tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post8118312950428915339..comments2020-03-11T19:55:50.854-04:00Comments on Art & Document: A Candle for ChristchurchTimothy Cahillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10603395656560067724noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-4489913169446809402011-07-31T06:28:22.230-04:002011-07-31T06:28:22.230-04:00thank you for reminding us what we forget..thank you for reminding us what we forget..melissashookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02398008713376655570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-42257947405924858102011-06-27T23:43:45.488-04:002011-06-27T23:43:45.488-04:00Hi M, as a child, I learned to say the Hail Mary. ...Hi M, as a child, I learned to say the Hail Mary. She's been joined by Gaia and the Goddess. Very little has changed.Timothy Cahillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603395656560067724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-30604836410109000382011-06-27T15:29:45.571-04:002011-06-27T15:29:45.571-04:00Dear Tim, thank you for posting these devastating ...Dear Tim, thank you for posting these devastating photographs of Christchurch, and keeping our thoughts and attention on what is so easily forgotten as one catastrophe after another pushes everything else to the back--of our minds, of the newspaper pages (the ones that are left). I have a whole grove of candles, I once was a Catholic too, though now consider myself a pantheist and pray to all sorts of deities. There's got to be a way that all the goodness in a prayer, a toast, a candle adds to the goodness and health of the world, in ways we can't know. Thank you, Tim. xoMelissa Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270919534011711225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-5097640033505911362011-06-27T14:47:02.663-04:002011-06-27T14:47:02.663-04:00Susan, you're so right. Life is reduced to a c...Susan, you're so right. Life is reduced to a conveyor belt of headlines and highlights. The travails in Christchurch are unimaginable in part because we have been told nothing of them. More troubling is the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Potential for up to six Chernobyls happening right now, and when's the last time you heard anything about it? Boston wins the Stanley Cup, Fukushima reactor melts down, life goes on. It's beyond bizarre.Timothy Cahillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603395656560067724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-25083617405286208012011-06-27T14:33:56.867-04:002011-06-27T14:33:56.867-04:00Hi Rose. Yes, I agree, the first thing for any of ...Hi Rose. Yes, I agree, the first thing for any of us is to count our blessings. Send out good thoughts. Do no harm. It's not always easy. We get snagged on the protruding nail of desire or trip over our own feet. Then we have to do everything we can to get back to that "healing mode" and remember our better angels. It is good to light a candle for others in need. When I was a boy, we did this in our Catholic church by using the flame of one candle to ignite the next. One by one, people passed the flame along, until every candle in the votive alcove was blazing. What better metaphor for collective action is there than that?Timothy Cahillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10603395656560067724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-16366038556411544052011-06-26T18:14:54.533-04:002011-06-26T18:14:54.533-04:00i continually find it shocking how quickly we move...i continually find it shocking how quickly we move on to the next tragedy, next scandal, next anything. as my friend melissa shook once described, in a different context, it's "next slide, please." is this just the curiously attention-deficit-disordered American--or is this global? <br />thank you for NOT zipping along to the next slide, Timothy.<br /><br />-susansusan t. landryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12454487318141469849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515623400892045324.post-8279685388657261012011-06-25T19:19:57.783-04:002011-06-25T19:19:57.783-04:00Tim~ Your reminder of Christchurch residents and t...Tim~ Your reminder of Christchurch residents and their devastations are duely noted and thank you for it! Just a few days ago Japan also survived another aftershock nearly as strong as the initial one. As I go through my own personal hells, I am thankful that although I wish for things to be better in my life, and I get impatient with my desires, acknowledging that things could be worse is slash of cold reality. These are truly humbling reminders.I try and use my good energies on thoughts for those in need. It takes me out of my own head and thrusts me into a healing mode that ultimately raises my mood to slight optimism that maybe, this will help somehow.<br />RoseRosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387890081887539420noreply@blogger.com