drawing down the energy of today’s new moon of truth, a familiar soul question lives me… what is breaking your heart, breaking your heart so completely that the heart breaks wide open… a rush of images floods the banks of consciousness…

for nearly 150 years, Lady Liberty has welcomed to our shores the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free… now, this poem is being rewritten to say that when those fleeing oppression come to our shores we will treat them as criminals and snatch away their children and replaceingLady Liberty’s torch with a pair of handcuffs…

we are called to be a wold of peace built on justice guided by love… it begins inside of me and thee… and there is so much support activating outer action… families belong together is holding a day of action tomorrow, will you join me in living our mission?

let us revisit the truth of Lady Liberty…

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

 ~ Emma Lazarus ~

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Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of ‘them’ and ‘us’ and think of our world much more in terms of a great ‘US’, a greater human family.

~ His Holiness, the Dalai Lama ~

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Love Your Neighbor… #Keep Families Together…