November 21, 2024

El Capitan Reflection
Native Americans and People of Color 
have put up with/survived
vicious absurdity for 250 years.

They can be our everlasting succor
and guides
through the wilderness of fear and hatred,
boiling and seething,
can't-waiting until it can show us
what it has in store.

But, in truth, there is no
comfort and consolation--
and we all get to see
what we are made of.

"I will stay with it and endure
through suffering hardship,
and once the heaving sea
has shaken my raft to pieces,
then I will swim." -- Homer, The Oddesy

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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