The Calling
Today I was checking out a starting site for the first of our Breaking the Silence Freedom Marches next week. I picked out a site at the lakefront at the end of Wisconsin Avenue at a modern art sculpture. Although it has been there since 1982 I did not know much about it. I found out today it is called “The Calling” and was created by Mark di Suvero, an American abstract expressionist sculptor born Marco Polo Levi in Shanghai, China in 1933 to Italian expatriates.
I did know a lot about the Milwaukee Art Museum wing designed by Santiago Calatrava in 2001. This architecture, simply called the Calvatrava, in the background of the “The Calling”, has made Milwaukee world-famous.
However, today my attention was the work of modern art. “The Calling” is a good name for the site where we will hopefully start this summer of Freedom Marches. In this day and age of so many wars and so many good causes it is easy to spread ourselves out thin and thus never really delve into one cause or issue.
Expressing this frustration of so much to do and what to do, a wise person in the peace movement advised me to take one or two areas to which I feel called, and where I can best use my passion and talent, and focus there.
Presently I am focused on two related issues: Teach War No More and No More Money for War. Even with these two large issues I have been accused of being narrowly focused and single-minded. Although my issues have changed over the years I firmly believe it is better to limit the majority of one’s attention, based on what we are called to, and being as specific as possible.
There might be better and bigger works in the background but focusing on our calling, what is right there in front of us, can lead to a deeper understanding of other concerns and issues. We must see “The Calling” first before we can truly appreciate the “Calatrava”.
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