Mark Agwonah, We Hardly Knew Ye: So, Why Has Your Death Touched Us So?

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[wind5001]

I knew why I tickled you, and I hope you are not angry with me about it. But I simply WANTED to know what your emotions and thoughts are. Now I know, and I thank you for sharing.

May Justice be Done to all suffering and bleeding.

Oli

[RichardF]

Not long after the beginning of the latest war in Iraq, a local yet world-renowned artist, Nancy Noel, posted a number of highway billboard messages in the area that included an image of one of her angels similar to this with the caption, "God Bless Humanity."

Some of her currently available Colors of Africa seem to be part of a fitting tribute to Mark and his memory.  A short video of Noel's visit there can be viewed by clicking "Africa" from her Videos page.  "The Maasai are an indigenous African ethnic group of semi-nomadic people located in Kenya and northern Tanzania."

[Laurie]

Jill, our political views are so similar that I am sometimes shocked to see you post my thoughts on this forum.  For the longest time, I have automatically translated "God Bless America" as "(May the Power that is often called) God Bless America (and all other nations, communities, and struggling peoples of the world).  And, open minds and hearts too, please.

As religious sects attempt to obliterate each other, as nations break/blow apart, as the national borders of our own country prove to be no match for the economic realities of our neighbors... the arbitrary and fluid nature of political boundaries is revealed.  I often think that one decade of severe drought is all it would take for the English-as-first-language population of the southwestern states to abandon those harsh, arid climates to the Spanish speakers who live in closer harmony with that environment (at least where they are less influenced by our border communities).

My mother and I have different religious/spiritual beliefs, but I do like her sentiment: God works through our hands.  Kiva seems to me to be one of these good works.

Safe travels,
Laurie