Promote Swadeshi in
Everyday lifeI sit here in front of the TV news watching what is happening in Egypt and praying that the people will stay nonviolent.
This morning Holland and Honduras came into my life. My friend Jim Forest living in Holland wrote that he is making a speaking tour this spring and will be in Milwaukee in early May. He has revised and expanded his biography of Dorothy Day that will be published by that time. Jim has been a friend since 1968 and the Milwaukee 14 Days. Email has kept us in close contact but it will be good to have him as a house guest for a few days.
Right after reading Jim’s email I read one from Father Roy Bourgeois of SOAWatch inviting me to be a part of a delegation going to Honduras to monitor human right abuses since the military coup last year that overthrew the democratic elected president. I felt honored by this invitation but unfortunately it is the same time as my friend Jim is visited Milwaukee.
A good part of my day was spent working on the Pilgrimage of Peace 2011 Diary of my friend who just returned from India. Working on his diary reminded me of my own Pilgrimage of Peace to the India of Gandhi a few years ago.
So Egypt, Holland, Honduras and India are on my mind. But in the spirit of Swadeshi, the use and service of our immediate surroundings over those more remote or foreign, I need to remember that Charity starts at home and everyday look on this bigger issues of violence, there are four prayer vigils for homicide victims tomorrow morning, war, I spend some time today calling for an action Sunday to stop the Teaching of war at Marquette University. Also there were two local letters to newspapers I thought about today but did not write: one was about an article in major newspaper that continues the stigmatizing of persons with brain disease or mental illnesses and one in the local Catholic newspaper about a book by a great moral theology teacher who does not practice what he preaches.
So around the world we go but the Holy Ground we live with each day is what keeps us going.
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