THE POINT IS TO SAVOR LIFE
(by friends of Lois
Swenson)
The point is to savor life.
To see each person as imminently worthwhile getting to know.
To build neighborhoods, communities and global villages over a cup
of tea or a shared lawnmowing sheep.
To share your vegetables and garden space with others, even when
you speak different languages.
To save water with this message on your bathroom wall: “If it’s
yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down.”
To invite your neighbors to enjoy hot showers at your house when
their plumbing is on the fritz, even when it means being 2 hours late for your
own birthday party.
To recycle the trash being tossed on garbage day even it if means
taking it home, washing and fixing it and storing it until a new owner appears.
The point is to savor life.
To raise organic chickens on a hay wagon.
To send carloads of clothing to migrant workers.
To walk in solidarity with the worlds poor and disenfranchised.
To see even an old worn out shoe can serve as a pot for a happy
geranium.
To grow milkweed for the Monarchs.
To protest unsustainable and unjust acts of all kinds.
The point is to savor life.
To speak truth to power, pastors, priests, pontiffs of whatever
sort. (Carol Masters)
To share a delicious meal prepared from the food found left on the
sidewalks in Madison.
(Connie Cordaba, Argentina)
To take country kids to the city, and city kids to the country.
(Cathy Carpenter)
To take country people to the really poor for enlightenment. (Cathy Carpenter)
The point is to savor life.
To find the perfect gift for me (a University of St. Thomas tee
shirt) in a dumpster. (Roger-Jo Cuthbertson-Schubert)
To ask a group of eager, questioning, confused seminarians meeting
the indigenous people of Chiapas for the first time, "So what are you
going to DO now?" (Karen Larson)
To adventure in Mazatlan and Culiacan, to find the peacemakers and
to connect them to the bored vacationers. (Meredith Sommers)
To bring Abraham of Ethiopia to Hunger Action Coalition, looking
for a place to spend the night, and he lived with our family for almost a year.
(Meredith Sommers)
To inspire 8 year old Rane (with a gesture in no way vain) to cut
10 inches off her hair (she’ll hardly notice it’s not there) to Pantene
Beautiful Lengths in honor of Sweeney’s immense strengths. (Roxi Zilmer)
To explain to Minneapolis teenager
how her morning breakfast sandwich from McDonalds came from South
America. (Liz Erickson)
The point is to savor life.
To help raise your neighbor's children--ensuring that they too know
how to picket, scavage dumpsters, and distribute literature. (Charlotte Vick)
To enjoy hearing those same children ask their mother whether the bread served
at dinner came from Lois--and the dumpster. (Charlotte Vick)
To be a role model for all the strong women who admire and love you so much.
(Charlotte Vick)
To bring great people from a variety of cultures to the common table for a
common purpose. (Charlotte Vick)
The point is to savor life.
To use the ripe
aroma of your compost heap to remind the neighbors that organic gardening
really means going back to the soil. (Charlotte Vick)
To use the rare teachable moment of disinterested Americans vacationing on a
luxury cruise to raise awareness. (Charlotte Vick)
To grow in awareness from that 60’s gal you were, replete with matching hat and
gloves, through world hunger efforts, earning the admiration of more people
than I thought possible. (Charlotte Vick)
The
point is to savor life.
To raise happy chickens and be a happy chicken. (MeredithSommers)
To accept the love of your friends who are returning the love
you've always shown them. (Charlotte Vick)
The point is to savor life.
To face down disease and not go peaceably where it would lead.
To fight it with light and peace and loving friends and to
triumphantly be restored to good health.
To survive her 74th year of life (which sucked big time) and to
arrive at age 75, sense of humor intact, gratitude in life expanded, with
energy to burn to keep the world on its toes for another year!!!
The point is you savor life and show us all
how it’s done!!!
