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Reflecting on the violence in Charlottesville, VA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n We are all Dante, waking up in the middle of our lives We are all on the long road that inevitably leads to Love.<\/p>\n And we all have to descend through the nine circles of Hell; And, by the way, there’s no road to Love — Love is the road.<\/p>\n 13 August 2017<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.0.47″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Reflecting on the violence in Charlottesville, VA We are all Dante, waking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Reflecting on the violence in Charlottesville, VA<\/em>\r\n\r\nWe are all Dante, waking up in the middle of our lives\r\n\r\nonly to find ourselves in a dark wood,\r\n\r\nthe true way completely lost.\r\n\r\nWe are all Amelia Earhart, flying blind into the vast Pacific,\r\n\r\nlooking for our tiny, tropical island\r\n\r\nwhere we can all rest and refuel.\r\n\r\nWe are all William Butler Yeats, walking through hilly lands\r\n\r\nand hollow lands, searching for\r\n\r\nthat glimmering girl with apple blossom in her hair.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nWe are all on the long road that inevitably leads to Love.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nAnd we all have to descend through the nine circles of Hell;\r\n\r\nwe all have to climb\r\n\r\nthe Seven Storey Mountain of Purgatory;\r\n\r\nand in the end, we all have to walk through a wall of fire\r\n\r\nto get to Love. It took Dante one thousand lines\r\n\r\nof Italian metric verse to get there! But he got there.\r\n\r\nAnd the good news is: all narcissists, all fascists and Neo-Nazis,\r\n\r\nall politically correct social activists,\r\n\r\nall the just and the unjust, all of us, will eventually get there.\r\n\r\nBut the shockingly difficult news is this: that all of us will have to\r\n\r\nface, embrace and transcend\r\n\r\nall the fear, hatred, violence and misunderstanding\r\n\r\nthat\u2019s tangled up in our own minds, before we can get to\r\n\r\nthe Love that moves the Sun\r\n\r\nand all the other stars.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\nAnd, by the way, there\u2019s no road to Love \u2014 Love is the road.\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n13 August 2017<\/em>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/looseleafhollow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
only to find ourselves in a dark wood,
the true way completely lost.
We are all Amelia Earhart, flying blind into the vast Pacific,
looking for our tiny, tropical island
where we can all rest and refuel.
We are all William Butler Yeats, walking through hilly lands
and hollow lands, searching for
that glimmering girl with apple blossom in her hair.<\/p>\n
we all have to climb
the Seven Storey Mountain of Purgatory;
and in the end, we all have to walk through a wall of fire
to get to Love. It took Dante one thousand lines
of Italian metric verse to get there! But he got there.
And the good news is: all narcissists, all fascists and Neo-Nazis,
all politically correct social activists,
all the just and the unjust, all of us, will eventually get there.
But the shockingly difficult news is this: that all of us will have to
face, embrace and transcend
all the fear, hatred, violence and misunderstanding
that’s tangled up in our own minds, before we can get to
the Love that moves the Sun
and all the other stars.<\/p>\n