We had a quiet dinner with friends and neighbors in various states of hopeful disrepair this Easter.
The poet Wendell Berry slipped this word in edgewise...
A MEETING
In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: "How you been?"
He grins and looks at me.
"I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees."
Wendell Berry, Collected Poems, North Point Press, 12th printing, 2000, page 206
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
the U.S. Budget is a moral document
A note I sent my U.S. Representative and Senators as the new budget leaves committee and begins its course through the Congress:
Senator Boxer, Representative Cunningham, Senator Feinstein:
I believe the proposals on the table from the House and Senate Budget Committees include penalties against the most vulnerable Americans and welfare payouts to the most privileged Americans. As a person of faith I find this unconscionable.
"It is," Jesus said, "the sick who need a physician." I call on you to be doctors for those who need help, not those who can help themselves.
The U.S. Budget is a moral document. Please lead your colleagues in doing the right thing.
sincerely,
Jim Hancock
Senator Boxer, Representative Cunningham, Senator Feinstein:
I believe the proposals on the table from the House and Senate Budget Committees include penalties against the most vulnerable Americans and welfare payouts to the most privileged Americans. As a person of faith I find this unconscionable.
"It is," Jesus said, "the sick who need a physician." I call on you to be doctors for those who need help, not those who can help themselves.
The U.S. Budget is a moral document. Please lead your colleagues in doing the right thing.
sincerely,
Jim Hancock
Monday, March 14, 2005
Monday, March 07, 2005
speaking of Jon Stewart (or was it Jim Wallis?)
Did you see Jim Wallis on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart? No?
Well, here you go, then: Jim Wallis on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Well, here you go, then: Jim Wallis on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
you'll forgive me, i hope
You'll forgive me, I hope, for posting words I didn't write and to which I don't think I have anything to add.
“The Left mocks the Right. The Right knows it’s right, Two ugly traits," Bono writes on the back of Jim Wallis' new book, 'God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. "How far should we go to try to understand each other’s point of view? Maybe the distance grace covered on the cross is a clue.”
I could sure use a clue.
“The Left mocks the Right. The Right knows it’s right, Two ugly traits," Bono writes on the back of Jim Wallis' new book, 'God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It. "How far should we go to try to understand each other’s point of view? Maybe the distance grace covered on the cross is a clue.”
I could sure use a clue.
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