NOT  IN ISRAEL, NOR GAZA, NOR PALESTINE, NOR ROME, NOR IN MUCH OF THE USA….

A  note from the Sling Shot  Winter 2023:   ” I feel this sense of relef when I go to the San Rafael dump.  It’s similar to the feeling I get when it starts raining. At the dump, it’s big and loud and chaotic, and the towering piles of trash make you feel like you’re in a dystopian sci-fi movie. For some reason they have peacocks there. You go to the dump expecting it to be a chore, the least glamorous part of fixing up your back yard, and instead you end up in another world for half an hour….

“….We are taught to believe it’s all part of the masterplan; people sleeping on streets, colonial states dropping bombs, supreme court rulings, elections, job interviews, getting engaged. Ingrained within us is this false notion that there is a point behind it all–that the path we are on has a destination.  But what kind of masterplan is it if it does not honor life? If it has no problem killing thousands of children along the way? We don;t need to wait and see if things will work out. Things did not work out….”

How did I run into the Sling Shot?  Serendipity via my granddaughter visiting from North Carolina via her mail from California, I believe…

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I CAN’T EVEN SAY HO HUM — Would/could Israel really have told Gazans to go to a safe spot and then dropped their heaviest bombs on them? If so, can the US stop the money they’ve been giving the Israelis?  When is enough enough?

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QUOTE OF THE DAY —  “Thr potential acts of good caused by religion can never exceed those that cause violence.”  Hector Avalo, Fighting Words; The Origins of Religious Violence