When I read
the news these days, I want to turn off the computer and spend more time with
my plants in the garden. Do you? I am tired of reading about the Daily Carnage
our species is engaged in…but how to counteract the violent chaos?
Personally,
I would love to see all seven-and-a-quarter-billion of us agree to a 24-hour
period of No Killing. We could choose any day of the year. Maybe an ordinary Monday. Mondays need a little love. We could exempt the
0-3 year-old crowd, I guess, but the rest of us could pledge that for just that one
day, we would not kill each other. Could we actually do that? Choose a day to
Not Kill? And if we did, what would happen?
On its own,
one day doesn’t seem very significant. But I think, if we could pull it off, it
would show us that it is possible to live peacefully. At least for a little while, one day at a time. That
is not as hard as we think it is.
Success for just one day could give us the confidence to continue. One
day could become three days. Three days could become a week. And then, perhaps,
if we got that far, the impossible dream of no killing for a year wouldn’t seem
like such a crazy fantasy anymore.
Stranger
things have happened in this world….
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| Photo by Riccardo Senettin, Italy, June 2014 |
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