i posted the next paragraph on bluishorange in response to someone’s comment about the manhattan skyline being forever changed: the skyline is unimportant. i think about the people who spent their last moments trying to get out of the buildings, perhaps squeezing into packed, smokey stairwells. or the people whose last few terror-filled minutes of [...]

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just heard about the attack on the world trade center. i feel equal parts numb and sick to my stomach. fear and anger will spread across the u.s. and the world, and many in this world are already, both openly and in secret, rejoicing. the cycle of violence will escalate, and the terrorists will have [...]

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if you haven’t been following the discussion on non-violence, i recommend you check it out. i’d be interested in hearing celine’s opinion as well, since she’s working towards a phd in international relations and working closely with the head of the global peace and cooperation program here at uci. no pressure though. i’ve got a [...]

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here’s one of my favorite poems by emily dickinson: we never know how high we aretill we are called to rise;and then, if we are true to plan,our statures touch the skies. the heroism we recitewould be a daily thing,did not ourselves the cubits warpfor fear to be king. we are each capable of so [...]

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the more i think of non-violence as a course of action, the more it makes sense to me. jana has always been the peacenik in our home. it’s funny, in retrospect, that i should be writing this, after years of strongly advocating appropriate use of force. i’m not sure if active, non-violent civil resistence can [...]

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