i know that i've been ignoring this blog. i haven't been ignoring YOUR blogs, just my own. i've been really kind of depressed because of the london bombings. we all know i wanted to move there and work for innocent. i love that city. perhaps the most of all. it feels like HOME to me. and while all my dearest loved ones in that city are all okay, it just still shakes me that "my city" is being bombed. and terrorized. more so than when they hit washington, d.c. where i grew up. or nyc. which is a city i adore. but london? london holds all my dreams. and my heart. and yes, perhaps even my soul.
so i'm depressed. and wondering about my sheltered little life that i live here in paradise next to the sea. i protest at lockheed martin without even a nary worry that it's going to result in my arrest. i don't think twice about backpacks left sitting on chairs at lulu's for hours. i ride the bus with the hippies and the college kids and the latino farm workers and never once think it's going to blow up. i walk everywhere alone, at all hours, unafraid that i might be attacked or a car bomb will explode.
i am a very lucky girl. a blessed woman. but i also feel so very far away from what is important in this world.
i'm sending all my love and peace to the people of london, and all the other places in this world, where terrorism is a part of their daily lives. i know that the brits have stiff upper lips. but their hearts and souls are no different than mine.
here's to their heart and souls. may they be filled with love and peace.
