[Peace-discuss] Jan. 8 demo

[Karen Medina]

I cannot attend a demo on the 15th.
-karen medina

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:52 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> The temperature is supposed to be in the teens Saturday afternoon.
>
> Let's postpone our demonstration for a week. --CGE
>
> ===============
> The Journey of the Magi
> ===============
>
> "A cold coming we had of it,
> Just the worst time of the year
> For a journey, and such a long journey:
> The was deep and the weather sharp,
> The very dead of winter."
> And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
> Lying down in the melting snow.
> There were times we regretted
> The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
> And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
> Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
> And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
> And the night-fires gong out, and the lack of shelters,
> And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
> And the villages dirty, and charging high prices.:
> A hard time we had of it.
> At the end we preferred to travel all night,
> Sleeping in snatches,
> With the voices singing in our ears, saying
> That this was all folly.
>
> Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
> Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;
> With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,
> And three trees on the low sky,
> And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.
> Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
> Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
> And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
> But there was no information, and so we continued
> And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon
> Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory.
>
> All this was a long time ago, I remember,
> And I would do it again, but set down
> This set down
> This: were we lead all that way for
> Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
> We had evidence and no doubt. I have seen birth and death,
> But had thought they were different; this Birth was
> Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
> We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
> But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
> With an alien people clutching their gods.
> I should be glad of another death.
>
> --T. S. Eliot
>
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-- karen medina
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