Solidarno??. Solidaridad. Solidarity. Solidarity. … Solidarity!!!
Can we all agree that we want a better world for all–psychologically, socially, ecologically … and unite in some sort of imperfect solidarity toward that end?
With Lech Wa??sa, … Pope Francis, Dalai Lama, Jimmy Carter, and Tegla Loroupe. … With family and dear friends, in my case: Elizabeth Florence Hoffmann Martin, Louise Katherine Kneuper Martin, Kazimierz Józef Wiech, Rafael Ojeda Suárez, Darryl Lynn Birkenfeld, Marvel Jay Maddox, Luiz Otávio Campos da Silva, Miguel Angel Altieri, and many others. … With those who are easy, and those who are impossible??
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Solidarity with the lovely people of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the slain and the living (and with the various victims of so many senseless mass killings in the U.S. and all over the world).
And yes, solidarity with the family and friends of Dylann Roof … as the judge suggested in 2015 at the bond hearing in Charleston of this accused murderer, Dylann Roof. (I do agree this was a very inappropriate time and manner in which to try and persuade toward this action of appropriate solidarity!)
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Solidarity with the “good” and the “evil”; with conventional capitalists, socialists; anarchists/libertarians, fascists; environmentalists, ecologists, Greens; with advocates for PEACE (positively ethical applied community ecology) and advocates for War (convincing them that peace & PEACE is preferable to War).
Solidarity with the rich and powerful (toward making them less rich and powerful) and with the poor, disenfranchised and not so powerful (toward enrichment and empowerment).
A loving solidarity with the crazies of the Council of Conservative Citizens, white power skinheads, NRA, Tea Party, Likud, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko-Haram, … (both the sane and insane within; and yes, with locos of the left as well as the right, i.e., not so right) with a goal of non-violent change toward a better world for all.
My simple, insignificant solidarity with, and love and good hopes for all leaders of the world (who along with the rest of us are also simple and insignificant). Some are truly good statespersons with wonderful love for all peoples and the Nature they are nested within … but also with sad, disappointed understandings of the complex and insane cruelties of Eaarth.
Solidarity for PEACE and non-violence … and quality life for all. … Humble, yet aggressive, solidarity.
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Enigmas
Pablo Neruda (Translated by Robert Bly)
[From: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/enigmas/ ]
“You’ve asked me what the lobster is weaving there with
his golden feet?
I reply, the ocean knows this.
You say, what is the ascidia waiting for in its transparent
bell? What is it waiting for?
I tell you it is waiting for time, like you.
You ask me whom the Macrocystis alga hugs in its arms?
Study, study it, at a certain hour, in a certain sea I know.
You question me about the wicked tusk of the narwhal,
and I reply by describing
how the sea unicorn with the harpoon in it dies.
You enquire about the kingfisher’s feathers,
which tremble in the pure springs of the southern tides?
Or you’ve found in the cards a new question touching on
the crystal architecture
of the sea anemone, and you’ll deal that to me now?
You want to understand the electric nature of the ocean
spines?
The armored stalactite that breaks as it walks?
The hook of the angler fish, the music stretched out
in the deep places like a thread in the water?
I want to tell you the ocean knows this, that life in its
jewel boxes
is endless as the sand, impossible to count, pure,
and among the blood-colored grapes time has made the
petal
hard and shiny, made the jellyfish full of light
and untied its knot, letting its musical threads fall
from a horn of plenty made of infinite mother-of-pearl.
I am nothing but the empty net which has gone on ahead
of human eyes, dead in those darknesses,
of fingers accustomed to the triangle, longitudes
on the timid globe of an orange.
I walked around as you do, investigating
the endless star,
and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked,
the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.”
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*This was first posted June 21, 2015.