tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2112266432575519693..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Dorothy Day: True SecurityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42222046281274737202013-06-26T11:32:10.686-07:002013-06-26T11:32:10.686-07:00Agreed Tom. And thanks for the quote from Obama.It...Agreed Tom. And thanks for the quote from Obama.It would make sense that a former community organizer would know of and appreciate Day. He needs someone like her in his inner circle.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56116996748250120702013-06-24T11:55:51.016-07:002013-06-24T11:55:51.016-07:00Reminded that when Herbert Hoover was in the Casa ...Reminded that when Herbert Hoover was in the Casa Blanca, he called Dorothy a threat to national security. To her, defiantly independent soul that she was, that would probably have sounded like a reverse compliment -- considering the source. <br /><br />And, talking of prayer as we were just now (and though in light of what's going on right now this might seem a bit unlikely), here's our current President, speaking at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast: <br /><br />"We can’t leave our values at the door. If we leave our values at the door, we abandon much of the moral glue that has held our nation together for centuries, and allowed us to become somewhat more perfect a union. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, Abraham Heschel -- the majority of great reformers in American history did their work not just because it was sound policy, or they had done good analysis, or understood how to exercise good politics, but because their faith and their values dictated it, and called for bold action -- sometimes in the face of indifference, sometimes in the face of resistance."TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16980861537638970542013-06-24T11:46:38.152-07:002013-06-24T11:46:38.152-07:00Thanks, Michael. Me likewise. Can't help wonde...Thanks, Michael. Me likewise. Can't help wondering how Dorothy might have responded to living in the new surveillance state. My guess is, not by hiding under the apron of lies we have all about us now. There's a picture of her, taken by a woman friend, getting out of a car. She's in her seventies. There is an evident fury; she is involved with one of her many causes (always all of our causes as well). In the photo her rage is evident. One can feel the fire. The woman who takes the picture captions it -- "Dorothy, barking mad". We could use a bit of that salutary righteous anger -- and moral courage -- now. We have been given an example. A very young man, but still -- never too young (or old) to begin. Even if it's too late to effectively oppose or resist, still, buying the program, accepting it all, taking it lying down... one suspects that would not have been Dorothy's way, as long as she could still draw breath.<br /><br />"We need two, three, many Dorothy Days." (Hazen)<br /><br />Now there's a nondenominational prayer good enough for all of us, I reckon.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54988759348716163372013-06-24T05:45:57.557-07:002013-06-24T05:45:57.557-07:00Thanks so much for this post Tom. One of my alltim...Thanks so much for this post Tom. One of my alltime favorite humans, Dorothy Day, whose voice and example, along with Teilhard deChardin and Pope John XXIII made it possible for me as a young man to see not all those in the Catholic faith I grew up, with and most of my people still practice, were hypocrites.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60561207918864705972013-06-23T16:31:57.652-07:002013-06-23T16:31:57.652-07:00wonderful post...wonderful post...Marie Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787850063283960703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52836276044348983252013-06-23T11:41:06.427-07:002013-06-23T11:41:06.427-07:00It’s good to be reminded of the history of struggl...It’s good to be reminded of the history of struggle, and the struggle of history. We need two, three, many Dorothy Days. Thanks Tom.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51593662905595924082013-06-23T11:10:35.806-07:002013-06-23T11:10:35.806-07:00Oh, and according to us (sufis, muslims) there are...Oh, and according to us (sufis, muslims) there are saints who know they are but everyone else doesn't, there are saints that don't know they are and everyone else does, and then there are those saints (I sat with ones in Morocco and the Sensei in San Francisco) who know they are (with all humility) and so does everyone else... it's practical and luminous, actions and blessings or blessedness, not canonization with its rigorous selectivity as in the Christian Path, though natural ones abound there too...Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866700467301416342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64916205555435043152013-06-23T11:05:08.990-07:002013-06-23T11:05:08.990-07:00Thanks Tom. I'm using her statement (thanks to...Thanks Tom. I'm using her statement (thanks to you and this rich site) as an epigraph to that poem, in the book I'm now proofreading for publication... it's such a perfect epigraph it gives me the shivers (the physiological kind of which I hope you are now over).Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866700467301416342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79413963008850008742013-06-23T10:28:56.321-07:002013-06-23T10:28:56.321-07:00Daniel,
That's beautiful.
Though people in...Daniel, <br /><br />That's beautiful. <br /><br />Though people insisted, Dorothy always rejected out of hand the proposal that she ought to be canonized.<br /><br />"Don't call me a saint!"<br /><br />She wanted to be thought of as what she was -- a woman and a worker.<br /><br />Duncan,<br /><br />Yes, Dorothy's work continues, all round the world.<br /><br />The Oakland Catholic Worker is a sanctuary, an island of peace in a war zone, shelter for those fleeing other war zones.<br /><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/50472265" rel="nofollow">Sowing Seeds of Peace: Oakland Catholic Worker (Obrero Catolico de Oakland)</a><br /><br />For some decades now there have also been essential food and shelter programs run out of <a href="http://dorothydayhouse.org/history/" rel="nofollow">Dorothy Day House, Berkeley</a>.<br /><br />On continents far apart, the work begun by Dorothy affected our own families. Angelica's father in NZ, corresponding with DD for many years, donating all his life to CW from meagre funds -- and my mother, in Chicago, serving in CW soup kitchens all through her last years.<br /><br />A's father, a lifelong pacifist, records a proud moment in a private memoir.<br /><br />"Ammon Hennecy, the 'One Man Revolution' came to visit me."<br /><br />The record of inspirational service goes on, and on... in this sense it seems to me that while Dorothy's body is no longer here, her spirit still walks these troubled paths of the human.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65714527848566236392013-06-23T09:46:42.091-07:002013-06-23T09:46:42.091-07:00SAINTS EVERYWHERE
There are saints everywhere, sa...SAINTS EVERYWHERE<br /><br />There are saints everywhere, saints in their<br /> beds aloft in the ship of night <br />whose dreams are breathless marathons passing<br /> significant heavens up ring after ring<br />to the highest center<br /> encircled by a filigree of angels,<br /><br />there are gaunt saints under trees holding leafy staves<br />whose gazes are neither focused on<br />the outside nor <br /> inside worlds, they<br /> stand aloft on long bamboo legs<br /> and watch herons of blue light<br />take off and land among shadows with<br />faces of sick children,<br /><br />there are saints calling intercontinental long distance<br />who leave prayers on our message machines<br />to enlighten the universe about the<br />bounty bestowed on each one of us from the single<br />Divine Source of creation, whose strong voices grow<br /> frail by the thunderous<br />bulk of their message and whose<br />eyes are so blue the whole sky <br /> becomes their apprentice in blueness,<br /><br />unknown saints, known or unknown to themselves or others,<br />whose neon brightness in their bones lights up<br /> a corner in<br />heaven somewhere known or unbeknownst to them,<br /><br />car mechanic saints greasy and creased under cars,<br />faces like winter street lamps through catastrophe ice storm,<br /><br />grocery clerk saints no more than 17 years old<br />tote loaded bags to the trunk, help the<br /> invalid in, Boy Scout stuff that in<br /> this world's like<br /> orchids in the arctic of our<br />universal social breakdown,<br /><br />saints with faces of butterfly powderiness,<br />saints with faces of blasted wood, broken iron,<br />whose hearts are valleys with<br />openings all the way to the sea,<br />whose feet are always<br />taking them places, and whose<br />hands are always doing things,<br /><br />whose thoughts and whose<br />heartbeats have enough<br />electricity in them to run<br />one or two New Yorks and a few scattered<br /><br />Cairos through the most<br />difficult seasons.<br /><br />7/10/94 (from A Hundred Little 3D Pictures, Ecstatic Exchange, 2013)Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866700467301416342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70378434089759284622013-06-23T09:45:43.577-07:002013-06-23T09:45:43.577-07:00Thank you for this, Tom.
"...to live so clos...Thank you for this, Tom.<br /><br />"...to live so close to the bottom..."<br /><br />"My very life is a protest".<br /><br />"We have all known the long loneliness".<br /><br />You can only look at a life like Dorothy's and wonder. Shows up the shadow of our complicities a little too well.<br /><br />Her work still goes on under the surface of things. Friends of ours live in community at the <a href="http://www.thecatholicworkerfarm.org/" rel="nofollow">London Catholic Worker Farm</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25491417995200801932013-06-23T08:42:53.342-07:002013-06-23T08:42:53.342-07:00Dorothy Day: Don't Call Me a Saint<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKiLCDaCAOU" rel="nofollow">Dorothy Day: Don't Call Me a Saint</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com