12.31.2018 "Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning" (Sailors Wisdom)
" Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."
-St. Augustine of Hippo- Imagine ...To be continued.
Honoring Pete Seegers Vision Sunday August 27th 2017 FRIENDS
OF CLEARWATER NINTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL (see link) East River Park
Sculptures
at the water Park
in front of the Ecology Center
"The Ecology Center works toward a more sustainable New York City by providing community-based recycling and composting programs, developing local stewardship of green space, increasing community awareness, and sponsoring Youth development through environmental education programs. Founded in 1987, one of the first organizations to offer community-based recycling and composting programs in NYC by providing innovative recycling drop-off centers. Today the Ecology Center offers services and education for a range of environmental subjects with resources and solutions for addressing the issues." (double click to enlarge)
PARTICIPANTS Susana
Bastarrica of Vigil for Peace & Ecology, Alice Slater of
World Beyond War, Code-Pink, Wendy Scher of Trade Justice, Global Justice
for Animals, Pete Dolack and Ken Gale-host/producers of Eco-Logic WBAI-FM. PERFORMERS Joel Landy the Musical Director,
Judy Gorman, Peter Pasco, Dave Doll, NY Metro Raging Grannies, John
MacLeod and the Jenny Hurwitz Experience with Talbot Topkatz & SamiRose Katz. Filmmaker
Pete Seeger and David Amram with Chief Oren Lyons
"Global Climate Wake Up Call" "Dethrone King Cong" Hydro-fracturing and the dangers of the Indian Point nuclear facility
"Clearwater" t-shirt sales fund the ongoing work (see link)
Judy Gorman Singer-Songwriter (see link)
Three Flags flying in the sweet breeze of a lovely end of Summer day
"If the earth were only a few feet in diameter"
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The Jenny Hurwitz Experience with Talbot Top-Katz and Sami-Rose Katz
Sweet Sami-Rose Katz Farewell dear friends of Peace
~*~ My neighbor, Ron Sherbet
views the Williamsburg Bridge from one side...
and the other,as we wend our way toward home
passingflowering young trees
and native grasses along the way
providing landscape interest. They makea joyful noise when the wind blows.
https://youtu.be/UqVpXe5_GUQ (See LINK below) + THE MAY TREE Lore has it that it's very unlucky to cut the hawthorn tree at any time other
than when it is in bloom; however, during this time it is cut
and decorated as the May Bush.
Commonly called Hawthorn, Thorn-apple, May-tree, White-thorn,or
Hawberry, it's a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae,
native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia
and North America.
In Gaelic folklore it marks the entrance to the
'other-world' and Is strongly associated with the fairies.
Footage from the
Serbian Orthodox cathedral in Manhattan shows huge flames and smoke
billowing into the sky on Sunday. It took firefighters three hours to
put out the flames which gutted the building and destroyed the interior and the
roof.
The fire broke out just hours after worshipers
celebrated Easter. (See LINK below for video) LABOR UNIONS Peggy Seeger updates "Union Maid"
https://youtu.be/5CCOx1hqrKI + PROTESTS and PACIFISTS Father Daniel Berrigan has died just short of his 95th
birthday. He was a poet, pacifist, educator, social activist,
playwright and lifelong resister to what he called "American military
imperialism." Along with his late brother Phil, Dan Berrigan played an
instrumental role in inspiring the antiwar and anti-draft movement during
the late 1960s, as well as the movement against nuclear weapons. He was
the first Catholic priest to land on the FBI’s most wanted list. In
early 1968, he made international headlines when he
traveled to North Vietnam with historian Howard Zinn to bring home three
U.S. prisoners of war. Later that year he, his
brother Phil and seven others took 378 draft files from the draft board
in Catonsville, Maryland. Then, in the parking lot of the draft board
office, they set the draft records on fire using homemade
napalm to protest the Vietnam War. They became known as the Catonsville
Nine and invigorated the antiwar movement by inspiring over 100 similar
acts of protest. It also shook the foundation of the tradition-bound
Catholic Church. Then, in 1980, the Berrigan brothers and six others
began the Plowshares Movement when they broke into the General Electric
nuclear missile facility in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, hammered
nuclear warhead nose cones and poured blood onto documents and files.
They were arrested and charged with over 10 different felony and
misdemeanor counts, and became known as the Plowshares Eight.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the Spring of hope, it was the Winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us. We were all going direct to heaven. we were all going the other way - In short, the period was so like the present period that some of it's noisiest authorities insisted on it's being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." -A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens-
The battle for the Presidency of these dis-United States rages on. OUR WOUNDED WORLD
INNER PEACE
May you be at peace. May your heart remain open. May you awaken to the light of your own true nature. May you be healed. May you be a source of healing to all beings. * The Buddhas Last Instructions by Mary Oliver
"It's a hell of a town. The Bronx is up and the Battery's down."
I can be here and in Kathmandu, Nepal.
I can be thinking about the people and animals shaken
by the worst earthquake since 1934,
about the stranded climbers and the dead.
(5000 and counting)
I can know, I can mourn and I can pray.
https://youtu.be/EbG0ljkBlu8
~*~
I can show up on Monday night,
join my writing group "The Moving Pen" for a final reading.
(screen capture partial of photo by Elizabeth York)
I can appreciate our brilliant leader Frank Haberle,
drink wine and share cookies with our friends.
I can lose my thoughts in an audio book
till sleep comes.
I can sit Zazen with the New York Center for Contemplative Care,
find space for peace.
I can be surprised by a protest while waiting for the bus home,
and capture some of it on a brief video.
(First a surge of 20 or so young men all in black and many with masks ran past me at break neck speed. Then one kid was caught and cuffed and the march continued across 23rd Street toward the West side. I'd been seeing helicopters circling and eventually, when I got on the bus, ambulances and police vans followed.)
https://youtu.be/cEJ7ooYOETw
I can think about Baltimore, about all the protest marches all the way back to the sixties. I can mourn for all the people, for all suffering beings, for the planet.
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