Gather the Women
18/1/2006
This past couple of weeks I had a virtual trip around the world to
arrive back in Sydney to sit on a chair and simply care.
My dear mango loving friend and member of the International Board for
the Promise Club, Ada, sent me an email a couple of weeks ago, it set
me on a path to Gather the Women. Ada's email was about her IFLAC
conference I will attend in Israel later in the year as well as
another event to be held just before that one called "Gather the Women
Mediterranean Congress."
Ada's email included a copy of a paper for the IFLAC conference this
one by Hilarie in Australia. It set me thinking I best work out and
let Ada know what my thoughts are as to how I can contribute to the
Mediterranean events. I decided first to find out more about the Gather
the Women event and followed a few links on Ada's email. This led me to
discover that there will be six congresses on six continents during
2006, the first to be held in Sydney in March.
Then it stuck me as to what I wanted to do for the event in Israel.
"The Wailing" An event I have thought about since I wrote the Wailing
poem in September 2004, which is simply gathering the women together to
wail and share the pain of mothers who are suffering all around the
world as their children die because of mankind's inhumanity. It is
about then taking the time, reflecting and working out what each of us
can do to make it a better world for all children. It is about finding
within ourselves our oneness with the world and knowing that to change
the world we first must change ourselves.
Some of my best poems are really just - my papers - my statement - my
blueprints of what I want to achieve. I don't write them to tell others
what they should do, they are simply what my soul is telling me I
should do.
Like the One Mind One Voice poem, I also knew the moment I wrote the
Wailing poem, inspired by events in Palestine, Israel and Russia at the
time, I knew this was something I would carry out. I will start wailing
at dawn and have it continue to reverberate around the world.
While still in north Queensland, I did start a few wheels in motion,
but put it on the back burner when another project took
over. Then I moved back down south and the Promise Club came to be.
Last Wednesday just like the little story I rediscovered and added to
last weeks newsletter, the wailing poem popped into my soul again and
said. its my time to be.
Through my research, I discovered Kathleen the amazing organiser of the
Rhythm of Unity congress in Sydney. I am happy to say that from a few
emails and phone calls not only with Kathleen, but also with Ada and
Hilarie, in unity with them, my vision unfolded and is set to start its
journey around the world beginning at dawn on the morning of March the
8th 2006 at Mrs Macquaries Chair and as the last few lines of the poem
read.
As the sound of wailing reverberates around the world
Let us hope those causing pain will hear
And know - we mothers will suffer this no more!
How I get there and to Israel will be a challenge but not as big, as
when during this past week - I had even thought of walking part of the
way to Sydney 300'ks in fact. Thank heavens I found that I don't need
to do that just yet. I now have a few cheap plane tickets, one of them
to Cairns is free, the others will take me to Melbourne and then to
Sydney, a round about journey to pop next door(NSW) and sit on a chair
and simply care and share.
Kathleen asked me, what is it I hope to achieve by the wailing. I found
this little story the same day as the one last week and only just
realised as I'm writing now it is now its time to be..
The one who cared most
The writer Leo Buscaglia was once invited to be on the jury for a
school competition to find "The child who cared most for others"
The winner was a boy, whose neighbor a gentleman over eighty, had just
been widowed. When he saw the old man sitting in his garden crying, he
jumped over the fence, sat on his lap for a long time.
When he returned home, his mother asked him, what had he been saying to
the poor old man?
Nothing he said, "He's lost his wife and it must have really hurt" I
just went over to help him cry."
Have a good week, I will as I work with Kathleen and finalise how the
wailing event fits into the Rhythm of Unity congress and how it will
continue to reverberate around the world. As we gather the women.
Meanwhile put March 8th, International Women's Day in your diary, as
I finalise how you too can all be there to share and care. I will let
you know how next week..
love and hugs
Kerry
Footnote: While the congress in Sydeny I was to attend has been canclled, I will be started The Wailing on the 8th March 2006
Let the wailing begin........
This being...that becomes
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