WOW! Beautiful & powerful from beginning to end. Thank you Dino Alonso for some "Light.." this morning that I need in a dreary MN cloudy, rainy day. However, your words and message are not as light ... they carry a charge for us to keep, a challenge and some grace.
So my dear humanist friend, you shared some people that I needed to go "google" search and glad that I did, but first I put in your quote (of course, believing it was yours, but needed to check if it was someone else's that I should become familiar with - (lol) Anyways, if you get a chance you should go see what AI has to say about your metaphor saying "about the importance of unity and solidarity in resisting opposition" and then it proceeds to break down each part.
Your writing is always profound (and sometimes quite deep - only another philosopher humanist may get the true power & beauty in the words we cling to & wonder about) yet woven in between are messages that WE need and the hardest part was the truth about "Fascism no longer knocks" cuz it's here ... right among us. I cannot ever imagine getting or growing use to it - so as long as I have strength & eloquent encouragement from great writers like you & others keeping us alert - I too will refuse. {sorry I forgot how to do that line quote in Substack} so the old-fashion way:
"The grifters will keep trying to fill their hollow hearts with the spoils of tragedy. They will clutch at power as if it could save them from the slow erosion of their own souls. But when we cleave to each other—when we lock our arms and insist on being human in the face of inhumanity—no bile they brew can spill upon us." ... Dino Alonso
YES! We press on and fight ... like Tagore & Akhmatova (if only I can remain as courageous) but I do "keep heart" with inspiration you set before us. Your weapon is the power of your words. I will find mine - some day. For now, I read and seek what God says too through His Spirit & the teachings of Jesus that many so called Christians have forgotten (but those are the C.N. cause as Tim W. wrote so well). I hope that WE all remain strong together & not surrender the true cause as you ended so well ... "Carry the oldest banner - love in one hand, resolve in the other - and that WE march together ..." Looks like WE have quite the battle ahead of us against the tyrant & regime yet with a charge like this may WE stand united and carry (or "guard") the flame with hope, freedom, happiness and the well-being of ALL, not the rich or GOP!
What a stirring call to arms with which to greet the day--arms of love, and resolve. Humanist or no, your words brim with the images familiar from my devout Mennonite upbringing--a charge to keep, being not without a shepherd among the wolves. Thank you for this bracing call to Being.
WOW! Beautiful & powerful from beginning to end. Thank you Dino Alonso for some "Light.." this morning that I need in a dreary MN cloudy, rainy day. However, your words and message are not as light ... they carry a charge for us to keep, a challenge and some grace.
So my dear humanist friend, you shared some people that I needed to go "google" search and glad that I did, but first I put in your quote (of course, believing it was yours, but needed to check if it was someone else's that I should become familiar with - (lol) Anyways, if you get a chance you should go see what AI has to say about your metaphor saying "about the importance of unity and solidarity in resisting opposition" and then it proceeds to break down each part.
Your writing is always profound (and sometimes quite deep - only another philosopher humanist may get the true power & beauty in the words we cling to & wonder about) yet woven in between are messages that WE need and the hardest part was the truth about "Fascism no longer knocks" cuz it's here ... right among us. I cannot ever imagine getting or growing use to it - so as long as I have strength & eloquent encouragement from great writers like you & others keeping us alert - I too will refuse. {sorry I forgot how to do that line quote in Substack} so the old-fashion way:
"The grifters will keep trying to fill their hollow hearts with the spoils of tragedy. They will clutch at power as if it could save them from the slow erosion of their own souls. But when we cleave to each other—when we lock our arms and insist on being human in the face of inhumanity—no bile they brew can spill upon us." ... Dino Alonso
YES! We press on and fight ... like Tagore & Akhmatova (if only I can remain as courageous) but I do "keep heart" with inspiration you set before us. Your weapon is the power of your words. I will find mine - some day. For now, I read and seek what God says too through His Spirit & the teachings of Jesus that many so called Christians have forgotten (but those are the C.N. cause as Tim W. wrote so well). I hope that WE all remain strong together & not surrender the true cause as you ended so well ... "Carry the oldest banner - love in one hand, resolve in the other - and that WE march together ..." Looks like WE have quite the battle ahead of us against the tyrant & regime yet with a charge like this may WE stand united and carry (or "guard") the flame with hope, freedom, happiness and the well-being of ALL, not the rich or GOP!
What a stirring call to arms with which to greet the day--arms of love, and resolve. Humanist or no, your words brim with the images familiar from my devout Mennonite upbringing--a charge to keep, being not without a shepherd among the wolves. Thank you for this bracing call to Being.
I needed to read this today. Thank you, Dino