tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4105012419103361840..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: "Restless it roules and unsecure..."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-3388797905415719352016-04-28T03:26:48.192-07:002016-04-28T03:26:48.192-07:00"...perhaps helping to bear witness," an..."...perhaps helping to bear witness," and let me echo that, Maureen.<br /><br />I noticed that when Obama was in London making nice with David Cameron, someone in the press corps enquired whether, on his upcoming voyage to Japan -- in May, last leg of the world farewell tour -- he intends to visit Hiroshima.<br /><br />He declined to answer, saying Ask me about that when I get to Japan.<br /><br />About the weapons, there is of course currently the problem of the weapons being everywhere. I've just now put up a photo of a Russian ballistic missile that knocked out the Syrian Civil Defense station near Aleppo.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63487931175720662352016-04-27T09:54:54.046-07:002016-04-27T09:54:54.046-07:00Heartbreaking images... and apart from perhaps hel...Heartbreaking images... and apart from perhaps helping to bear witness, by sharing or writing about these images, I feel enormous frustration that nothing I can do or say will change the ongoing implosion of the Middle East. I'm disgusted by our American political campaigns and torn apart seeing the damage we helped bring about in Iraq and elsewhere.<br /><br />Japanese peace movement leader Toge Sankichi wrote a beautiful poem, "Give Back the Human", which is carved into a monument in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park. How very relevant it is. . . still:<br /><br />Give Back the Human<br /><br />Give back my father, give back my mother;<br />Give grandpa back, grandma back;<br />Give me my sons and daughters back.<br />Give me back myself.<br />Give me back the human race.<br />As long as this life lasts, this life,<br />Give back peace<br />That will never end.<br /><br /><br />And then there is also Darwish's ". . . What kind of weapon impedes the soul / from its soarting? . . ."<br />Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.com