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Sunday, June 22, 2003 |
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The thinking and envisioning I've written about in the previous post are about an ecumenical center with which I've been associated with for 10 years, through my friendship with Larry, and my involvement with a group of people who formed a class they called "Servant Leadership School", named for the ministry and group study after which it was patterned, the Servant Leadership School started as a ministry of The Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C.
The ecumenical center is housed in an old Catholic Church structure, and includes a marvelous cathedral (used for Concerts, weddings and dinners, as well as some traditional worship services held by various groups who rent the hall). There is also a coffeebar (with all the gourmet coffees), a bookstore, and a grand looking library. In this place are several offices occupied by various groups involved in some sort of mission, ministry, or social service-related activity. I have , for those 0 years, imagined myself back there someday, helping to extend some of the ambience and human activity and spirit of that place into the online world. I've been talking to Larry via phone and email over the past 3-4 days about how some of this might finally begin to happen; Larry excitedly sent me some of his intial thoughts after I had "suggested" some things that I might be able to do in that setting. (HIs first email in this exchange arrived at my PC and set off the "Outlook Inbox Notice Chime" just at the precise moment when I had sat down at the desk and lowered my head, extremely discouraged and worried, and I uttered a "Please, God" prayer of yearning). I've not stopped having the ideas and thoughts and dreams since. It's a time of anticipation and wondering what might be ahead, and how soon. It's also , therefore, a time of intense prayer.
7:14:44 PM 
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I spent a good chunk of this afternoon sitting on my Mom and Dad's back porch in the nice breeze and jotting down notes in between the lines and on the backs of sheets of the emails I printed out on Thursday which Larry sent to me, outlining some things he is thinking of presenting to hopefully get some things in motion that will allow his organization to fund some work for me that will help enhance their mission.
I felt a sense of safety, there in the nice back yard of my parent's house; perhpas a sense of safety of being in this family, and how I've been usually been able to "relax" when I'm there. Sure enough, on my way home, I felt the uncertainties and the anxities return, even though all this energy flowing concerning Larry's advocacy for me in his proposal in the works has energized me quite a bit. I am wri tign this as I sit down preparing to email a few more thoughts that I received during the aforementioned sitting on my parent's back porch.
5:21:55 PM
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More on the previous two posts about the WMD mystery
Back when the Weapons inspections were happening, and the Bush administration kept saying "We're running out of time", one HAD to be thinking that they're certainly in TOO MUCH of a hurry. All of a sudden, after more than 10 years, it was SO CRITICAL. Of course, the Terrorism anxiities provided an easy door to re-open the matter, and one which this administration has been found to be pursuing from the outset ( I saw a story back before the Iraq invasion about how the Bush administration has had this Pax Americana plan all along, and that they siezed the opportunity opened by Sept. 11 to stand tall against AlQuieda and the "axis of evil".
Jim Wallis of Sojourners has been saying that this PaxAmericana push has and will have serious consequences for the poor, since money that could and should have gone into the economy are being redirected to pay the cost of the war. See this speech and this interview
10:17:41 AM
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Weinberger has been asking and wondering about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction" , as I'm sure many of us have (like me, but I haven't done much writing or commenting or reading about it). I'm certainly not hearing much of it on the news, in THIS country at least. AKMA posts a comment to check out Joshua Marshall, so I did, and this is from 6/21:
There's a bounty today of good material on the growing debate and/or scandal about the administration's over-hyping of evidence about Iraq's WMD programs. Actually, in my Wednesday morning column in The Hill I said that there really is no new debate or new scandal. It's really more that it's suddenly become acceptable to discuss what everyone knew for the last year or so: that is, that the administration was willfully misrepresenting the evidence both on WMD and a purported link to al Qaida. | Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo
9:47:40 AM
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