Windy Day
Blows me open
Blows thru me like the mystery
I am raw
Unbridled
Unhinged
Unkempt
Free like the wind
Oya: My beloved sister of eternity
Pulsing around this globe of grace
Infinite kiss of the Divine
Blessing me
Eternally
This magical place
Stillness reigns supreme
It is tangible here
The peace
The depths of stillness
Even as the wind rages wild dust tornados
Stillness Lives here
This is it's home
I am blessed once again to dance with her here.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
From Musical Missions
Riding back South across the border into Jordan we arrive in Amman. Our
driver jokes every time we pass a picture of the blue-eyed Jordanian
King Abdulla that he must be the "King of Denmark." In reality, the
king's mother is American.
To the north in Syria we had been surrounded by pictures of the
Ophthalmologist from London who is now President of Syria, Bashar Assad. As I
said, people in these parts of the world know better than to associate
people with the governments which rule them.
Walking down the early afternoon street in Amman on our way to a coffee
shop we look up to the sky as the incredible roar of US fighter jets
buzz the city on their way to Iraq, enforcing the rules of the American
empire.
How many empires have preceded? egyptians, hittites, israelites,
assyrians, babylonians, persians, macedonians, romans, byzantines, sassanids,
umayads, abbasids, seljuk turks, crusaders, saladin, mongols, ottoman
turks, etc... to name a few...
Check out the History of Empires in Middle East in 90 Seconds
http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html
Notice the Age of Nations and Borders which began under European
Colonialism. This animated history of Empires in the Middle East in 90
Seconds is well done but it is actually an extreme simplification of a much
more complex history. Each "empire" left a legacy of scattered villages
wherein the population preserved certain languages and ways of living.
Although taxes were demanded afresh by each new empire and a certain
amount of violence erupted as new conquerors confronted old rulers, it
wasn't until the age of "Nation States and Borders" appeared in the 20th
century that large numbers of people were suddenly trapped, frozen in
place, behind artificial borders created by foreign mapmakers in ways
that separated brother from brother and tribal member from tribal member.
Referring to the nomadic nature of local populations, a member of the
Saud family, reportedly in tears, told the Europeans in Paris in 1925
that the seeds for hundreds of years of conflict would be sown if borders
were drawn in the Middle East. The European powers went ahead and drew
the borders anyway.
Are we witnessing the consequences of this border-drawing map-making
frenzy?
More soon about our current work back here in Jordan.
Please encourage your friends who may be interested to add their email
addresses to our list at:
http://www.musicalmissions.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi
Or have them just send us an email requesting to be added to the list!
Thanks and More Soon, Cameron
Please reply to this email if you are so inclined. We love to hear from
you!
To support or read more about our 501c3 non-profit organization:
www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org
Cameron and Kristina:
www.musicalmissions.com
driver jokes every time we pass a picture of the blue-eyed Jordanian
King Abdulla that he must be the "King of Denmark." In reality, the
king's mother is American.
To the north in Syria we had been surrounded by pictures of the
Ophthalmologist from London who is now President of Syria, Bashar Assad. As I
said, people in these parts of the world know better than to associate
people with the governments which rule them.
Walking down the early afternoon street in Amman on our way to a coffee
shop we look up to the sky as the incredible roar of US fighter jets
buzz the city on their way to Iraq, enforcing the rules of the American
empire.
How many empires have preceded? egyptians, hittites, israelites,
assyrians, babylonians, persians, macedonians, romans, byzantines, sassanids,
umayads, abbasids, seljuk turks, crusaders, saladin, mongols, ottoman
turks, etc... to name a few...
Check out the History of Empires in Middle East in 90 Seconds
http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html
Notice the Age of Nations and Borders which began under European
Colonialism. This animated history of Empires in the Middle East in 90
Seconds is well done but it is actually an extreme simplification of a much
more complex history. Each "empire" left a legacy of scattered villages
wherein the population preserved certain languages and ways of living.
Although taxes were demanded afresh by each new empire and a certain
amount of violence erupted as new conquerors confronted old rulers, it
wasn't until the age of "Nation States and Borders" appeared in the 20th
century that large numbers of people were suddenly trapped, frozen in
place, behind artificial borders created by foreign mapmakers in ways
that separated brother from brother and tribal member from tribal member.
Referring to the nomadic nature of local populations, a member of the
Saud family, reportedly in tears, told the Europeans in Paris in 1925
that the seeds for hundreds of years of conflict would be sown if borders
were drawn in the Middle East. The European powers went ahead and drew
the borders anyway.
Are we witnessing the consequences of this border-drawing map-making
frenzy?
More soon about our current work back here in Jordan.
Please encourage your friends who may be interested to add their email
addresses to our list at:
http://www.musicalmissions.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi
Or have them just send us an email requesting to be added to the list!
Thanks and More Soon, Cameron
Please reply to this email if you are so inclined. We love to hear from
you!
To support or read more about our 501c3 non-profit organization:
www.musicalmissionsofpeace.org
Cameron and Kristina:
www.musicalmissions.com
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