As I continue to discuss controversial issues with the CrossWalk America folks, I thought I would transcribe some of my brother Mark's poems from a journal he wrote in 1990 when first starting out as a long-distance walker. The dedication is "TO MY SISTER RAE", and a little further on in this entry I will write you the first poem in the book, which probably inspired the dedication. But I will start off with this short one. The CWA folks, I wonder -- if St. Francis of Assisi were to join their walk, would they recognize it?
JUST PASS*ING THRU
WHEN I WALK
IT'S LIKE I PUT ON BIRD*WINGS
AND GLIDE ALMOST EFFORT*LESS*LY
GREAT DISTANCES
ACROSS TOWNS + VALLEYS + HILLS +
FIELDS + STREAMS
PEOPLE SEE ME WALK*ING:
MOST*LY THEY PAY ME NO MIND:
I'M NOT A THREAT:
I'M JUST PASS*ING THRU
COMMUNICATION
I TELEPHONE TO MY SISTER HAPPY*BIRTHDAY
AND SHE INFORMS ME I AM TIED IN TO
THE COMPUTER NET*WORK
INTERFACE*ING IN COMMUNICATION WITH
MY FLEET*OF*THOUGHT COMPADRES
-- BROTHERS + SISTERS THRU THE
MIRACLE OF ELECTRONIC
TECHNOLOGY
SINCERELY - M.D. NOVEMBER 1 1990
NEW*YORK*CITY
CHRISTMAS*SEASON
WE ANTICIPATE THE WINTER*SOLSTICE
WHEN THE SUN BEGINS TO COME BACK
TOWARD US
AND WE CELEBRATE A WONDER*FULL
MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JESUS
WHO LIVED AND DIED ALMOST
TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO
WHOSE SPIRIT HAS NEVER DIED
HIS SPIRIT IS WITH US NOW
I MAKE A VOW TO PRAISE HIM
FOR THE WONDER*FULL THINGS WHICH
HE DID DO FOR ME AND
FOR THE WONDER*FULL THINGS WHICH
HE DID TEACH TO ME --
LORD JESUS CHRIST
PLEASE HELP ME TO BE GOOD
Musings of a sixty-something Catholic laywoman who has made The Promise to participate as a Pauline Cooperator in Fr. James Alberione's vision of evangelization through the new means of social communication.
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