… to raise awareness about landmines.
April 4 is the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.
Here are several things to do:
Roll up your pant leg as part of the Lend Your Leg campaign.
Ask the Obama Administration to submit the Mine Ban Treaty to the Senate for ratification.
Support the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Make the Trail safer – ban landmines.
See you along the Trail.
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In a place beyond remembering,
at a time now forgotten,
for a purpose that dances on recall’s fickle fringe
our lives met and briefly touched.
Talking, we sit upon the train,
lost memory perched between us.
Recognition briefly tingles,
but nothing more emerges and
I could not say
where or
when or
why or
who.
Can you?
3 April 2012
7 Train from Grand Central to Times Square
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It has nothing to do with Tolkien.
No rings.
No orcs.
No ents.
No wizards.
No hobbits.
But they are towers.
And there are two of them.
30 March 2012
Making my way up Broadway last night,
the tower of Riverside Church caught my attention.
Without a clue,
I nonetheless played
with angles and
with settings.
Most of the efforts now reside in the recycle bin,
unless they have always been deleted.
This one seemed interesting enough to share.
30 March 2012
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The tulip theme continues.
I took this photo of tulips in a planter
on Third Avenue in Manhattan.
I recognize the photo is blurry:
simply blurry:
unintentionally blurry:
blurry because I used the wrong setting
or because I failed to hold the camera steady
or both.
I do not pretend that I tried for this effect.
But I enjoy pondering the illusion
that the tulips are
moving!
30 March 2012
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After the Presbyterian Ecumenical Advocacy Days cruise,
which did indeed last only three hours – sorry Gilligan –
we returned to the hotel.
The rain stopped.
Its aftermath remained.
24 March 2012
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We took a bus to the boat for the Presbyterian cruise
during Ecumenical Advocacy Days.
It rained.
24 March 2012
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At Ecumenical Advocacy Days, I became the quasi-official Presbyterian photographer,
taking photos at the Compassion, Peace and Justice Training Day,
during Ecumenical Advocacy Days itself,
and even on the cruise.
I snapped this photo during a workshop led by
Rebecca Barnes- Davies,
PC(USA) associate for Environmental Ministries.
I have no idea what the photo means,
but it seems kind of intriguing.
At least to me.
See you along the Trail.
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The New York Times posted an article today that contains information from George Zimmerman who shot Trayvon Martin:
In an account given to Sanford police that was passed on to the state attorney’s office, George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, said that Trayvon had punched him and then repeatedly slammed his head into the sidewalk in the moments leading up to the shooting.
It is a reminder that there is at least one other point of view in this story. And a reminder of why a full, fair, transparent investigation is needed so that justice can be done for all who are involved.
See you along the Trail.
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Vigilante justice is not the answer.
The Boston-Herald reports that, “Members of the New Black Panther Party are offering a $10,000 reward for the ‘capture’ of George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin … The bounty announcement came moments after members of the group called for the mobilization of 10,000 black men to capture Zimmerman, who shot Trayvon in a gated Sanford community on Feb. 26.”
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Vigilante justice is not the answer.
This way of vengeance fails to honor Trayvon Martin. It further tears at a wounded community. It fuels the cycle of violence.
A fair, full, transparent investigation of the events that led to Trayvon’s death is needed. Such an investigation can determine what steps should be taken to seek justice for all. Justice is the answer.
On the Southern Poverty Law Center‘s website the New Black Panther Party is identified as a black-separatist group founded in 1989, that is “virulently racist and anti-Semitic” and whose leaders have “encouraged violence against whites, Jews and law officers.”
Vigilante justice is not the answer.
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