18 May 05

Presence

Sometimes you hear someone and you know after about three sentences you had really better pay attention because what they’re saying is so important and ruthlessly close to what real is for you and for everyone and for the world that it’s almost like being blown over by the simplicity of it and by a wind that heals and cleans and doesn’t say anything new in fact it’s as old as the wind itself but after all the hot air we have to listen to most of the time it practically cuts you in half.

I heard Shirin Ebadi’s talk at the Mondavi Center in Davis last night. Ebadi won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, the first Iranian ever to do so, for her work in human rights and especially the rights of women and children.

Posted by at 07:38 PM in Politics | Link |
  1. this is a fabulous sentence, pica.

    thanks for stopping by my blog. i will definitely check in with ecotone soon as place has long been a fascination for me, and I continue to actively work with it.

    love your blog, especially the naturalist’s attention to the details of the living beings, and i’ll be checking back

    — karen m.    18. May 2005, 22:24    Link
  2. What a fantastic opportunity you had to listen to her speak. I can well imagine you were blown away by what she had to say.

    — jenny    19. May 2005, 12:16    Link

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