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5E6pAXZkNfLebFMVNN_4r9_hwdsYyvGpYyCNgatLxWb0lliM6S-ytBzPlMBq9HPr9qsidPcMFsAsqtnE3nWCoAwGo8VET48rRBvUwxGtgfps6TKJSpb4bhW5JIO-32rdDCj8dZAICv7qQSjR3iUGwLps3st9mn7TKBegcZl9x5Nv8VrsefRE3Lw/s200/MaddieMarlett-1.PNG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;s a transwoman, I am told by [the new Vatican document, “&lt;a href=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2024/04/08/0284/00588.html#en&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dignitas Infinita&lt;/i&gt;: On Human Dignity&lt;/a&gt;”] that I am playing God and misapplying my moral freedom. This is not the reality of my life. My journey to self-acceptance was through realizing my self-worth as God’s creation. My choice to transition and affirm my gender was rooted in my search for existential dignity and social dignity.&lt;br&gt;
1608. <br>
1609. This document classifies my identification as “determining one’s identity and future independently of others, without regard for one’s membership in the human community.” This could be nothing further from my truth. I made one choice and that was to live. This choice has let me continue my membership in this living human community. For a document that condemns the death penalty, I can’t help but mourn the irony of church leaders wanting to doom me and others like me to a life headed toward a serious mental health crisis instead of affording me the moral dignity to find my truth as reflected in the diversity of love God’s image holds.<br>
1610. <br>
1611. I wish the Vatican would see my inalienable dignity and move with respect and love for us transgender and non-binary folks.</blockquote><br>
1612. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Maddie Marlett</i></b><br />
1613. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Quoted in “<a href=https://www.dignityusa.org/news/vatican-document-human-dignity-dehumanizes-gender-diverse-people-condemns-reproductive-options>Vatican Document on Human Dignity<br>
1614. Dehumanizes Gender Diverse People,<br>
1615. Condemns Reproductive Options,<br>
1616. and Causing Real Harm</a>”<br>
1617. DignityUSA<br>
1618. April 8, 2024</span></div><br />
1619. <br />
1620. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1621. <a href=https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-human-dignity-document-condemns-sex-change-gender-theory-and-surrogacy>Vatican Condemns Surrogacy, Gender-Affirming Surgery, and Gender Theory in New Doctrinal Note</a> – Christopher White (<i>National Catholic Reporter</i>, April 8, 2024).<br>
1622. <a href=https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/04/08/new-ways-ministry-vatican-document-on-human-dignity-fails-lgbtq-people>Vatican Document on Human Dignity Fails LGBTQ+ People</a> – Francis DeBernardo (New Ways Ministry, April 8, 2024).<br>
1623. <a href=https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/04/08/the-strawman-of-gender-theory-in-the-vaticans-new-document>The Strawman of “Gender Theory” in the Vatican’s New Document</a> – Fr. Daniel Horan (New Ways Ministry, April 8, 2024).<br>
1624. <a href=https://www.dignityusa.org/news/letter-catholics-about-vatican%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cdignitas-infinita%E2%80%9D-human-dignity-we-are-you>A Letter to Catholics About the Vatican’s “Dignitas Infinita” (“On Human Dignity”): We Are With You</a> – The Board and Staff of DignityUSA (April 8, 2024).<br>
1625. <br>
1626. <b>UPDATES:</b> <a href=https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/04/09/new-vatican-document-condemns-gender-transitions-and-undefined-gender-theory>New Vatican Document Condemns Gender Transitions and Undefined “Gender Theory”</a> – Robert Shine (New Ways Ministry, April 9, 2024).<br>
1627. <a href=https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/04/10/what-transgender-catholics-and-their-allies-are-saying-about-dignitas-infinita>What Transgender Catholics and Their Allies Are Saying About “Dignitas Infinita”</a> – Robert Shine (<i>Bondings 2.0</i>, April 10, 2024).<br>
1628. <a href=https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/04/11/a-painful-lack-of-understanding-theologians-respond-to-vaticans-latest-declaration>“A Painful Lack of Understanding”: Theologians Respond to Vatican’s Latest Declaration</a> – Brian Flanagan (New Ways Ministry, April 11, 2024).<br>
1629. <a href=https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/04/15/gender-identity-should-be-on-synod-agenda-and-it-is-now-writes-paul-elie>Gender Identity Should Be on Synod Agenda – And It Is Now, Writes Paul Elie</a> – Robert Shine (New Ways Ministry, April 15, 2024).<br>
1630. <br>
1631. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1632. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/angela-kade-goepferd-on-manufactured.html>Angela Kade Goepferd on the “Manufactured Controversy” Targeting Gender-Affirming Care</a><br>
1633. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-bigger-box-of-crayons-we-all-deserve_0891050861.html>The Bigger Box of Crayons We All Deserve</a><br>
1634. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/transgender-in-america-today.html>Transgender in America Today</a><br>
1635. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/accounting-for-backlash.html>Accounting for the Backlash</a><br>
1636. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/celebrating-every-body_01984255341.html>Celebrating <i>Every Body</i></a><br>
1637. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/three-radical-religious-ideas-for-queer.html>Three Radical (Religious) Ideas for Queer Liberation</a><br>
1638. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/06/gabbi-pierce-on-evolution-of-gender.html>Gabbi Pierce on the “Evolution of Gender”</a><br>
1639. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/judith-butler-on-reactionary-movement.html>Judith Butler on the Reactionary Movement and Fascist Trend Opposed to Diverse Ideas About Gender</a><br>
1640. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/09/quote-of-day_21.html>Francis DeBernardo: Quote of the Day – September 21, 2016</a><br>
1641. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/08/quote-of-day_25.html>Terry Weldon: Quote of the Day – August 20, 2015</a><br>
1642. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/08/quote-of-day_14.html>Samantha Allen: Quote of the Day – August 14, 2015</a><br>
1643. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/10/catholics-recognize-and-celebrate-truth.html>Catholics Recognize and Celebrate the Truth of Transgender People: “Their Quest for Authenticity Is a Quest for Holiness”</a><br>
1644. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/06/lisa-leff-on-five-things-to-know-about.html>Lisa Leff on Five Things to Know About Transgender People</a><br>
1645. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/trans-101.html>Trans 101</a><br>
1646. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/06/putting-human-face-on-t-of-glbt.html>Putting a Human Face on the “T” of “GLBT”</a><br>
1647. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/11/shannon-kearns-transgender-day-of.html>Shannon Kearns’ Transgender Day of Remembrance Message: “We Are Beloved Children of the Universe”</a><br>
1648. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/07/beyond-hierarchy-catholic-churchs.html>Beyond the Hierarchy: The Blossoming of Liberating Catholic Insights on Sexuality</a><br>
1649. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/11/when-guidelines-lack-guidance.html>When “Guidelines” Lack Guidance</a><br>
1650. <br>
1651. <b>Image:</b> Maddie Marlett <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZFRX3me0xc>proclaiming the Gospel and delivering the homily</a> at <a href=https://www.dignityny.org>Dignity/New York</a>’s 2023 annual Pride Liturgy at <a href=https://www.stjvny.org>St. John’s in the Village Church</a>, West Village, NY.</span><br>
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1653. <center><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">. . . [one] that extends from Tel Aviv to London<br>
1654. to Washington to Paris to Rome</span></blockquote></center><br>
1655. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprfUliu3uSZa_THCyieO6Y3HSgPBfsWOFiOe0Xd0F92aj247vb-x4LfBIee78W2WSLQngalFOenC6u4F9krPJBt2it-rwiwWk-EwQ7YyTvljLNO7eDQesTV7jPBcbTSIlNhH3xyhOjzytPqhP-dDuUOU8Hz-Eo9aU1ubrcAUzVn10TrmacoMc1w/s904/AliMahmoud.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="904" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprfUliu3uSZa_THCyieO6Y3HSgPBfsWOFiOe0Xd0F92aj247vb-x4LfBIee78W2WSLQngalFOenC6u4F9krPJBt2it-rwiwWk-EwQ7YyTvljLNO7eDQesTV7jPBcbTSIlNhH3xyhOjzytPqhP-dDuUOU8Hz-Eo9aU1ubrcAUzVn10TrmacoMc1w/s400/AliMahmoud.PNG"/></a></div><br>
1656. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-zQ9oSskaMiozSNECFJX5yXRM7FwJbllD0y__JWjp5Fp7fW_CzxDTTP1y6mDX0MxEhNBZGsep1VsKiZDmfx82YVTpw-fWBCcgV8-Z1bhbrtx3BIMuSpWLiLpaLnYc1KGgpdnv18s3i4qI91T4AaBcZ-QS3hsPY-vpkAiG2Iri2dKmj3iI0zzLw/s374/GhassanAbu-Sittah.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB-zQ9oSskaMiozSNECFJX5yXRM7FwJbllD0y__JWjp5Fp7fW_CzxDTTP1y6mDX0MxEhNBZGsep1VsKiZDmfx82YVTpw-fWBCcgV8-Z1bhbrtx3BIMuSpWLiLpaLnYc1KGgpdnv18s3i4qI91T4AaBcZ-QS3hsPY-vpkAiG2Iri2dKmj3iI0zzLw/s200/GhassanAbu-Sittah.PNG"/></a></div>The world is watching a genocide being systematically and brutally unleashed on the Palestinian population in Gaza.<br>
1657. <br>
1658. British Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah (<b><span style="color: #274e13;">right</span></b>) reminds us that the perpetrators and enablers of this atrocity are not just within the Israeli government but also in Western governments and media organizations.<br>
1659. <br>
1660. Last Monday Dr. Abu-Sittah was <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/1/gaza_hospital_destruction_al_shifa>interviewed</a> by <i>Democracy Now!</i>’s Amy Goodman. In this interview, Dr. Abu-Sittah provides one of the most harrowing yet essential witness accounts and analysis of the situation in Gaza.<br>
1661. <br>
1662. <blockquote>[F]rom the very beginning, this [has] been a war Israel declared on Palestinian children. . . . Israel wants to wipe out Palestinian children, because Palestinian children represent the Palestinian tomorrow that is incompatible with the Zionist settler-colonial project. Zionists cannot envision a Palestinian tomorrow and [are] targeting Palestinian children. . . . [S]uch is the aim of the settler-colonialist genocidal war, to dehumanize these children, that my colleagues and I wanted to maintain their dignity and wanted to not just bear witness but to hold on to anything that makes us and them human in the face of this dehumanizing war machine. And so we insisted that whenever there was a limb that was amputated, that it gets the right burial and that this child’s name is on that amputated limb and that we maintain the dignity of our patient to the extent that we can.</blockquote><br>
1663. <br>
1664. Following is <i>Democracy Now!</i>’s complete 35-minute interview with Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah.<br>
1665. <br>
1666. <br>
1667. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XwNk_VgDkSA?si=ICd5XLKuwaComSRX" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
1668. <br>
1669. <br>
1670. <blockquote>[O]ne of the things you do realize when you leave this death world in Gaza and you come out to the outside world is that you come to realize that Israel is just the tip of genocidal iceberg, that the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, all of these NATO countries represent the remainder of the genocidal project. And these countries are not just supporting Israel. They are supporting Israel’s genocidal project, because, as the Colombian president said, they want to send the message to any other troublesome Native who considers changing the rules of the global game by rebelling.<br>
1671. <br>
1672. And so, when we talk about the genocide, we should not just talk about the Israelis as the perpetrators of the genocide. We should talk about the “Axis of Genocide,” these countries, these governments that are perpetuating this genocide. And we know just not just this article. There’s also been another article showing how much intelligence information has been passed on to the Israelis that ensured the Israelis are able to carry out these massacres. And so, when we talk about the genocide, it’s an American, British, French, European genocide against the Palestinian people, of which Israel is the spearhead but not just the sole perpetrator.<br>
1673. <br>
1674. . . . [T]his is a genocidal project that extends from Tel Aviv to London to Washington to Paris to Rome – to all of these countries. These are genocidal partners, complicit in an attempt to wipe out the Palestinian people. The 200,000, hundreds of thousands of people who are coming out every weekend, be it in Europe or North America, are basically saying, “Not in our name.” They will not be complicit in the acts of genocide that their governments are perpetrating. These people want to absolve themselves from what their governments are doing, by refusing to be part of a genocidal war in the 21st century.</blockquote><br>
1675. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah</i></b><br />
1676. <span style="font-size: 85%;">April 1, 2024</span></div><br />
1677. <br>
1678. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuD1Okfz8HCkWdIqcSqn_74_ecKseK3T3toBfa_4ogwiPCEKiTBWZQvuWKUmPZ7wQqGWRAXKbfWQ0hFODOHGGwWfumhofXRpUY9FZNDYRYZTDO9P0yy9GdFcx3KnhB52ZPeuEcfGBIT8cQ_HMbjXjky55G58tvFuWqmsdQzDZHBDJ2DNTGJBVX-Q/s871/PalestinianChild.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="871" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuD1Okfz8HCkWdIqcSqn_74_ecKseK3T3toBfa_4ogwiPCEKiTBWZQvuWKUmPZ7wQqGWRAXKbfWQ0hFODOHGGwWfumhofXRpUY9FZNDYRYZTDO9P0yy9GdFcx3KnhB52ZPeuEcfGBIT8cQ_HMbjXjky55G58tvFuWqmsdQzDZHBDJ2DNTGJBVX-Q/s400/PalestinianChild.PNG"/></a></div>
1679. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: 85%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Above:</span></b> A bloodied Palestinian child standing in the aftermath of an Israeli bombardment – Gaza, Palestine, October 25, 2023. <i>(<a href=https://www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-east/i-am-scared-palestinian-child-after-israel-bombs-her-home>AA Photo</a>)</i></span></center></blockquote><br>
1680. <br>
1681. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1682. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-and-u-s>The Mutually Reinforcing American and Israeli Empires</a> – Ralph Nader (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 6, 2024).<br>
1683. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-problem-in-gaza>In Gaza and Beyond, War Itself Is the Problem</a> – Robert C. Koehler (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 6, 2024).<br>
1684. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-erez-crossing>After “One Phone Call” With Biden, Israel Opens Erez Crossing to Increase Gaza Aid</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 5, 2024).<br>
1685. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgGq-N8Q7d0>Journalist Abby Martin Explains Why She Considers Israel’s Actions in Gaza to Constitute Genocide</a> – <i>Middle East Eye</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
1686. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEltgY-Z8nY>Briahna Joy Gray Unpacks IDF Lies About the Slaughter of World Central Kitchen Aid Workers in Gaza</a> – <i>Rising</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
1687. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/3/israel_aid_attack_jan_egeland>“A War Machine Out of Control”: Israel Keeps Attacking Aid Workers as Gaza Faces Famine</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 3, 2024).<br>
1688. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u02XFXLoM4Q>Trump Breaks with Pro-Netanyahu Corner; Tells Israeli Media He Supports Ending War in Gaza</a> – <i>Rising</i> (April 2, 2024).<br>
1689. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide-2667597341>Draft U.N, Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide</a> – Brett Wilkins (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 25, 2024).<br>
1690. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/25/gaza>As Israel Blocks More U.N. Aid, Gaza Is on the Brink of “Most Intense Famine” Since WW2</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 25, 2024).<br>
1691. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/22/nahreen_ahmed_medglobal_gaza_healthcare_crisis>“Children Are Dying”: Doctor Just Back from Gaza Describes Severe Malnutrition and Preventable Infections</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 22, 2024).<br>
1692. <a href=https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-03-23-2024-2939dce94ce6c4f1084ff3cb8444ce3a>UN Chief Says It’s Time to “Truly Flood” Gaza with Aid and Calls Starvation There an Outrage</a> – Samy Magdy, Amr Nabil and Sam Metz (<i>AP News</i>, March 22, 2023).<br>
1693. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-the-netanyahu-gov-t-should-not-receive-another-penny-from-us>Sen. Bernie Sanders: “The Netanyahu Government Should Not Receive Another Penny from the U.S.”</a> – <i>Common Dreams</i>, March 23, 2024).<br>
1694. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-child-rights-gaza>U.N. Panel Says IDF Appears Set on “Physical Destruction of Palestinian Children”</a> – Jake Johnson (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 22, 2024).<br>
1695. <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/21/sale-weapons-israel-palestinian-human-rights>There Is No Moral Argument That Justifies the Sale of Weapons to Israel</a> – Mary Lawlor (<i>The Guardian</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
1696. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-israel-support>Former U.S. Diplomat Says “Collaboration” in Gaza Genocide Could Make Biden “Target of Prosecution”</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
1697. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinians-killed-by-israel>“Everyone in the World Needs to See This”: Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans</a> – Jessica Corbett (<i>Common Dreams</i>, March 21, 2024).<br>
1698. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/21/gaza_doctor_nick_maynard>British Surgeon Describes Children Suffering “Appalling Injuries” in Gaza, Demands Immediate Ceasefire</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 21, 2024).<br>
1699. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQDaC5enGY&t=158s>The West Is Complicit in Israel’s Genocide</a> – Yanis Varoufakis amd Raoul Martinez (Novara Media, February 17, 2024).<br>
1700. <a href=https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/10/29/hala-alyan-why-must-palestinians>Why Must Palestinians Audition for Your Empathy?</a> – Hala Alyan (<i>Salt Lake Tribune</i>, October 29, 2023).<br>
1701. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuB5SeahL-E&t=565s>Israeli Society Is Fascist: An Interview with Abby Martin of <i>The Empire Files</i></a><br>
1702. <br>
1703. <b>UPDATES:</b> <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-still-blocking-aid>“Genocidal Actions” Persist in Gaza as Israel Blocks Aid and U.S. Weapons Flow</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 12, 2024).<br>
1704. <a href=https://truthout.org/articles/nicaragua-takes-germany-to-the-world-court-for-facilitating-israels-genocide>Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide</a> – Marjorie Cohn (<i>TruthOut</i>, April 13, 2024).<br>
1705. <br>  
1706. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1707. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-genocide-has-been-normalized.html>“A Genocide Has Been Normalized”</a><br>
1708. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on_22.html>Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
1709. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/more-voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on.html>More Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
1710. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/quote-of-day.html>Josh Paul: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
1711. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/quote-of-day.html>Phyllis Bennis: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
1712. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/quote-of-day_049051479.html>Michael Fakhri: Quote of the Day – February 27, 2024</a><br>
1713. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/quote-of-day.html>Sabrina Salvati: Quote of the Day – January 2, 2024</a><br>
1714. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/christmas-2023-reflections-activism-art.html>Christmas 2023 – Reflections, Activism, Art, and Celebrations</a><br>
1715. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/quote-of-day.html>Jehad Abusalim: Quote of the Day – December 8, 2023</a><br>
1716. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/quote-of-day.html>Ta-Nehisi Coates: Quote of the Day – November 2, 2023</a><br>
1717. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/in-midst-of-great-unraveling-visit-to.html>In the Midst of the “Great Unraveling,” a Visit to the Prayer Tree</a><br>
1718. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/prayer-of-week.html>Prayer of the Week – October 16, 2023</a><br>
1719. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/something-to-think-about.html>Something to Think About – October 12, 2023</a><br>
1720. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/quote-of-day_11.html>Eric Levitz: Quote of the Day – October 11, 2023</a><br>
1721. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/phyllis-bennis-if-we-are-serious-about.html>Phyllis Bennis: “If We Are Serious About Ending This Spiraling Violence, We Need to Look at Root Causes”</a><br>
1722. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/nothing-about-today-is-unprovoked.html>“Nothing About Today is ‘Unprovoked’”</a><br>
1723. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-mistreatment-and-discrimination.html>“The Mistreatment and Discrimination Against Palestinians Is Not Unprecedented. It’s Baked Into the Foundation of the Political System in Israel”</a><br>
1724. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/05/progressive-perspectives-on-ongoing.html>Progressive Perspectives on the Ongoing Israeli-Palestinian “Nightmare” (2021)</a><br>
1725. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/07/something-to-think-about_29.html>Something to Think About – July 29, 2018</a><br>
1726. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/05/quote-of-day_15.html>Noura Erakat: Quote of the Day – May 15, 2018</a><br>
1727. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/for-some-jews-israels-treatment-of.html>For Some Jews, Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians is Yet Another Jewish Tragedy</a><br>
1728. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/06/remembering-six-day-war-and-its-ongoing.html>Remembering the Six-Day War and Its Ongoing Aftermath</a><br>
1729. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/quote-of-day_12.html>David Norris: Quote of the Day – August 12, 2014</a><br>
1730. <br>
1731. <b>Opening image:</b> U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 18, 2023. <i>(Photo: GPO / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)</i><br>
1732. <b>Image 2:</b> Palestinian children wounded in Israeli strikes are brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Wednesday, October. 11, 2023. <i>(Photo: Ali Mahmoud / AP)</i></span><br>
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1734. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Bishop <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stowe>John Stowe</a>, OFM</i></b><br>
1735. <span style="font-size: 85%;">April 4, 2024</span></div><br />
1736. <br>
1737. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhBzVlbxG68ZNWyVNNCG_leEgkUTvsbT7bxeBGQ2SmS91JrowyBv7xOemQu4BMbKa7hX2M4LrSFw9Wkd_7sUkkrJkZPo_DERjPkulWmFSq9N7BTXE-njK55ILiKYBKjxtjbpe0P6_Y8r7N7b9q5EBPrWpeNrnsMCkQHbK5kk3WChiBE01Ed9s4w/s440/GumbletonInRainbowMiter.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhBzVlbxG68ZNWyVNNCG_leEgkUTvsbT7bxeBGQ2SmS91JrowyBv7xOemQu4BMbKa7hX2M4LrSFw9Wkd_7sUkkrJkZPo_DERjPkulWmFSq9N7BTXE-njK55ILiKYBKjxtjbpe0P6_Y8r7N7b9q5EBPrWpeNrnsMCkQHbK5kk3WChiBE01Ed9s4w/s200/GumbletonInRainbowMiter.png"/></a></div>Most of the obituaries and articles I’ve read in response to yesterday’s death of Bishop <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gumbleton>Thomas Gumbleton</a> (1930-2024) have focused on his admirable peace work. What’s not being as much emphasized is his work with and for LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families. It was work that grew from his relationship with his brother, Dan, who was gay.<br>
1738. <br>
1739. Just how significant was Bishop Gumbleton’s work with LGBTQ+ Catholics and their families? Here’s how <a href=https://www.newwaysministry.org/author/directornewwaysministry-org>Francis DeBernardo</a> of New Ways Ministry <a href=https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/04/05/bishop-gumbleton-remembering-a-prophet-pioneer-of-catholic-lgbtq-equality>puts it</a>:<br>
1740. <br>
1741. <blockquote>Bishop Gumbleton paved the way for Pope Francis. Decades before this pope’s openness, when a Catholic leader’s support for LGBTQ+ people could negatively affect one’s stature in the church, Bishop Gumbleton spoke fearlessly with compassion and certainty that were rooted in a deep commitment to the Gospel of Jesus.<br>
1742. <br>
1743. He was not concerned about his own reputation or person. He was concerned that justice be done, that people be accepted, and that the institutional Catholic Church have the courage to live up to its own best ideals.<br>
1744. <br>
1745. In the 34 years that he had been public about his support for LGBTQ+ issues, Bishop Gumbleton did more than any other member of the hierarchy to move church members, theologians, and pastoral ministers to extend a friendly and welcoming hand to LGBTQ people. For him, LGBTQ+ issues were not a question of sex, but of justice.</blockquote><br>
1746. <br>
1747. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton was, in short, a “prophet pioneer of Catholic LGBTQ+ equality.”<br>
1748. <br>
1749. I had the honor of meeting and working with Bishop Gumbleton in the mid 1990s and early 2000s when I was involved with the <a href=https://cpcsm-mn.blogspot.com>Catholic Pastoral Committee on Sexual Minorities</a> (CPCSM). In fact, he wrote the foreward to my 2007 book, <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/04/courageous-document.html"><i>Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students: A Catholic Schools Perspective</i></a>.<br>
1750. <br>
1751. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4UJu7EBU3tVrrtWjJD5Zf1noCGfOP40AB4ppVQWQNxE9ldbZseuqfUHg9_OAGnZkUrEwPlug131TI3xTcd506AAJZKCX9_uurDncIIm_Y82YYEE3J4pxPCgrdoQDivUSdfwWPIg/s842/WithBishopGumbleton-2.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4UJu7EBU3tVrrtWjJD5Zf1noCGfOP40AB4ppVQWQNxE9ldbZseuqfUHg9_OAGnZkUrEwPlug131TI3xTcd506AAJZKCX9_uurDncIIm_Y82YYEE3J4pxPCgrdoQDivUSdfwWPIg/s400/WithBishopGumbleton-2.jpg"/></a></div><br>
1752. One of the first photos ever taken of me after my <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/12/20-years-stateside.html>relocation from Australia to the U.S.</a> was the one <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>above</b></span>. In it, I’m pictured standing with Bishop Gumblton and fellow members of the planning team for his October 1994 visit to the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis.<br>
1753. <br>
1754. Pictured (from left) are CPCSM board member Mary Burns, CPCSM co-founder <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/07/remembering-david-mccaffrey-10-years-on.html>David McCaffrey</a>, me, Bishop Gumbleton, CPCSM co-founder <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/01/cpcsm-and-archdiocese-of-st-paul.html>Bill Kummer</a>, <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPtK9x9i4FU>Darlene White</a>, Dale Korogi (who at that time was at the Basilica of St. Mary, one of the venues at which Bishop Gumbleton spoke and celebrated mass), and Joan Bednarczyk (from the Church of St. Stephen in Anoka, where Bishop Gumbleton’s talk was entitled “From Fear to Faith: A Catholic Bishop's Personal Journey with His Gay Brother”).<br>
1755. <br>
1756. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_Q77F2gkRGbWWyIXCTxMYuTKijwanZq9S7nC-ElRFI8Sn_fBpXtm4XUTieMfpxfrqB2iLYUZkZ6QXMYZnPwTK2_l2EzNwFPVuitMk-QNnN-HJhJ5uM_mjrQHcyQ1K1xMXdY0Og/s1600/BridgingTheGap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF_Q77F2gkRGbWWyIXCTxMYuTKijwanZq9S7nC-ElRFI8Sn_fBpXtm4XUTieMfpxfrqB2iLYUZkZ6QXMYZnPwTK2_l2EzNwFPVuitMk-QNnN-HJhJ5uM_mjrQHcyQ1K1xMXdY0Og/s400/BridgingTheGap.jpg" height="149" width="200"></a></div>As I document <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/12/20-years-stateside.html>here</a>, it was through <a href=http://www.dignitytwincities.org>Dignity Twin Cities</a> that I first became involved with the CPCSM. Years later I would serve as the organization's executive coordinator.<br>
1757. <br>
1758. Throughout the spring and summer of 1994, CPCSM worked to bring Bishop Gumbleton to the Twin Cities for a series of talks in October. I organized a speaking engagement for the bishop at the College of St. Catherine, and gave it the title, “Bridging the Gap: Reconciling the Church and Its Sexual Minority Members.” I used a picture of the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the promotional material.<br>
1759. <br>
1760. <br>
1761. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLdpH5iTal5hnXKOAEouHr-k_3eU_xahiaz3ND4ZRdcK4PU_FlrQkXywLWOIeh88CZ1NU_n6LEr7PTMlNO0PNiwYBgfjNjgQ4b32idy_hupVeztvLudEFhO2a4JZDRmXrUiIl2g/s1600-h/OutAndAboutJune07-14.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLdpH5iTal5hnXKOAEouHr-k_3eU_xahiaz3ND4ZRdcK4PU_FlrQkXywLWOIeh88CZ1NU_n6LEr7PTMlNO0PNiwYBgfjNjgQ4b32idy_hupVeztvLudEFhO2a4JZDRmXrUiIl2g/s400/OutAndAboutJune07-14.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376166258967025570" border="0" /></a><br />
1762. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above:</b></span> Bishop Gumbleton at the inaugural Prayer Breakfast for Hope and Justice in St. Paul, MN – Friday, June 29, 2007.<br />
1763. <br />
1764. Organized by a coalition of Twin Cities Catholic justice and peace groups – including Call to Action MN, CPCSM, and Pax Christi Twin Cities – the 2007 Prayer Breakfast for Hope and Justice saw over 100 people gather in St. Paul for a Eucharistic liturgy followed by a continental breakfast and a round table discussion – the focus of which was on ways of finding and sustaining hope in the context of both the contemporary Catholic Church and wider society.<br />
1765. <br />
1766. That first prayer breakfast in 2007 was followed by two others in the local church of St. Paul-Minneapolis. The <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/second-annual-prayer-breakfast-for-hope.html">2008 Prayer Breakfast for Hope and Justice</a> featured award-winning Catholic author and historian Robert McClory, while the <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/04/something-exciting-and-joyous.html">2009 Prayer Breakfast</a> launched the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform and featured Janet Hauter of the American Catholic Council as keynote speaker.<br />
1767. <br />
1768. <br />
1769. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3dvj2KwwUgBkCKeM89nN4x6l4F7fCUBlhPnRYe_TxDq5kqaBItJiEBGH7bPwWkELX_E1Cg6-4kYSAHsYtvTIy7mM9dgiDLRwVG-O3LD-A6G1kaULUhdmN-QOBJsf9gf85r0HNPg/s1600-h/ChristmasAppeal2007-4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3dvj2KwwUgBkCKeM89nN4x6l4F7fCUBlhPnRYe_TxDq5kqaBItJiEBGH7bPwWkELX_E1Cg6-4kYSAHsYtvTIy7mM9dgiDLRwVG-O3LD-A6G1kaULUhdmN-QOBJsf9gf85r0HNPg/s400/ChristmasAppeal2007-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376165886338140418" border="0" /></a><br />
1770. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above:</b></span> At the inaugural Prayer Breakfast for Hope and Justice in 2007, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton was presented with a “Lifetime Achievement Award for Justice and Peace.”<br />
1771. <br>
1772. <br>
1773. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxvNWbX8Qi4q6XI63bva9oWXeJkwu8mQ9gYTggmigTadH6sds8wRD5uyOOYPCCEXiq1yHpNtSpmuwz0eGn9mkniOpMdzV46j_bwMXwBUgtIl6uBP39hl4AAA16eYIPL5s-Ept/s1600-h/OutAndAboutJune07-11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxvNWbX8Qi4q6XI63bva9oWXeJkwu8mQ9gYTggmigTadH6sds8wRD5uyOOYPCCEXiq1yHpNtSpmuwz0eGn9mkniOpMdzV46j_bwMXwBUgtIl6uBP39hl4AAA16eYIPL5s-Ept/s400/OutAndAboutJune07-11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082459427563101538" border="0" /></a><br />
1774. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above:</b></span> Theresa O’Brien, CSJ; Bishop Gumbleton; and Myrna and Ron Ohmann were among the guests at CPCSM’s 2007 Annual Community Meeting, which took place on Thursday, June 28, at St. Martin’s Table Bookstore and Restaurant in Minneapolis.<br />
1775. <br />
1776. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnrzRUBD7q4hlw8qjnT_4cS2ijwF6mDRZXaRl0weYYltDynPhUEZYRBb0baOHkFH_4inujSPkpaVFHDTk4CWcflzDZPWPy7Iwd7CHF1egX9KI0YujzH1SMhwGtU88byt4oncgaQ/s1600-h/CreatingSafeEnvironmentsCover.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSnrzRUBD7q4hlw8qjnT_4cS2ijwF6mDRZXaRl0weYYltDynPhUEZYRBb0baOHkFH_4inujSPkpaVFHDTk4CWcflzDZPWPy7Iwd7CHF1egX9KI0YujzH1SMhwGtU88byt4oncgaQ/s200/CreatingSafeEnvironmentsCover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269867041666857138" border="0" /></a>The event served as a celebration of the then-recently published <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/04/courageous-document.html"><i>Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students: A Catholic Schools Perspective</i></a>, the book I edited as CPCSM executive coordinator.<br />
1777. <br />
1778. Our celebration began with a wine and cheese reception followed by a selection of readings from <i>Creating Safe Environments for LGBT Students: A Catholic Schools Perspective</i>. In a number of cases, those who contributed testimonials and reflections to the book read their own contributions. One of these contributors was Bishop Gumbleton (then the retired Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit), who shared with the fifty people in attendance the foreword that he had penned for the book.<br />
1779. <br />
1780. Part of Bishop Gumbleton’s foreword reads as follows: “Prophetic words and deeds shine through this text. And like all prophetic words they speak of justice, inclusiveness, and a vision of the world that is bigger, more encompassing than the one we may be prepared to embrace. Yet the call remains. It rings forth from these pages – offering a catalyst for transformation.”<br />
1781. <br />
1782. <blockquote><b><i>Thank you, Bishop Gumbleton, for these words . . . and for allowing the transforming power of God to flow through ALL your words and actions. Your willingness to be a living vessel of God’s grace and thus a prophetic witness to God’s call for justice and peace, brought hope, consolation and empowerment to many.</i></b></blockquote><br>
1783. <center><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><i>May you rest in power and peace.</i></span></blockquote></center>
1784. <br />
1785. <br />
1786. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1787. <a href=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2024/04/04/thomas-gumbleton-detroit-catholic-bishop-who-opposed-war-promoted-social-justice-dies-at-94/73212222007>Thomas Gumbleton, Detroit Catholic Bishop Who Opposed War and Promoted Social Justice, Dies at 94</a> – Ed White and Jakkar Aimery (Associated Press and <i>Detroit News</i>, April 4, 2024).<br>
1788. <a href=https://www.ncronline.org/news/bishop-gumbleton-longtime-soul-us-catholic-peace-movement-dies>Bishop Gumbleton, Longtime Soul of the U.S. Catholic Peace Movement, Dies</a> – Peter Feuerherd and Joshua J. McElwee (<i>National Catholic Reporter</i>, April 4, 2024).<br>
1789. <a href=https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/bishop-thomas-j-gumbleton-a-promoter-of-solidarity-with-those-in-need-dies-at-94>Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, a Promoter of Solidarity With Those in Need, Dies at 94</a> – <i>Detroit Catholic</i> (April 4, 2024).<br>
1790. <a href=https://www.dignityusa.org/news/lgbtq-catholic-group-mourns-passing-bishop-thomas-gumbleton>LGBTQ Catholic Group Mourns the Passing of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton</a> – DignityUSA (April 5, 2024).<br>
1791. <a href=https://www.newwaysministry.org/2024/04/05/bishop-gumbleton-remembering-a-prophet-pioneer-of-catholic-lgbtq-equality>Bishop Gumbleton: Remembering a Prophet Pioneer of Catholic LGBTQ+ Equality</a> – Francis DeBernardo (New Ways Ministry, April 5, 2024).<br>
1792.  <br>
1793. <b>UPDATES:</b> <a href=https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-news/pope-francis-praised-bishop-gumbleton-good-shepherd-letter-his-death>Pope Francis Praised Bishop Gumbleton as “a Good Shepherd” in a Letter Before His Death</a> – Christopher White (<i>National Catholic Reporter</i>, April 10, 2024).<br>
1794. <a href=https://vimeo.com/933590601/4c8a577303>Bishop Gumbleton Memorial Video</a> – Jasmine Rivera (via <i>Vimeo</i>, April 12, 2024).<br>
1795. <br>
1796. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1797. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/08/bishop-gumbleton-it-isnt-church-youre.html>Bishop Gumbleton: It Isn’t the Church You’re Being Asked to Say Yes To . . . It’s Jesus</a><br>
1798. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/09/bishop-gumbleton-priesthood-set-apart.html>Bishop Gumbleton: A Priesthood Set Apart and Above Others is Not the Way of Jesus</a><br>
1799. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/02/stamping-out-light.html>Stamping Out the Light</a></span><br>
1800. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/87745220594803782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=87745220594803782' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/87745220594803782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/87745220594803782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/remembering-bishop-thomas-gumbleton.html' title='Remembering Bishop Thomas Gumbleton'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhBzVlbxG68ZNWyVNNCG_leEgkUTvsbT7bxeBGQ2SmS91JrowyBv7xOemQu4BMbKa7hX2M4LrSFw9Wkd_7sUkkrJkZPo_DERjPkulWmFSq9N7BTXE-njK55ILiKYBKjxtjbpe0P6_Y8r7N7b9q5EBPrWpeNrnsMCkQHbK5kk3WChiBE01Ed9s4w/s72-c/GumbletonInRainbowMiter.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-5967312013202995018</id><published>2024-04-04T23:00:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-07T15:31:28.839-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Justice and Peace"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Marianne 2024"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Marianne Williamson"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social Justice"/><title type='text'>Marianne Williamson on Washington Journal (4/2/24) and The Letterhack (4/4/24)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaYPx3WNFFFSLxjwrHsB_jsVIn_khEvS9Wqvk-anobOfl18VG_gnfQhYpzxEqxwp9Ebkdge-8MDqoErgqFU5fOJfD2TkIX8mPYcJuHZOIXb4hQ36hZF18NGD0QHrX907t7o50gCkCybq9VZldUnMJLXaNFRjPHmGBzi45U23BfVhxYuhe_nOGZYg/s758/IMG_7273.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;691&quot; data-original-width=&quot;758&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaYPx3WNFFFSLxjwrHsB_jsVIn_khEvS9Wqvk-anobOfl18VG_gnfQhYpzxEqxwp9Ebkdge-8MDqoErgqFU5fOJfD2TkIX8mPYcJuHZOIXb4hQ36hZF18NGD0QHrX907t7o50gCkCybq9VZldUnMJLXaNFRjPHmGBzi45U23BfVhxYuhe_nOGZYg/s200/IMG_7273.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This past Tuesday (April 2) author, activist and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate &lt;a href=https://marianne2024.com&gt;Marianne Williamson&lt;/a&gt; appeared on C-SPAN’s &lt;i&gt;Washington Journal&lt;/i&gt; program where she was &lt;a href=https://www.c-span.org/video/?534481-3/marianne-williamson-2024-presidential-bid&amp;fbclid=IwAR1-AHf7gltZr-EtPvZaz0wb8yz--oxx2DL8nJpi3onY9yOemvoimleNMy4_aem_ASHawWpCBo_sOXbAupbTz0FBk0mDXchHFhOXbJHCYyZuyWm7mcGD6HtSgQZ_01QS9j8vxUFKmhCl0ytQvxSpL5ga&gt;interviewed&lt;/a&gt; by host Pedro Echevarria about her platform, policy objectives, and how she defines success. She also took questions from viewers.&lt;br&gt;
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1802. Here’s how Marianne <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/cspan-washington-journal>wrote</a> about today’s interview on her substack, <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com><i>Transform</i></a>:<br>
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1804. <blockquote>This morning I got up early to appear on C-Span’s <i>Washington Journal</i>. It’s a show I enjoy doing because it’s an opportunity for a long form interview. It’s all part of my final stretch of the campaign, with talks in D.C., Maryland, Oregon and New Mexico coming up to complete the tour.</blockquote><br>
1805. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpVAVq-t1on0fLakcHSczYYuu33sCSROmnrQGaGWkyX6nszD1BL1CF54sf81nIydf0M_QWvDP3mR-d868qsO8T1jBaO3nEgezuv-fn-WHDuu3YhSk4HZIa0PyhmYsEHVgM-hITT_pDENuDXJ8jRwNxGc14UfuB7bA8Y4y3-a2LKfadiPVTqtrhrw/s1600/MW-TheLetterhack-2b.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpVAVq-t1on0fLakcHSczYYuu33sCSROmnrQGaGWkyX6nszD1BL1CF54sf81nIydf0M_QWvDP3mR-d868qsO8T1jBaO3nEgezuv-fn-WHDuu3YhSk4HZIa0PyhmYsEHVgM-hITT_pDENuDXJ8jRwNxGc14UfuB7bA8Y4y3-a2LKfadiPVTqtrhrw/s1600/MW-TheLetterhack-2b.PNG"/></a></div>To watch the complete April 2 <i>Washington Journal</i> segment featuring Marianne Williamson, <a href=https://www.c-span.org/video/?534481-3/marianne-williamson-2024-presidential-bid>click here</a>.<br>
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1808. Earlier today, Marianne appeared on <a href=https://www.youtube.com/@TheLetterhack><i>The Letterhack</i></a>, an interview show presented by Matt Strackbein and focused on alternatives to mainstream media. This 25-minute interview can be viewed in its entirety below.<br>
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1812. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CaufpEtYtU4?si=L2eiTdQn5cyFf_MV" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
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1815. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1816. <a href=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/marianne-williamson-democratic-presidential-bid-campaign-isnt-winning/story?id=108316131>Marianne Williamson, Still in Democratic Presidential Bid, Says Campaign Isn’t About Winning: “There’s More Than the Horse Race”</a> – Isabella Murray (<i>ABC News</i>, March 29, 2024).<br>
1817. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/why-i-keep-going>Why I Keep Going</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 16, 2024).<br>
1818. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/in-hopes-of-a-future-harvest>In Hopes of a Future Harvest</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 13, 2024).<br>
1819. <a href=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/arizona-cease-fire-activists-use-marianne-williamson-primary-vessel-rcna143831>How Marianne Williamson’s Name Became the Placeholder for “Uncommitted” Protesters in Arizona</a> – Alex Tabet (<i>NBC News</i>, March 19, 2024).<br>
1820. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/primary-purpose-and-power>Primary Purpose and Power</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 12, 2024).<br>
1821. <a href=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marianne-williamson-surprises-coming-second-multiple-states-leapfrogging-dean-phillips>Marianne Williamson Surprises by Coming In Second in Multiple States, Leapfrogging Dean Phillips</a> – Timothy H.J. Nerozzi (<i>Fox News</i>, March 6, 2024).<br>
1822. <a href=https://mariannewilliamson.substack.com/p/i-remain-in-the-race>I Remain in the Race</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, March 6, 2024).<br>
1823. <a href=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marianne-williamson-returns-presidential-race-saying-biden-vulnerable-trump>Marianne Williamson Returns to Presidential Race, Saying Biden Is Vulnerable Against Trump</a> –  Anders Hagstrom (<i>Fox News</i>, February 28, 2024).<br>
1824. <a href=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/20/biden-economy-campaign-message-better>Biden and Other Centrist Democrats Keep Bragging About the Economy. But Here’s the Problem</a> – Perry Bacon Jr. (<i>The Washington Post</i>, February 20, 2024).<br>
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1828. <center><b>See also:</b> <a href=https://marianne2024.com>Marianne 2024 Official Site</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/meet-marianne>About</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/issues>Issues</a> | <a href=https://marianne2024.com/latest-news>News</a> | <a href=https://events.marianne2024.com>Events</a> | <a href=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/marwilliamson2024>Donate</a></center>
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1830. <br>
1831. <b>For <i>The Wild Reed</i>’s coverage of Marianne Williamson’s 2024 presidential campaign, see the following chronologically-ordered posts:</b><br>
1832. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/marianne-2024.html>Marianne 2024</a><br>
1833. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/marianne-williamson-launches-2024.html>Marianne Williamson Launches 2024 Presidential Campaign</a><br>
1834. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/progressive-perspectives-on-marianne.html>Progressive Perspectives on Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Run</a><br>
1835. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/more-progressive-perspectives-on.html>More Progressive Perspectives on Marianne Williamson’s Presidential Run</a><br>
1836. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/quote-of-day_0894107181.html>Ben Burgis: Quote of the Day – March 10, 2023</a><br>
1837. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/despite-undemocratic-antics-of-dnc.html>Despite the Undemocratic Antics of the DNC, Marianne Williamson Plans on “Winning the Nomination”</a><br>
1838. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-biblical-roots-of-from-each.html>The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”</a><br>
1839. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/marianne-williamson-on-next-revolution.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton</i> – 05/30/23</a><br>
1840. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/marianne-williamsons-economic-bill-of.html>Marianne Williamson’s Economic Bill of Rights</a><br>
1841. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/three-progressive-voices-on-war-in.html>Three Progressive Voices on the War in Ukraine</a><br>
1842. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/quote-of-day_27.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 27, 2023</a><br>
1843. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/marianne-williamson-on-issue-is-with.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>The Issue Is</i> with Elex Michaelson – 07/20/23</a><br>
1844. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/voters-not-dnc-should-choose-nominee.html>Voters, Not the DNC, Should Choose the Nominee</a><br>
1845. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/marianne-williamson-in-new-hampshire.html>Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire</a><br>
1846. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-repairing-our.html>Marianne Williamson: “Repairing Our Hearts Is Essential to Repairing Our Country”</a><br>
1847. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-on-trumps-day-in.html>Marianne Williamson on Trump’s Day in Court</a><br>
1848. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/marianne-williamson-on-news-nation.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>NewsNation</i> – 08/25/23</a><br>
1849. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/09/presidential-candidate-marianne.html>Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson Joins NYC’s March to End Fossil Fuels</a><br>
1850. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamson-on-your-world-10623.html>Marianne Williamson on <i>Your World</i> – 10/6/23</a><br>
1851. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamsons-radical-idea.html>Marianne Williamson’s “Radical Idea” of Putting People First</a><br>
1852. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/marianne-williamson-we-need-to-disrupt.html>Marianne Williamson: “We Need to Disrupt the Corrupt”</a><br>
1853. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/we-are-surging.html>“We Are Surging”</a><br>
1854. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/let-people-decide-marianne-williamson.html>“Let the People Decide”: Marianne Williamson on the DNC’s Efforts to Deny and Suppress the Democratic Process</a><br>
1855. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/live-democratic-presidential-debate.html>Democratic Presidential Debate: Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips – 1/8/24</a><br>
1856. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-democrats-challenging-biden.html>The Democrats Challenging Biden</a><br>
1857. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/bannering-for-marianne.html>Bannering for Marianne</a><br>
1858. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in.html>Campaigning for Marianne Williamson in New Hampshire – Day 1</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_21.html>2</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_23.html>3</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in_2.html>4</a><br>
1859. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/marianne-williamson-i-have-decided-to.html>Marianne Williamson: “I Have Decided to Continue”</a><br>
1860. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/marianne-williamson-in-nevada-2424.html>Marianne Williamson in Nevada – 2/4/24</a><br>
1861. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/forever-grateful.html>Forever Grateful</a><br>
1862. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-marianne-williamson-learned-from.html>What Marianne Williamson Learned from Running for President</a><br>
1863. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/marianne-williamson-playing-it-big.html>Marianne Williamson: Playing It Big</a><br>
1864. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/minnesotans-launch-super-tuesday-push.html>Minnesotans Launch Super Tuesday Push for “Suspended But Not Ended” Candidate Marianne Williamson</a><br>
1865. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-welcome-return.html>A Welcome Return</a><br>
1866. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-super-tuesday-dont-be-uncommitted.html>This Super Tuesday, Don’t Be “Uncommitted” . . .</a><br>
1867. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/super-tuesday.html>Super Tuesday in Minnesota</a><br>
1868. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/marianne-williamson-cassandra-of-us.html>Marianne Williamson, the Cassandra of U.S. Politics, on the “True State of the Union”</a><br>
1869. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/marianne-williamson-in-arizona-31724.html>Marianne Williamson in Arizona – 3/17/24</a><br>
1870. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/this-is-moment.html>“This Is the Moment”</a><br>
1871. <br>
1872. <b>See also:</b><br>
1873. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/we-must-challenge-entire-system.html>Marianne Williamson: “We Must Challenge the Entire System”</a><br>
1874. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/marianne-williamson-on-current.html>Marianne Williamson on the Current Condition of the U.S.</a><br>
1875. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/09/marianne-williamsons-politics-of-love.html>Marianne Williamson’s Politics of Love: The Rich Roll Interview</a><br>
1876. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/03/if-only-we-could-hear-voices-like-this.html>Now Here’s a Voice I’d Like to Hear Regularly on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows</a><br>
1877. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-deeper-perspective-on-whats-really.html>A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking American Democracy</a><br>
1878. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/marianne-williamson-on-10th-anniversary.html>Marianne Williamson on the Tenth Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street</a><br>
1879. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/marianne-williamson-on-how-centrist.html>Marianne Williamson on How Centrist Democrats Abuse Voters with False Promises</a><br>
1880. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/two-of-most-dedicated-and-enlightened.html>“Two of the Most Dedicated and Enlightened Heroes of Present Day America”</a><br>
1881. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/04/deep-gratitude.html>Deep Gratitude</a><br>
1882. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-beautiful-message-full-of-greatness.html>“A Beautiful Message, So Full of Greatness”</a><br>
1883. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/11/marianne-williamson-anything-that-will.html>Marianne Williamson: “Anything That Will Help People Thrive, I’m Interested In”</a><br>
1884. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/08/caitlin-johnstone-status-quo.html>Caitlin Johnstone: “Status Quo Politicians Are Infinitely ‘Weirder’ Than Marianne Williamson”</a></span><br />
1885. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/5967312013202995018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27612445&amp;postID=5967312013202995018' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5967312013202995018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5967312013202995018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/marianne-williamson-on-washington.html' title='Marianne Williamson on &lt;i&gt;Washington Journal&lt;/i&gt; (4/2/24) and &lt;i&gt;The Letterhack&lt;/i&gt; (4/4/24)'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaYPx3WNFFFSLxjwrHsB_jsVIn_khEvS9Wqvk-anobOfl18VG_gnfQhYpzxEqxwp9Ebkdge-8MDqoErgqFU5fOJfD2TkIX8mPYcJuHZOIXb4hQ36hZF18NGD0QHrX907t7o50gCkCybq9VZldUnMJLXaNFRjPHmGBzi45U23BfVhxYuhe_nOGZYg/s72-c/IMG_7273.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-7338733728751243546</id><published>2024-04-04T19:00:00.023-05:00</published><updated>2024-04-21T13:44:53.306-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Gaza Genocide"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Justice and Peace"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quote of the Day"/><title type='text'>“A Genocide Has Been Normalized”</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVa-wALk_M6h8j5-_ARQ952LAwslLpm4NJ0vzUQEXiIrQDK_X2xskbhfPSseaTTdRV5in1jSaA3OSgP78Sc3-fk9kkTmCzmEurN2fvNFpOm5KfxAbCFvZjcHDLZKXK1_lSbgaMBXUa8YRzd25m3Hfbpt-qXHO5nqBAhPxjKrfxNmsixGVjORxxMQ/s338/RevMuntherIsaac-1.PNG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;311&quot; data-original-width=&quot;338&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVa-wALk_M6h8j5-_ARQ952LAwslLpm4NJ0vzUQEXiIrQDK_X2xskbhfPSseaTTdRV5in1jSaA3OSgP78Sc3-fk9kkTmCzmEurN2fvNFpOm5KfxAbCFvZjcHDLZKXK1_lSbgaMBXUa8YRzd25m3Hfbpt-qXHO5nqBAhPxjKrfxNmsixGVjORxxMQ/s200/RevMuntherIsaac-1.PNG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Reverend Munther Isaac is a Palestinian Christian theologian and the pastor at the &lt;a href=https://www.elcjhl.org/christmas-lutheran-church-bethlehem&gt;Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church&lt;/a&gt; in Bethlehem.&lt;br&gt;
1886. <br>
1887. Last Christmas, Rev. Isaac delivered a sermon entitled “<a href=https://www.redletterchristians.org/christ-in-the-rubble-a-liturgy-of-lament>Christ in the Rubble: A Liturgy of Lament</a>,” which received worldwide attention. At last weekend's Easter Vigil mass,  the focus of Rev. Isaac’s sermon was Western complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Following is an excerpt.<br>
1888. <br>
1889. <center>____________________</center><br>  
1890. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>oday we have entered a new phase of the war of genocide, in which the people of Gaza are being killed by hunger, thirst and disease. They are starved to death. It is a slow death. They are hanging between heaven and Earth, dying slowly while the world is watching. They have no form or majesty, that we should look at them, from whom men hide their faces.<br>
1891. <br>
1892. It took more than five months and 32,000 people killed, including 13,000 children, for the U.N. Security Council to finally pass a ceasefire. But nothing has changed on the ground. Since when does Israel care about U.N. resolutions? Israel has never been held accountable or even condemned by Western leaders. This remains the single biggest problem today. Right now we are pleading for aid and food to enter. We gave up on a ceasefire. Just bring food, water and medicine. Lord, have mercy.<br>
1893. <br>
1894. Friends, a genocide has been normalized. And as people of faith, if we truly claim to follow a crucified savior, we can never be okay with this. We should never accept the normalization of a genocide. We should never be okay with children dying from starvation, not because of drought or famine, but starvation, man-made catastrophe, because of the empire. A genocide has been normalized, just as apartheid was normalized in Palestine and, before that, in South Africa, just as slavery and the caste system were normalized. It has been firmly established to us that the leaders of the superpowers and those who benefit from the modern colonialism do not look at us as equals. They created the narrative to normalize genocide. They have a theology for it. A genocide has been normalized. This is racism at its worst.<br>
1895. <br>
1896. And the very same political and church leaders who lined up in October, one after the other, to give the green light for this genocide, giving it the cover of self-defense, cannot even bring themselves to condemn the obvious war crimes being committed by Israel. They are good at raising their concern, make statements that they are “troubled” by the killing of our children. We’re sorry that the killing of our children by your weapons, actually, troubled you. They want to convince us that they actually care. So, their response? They are silent during the genocide and then show up afterwards with charity to say that they care. Can we really accept this?<br>
1897. <br>
1898. Many countries rushed to suspend their funding of UNRWA based on mere allegations that were not fully proven, yet did nothing with regards to the clear findings of the ICJ. The amount of hypocrisy is incomprehensible, and the level of racism involved for such hypocrisy is appalling. And now some politicians claim that their patience with Israel is ending. And we say nothing can wash the blood from your hands.</blockquote><br>
1899. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– The Reverend Munther Isaac</i></b><br>
1900. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href=https://www.elcjhl.org/christmas-lutheran-church-bethlehem>Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church – Bethlehem</a><br>
1901. Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9nZ6oNSfQU>Easter Vigil for Gaza</a>”<br>
1902. March 30, 2024</span></div><br />
1903. <br>
1904. <i>For </i>Democracy Now<i>’s April 1, 2024 interview with Rev Isaac, <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/1/easter_in_palestine_rev_munther_isaac>click here</a>.</i><br>
1905. <br>
1906. <br>
1907. <br>
1908. <center><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>NEXT:</b><br>
1909. </span><a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/this-is-genocidal-project.html>“This Is a Genocidal Project”</a></center><br>
1910. <br>
1911. <br>
1912. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1913. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-detainees>Doctor at Israeli Detention Camp for Gazans Blows Whistle on War Crimes</a> – Brett Wilkins (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 4, 2024).<br>
1914. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/4/neve_gordon_israel_palestine_hunger_gaza>Road to Famine: Israeli Law Professor Neve Gordon on Israel’s History of Weaponizing Food Access in Gaza</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (April 4, 2024).<br>
1915. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-israel-genocide>80+ Groups Urge Biden to “Reverse Course Before Thousands More Die” in Gaza</a> – Brett Wilkins (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 3, 2024).<br>
1916. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/another-day-at-genocide-office>The <i>New York Times</i> Finds U.S. Complicity in Genocide Unremarkable</a> – Norman Solomon (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 2, 2024).<br>
1917. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-dictionary-deception-gaza>Israel’s Dictionary of Deception</a> – Dubravka Žarkov (<i>Common Dreams</i>, April 2, 2024).<br>
1918. <a href=https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-rights-expert-reasonable-grounds-believe-israel-committing-genocide>War on Gaza: “Reasonable Grounds” to Believe Israel Committing Genocide, Says U.N. Expert</a> – <i>Middle East Rye</i> (March 26, 2024).<br>
1919. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD3Dk_8i1wk>U.N. Expert Says She Faces Threats After Israel-Gaza Genocide Report</a> – <i>Rising</i> (March 27, 2024).<br>
1920. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/12/francesca_albanese_gaza_israel_palestine>U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Urges Arms Embargo and Sanctions on Israel over War Crimes in Gaza</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 12, 2024).<br>
1921. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/7/josh_paul_israel_gaza_war>Biden Administration Quietly Approves 100+ Arms Sales to Israel While Claiming Concern for Civilians in Gaza</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 7, 2024).<br>
1922. <a href=https://www.972mag.com/francesca-albanese-occupation-settler-colonialism>U.N. Expert: “Apartheid Is in Front of Your Eyes Everywhere You Go”</a> – Meron Rapoport (<i>+972mag</i>, February 6, 2024).<br>
1923. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/28/gaza_msf>“The Worst of What Humanity Is Capable Of”: Pediatrician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan on What She Saw in Gaza</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (March 28, 2024).<br>
1924. <br>
1925. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1926. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on_22.html>Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
1927. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/more-voices-of-reason-and-compassion-on.html>More Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza</a><br>
1928. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/quote-of-day.html>Josh Paul: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
1929. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/quote-of-day.html>Phyllis Bennis: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024</a><br>
1930. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/02/quote-of-day_049051479.html>Michael Fakhri: Quote of the Day – February 27, 2024</a><br>
1931. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/quote-of-day.html>Sabrina Salvati: Quote of the Day – January 2, 2024</a><br>
1932. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/christmas-2023-reflections-activism-art.html>Christmas 2023 – Reflections, Activism, Art, and Celebrations</a><br>
1933. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/quote-of-day.html>Jehad Abusalim: Quote of the Day – December 8, 2023</a><br>
1934. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/quote-of-day.html>Ta-Nehisi Coates: Quote of the Day – November 2, 2023</a><br>
1935. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/in-midst-of-great-unraveling-visit-to.html>In the Midst of the “Great Unraveling,” a Visit to the Prayer Tree</a><br>
1936. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/prayer-of-week.html>Prayer of the Week – October 16, 2023</a><br>
1937. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/something-to-think-about.html>Something to Think About – October 12, 2023</a><br>
1938. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/quote-of-day_11.html>Eric Levitz: Quote of the Day – October 11, 2023</a><br>
1939. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/phyllis-bennis-if-we-are-serious-about.html>Phyllis Bennis: “If We Are Serious About Ending This Spiraling Violence, We Need to Look at Root Causes”</a><br>
1940. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/nothing-about-today-is-unprovoked.html>“Nothing About Today is ‘Unprovoked’”</a><br>
1941. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-mistreatment-and-discrimination.html>“The Mistreatment and Discrimination Against Palestinians Is Not Unprecedented. It’s Baked Into the Foundation of the Political System in Israel”</a><br>
1942. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/05/progressive-perspectives-on-ongoing.html>Progressive Perspectives on the Ongoing Israeli-Palestinian “Nightmare” (2021)</a><br>
1943. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/07/something-to-think-about_29.html>Something to Think About – July 29, 2018</a><br>
1944. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/05/quote-of-day_15.html>Noura Erakat: Quote of the Day – May 15, 2018</a><br>
1945. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/for-some-jews-israels-treatment-of.html>For Some Jews, Israel’s Treatment of Palestinians is Yet Another Jewish Tragedy</a><br>
1946. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/06/remembering-six-day-war-and-its-ongoing.html>Remembering the Six-Day War and Its Ongoing Aftermath</a><br>
1947. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/08/quote-of-day_12.html>David Norris: Quote of the Day – August 12, 2014</a></span><br>
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