The answer, according to my daughter

[Elena A. Marchuk]

Dear Chris,

I'm so proud to be acquanted to such a wise lady. She has all answers for
our adult questions, I wish all people hear the voices of our children...
let them be true

say, please, hello to Aine

take care

elena

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Corrigan" <corcom at INTERCHANGE.UBC.CA>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: The answer, according to my daughter


> My daughter Aine and I were walking in the woods today playing a game.
> She was pretending that there were monsters in the forest and that they
> were coming to eat us.  We had to be vigilant.  We had to defend
> ourselves.
>
> I asked her "What is the plan? What are we going to do if we see one of
> the monsters?"
>
> She replied, "Feed them."
>
> "Feed them?" I said.
>
> "Yes," she said. "If we feed them they won't want to eat us."
>
> I think she has the answer there.  Imagine if George Bush took that $40
> billion that Congress gave him and used it to feed people.  Heck, take
> $20 billion to fix up US security and clean up New York and use the
> other half to feed people.  And not just feed them with food.
>
> What if we decided that people's spirits needing feeding too?  What if
> we chose to take $1 billion and build the biggest, most beautiful mosque
> in the world, right in the heart of Kabul.  And what if we gave it as a
> gift, no quid pro quo, as a place for people to feed their spirits?
>
> What would the reaction be?  What do we want the reaction to be?  We
> have choices
>
> Seems we could bomb innocent people to death and celebrate, mirroring
> the images of this week, and thereby satisfy our thirst for vengence.
> But what would that get us?  A world that so admired the West that it
> wanted to emulate it in every way and celebrates it;s way of life?  Or
> would a large part of the 5 billion people that don't live in the west
> see things differently?  Would more people feel as if vengence was the
> only possible response, and figure out more simple and effective ways to
> terrorize?  We can have that kind of world if we choose it.
>
> Or we can take Aine's advice and feed people.  And what would that get
> us?  There is no better way to rob the world of it's anger and
> bitterness, jealousy and hate, than to feed people
> unconditionally...feed their bodies, minds and spirits.  Build places of
> learning, places of spirit, places for healing and nourishment, places
> of community.
>
> Take that $40 billion dollars and spend it in every neighborhood in the
> world.  Put the world to work growing food, healing people, restoring
> land and water, building communities, creating the thin fibres of
> connection between peoples, families, communties, cities, nations....
>
> "If we feed them they won't want to eat us."  Can you think of a better
> form of security?
>
> Love to all,
>
> Chris
>
>
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