RENDERING A SALVE FOR THE AFFLICTED Take coconut and almond oil, vitamin E, a tiny pinch of grated beeswax, tea tree oil and goldenseal, a smattering of synonyms for justice and sincere prayers for peace and mix them with clouds from the morning before it snows in the evening and the clouds from evening before the sky clears the next day. Take quotes from Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Audre Lorde and bell hooks, Thomas Merton and Adrianne Rich, the Dali Llama and Salvador Dali, Pema Chodron and Augustan Burroughs and Jerry Garcia and mix them with what your child asked you yesterday about the school shooting in Pakistan, the CIA, the fracking in West Virginia, the protests in Chicago. Apply everywhere it hurts. Keep it in a cobalt jar and smear it all over the lies until truth rises to the surface and the tiny light of a candle burning on the kitchen table enters the tips of your fingers and tongue and you say and do whatever you can.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:23:08 +0000
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