I have talked about my two main goals in my work these days, advocating for creative nonviolence and Growing Power, where the worm is king. Today illustrated this shift in focus.

A good part of my day was spent hauling wood chips from the dump and building the compost and worm depository at Dawn’s and my houses. The picture above shows Dawn sharing her knowledge about growing power and her DMZ garden with a neighborhood woman who was walking in the alley. In the background are two residents of Dawn’s houses helping feed the worm depository and adding to the compost pile.

After doing that at Dawn’s, visiting Marna’s DMZ garden and coming home to work on my depository and compost pile, I smelled like a rotten banana but felt good. A shower took care of the rotten banana smell, but the feeling good lasted the rest of the day.

The rest of the afternoon was spent making a major batch of tabouli Middle Eastern Salad and working on the computer. The tabouli salad is excellent, according to my major food critic, my wife. It contains vegetables from the garden, from Dawn, and from my food gathering trip yesterday and some stuff I had bought at the Middle Easter store of my friend.

The computer stuff was publishing my September Living Stones newsletter, which is available by writing me, or soon will be available soon on Hope to Healing archives of the newsletter. Also I worked on some emails for a creative nonviolence action some of us plan to take at the Marquette University Department of Military Science on the day Franz Jagerstatter will be beatified in the Catholic Church. Franz was an Austrian civilian who despite the urging of his parish priest and bishop, refused to participate in the “unjust war” of the Germans.

Tonight, the birthday of Gandhi, I went to a lecture at Marquette University on nonviolence. The presenter tonight had just written a book on Gandhi and Jesus and although he did not say much new for me, he put the thoughts about Gandhi and Jesus together in a very easy to understand way. After hearing him, I am more convinced that we must do all in our power to stop the unjust war in Iraq.

In fighting violence Gandhi stressed the sustainability and oneness of all life, which brings me right back to the nonviolent worm.

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