I never doubted there was a God, but as John said and sang, I believed, "that
what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what
Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just
that the translations have gone wrong"Jesus was all right, but his
disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it
for me. ..You're
just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've
got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to
you, mate...All we are saying is give peace a chance...All you need is
love...Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a
dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and
the world will be as one...Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
"Imagination is evidence of the Divine." - William Blake
On October 9, 2005, I wrote:
John Lennon would have been 65 at exactly 6:35 PM today.
On 3/7/04 inside of 216 North Park Avenue in Winter Park, Florida "When I'm 64" the traveling Lennon Art for Sale Show to benefit Instant Karma Adopt-A-Classroom; helping teachers, helping Children show cased the Love and Art of John for Yoko and Sean.
216 [2+1+6=9] North
Park Avenue had previously been a Victoria's Secret and in the far end
where padded bras had once hung had now become a temporary shrine of
unending love of a father for his son.
The drawings upon the walls had been created out of play between John and Sean. Yoko had lightly tinged them pastel and turned them into a book called "Real Love"
I was captivated by one in particular titled "Sheep Meadowing" in which sheep had levitated into the sky and had morphed into clouds above the heads of sheep meadowing.
After a time of timelessness cogitating upon those sheep, I reluctantly pulled my head back through the clouds to continue on to the second Gathering of Women for Peace, where sisters of every color and creed gathered in harmony at the Mosque in East Orlando.
We came together to imagine what Peace in the World would look like and what we could do to make it happen.
All day long in my inner ear I did hear "Revolution 9" from the White Album tuned in so very clear and with a few new lyrics:
Number 9 Number 9 Number 9....Let all who are little come in here, Wisdom has built her house; come eat her food and drink her wine and walk in the ways of understanding [Proverbs 9]...I'm so very small I'm so very small, already within the heart of every atom yet extend Beyond the Universe and connect every mother and child....Number 9 Number 9 Number 9...
PS-A print of SHEEP MEADOWING hangs above my bathtub.
WAR IS OVER-Merry Christmas from the London Catholic Worker
[1] "LENNON", Ray Coleman. McGraw-Hill, 1984. Pgs -374-381.
[2] http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n4_v58/ai_14951440/pg_1
"Imagination is evidence of the Divine." - William Blake
On October 9, 2005, I wrote:
John Lennon would have been 65 at exactly 6:35 PM today.
On 3/7/04 inside of 216 North Park Avenue in Winter Park, Florida "When I'm 64" the traveling Lennon Art for Sale Show to benefit Instant Karma Adopt-A-Classroom; helping teachers, helping Children show cased the Love and Art of John for Yoko and Sean.
The drawings upon the walls had been created out of play between John and Sean. Yoko had lightly tinged them pastel and turned them into a book called "Real Love"
I was captivated by one in particular titled "Sheep Meadowing" in which sheep had levitated into the sky and had morphed into clouds above the heads of sheep meadowing.
After a time of timelessness cogitating upon those sheep, I reluctantly pulled my head back through the clouds to continue on to the second Gathering of Women for Peace, where sisters of every color and creed gathered in harmony at the Mosque in East Orlando.
We came together to imagine what Peace in the World would look like and what we could do to make it happen.
All day long in my inner ear I did hear "Revolution 9" from the White Album tuned in so very clear and with a few new lyrics:
Number 9 Number 9 Number 9....Let all who are little come in here, Wisdom has built her house; come eat her food and drink her wine and walk in the ways of understanding [Proverbs 9]...I'm so very small I'm so very small, already within the heart of every atom yet extend Beyond the Universe and connect every mother and child....Number 9 Number 9 Number 9...
PS-A print of SHEEP MEADOWING hangs above my bathtub.
WAR IS OVER-Merry Christmas from the London Catholic Worker
[1] "LENNON", Ray Coleman. McGraw-Hill, 1984. Pgs -374-381.
[2] http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_n4_v58/ai_14951440/pg_1
Eileen
Fleming,
Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org
Staff Member of Salem-news.com
A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com
Producer "30 Minutes with Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with
Vanunu"
Author of "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish
American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory" and BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial
and My Life as a Muckraker:
2005-2010
http://www.youtube.com/user/eileenfleming
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