Bienvenidos Inmigrantes! Welcome Immigrants!
How hard is that to say? And if it is hard, why is it hard? What fear, what cowardice lurks within us and keeps us from our humanity?
We spend ridiculous dollars on prisons and bombs, but so frighteningly little on helping one another. How can we justify this? How can we ignore what is being done in our name?
Bienvenidos inmigrantes! Welcome Immigrants!
There is a lot of clamoring these days between the two-headed political monster that drives and divides us. They call for our attention and allegiance. They remind us how everything takes time…and they assure us it is all for good.
Me, I am tuning out the trickle down slogans and sound bites and instead I am searching for the words that feed my soul.
I long to hear the words “human being” or “citizen of the earth”. I long to hear solutions not justifications. I long to witness a return to simplicity and appreciation that wipes out anger, prejudice and hate.
And you know what I am realizing? I am not alone.
People respond to kindness. People respond to hope. People respond to adversity and are very capable of rising a sinking ship – and it is time for people to do just that.
There is no perfume that can cover the stench of ignorance. No platitudes can heal the wounds that human beings perpetrate on one another.
We do not have to entertain ignorance. We have to help one another, now, in any way that we can. We are encouraged to believe we live in a time of scarcity. I do not believe this for one moment but even in scarcity we have something to share.
Bienvenidos seres humanos! Welcome human beings! Welcome to this precious life we share, together on this precious planet. Anything less is less than what we have been born for. It is time to reclaim our birthright. Find a way. Find your way.
This piece aired on WDRT July 5. You can listen here on Soundcloud.
let kindness win 