12.27.2006

Little Islands

The following quote was lifted from Sisters of the Road, whose matching funds donation drive is still underway until the end of December...

Let us be wary of mass solutions, let us be wary of statistics. We must love our neighbors as ourselves . . . there is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.
- Father Dominique Pire

The rest is lifted from an email I wrote to a friend about this quote

It seems that this is a case where starting small is not just the more possible way to go about it,
but the real way to go about it.
but still.. where to start?
If there are no lines between war and peace,
everywhere and anywhere is a good place to start. The trick then is, where to continue? For all our youth, energy, idealism, and intentions, we can only give so much at any one time.

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