Exhibit at Milwaukee Public
Museum

Today Brian and I were doing our Fast 20 minute leafleting in front of the Marquette University Library when a middle aged lady with grey air asked if she could pass out some flyers. I said yes and give her a small batch skeptical if she really meant it. Thinking it was just the two of us of I had made only 100 flyers with quotes from Dorothy Day co-founder of the Catholic Worker whose archives are at Marquette. The bottom headline read “Catholic Worker and ROTC are Not Compatible.”

The woman went up the street to leaflet and soon she was out. I went to give her more and this time I asked her name and if she was part of the University. She said her name was Carol and she was going by on the bus when she saw us leafleting and decided to stop and help us. With three of us leafleting we ran out of 100 leaflets in about 15 minutes. She came up to us and thanked us saying how readily the students took the leaflets from her. If she only knew how hard it was to give out leaflets over the years when we had posters and banners with us. Now we were passing out quotes from Pope Francis, Jesuits and Dorothy Day about how faith and violence are in compatible and how Marquette and ROTC are incompatible.

We met tonight to discuss our “next step” in the resistance against Marquette teaching war and violence in ROTC on campus. We learned a lot since the rally and trial this summer to end ROTC on campus and hopefully we draw from this experience and step up our campaign.

Jerry, a kind and warm friend, who has been living with us for a few weeks, is moving on tomorrow. He will visit family and then go to the Franciscan community in Burlington to live. He will be missed.

My veteran friend Dan came by today to help with garden and he got some more sifting of compost to make castings done. Castings, worm poop, are what make the garden grow so well. This weekend is the beginning of the new public museum special show called “The scoop on poop.” Poop of all kinds have played on large role in the evolution of the earth. Worms, creatures that go back to times of dinosaurs, have played a large role in renewing the face of earth by their poop or castings.

These postings are called “Diary of the Worm” in honor of worms and their contribution to our world. The web site was called Nonviolent Worm until I came back from India and saw how cows and their poop were essential to the Gandhian way of life and nonviolence.

Half page leaflets and poop go together as ways to grow.

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