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The Waking
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.
--Theodore Roethke
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Joy's Updates - Straight from the Horse's Mouth.
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Thursday, November 11, 2004
True Believers
Evangelical religious fanatics are taking over the world. Reasonable, well-informed citizens with a world-view need to be the influential ones. Garrison Keillor said there should be an amendment to the Constitution preventing born-again christians from voting. I intentionally used a lower-case letter because they don't reflect the Christian values instilled in me and that I continue to believe. Basic human rights are replaced with intolerance, retribution, and violence in some cases. They are quite comfortable legislating morality and imposing the government into our lives where it doesn't belong. How people can call themselves pro-life and not only support but applaud torture, war, and the death penalty is paradoxical to say the least. Irony is lost on them along with logic, true compassion, and empathy. It wouldn't be so bad if lives weren't at stake. Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox, President Ronald Reagan, Janet Reno, and countless others with debilitating, life-threatening diseases could have possibly been cured. Apparently, it's fine to wait until embryos are adults who contribute to society to kill them.
I'm disheartened. Yesterday when students were being loud and silly, I jokingly told them they were causing me to lose hope in the future of humanity. One of the girls asked, "What is humanity?" (sigh)
8:15:00 AM
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