Saturday, April 4, 2009

I just felt that I wanted to write poetry even if it stayed in a drawer somewhere.
- Daniel Berrigan

So clearly not any poem I've written, but it's a sentiment I feel within myself, from one of my heroes.

Heroes... not a word we hear so often in this day in age. But this man is inspiring. He encompasses all the good that is left in religion, and he has found a way to give life meaning. I look to this man to understand what Paul Tillich says when he talks about the courage to be.

And that's what I'm doing- seeking the courage to be. And trying to cultivate the courage to become

(maybe you'll all be visiting me in jail someday...)