Dear ones,
I was hoping for a truce in the not-very-holy land. Instead, the UN resolution called for an
That the US abstained from voting rather than supporting this resolution was a further disappointment, if not a surprise.
There’s no timing on this resolution to bring desperately needed humanitarian aid. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote that “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
I wish there was a plan.
I was also hoping that the Supreme Court would act on Jack Smith’s request to bypass the US Court of Appeals to rule on whether the former president should be shielded for alleged crimes while in office, but the Supreme Court kicked the can down the road, potentially delaying the trial for election subversion which is scheduled to begin on March 4.
I’m not done wishing. I am done working this week, however. And I hope you are too.
Here’s a fragment of Cathy Song’s poem, “This Wonderful Opportunity.”
May our wish for peace spread like a mother’s soothing hand
and reach the distressed, fevered places of the world
and protect each child the right to be fed, to be sheltered, to be schooled.
The right to go to sleep without fear.
May we journey safely, work contentedly, and return home to loved ones well and happy.
May the path of forgiveness and acceptance
be the path of peace
and may we find it.
May we use this wonderful opportunity to awaken
and together find true happiness, open spaciousness without borders.
with love,
L