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		<title>Strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
		
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One of my partners in Gaza was a young American activist who told us newcomers one day,
“There are no women anywhere in the world stronger than the women of Rafah.”


 
Really?
What about all those Vietnamese women in their fifties, sixties, and seventies?
What about the Tibetan women living as exiles in India?
What about all those unsung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Freely and Whole-heartedly in Guatemala by Chelsea Jaeger</title>
		<link>http://www.bookofmev.com/archives/921</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to share the following essay by Chelsea Jaeger, who studied with me in the spring 2010 semester in a Spirituality of Service class. 
Sometimes there are experiences so wonderful and pure that you swear you’ll never forget a single detail of the perfection. We want to preserve these rare events in our minds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Hope is To Gamble</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
		
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1.
The work of this emotion requires people who throw themselves actively into what is becoming, to which they themselves belong. To hope is to give yourself to the future, and that commitment to the future makes the present inhabitable.
 
&#8211;Ernst Bloch, Marxist philosopher
2.
[People] also ask frequently: “Where does your hope come from, how do you keep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-American?</title>
		<link>http://www.bookofmev.com/archives/903</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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You call me anti-American?
Because I call Bush a war criminal
Who should be hauled in before the Hague
And stand trial?
Anti-American
For reading Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson,
Since every Midwest atom belonging to me as good belongs to you?
Anti-American
For my laughter provoked by Groucho, Woody, and Soupy,
Because the food in this place is really terrible, … yeah, and in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bearing Witness</title>
		<link>http://www.bookofmev.com/archives/892</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[for Sandra
 
Yet it was plain to us that by reckoning with Taha’s exceptional personality and poems, many of these American audiences were also reckoning for the first time with a Palestinian—not as a menacing or pitiable abstract concept but as a complex individual human being and a genuine artist who was, of all things, directly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mantra</title>
		<link>http://www.bookofmev.com/archives/888</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Train without bias in all areas. It is crucial always to do this pervasively and wholeheartedly.”
&#8211;Buddhist slogan

When you feel like you’re far from home and you are
When you choose to breathe in and breathe out
When you approach a preoccupied stranger on the street
When you see a restless five-year-old boy in the sooq
When you notice an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do We Know about What’s Going to Happen?</title>
		<link>http://www.bookofmev.com/archives/882</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What do we know about what’s going to happen?
You wake up one morning
Your life is so-so
You find yourself at a nearby café at 2 p.m.
You feel someone’s eyes on your left cheek
And you turn
And are greeted with a smile
Three years pass
You two are married with the first child expected any day
What do we know about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Early Evening Daydream about a Pope</title>
		<link>http://www.bookofmev.com/archives/878</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What if the Supreme Roman Pontiff made an unprecedented decision?
What if he made it straight from his gut, his innards?
What if his calculating &#38; rational mind did not hold sway?
What if he listened to the still, small voice within, and blurted out: This I must do?
What if he realized that, heretofore, he had been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Light (After Reading Mary Oliver)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Lo
Ten times a day something happens to me like this-some strengthening throb of amazement-some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest, and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.
&#8211;Mary Oliver
So there&#8217;s that last chapter
In part two of The Book of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Same Fate as the Palestinians</title>
		<link>http://www.bookofmev.com/archives/857</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Chmiel</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
1.
 
Archbishop Oscar Romero once stated,
“Christ invites us not to fear persecution.
Believe me, brothers and sisters,
Anyone committed to the poor
Must suffer the same fate as the poor.
And in El Salvador we know the fate of the poor:
To be taken away,
To be tortured,
To be jailed,
To be found dead.”
Shortly after pleading with President Jimmy Carter
To cut U.S. military [...]]]></description>
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