Prayer Vigil in lobby
of MU Library, Lent 2009

Today I got an email from the Victory Garden Initiative saying that the DMZ community gardens was one of the winners of the Fruity Nutty five contest. This means DMZ gardens has won a Fruity Nutty orchard—up to 30 fruit and nut producing trees, shrubs, and vines.

Dawn, the D of DMZ, had called me, Z of DMZ, a few weeks ago telling me the good news. Our phone conversation was interrupted by anther phone call to her and subsequent attempts for her to call me or me to call her did not work out.
I noticed on the page of the Fruity Nutty five contest that some of the winning neighborhood gardens had a description and some, like DMZ, said “stay tuned for more information about the DMZ Community Garden!”

So now I think I will try our friend Dawn tomorrow since the web page says the fruit and nut trees are coming in April. I know nothing or little about planting fruit and nut trees but lack of learning has not stopped me before.

Speak of Fruity Nutty I had a strange thing happened to me today as I joined friends to pray in the lobby of the Marquette University library. Two security officer at Marquette walked in the library and, in an apologetic manner, gave me a letter. The letter was addressed to me only and said I was “not welcomed on the Marquette University campus” and if I violated that order I would be arrested for criminal trespassing. The letter was signed by Marquette legal council and was sent to the Vice President of Marquette Administration and the Director of Security, all three men who I had never met in my life. No one else there today or anyone who prayed with us in the library over the last four years was banned. Why are these important persons in MU administration concerned about me joining friends in lobby of Marquette Lobby, very quietly and not disruptive to pray. I think I know the person, an associate director of MU Center for Peacemaking Center, who initiated the ban as he said over a month ago he was doing. Strangely enough he was one of us praying in the lobby of the lobby some years ago. Talking about Fruity Nutty happenings.

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