<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><div class="AppleOriginalContents"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="line-height: 41pt;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:41.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><i class=""><span style="font-size: 18.5pt;" class="">Something there is that doesn't
love a wall – Robert Frost</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">Walls everywhere. In 1989, when the
Berlin Wall fell, there were fifteen border walls in the world. Now seventy
walls* divide rich countries from poor ones, major polluters from the victims
of deep ecological crises. At America’s southern border. Palestine. Korea.
Northern Ireland. Gated communities with security patrols. San Quentin.
Auschwitz. Wall Street.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">Often, we believe we know who we
are because we know who we are </span><i style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">not</i><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class=""> – the marginalized “others”
of the world. We maintain these divisions with walls – between countries,
against one another, and around our hearts. Some we can see; many are
invisible. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><i class=""><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">It’s just another brick in the
wall. – Pink Floyd</span></i><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">Forgetting that we are all One, we
have believed in the dream of separation: from each other, and ultimately from
our own essence. Men particularly are subject to black / white thinking
that offers a poverty of options to life’s big questions. So when others appear
menacing and engulfing we build even larger walls to protect our shame, our
terror of being undefined, our fear of being unformed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">This is a very old legacy. Robin
Morgan writes:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><i class=""><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">If I had to name one quality as the
genius of patriarchy, it would be compartmentalization, the capacity for
institutionalizing disconnection. For millennia the dominator models of
society have broken our humanity into steadily smaller pieces. Sewing them back
together is the essential, hard work of democracy-building</span></i><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size: 21pt;" class="">Not all walls are
negative. Some, like Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall or Washington’s Viet Nam
Veteran’s wall, offer sites for communal grieving and healing.</span></p><div style="line-height: 41pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 36pt;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>