For my post #999, some nice things to share

[crikkett]

1. An aurora from the morning of my wedding day, 8/8/2006


(this came from Spaceweather.com)

2. An excerpt from an interview with Desmond Tutu, during the week of his 75th Birthday, and on the day he won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
(courtesy of Democracy Now, http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/13/1359237 )
AMY GOODMAN: I had the opportunity to interview Archbishop Desmond Tutu two years ago. He was visiting New York for a reading of the play, Guantanamo, at the Culture Project. Again, it was written by Robyn Slovo’s sister, Gillian Slovo, and Victoria Brittain. I asked him for his response to what is happening at Guantanamo.

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: For someone coming from South Africa, you that's exactly what they were doing for exactly the same reasons that they gave. When you said, "Why do you detain people without trial? Why do you ban people as you are doing?" And the response from the South African government was, "Security of the state." And anyone who questioned it would then be regarded, especially if you are white, as being unpatriotic.

And I just want to say to you: Is this something that you want done in your name? Isn't it time there was a same sense of outrage that people had about apartheid, which people should have had about the Holocaust? What would happen if it was Americans held by some other country under these conditions? The point is, God has actually got no one. The God we worship is strange. They say this God is omnipotent, but God is also very weak. There's not a great deal that God seems to be able to do without you.


3. An excerpt from Eugene Deb's Statement to the Court, as he was about to be sentenced for violating the Sedition Act, Sept 18, 1918.

Your Honor,years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Thank you to my favorite forum. :hi:

[I Have A Dream]

1. Congratulations on reaching 1000 posts, crikkett!

Thank you for the gifts in this post!

:hi:

[mother earth]

2. Those are beautiful to share with us, Crikkett! Thank you and

congrats!!! :yourock:

[rumpel]

3. How beautiful!

Congratulations!

:)

[stellanoir]

4. Yayyyyyyyyyyyy

a marriage blessed by the Sun. How lucky you are.