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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Unity of All
Deepok Chopra’s wisdom
Each of us has a story. Some of them are happy, some are about rising above tragedy, some are so sad that the heart is torn open and bleeding. I love history and still read a lot of history and biographies. I seek to know the world better. To understand more and how to avoid some of the toxic situations.
Mysticism is a way to rise about all that has hurt, scarred or tortured us in our pasts. Mystics from various traditions have in common the experience of feeling at one with all that exists. Spirit prevails if we look for it. Mystic writers acknowledge the oneness of everyone, the absolute lack of separation of the mystic religions. The mystics show us that when we see others as being “them” instead of part of us, hatred and violence are the results.
I am going to share excerpts from Marge Piercy’s poem with you. It is called
The Sabbath of Mutual Respect
“Habondia, the real abundance, is the power
to say yes and to say no, to open
and to close, to take or to leave
and not to be taken by force or law
or fear or poverty or hunger.
To bear children or not to bear by choice
is holy. To bear children unwanted is to be used like a public sewer. To be sterilized unchosen is to have
your heart cut out. To love women
is holy and holy is the free love of men
and precious to live taking whichever comes
and precious to live unmated as a peachtree.
Praise the lives you did not choose.
They will heal you, tell your story, fight
for you. You eat the bread of their labor
You drink the wine of their joy. I tell you
after I went under the surgeon’s knife
for the laparoscopy I felt like a trumpet
an Amazon was blowing sonorous charges on
Then my womb learned to open on the full
moon without pain and my pleasure deepened
till my body shuddered like troubled water.
When my friend gave birth I held her in joy
as the child’s head thrust from her vagina
like the sun rising as dawn wet and red.
Praise our choices, sisters, for each doorway
open to us was taken by squads of fighting
women who paid years of trouble and struggle,
who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives
that we might walk through these gates upright.
Doorways are sacred to women for we
are the doorways of life and we must choose
what comes in and what goes out. Freedom
is our real abundance.
——–Marge Piercy, feminist writer and poet
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors.”
—-Czeslaw Milosz
Some sculpture is so beautiful it opens the heart and the heart breathes the beauty as if it were oxygen. Photo and copyright by Barbara Mattio
Propaganda and public perception manipulation
Thinking for one’s self
Croatia: Victory Remembers The Children
I am half Croatian. This video and the statistics sadden my heart and touch me deeply.
Within 72 hours Croatian, the swift and freedom loving military operation Storm had by 5 August 1995 liberated Croatian territory (about 25% of Croatia’s total territory), territory occupied by rebel Croatian Serbs with the help of Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia for four years.
This year is the 18th anniversary of Operation Storm, of Croatia’s victory in the name of freedom and democracy.
Casualties of Croatia’s Homeland War – a snapshot:
Croats Killed: 15,970 (including 402 children/6,605 civilians) (source: Ivo Pilar Institute)
Croats Missing: 2,251 (currently the number in excess of 1,700 due to discoveries of mass graves in recent couple of years)
Croat Wounded and permanently disabled: 32, 249 (969 children/90 severely permanently disabled as result of wounds). Total number of wounded: 48,677
Croat Veteran suicides after the war: 2,283
Croat casualties from landmines left from war: 509 people killed and 1,466 injured
Orphaned Croat children…
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Bravery Takes Many Forms
It is Sunday and if you follow my blog, you know that means I am showcasing a talented child. Ok, talented is understated but you will understand when you hear young Malacki sing. I hope you enjoy his voice as much as I did. I hope it raises you up all day long.
The source of Joy
The art of music
” No one knows what makes the soul wake
up so happy! maybe a dawn breeze has
blown the veil from the face of God.
A thousands new moons appear. Roses
open laughing, Hearts become
perfect rubies like those from Badakshan. The
body turns entirely spirit. Leaves
become branches in this wind. Why is
it now so easy to surrender, even for
those already surrendered? There’s no
answer to any of this. No one knows
the source of joy. A poet breathes
into a reed flute, and the tip of
every hair makes music. Shams sails
down clods of dirt from the roof, and
we take jobs as doorkeepers for him.”
—–Rumi; translated by Coleman Barks
from Dancing With Joy
photo by Barbara Mattio
copyrighted 2013
Whirling dervishes of light
Why we’re still marching
Fifty years after the historic March on Washington, the struggle for justice continues.
August 1, 2013
Protesters gathered in the wake of the not-guilty verdict for George Zimmerman
THE 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is one of the most famous moments of the 20th century. Every schoolchild learns about Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The image of the crowd in front of the Lincoln Memorial, packed into every available space around the Reflecting Pool, is instantly recognizable.
But this high point in the struggle for justice is almost always treated as a matter of history–a powerful, important, inspiring event, yes, but one that belongs to the past. After all, we’re told, King and the civil rights marchers were challenging a system of legalized segregation where Blacks had to sit at the back of the bus–whereas in the United States of the 21st…
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Hunger Strikers, Supporters Vow to Continue Fight as Mediators Conclude Meeting with CDCR Secretary
Mediators working on behalf of California prison hunger strikers just concluded their meeting with CDCR Secretary Jeffrey Beard. Today’s meeting comes on the heels of nearly 100 family members of hunger strikers visiting the Capitol Tuesday, where they presented a petition signed by over 60,000 people demanding negotiations with hunger strikers to Governor Brown’s office.
The hunger strike mediators’ statement included, “We gave [Secretary Beard] ideas that would help bring the prisoners’ hunger strike to a just end in short order. We provided input for revisions to CDCR’s Security Threat Group Policy and Step Down pilot program. Our revisions are intended to create more humane conditions and circumstances. We urged him to follow the lead from other states, such as Illinois, Colorado and Mississippi, to end harsh and long term isolation practices.”
Support for the hunger strikers and pressure on Governor Brown and the CDCR has continued to grow, with…
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The Face Of Stand Your Ground Law: White, Republican, Male Gun Owners
A telephone poll of 1,468 voters, conducted July 28 – 31, 2013 by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, on hot-button political issues like immigration, abortion, the economy, and Stand Your Ground law, indicated the majority of those voters who supported Stand Your Ground laws 53-40% at the time fit a composite profile of white, male, and Republican.
The numbers reflected the partisan & racial divides paradigmatic to America. President Barack Obama’s approval rating at the time showed the same divisions as Stand Your Ground law.
“‘Stand Your Ground’ splits the country sharply along political, gender and racial lines,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
According to the survey, white voters supported “Stand Your Ground” laws 57-37%, while black voters were opposed 57 to 37%. Men supported Stand Your Ground laws 62-34%, while women were divided – 44% in favor to 47% opposed.
Support was 75-19% among Republicans and 57-37% among independent voters, with…
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This Body
We love our bodies and Mother Earth
This Body That You Love so Much
This body that you love so much
will take its turn,
abandoned briefcase,
lost papers, old
sacks of news.
You love its fires, its ears,
and how it moves, it moves,
this body
that you love so much.
It wants sun,
daylight, feet
moving. Music.
Not to be skull
or star.
It hangs on so,
old suit of bones,
on its way to
the final room,
last speck, look
or sun or dust,
this body
its feathers,
old stems and pieces,
what you could give away.
Your dreams, where
they go: become
a fragment of some story,
an edge of afternoon
in another city.
Then you are wind
maybe, shimmering
in winter, as of
a spool winding
as you begin
hopefully
the long turn
toward light.
—-Barbara Angell
The Pagan religions look at the body in three stages. The maiden, the mother, and the crone or wise women. At a certain stage we much change our lives. I used to hike, camp, play racquetball, cross country ski and dance and dance and dance. As the wheel of life turns, our bodies change in what we can do. And I have also had to change. I blog, and paint, do photography ( been doing this since early 80’s ). I read and cook and have a small but beautiful garden.
Though the body, at some point will begin to hamper your activities. It is important to remember that the corporal body is just a vessel. Our souls are who we really are and they are never scarred. They are pure white light. The inner landscape is not scarred by the traumas and tragedies we survive in life. Divinity dwells in the inner landscape.
It is who we really, who you are. On the show Inside the Actor’s Studio, James Lipton asks, “‘ If there is a heaven, when you arrive, what would you like to hear?” I want to hear, “Welcome Home.” What would you want to hear?
The vessels that hold our souls.
The human body is a perfect creation
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