Daddysredhead
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Joined: 11/6/2005 From: Northern (yet still part of the South) Virginia Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice FR Wow. Some interesting images on this thread. Who knew there was so much zombie iconography? Fortunately, my own image of this Easter Day is a much happier one, that of the crowd that gathered this morning at All Souls Unitarian Church here in D.C. There were, to borrow from the Book of Common Prayer, "all sorts and conditions" of people: adorable kids, lesbian couples, African-American grandes dames, earnest young hetero pairs, gay men of a certain age, slightly worn looking folks just back from building houses in New Orleans, people limping along with the help of a cane, and so on and so forth. I found myself remembering a favorite line from Dickens: "In they all came, one after another; some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pulling, some pushing; in they all came any how and every how." And what did they come for? The music, the ritual, the community. The chance to explore (with, being Unitarians, more questions than answers) the possibility that life may be more than material, that there may be deeper realities worth pondering and enduring values worth cultivating. And, on this Easter Day, joy in and hope for renewal, in whatever form that takes. Seeing all these diverse folks come together to celebrate and hope and touch one another's lives was, for me at least, a powerful image that I shall cherish long after I've forgotten the zombie pictures. Happy Easter to you all. Peace, DC I'm so glad to call you my friend, DC. You are wonderful. ~ Red
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