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ISRAEL/PALESTINE: I sit here, eyes bleary with sleeplessness, weeping . . .

All last night, tossing, tossing . . . sinking into despair.

How can such an ancient convoluted his-story of belief, revenge, territoriality, religions, races, and various inversions of such ever let go?

Answer: it can’t.

 

“The heart has its reasons that reason will never know.” — Pascal

 

Dostoyevsky on the Heart vs. the Mind and How We Come to Know Truth

“One day this all will change…”

3000 people

Three languages

and one Haifa

all singing Koolulam

and hoping

that the ‘One Day’ is near…

A Reminder of Our Shared Humanity In the Face of Israel/Palestine Violence

In other words, it’s not, it never is, a matter of taking sides, calling one side good, the other bad. Anytime I fall into this trap, I mentally cramp into beLIEf in the latest blood-sucking, loosh-producing “war” that those who would control us conjure up to keep us locked in fear and hatred of The Other.

The line between good and evil runs through this human heart.

 

 

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  1. Rose Day October 13, 2023 at 3:41 pm

    To paraphrase American author Caroline Myss (‘Anatomy of the Spirit’) . . .
    ‘Hearts do not break ‘in-two’ but rather, ‘wide-open’.

”And you? My teacher looked up, his left eyebrow arched, pencil poised. 'I want to do a paper on the concept of time.’” I mumbled, timidly. 'Time?' He sniffed. “I wouldn’t touch the subject. Too difficult.” — AK, 1967
Ann Kreilkamp

Ann Kreilkamp

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Astrologer, published author, conference presenter, world traveler, founder & editor of Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging (1989-2001) , and founding visionary of Green Acres Permaculture Village (2010 to present).