Members of Chatham Citizens Against Coal Ash Dump celebrating a legal win in 2017. Final legal win in December 2020. By then we'd lost Johnsie Tipton, first on left, and John Cross, third on right, and Terica Luxton, not shown, to cancer.
Being Wise Twenty-Four July 18, 2021
Right now, in the wider world,
Hate thrives, our pandemic is
still alive and flourishing. Racism
rears its ugly head again, again!
All the tenets of democracy are
under attack. What happened
to the Bill of Rights and our
Constitution? Our Declaration
of Independence? We moved
from that beginning: our forefathers
first, and finally everyone; the
eighteen-year-olds, the former
slaves, the native nations, women,
and all white men achieved the
vote. Now white men, their
power threatened, try to take
our votes away. Shame, shame!
All our great religions urge us
to treat others as we would be
treated. As children we learn
to help each other. Kindness
wins friends. A helping hand
reveals the true value of our
fellows. Our Earth Itself suffers
from our carelessness, our greed.
We’re not being wise. We’re being
foolish. Will rainstorms, drought,
hurricanes, tornadoes, sea surges
teach us to be wiser? When roofs
are blown off or our temperature
rises beyond what we need to
live, will we listen and begin
to pay attention?
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