Peace of Mind by Paul Heussenstamm

Another day of all day rain tested my threshold for dark days. Mind over body is hard to practice when the body feels the damp, dark days. But I did my best and focused on cleaning the house and doing some things on the computer that I normally would put off.

One of things I did was put on the Catholic Workers and Military Training on Catholic Campuses web page the quotes I researched yesterday on the refusal by Dorothy Day, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker, to receive honorary degrees from a Catholic University with military on campus. Also I was able to put together a picture of Gandhi and Ignatius for the main page of www.nonviolentcow.org in announcing the new essay, the imaginary conversation between St. Ignatius of Loyola and Mahatma Gandhi.

Cleaning around the house and cooking dinner was not quite as exciting at the computer work but it was more physical and thus better for the body. Tonight a few of us met to discuss what to do to for Marquette to stop hosting the Army, Navy/Marines and Air Force. We have tried to have a dialog, discussion and debate with Marquette on this moral issue only to be denied and ignored. All that is left to us is nonviolent action. Now nonviolent action takes mind and body.

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