Liberal Art Going On & On

Converse Action with a Colleague

Don't Just Do Something:
STAND THERE!
(Daniel Berrigan)

Did you notice bell hooks referring
to her "situational position"?

Acknowledging how-it-is our lives
put us in situations & positions
where we push away & move
ourselves toward somewhere else:
other places, positions, situations
we think better.

Or decide I’ll brighten the corner
where I am wherever I go there
we are & Jesus wants me for his
more-than-the-sum-of-parts-&-
parties beams.

My favorite Berrigan quote:

"A revolution is interesting
so long as it avoids like the
plague the plague it promises
to heal."

Otherwise: doomed.

Where is the edge between
rationality and craziness?
How much of either can we
bear creatively? Isn't that
the place where art and
wisdom are discovered,
or created?

"To bear and not to own,
to act and not lay claim,
to do the work and let it go;
for just letting it go
is what makes it stay.” (Tao)

The Plague

Just listening to bell
and the responses:

a plague all around,
round & round

A pox on Both Houses:
righteous & righteous.

She says...He says...

Doomed: Dominated.

Or damned damnit::
damaged & damaging
if we do damage &
damaged & damaging
ifwe don't. Damned,
damnit.

Go ahead: improve my terms.
Can't talk "damned" on Oprah.

Say: "Wounded,"
or, better,
"vulnerable"

and she will roll eyes, call up
resident Dr. Oz, social worker,
marriage counselor, gender
expert, stock broker, movie
actor, hip-hop ghetto broker,
pop diva.. and let the healing
begin: reparations, redemptions,
reconciliations, reconfigurations,
reformations, resurrections,
redundancies again and again

Heal, damnit.
Heal!

xxxooo Presbyter & Colleague
across the curriculum.