When a voice is needed, “Silence is the voice of complicity!” This Latin proverb calls us to ACTION … non-complicity … noise!
Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten (see Beached Oil) calls us to open up our dirty windows, let the sun illuminate us, reach for something in the distance … “No one else can feel it for you,” only you can share your gifts, your beauty, your needs, your perspectives.
Think, speak, act! “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear!” shares Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese dissident, political prisoner, and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
To “feel the rain on our skin” is the beginning of connectedness. Being in touch with what is real gives us courage to make our noise.
Our new “News” tab (see above) will feature links to online articles that illuminate our connections with the Earth and each other. “News” will start small focusing on stories about the Earth. As “News” grows it will include humor too. Please be patient as this site develops. There is much to come!
When I was in seventh grade my English teacher brought the “Sounds of Silence” record to our class and played it for us to inspire us to write haiku. She was ahead of the curve and a very special teacher. For the time, 1967, this was an “out there” move on her part and it has stuck with me all these years. As a teacher myself now, I am inspired to take chances and to try new things with my students like my seventh grade teacher did and to this day I still write haiku.
As the sun sets here
And now it also rises
On another shore.
-Dawn
8/28/2009
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