Marquette University Teaches Killing
Being sick this last week I discovered a new form of relaxation, that is making a collage with some software I have. For our next event of breaking the silence I spent some time today making a collage of pictures and words. (See on the side or big version below) While my son Peter found computer art refreshing so I do with this computer collage making. His art is too abstract for me and I do not have much artistic talent. Talking pictures is always been enjoyable, especially in this digital age. Now I can take pictures and put them together with a message. As a messenger with written or spoken words I do not seem to be effective, often allowing myself to be distracted as the problem so the message can be ignored.
I need to focus on what I am doing, driving, writing or eating. I know how it feels to be focused like when I am sitting down talking with a person during a home visit or involved in making a collage. Poetry used to focus me but I seem to be slipping in my use of words these days. My mind, like my office, the more I seen to clean and organize it the more it seems to get messed up. Focus seems to escape me often these days and I not sure why, being older, brain function is off or what?
I watched a three part series on Pubic TV about the abolitionist movement. People like Douglas and Garrison were singled minded devoted person and when all looked lost and impossible they kept fighting for what they believe is right, even at the cost of sacrifice.
I am blessed with family and friends and faced little suffering, maybe a few insults, in practicing what I believe. However, no one, big or small, struggling for the truth, can avoid is some suffering, or dying a little to self.
Tupac Shaku, American rap artist, 1971–1996, has a lots of quotes about dying and living. One I recently heard is: “Why am I Dying to Live, When I’m just Living to Die? This is a paradox but another quote from Tupac might answer part of the question: “My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find something’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.”
Marquette, a Jesuit Catholic University in Milwaukee claims to teach young adults how to live with Christian values and yet teaches young adults how to kill. Dying to live or living to die?
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