Replying to LO27581 --
Dear At,
> This moning I had been thinking a lot about 3rd world countries
> and their immense debts. What they have lended has to come
> from their own future. That is why their future has become so
> bleak -- no "living forward" anymore for them.
I say we should cultivate the wisdom that releases these countries from
the slavery we have imposed upon them AGAIN through unjust debts and
re-pay them a great deal of money to teach us how to live with stoicism
and HIGH dignity in a world that stinks to heaven with LOW corruption.
We must continue to turn ourselves inside out At, right to our core and in
this way possibly influence the wolves who pretend to become sheep that
turning their pockets inside out is the least of it. A re-evaluation of
values?
Someone better than asks..."Does Victory Mean Vindication?"...he was
speaking of winning the cold war...now there is another Invisible
War...how quickly the adolescent and puffed up millennial dreams
evaporated.
I am thinking of your 'stick man' with wood modelled in his pocket. At...I
cannot get him out of my mind...he has taken up residence there. I have
created a warm room for him, a place where his ideas can feed and grow and
I long to learn his name.
I recall the South African woman who lived in that township, she worked
all hours for a pittance, lived in a hovel with open sewers and no
electricity and as she stood to read her little poem or resistance the
people noticed how the paper was so very thin, like the skin of emaciated
children, and how that the light could be seen shining through it, At.
Shining through, At ;-) What transparent lesson is there in her struggle
toward creativity? Works of art as thoughted things however humble they
may be become and are more eternally things, more than transformation it
is transfiguration...ashes turning into fire illuminating...burst into
flames At...the so called 'dead letters' resurrected through a life
willing to resurrect it. Arendt said it so very well, " A thought like an
image is boundless, the smallest act in the most limited circumstances
bears the seed of the same boundlessness, because one deed and sometimes
one word suffices to change everything, every constellation...natality
saves the world through the birth of new children...men and women...And
the actions of which they are capable by virtue of that birth..being
born...glad tidings..."
Glad tidings then, At.
Love,
Andrew
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