tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post7947254178418503003..comments2024-01-01T20:33:52.554-08:00Comments on a moon, worn as if it had been a shell: AtonementElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03313726816776097840noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-23793327325745076972020-06-02T18:36:34.519-07:002020-06-02T18:36:34.519-07:00Thank you, 37paddington, for sharing this vision o...Thank you, 37paddington, for sharing this vision of what can be done by one person with courage.amhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212213177713917828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-55338759050984793362020-06-01T14:56:14.737-07:002020-06-01T14:56:14.737-07:00Did you see the video where a young black guy, lit...Did you see the video where a young black guy, little more than a teen, jumped over a protest barricade in Washington DC, and as the cops in riot gear began running toward him, batons raised, a young white girl, little more than a teen, jumped over the barricade too and placed her body between the cops and the young black man, stood against him like a shield, arms raised outward, and made the young man walk back to the barricade, not letting to cops get to him, and it was breathtaking and brave and i loved that white girl for her humanity and her courage, her standing in the breach like that for some mother's son. 37paddingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12400464105403622384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-50416237767077877292020-06-01T12:01:54.870-07:002020-06-01T12:01:54.870-07:00"It never was America to me." Dear Mr. H..."It never was America to me." Dear Mr. Hughes. What if this country really manifested the dream of equality, dignity, and prosperity for all its citizens? What a great land we could truly be. You'd have to be willfully blind not to see the injustices in this country, and I guess many are. Our times are the latest manifestation of all that is wrong in the U.S. So many tragedies coming together at once. Michelle Obama put out a statement that truly moved me. We have work to do, if we have the courage to do it.Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03052375488090209961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-65648632375986170832020-06-01T09:21:39.196-07:002020-06-01T09:21:39.196-07:00I never stop thinking about the bones and blood th...I never stop thinking about the bones and blood this country is built on. Quite literally. And instead of even trying to pay back a debt which of course cannot be paid, we continue to enslave the ancestors of those whose blood and bones we demanded as our entitled right. We enslave them with our laws, our attitudes, our treatment, our cruelty, our indifference to their suffering. And we wonder why they may want to break glass and steal a pair of shoes. <br />There can never be reparations but my god, couldn't we at least try? Ms. Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09776404747858099919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863417462909147257.post-92183395116511910312020-06-01T08:35:11.262-07:002020-06-01T08:35:11.262-07:00The plights of any Human suffering is never paltry...The plights of any Human suffering is never paltry, no matter it's location. You wrote something Heart felt, it is almost impossible right now to find even the Gallow's Humor I typically resort to when enduring what is unbearable. The Truth right now is so grotesque, isn't it? Too many of us have known it all along, alas, far too many others have been deluded into assuming it wasn't even there... certainly not in 2020... their complacent comfort now having been rocked and it finally touching their Lives, the Pearls are clutched and they claim to wonder Why?! Really, like they couldn't figure it out, I find that very hard to Believe even tho' it's the Truth, they have been Clueless and that's in part, a great Deal of the Problem.Bohemianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03743017084098726581noreply@blogger.com