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AWARENESS IS EVERYTHING.
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BLAME

â€œWe habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others. Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground. Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.â€Pema Chodron

Have You Ever

Have You Ever
by Red
Have you ever felt, the cold and lifeless hand of an infant, gazed into their unblinking eyes, and observed the face of death, when masked in bittersweet innocence?Have you ever touched your dreams, and felt the simplistic joy, of feeling them become reality, only to abandon them, for reasons you cannot explain?Have you ever watched your family, who once shared the greatest of loves, suffer an unforgettable and unforgivable tragedy, that will slowly, painfully, and inevitably, tear them all apart?Do you know, firsthand, the evil that resides deep within the heart of every man, every woman, and every child? Have you seen its face as it randomly seeks, a soul to torment and destroy?Do you know the darker side of life, the one that awakens you, in the still of the night, crying to the unknowable God's, â€˜Save me from myself. '?Does your heart constantly question, whether humanity is obtainable, in a world corrupted with suffering, and where war, is the favoured solution for peace?If you really want to know me, and understand the forces that compel me to move on, then take these questions, and take this pain, for this is who
I am.

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Darfur supporters’ actions looking more like willful neglect

Actor and activist Don Cheadle pulled no punches in February, when he addressed members of a Senate subcommittee about the genocide in Darfur: "But if, after all of the committee meetings and brainst...
Posted by Pam on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:45:00 PST

How could you?

How Could You?Copyright Jim Willis 2001 When I was a puppy I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your child and despite a number of chewed shoes and a couple of murdered t...
Posted by Pam on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:44:00 PST

Mass Grave, Memories Feed Fear In Darfur

In the hear of Darfur, A Mass Grave and Horrifying Memories Feed Fears of New Surge In War MUKJAR, Sudan, May. 26, 2007 ..> (AP) ..> (AP) .. sphereit start -->Uncovered by a...
Posted by Pam on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:34:00 PST

Staring Genocide in the Face

..> In Sudan, Staring Genocide in the Face By Jerry Fowler, Committee on Conscience, staff director Washington Post, In the cool desert dawn on May 16, at the Touloum refugee camp in eastern Ch...
Posted by Pam on Fri, 25 May 2007 09:10:00 PST

The rain tickled me today

The dreariness of work can sometimes leave me feeling numb and lifeless. And this is exactly how I was feeling as I strolled out of the employee entrance for my lunch break. "Oh great, it's rai...
Posted by Pam on Wed, 16 May 2007 10:32:00 PST

I'm tired

Reprieve, Revive, Rest, Zone out, Stop thinking, I need time to erase my brain. To be a tree would be so fresh and cool tonight, Green and quiet, Strong and dark in the rain, Growing slowly, Maple ...
Posted by Pam on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:44:00 PST

George and Richard

President George Bush's claims about what will happen if we pull out of Iraq is almost word-for-word identical to Richard Nixon's speech explaining why we must not pull out of Vietnam. A "precipitate...
Posted by Pam on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:05:00 PST

BBC on the Janjaweed

A fascinating insider's look into the operations of the Janjaweed militia, responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians in Darfur even today. ...
Posted by Pam on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:23:00 PST

On our watch.

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Posted by Pam on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:01:00 PST

Darfur: The Forgotten Ones

© Mario E. Ruiz/ZUMA PressIRIDIMI, Chad - The world has had plenty of bad news to keep up with in the last year. The tsunami killed hundreds of thousands in Southeast Asia, the death toll in ...
Posted by Pam on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:38:00 PST