The 10th Fast Day August 11, 2007

10 weeks ago I set up a site to record fasting one day per week until peace arrived in Iraq, probably slipping in furtively as Donald Rumsfeld used to do. http://peace-weaving.blogspot.com/ I liked the concept of peace weaving. That's what one does with peace, weaves it into the fabric of life. Discord is more like the rending of garments and cloth, taking a coat of many colors and ripping it to shreds distinct from each other. Here's the 10th day: The Geometry of Desire if I took weeds and planted them in rows interspersed by borders of a lowly shrub and placed large ribbons of a prairie grass to blow in secants of gold you would say oh, what a beautiful garden! if I took men and women homeless and gave them food and shelt’ring walls three meals a day and a key to a mahogany library you would say oh, what wisdom there is! if I took the drawings of children from war zones and littered them with the mothers’ tears and matted them in frames of the understanding, and hung them in a gallery of knowing silence, you would say god, what have we done!