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All that goes Unseen and so, unknown

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i tried to load this pic last evening and on into the night,  giving up around midnight.   Was under a log we moved to set on Arctica's grave….just enough of a hollow under it.    Glistening.  Wet but not wet….to the fingertip touch….so strange…..and i thought about how many MANY things there most likely are Out There that i might never see.   Life Forms.  I felt bad about exposing it,  disturbing it's Place  and found an arch of bark to cover it,  scooped over leaf litter.         And it's true….the other day when i wondered where i'd read about the mushrooms being the Fruit of their "plants"….Deb G.  and Margery both pointed me toward  Merlin Sheldrake's   Entangled Life     which was over there on the shelf.   I've begun reading again.    And i i thought to check to see if Margery had maybe posted again….Trickster's Hoard   ….no,  but flicking to scroll down fast,  almost like a roulette wheel it spun downward past posts and came to a stop with this,       taken out of context  

"The bird paced between me and the ocean,   paused, offered a slight turn of his head.   I waited.   The ocean murmured.  The gull remained silent.    Last chance i said,  daring the bird.

Soon it became clear I'd get no magic.  Gulls have their own business to attend to,  their own company to keep.  I wanted answers     from the gods,  the earth,  nature,  our animal kin    some backing,  some revelation from outside to quell the doubt within.

I instead received a different message.   The world might indeed speak,  but it doesn't speak to me alone.   The gull is full of its own gullness.   If that's not enough for me,  I'm asking the wrong questions."    Gavin Van Horn   Post of Aug. 24,  2023  

 

and out of any context again?,  or,  is it another kind of aching for  things to MAKE SENSE?   a contextThread?    Maybe the last for now of the Martin Luther King utubes….there are so many more,   this one….maybe the Best? so far,  but i think that about each of them,  but….this one….entitled Rare Speech by Dr. King on August 11th,  1967   Delivered before the National  Association of Radio Announcers   in Atlanta, Georgia           It is so timely,   and  listened as i have found self wishing so much for a Voice of intelligent reason amidst all the adolescent  ignorance that makes up the "news"  feeds,    the social media……      What would he think of it all?  What would a dialogue be like between him and pretty much anyone Out there in the political world of either party persuasion  today.           All this rising up because there was so little  "in the news"  about the national celebration of his Day….my uneasy feeling…..          Have we,   the population of this country decided that things are good enough…that we don't need to Keep on Keeping on….and so….we will in short order   LOSE it ALL?    There are,  yes,  exceptions.   But  do we cling to the exceptions too much?   Or….not.?    turning  our cheek to the MainStream?     What would he say?  What would he say?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    What would he say? What would he say when one of the Republican candidates for President, a child born of immigrant parents from India, recently said that America has not been a racist country??? In my mind, I see Dr. King, arms linked with John Lewis, standing tall, despairing but not giving in and saying simply, :”there is more to be done, more good trouble is needed, the march continues…”..
    And to that end, some months ago, I left several comments on Dee’s blog:
    https://deemallon.com/2023/08/28/look-what-i-found/#comments
    “60 yrs ago, I was 15 yrs old, sitting on the floor in my living room, watching the TV, waiting for the March to be televised. It is an event that I have never forgotten .The crowds, Dr. Martin Luther King, his voice, his passion, his courage, our nation on its feet…My family was scattered about, Mom was in our outside porch embroidering pillow cases,my Dad and sister were out in back, in the garden.
    A story that I have told before but has significance here:
    My mother came here in 1932, sponsored by her married sister who had settled in the central valley of CA. Mom was 19, did not speak a word of English. As she boarded the train to go across country, an African American porter reached out to help her. She shrank back, afraid,because she had never seen an African American until coming here. He was patient, smiling all the time and she said he had kind eyes so slowly, she relaxed. He would check on her to see if she was ok and helped her decide what to choose for her meals by pointing out dishes on the tables of other passengers.
    From Union History, the A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Museum:
    “During the heyday of railroad travel, the Pullman Porters were the workers aboard the trains. They provided service to and attended to the needs of the passengers. In the beginning, the Pullman Company hired only African-American men for the job of porter..” I read elsewhere that they were chosen because African Americans had a history of serving and helping…!!!
    From further research I learned: “It was a Pullman porter named E.D. Nixon who paid Rosa Parks’s bail in Montgomery, Alabama and asked a young Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead a bus boycott there. Not only did the porters improve their own lives and working conditions through tenacious organizing; they also laid groundwork for the civil rights movement..”
    Back to 60 yrs ago: I called my family in to watch this historic event. My parents listened intently, we all did. At the end, when Dr King exited with the words, “free at last, free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last “, I looked at my Mom and she had tears streaming down her face. I didn’t realize it but so did I. My Dad hugged all of us and simply said, “That is America.”
    In another of Dee’s posts, I left this comment:
    “Dr King spoke of not judging an individual by the color of their skin but by the content of their character: All people, who embrace their humanity, have, in wanting to know history, a willingness to not only acknowledge but to accept wholeheartedly, the simple fact that. hatred has no place in living a life of meaning. To be able to stand and face the wrong doings of the past in the hopes of not birthing them in the future, is to extend the hand of connection and equality.

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  2. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    the being you uncovered recalled our time living by the flood plain, when a good rain would bring out of profusion of small dark beings much the same … I always wondered, but did not pursue finding out just what they were

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