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In Honor
of Those Lost and Those Who Live To my Pagan/Wiccan community: This is an excerpt from a letter I sent earlier today to the Temple of Ara community, which is actively involved in volunteer efforts here in New York City. At this time, it is all that I can find to say to the larger Pagan/Wiccan community as well - except perhaps to add a simple observation: Those of us who have lost a loved one know that there's hole in your heart that never goes away. But with time, you grow a larger heart around the hole. The impossible happened this week - cruelty, death and destruction on an inconceivable scale opening an abyss of despair. And now we are forced to acknowledge that anything is possible. But if anything is possible, then it is possible for us to conceive and create a world in which another kind of impossibility is possible. We can choose to create a world in which the madness we have now experienced does not exist. So while others speak of revenge and war, we must focus on changing a world that gives rise to such terrible madness and terrible responses. It's still a time for grieving, but also for taking the actions that you can, alone and together, to transform disaster into the best of who we are and can be. That is what our work is truly about. That is what divine magic really is. Out of this great horror, those of you on this path have the power to conjure hope, and the peace and beauty of a world in which all life is sacred. I send you love and the light of inspiration that glows in the center of the abyss. And the promise that a heart can grow bigger, even around the greatest hole. I would like to propose the formation of a Pagan WTC Disaster Relief Fund. The funds should be accumulated from the community and then sent, in our collective name, to the: World Trade Center Disaster
Relief Fund Phyllis Curott <aradia@mindspring.com> |