Persistence

A friend wrote me today how this Diary of the Worm has moved away from some big issues like criticism of Walmart, which he likes, and more into issues like Restoring the Rims at a local park or Closing the School of the Army at Marquette University. This is a good observation since I have consciously tried to limit my activities to local, at-home issues, besides the Growing Power Home Garden Model.

I realized a few years ago it is better to do something deeply and intensely than to do lots of things lightly. I still think I spread myself too thin but at least I am letting the concerns and issues come to me rather than reaching out to them.

In the Growing Power model of gardening or farming that I was taught the attempt is to get the most production out of the smallest area. Thus vertical growing, using worm castings to enrich soil, using ‘tea’ and intense growing all come into play.

The same model goes for living, making the most of each moment and focusing on specific, attainable goals, like resurrecting the rims or closing the Army Base at Marquette.

Too often today one interest group or political group is pitted against another, and they often lose sight of their common goals. The “Tea Party” talks about cutting taxes and the peace activists talk about the excessive of war spending. They are played against each other instead of working together for the same goal, cutting taxes by eliminating wasteful military spending.

Again we can learn from nature. The energy I put in the rain garden and vegetable garden in front of my house has paid off with two great looking gardens with fresh flowers and plenty of vegetables with now low maintenance.

Today some of us wrote an open letter to four leaders of morality in Milwaukee asking them to do the right thing and close the base schools of Army, Navy/Marines and Air Force at Marquette University, a Catholic Jesuit University. Will they listen to this letter? Probably not, but tomorrow we will make an appeal to Catholic Workers around the world to join us in our struggle, since Marquette University also hosts the home of the Catholic Worker archives. Then Friday we will have a Breaking the Silence Freedom March on the Marquette campus. Will these three efforts make a change? Probably not, but if we are consistent and persistent in our message we shall overcome one day.

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