Memorial Weekend 2025

What is below is an email form a dear fiend of mine, Tom Giessel … wheat farmer, Farmers Union Historian, on the board of Ogallala Commons for many years, devout Roman Catholic, all around good fellow!!! …

“This was sent to me by my friend, Barbara.  It is a great message.

Just click on the link in blue, below [after reading her thoughtful message]

Tom G.
Subject: Everything Of Value – Big Geek Daddy

Everything Of Value – Big Geek Daddy

This is the memorial we could/should all be making this Memorial weekend.  This post which is not particularly recent features Fr. Boyle who founded Homeboy Industries in LA.  It provides a powerful antidote to today’s world of war, greed, injustice and hate.

It is not the death and destruction from the most powerful, destructive military ever developed, it is not the boasting, bragging and bloviating about how devasting and overpowering we can be, it is not the war and warriors we have unleashed on the global community – no – it is about the kindness, compassion, mercy, justice and love for all those left out, marginalized, hated, incarcerated, criminalized, different, sick and suffering, starving, left in abject poverty that we can look at and in them see ourselves, that we can learn from, that we can empathize with and call our brothers and sisters, our neighbors and show that we mean it by creating a world in which we can all live in peace with justice and dignity for us all. 

Peace can never come from war, cruelty and injustice.  To remind myself of this, I have a quote that hangs on the wall of my office by Pope Paul VI – “ If you want peace, work for justice.”  BSR

paul bain martin

( 7 Ss / VV->^^ )

In Solidarity towards Peaceful Degrowth/Sustainable Ecological Agrarianism & Communitarianism

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