A brilliant post by another writer that we wanted to share with you…

I follow a number of blogs and have been following Lesbian Dad for some time now. I “borrowed” a picture from Baba called “Bee Girl at Rest” and posted it here earlier. I called Baba my friend, although I’ve never met her, but I love her photography and her writing and the following post is one of the best things I’ve ever read online. Baba, I want you and your family to know that Marcy and I and our family believe that we are in the midst of the last, great civil rights battle in our country and our thoughts and efforts are with you and your family now and always in the future.

I’ve posted the intro here with a link to the rest of the post below. Respect

The worst are full of passionate intensity…

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

~ William Butler Yeats, 1919

Yeats wrote “The Second Coming” in the aftermath of the first World War (and the Russian Revolution), but it’s hard not to think of the events of the past two weeks — the murder of Dr. Tiller, the shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum — when one reads his words. Violence, specifically hate violence, meant not just to injure or murder one person but to frighten — or to be more precise, to terrorize – a whole group of people into submission, has dominated the news.

The balance of Baba’s great post here