The Crow: AMEN

Monday, January 15, 2018

AMEN

Silence is not neutrality.

Silence is not a shield.

Silences relinquishes your voice and opinion to others, enabling those who seek power through division, disunity and deceptions.

Silence is the approval that allows dark deeds to exist in this world.

Silence is complicity to the darkness.

In things that matter, silence is surrender.

(Lifted from Gary Myers blog, RedtreeTimes, https://redtreetimes.com/2018/01/15/mlk-silence/. Thank you, Gary.)

4 comments:

Michael Leddy said...: It’s for all of us to speak out. Go Martha!; Tuesday, January 16, 2018
The Crow said...: Thank you, Michael, for pointing out the problem leaving comments, and for showing me where to look to fix it.

I agree that it's for all of us to speak out. Thus far, I've only spoken out on other peoples' blogs. Time to write letters to newspapers, write essays for wider distribution, to march with others, to stand up for those being targeted with bigotry and abuse. I've spent this last year stunned and in despair, but things are changing within.

Thanks, Michael.; Tuesday, January 16, 2018
susan said...: This was wonderful, Martha. I tried to say
more previously but couldn't get through.; Saturday, January 20, 2018
Zhoen said...: I've found https://democracy.io/#!/ to be a great tool. Planning on https://postcardstovoters.org this week.

Been sleeping a lot lately, not wanting to stir. Cold, hot, sore, numb.; Sunday, January 21, 2018

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Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)