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If We Only Have Love....

These Forget-me-nots are posted with thanks to Marie Jestin, who replied to my comment that Monday was Memorial Day in the US: "Never forget!!!!! no war --Freedom!"

That brought to mind these words from "If We Only Have Love" by Jacques Brel:

 

"If we only have love

We can melt all the guns

And then give the new world

To our daughters and sons..."

 

I believe that fear and hatred of the "other," a stubborn insistence on seeing differences instead of commonality, underlie all wars, even those that seem spurred by economics. Will you join me in imagining a world where we only have love? Where we see "me" instead of "not-me"?

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ILw3D5yrU

 

 

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