support human rights in Iran
I'm starting a bit early. The green background is part of the support/awareness effort to add one more voice and ten more fingers, though I hunt and peck with two, to the support of human rights and freedom in Iran.
A Year with EB White
"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that."----- from Charlotte's Web I am a soul always drawn and fascinated by the idea of " A Year of...". A Year of Rumi. A Year of Calvin and Hobbes. A year cooking with Julia Child. A project that provides guidance for the year and a ruler we can measure inward growth in the course of our circle around the sun. One year, after an early marriage and an unsurprising--except to me--early divorce, I came across a book by Sue Hubbell titled A Country Year. I didn't plan for it to take a year to read, but it did. I only read it at night before I went t
What's been going on is tragic though in a be careful what you wish for sort of way, Mousavi is no saint. He played a large role in the last revolt and is no stranger to nuclear arms proliferation. Can this be a situation where it's better with the devil you know? I know one thing for certain, this man is no Ghandi.
ReplyDeleteI believe that efforts like this add to the force make a difference, in both tangible and cosmic ways. I agree with Rudee--Mousavi is no Gandhi, but the right of people to vote and to choose their own government is a Universal Human Right, even if they choose someone we might not like. By now, I think the movement goes beyond the man, though.
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