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Dear Sister Simone Campbell,
I just finished reading, “A Nun on a Bus,” and thank you for
writing it. It gave me deeper
insight into the critically important work you and your fellow sisters do. I thank you for sticking with your
faith and community, and getting your law degree that is serving so many in
need. I also want you to know how
much I enjoyed, and continue to appreciate your poem, “Ode to an Unmade
Bed.” Whenever I walk into my
bedroom now, with the bed unmade, I no longer feel inadequate. I write a weekly blog,
www.godneverhurries.com, which has a section called Comfort Messages where I
would like to include that poem, with your permission.
When I read about your advocacy for needed immigration
reform I wondered if you ever heard Garrison Keillor sing, “Tired Old
World.” My November 24, 2014 blog
titled “Immigration Thoughts” has a link to Keillor singing this plaintiff song
of deep truth. Maybe you and the
Holy Spirit could find a use for it.
And I did listen, with keen interest, when you stated during your OnBeing interview with Krista Tippet, that the excessive compensation and bonuses
paid to corporate heads is how they feel recognized for what they do. What if we could find a way to bestow
recognition for what they could do for workers and our human community with
fair wages and benefits? When nuns
on the bus was touring, I wrote down what I heard you say on a news broadcast
one night, “We are all better off when we all share.” I keep it next to my computer for comfort.
Reading, “A Nun on a Bus,” gave me a way out of a dilemma I
struggle with. I stopped reading
and responding to all political e-mail messages, and requests for money, for it
got overwhelming for me. But Russ
Feingold sent me a snail mail request.
He is a good man who advocates for fairness for people and the
environment, and previously worked on campaign finance reform. We very much need him back in
Washington as Wisconsin’s senator.
I want to support him, but in lieu of sending money to him, I want to
send NETWORK my money for I believe you, the Holy Spirit, and your fellow
sisters, will find a way to put in a good word for him in the right
places. If he only knew the
potential good that will come of this, he would thank me.
In gratitude,
Marcia Kaminski
What if we all knew we are all better off when we all
share?
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