I am standing in a sunny spot between two great trees on a hot hot day. Under each tree there are groups of people, wonderfully friendly, and all quite comfortably cool in the shade of their tree’s mighty branches. I am burning up, sweating and still underneath our firey angel, but still all the same unable unwilling to move to the shelter that surrounds me.There is a part of me that right now wants to live a distance away, raise children in an family who might otherwise not have such an opportunity, and leave this place of polarity … could this be considered running away, or running home?

I watched something so emotionally crippling tonight I thought I would share it – not for emotional movement’s sake – but to encourage awareness and action regarding a situation that seems to focus in and out of our consciousness depending on the media that day. The genocide that is taking place in Sudan right now is something that so many of us condemn without difficulty but also without activity.Please click HERE to view this photo commentary on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum website.

There is no explanation in any religious text or elsewhere that has adequately explained to me how humans have the capacity to hate and harm each other in the way they do, or at least that I am in my present level of wisdom able to understand, but this is so very sad and is happening even as I write this and you read it. May the God of the poor and oppressed make himself known in this, such an evil event in our world …. and in whatever way we who are not living in such fear are able, may we make ourselves and our demands for justice known as well.