<div dir="auto">Thank you, David, for standing up and being counted. Peaceful people need to unite, create meaningful grassroots actions. All the great changes in history -- the French Revolution, the racial justice movement in the U.S., the Liberian Christian-Muslim women's movement for the end of the civil war, to name a few -- all began by rallying decent citizens wanting a betterment of their situations.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is the road! I am with you!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Myrna Goldstein, MATESL, B.S. Journalism</div><div dir="auto">Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Investigative Reporting</div><div dir="auto">Territet</div><div dir="auto">Switzerland</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 12:37 David Balosa via Edling <<a href="mailto:edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu">edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In celebrating March 21, UNESCO World Day or Poetry, may the Edling community enjoy the poem, <i>Healing Words!</i><div><i><br></i><div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Healing Words--Poem</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">-----------------------------</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Healing words,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Words not out of the woods </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">of ignorance, arrogance,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Intolerance, dominance.</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Healing words,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Words from the worlds</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Of wisdom, freedom </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Intercom, blossom.</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Healing words,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Like sparkling water,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Hard to stem from </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">The fount of fathoms </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">In the jungles of racism</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">And corporatism,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Impossible to spring from</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">The dominant rivers.</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">No handsome symptoms!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Merely lions roaring idioms!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">“WAR! WAR! WAR! WAAAAR!”</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">What! </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">How ridiculous as idioms these sound in the 21st century!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">What civilization is the most barbaric in human existence? </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Any civilization in support of any form of war</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Second, any anti-intercultural attitude and governance!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">These barbaric idioms feed from one another!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">How is humanity thirsty </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">For healing words!</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Not merely to extinguish the fire from the dragons</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">But to reconnect, reconstruct the trust </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">We must have in stock</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">To interact for the common better future task!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Healing words,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Words keeping and leading </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Human existence to dignity,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">To morality, responsibility, </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Prosperity, beauty, security.</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Humanity speaking, drawing, singing, </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Writing, painting, dancing, translanguaging, </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">In words of diversity,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Sustains healing words</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">To heal the world!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Oh hearts, minds, institutions under the sky</span><font color="#000000">!</font></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Come appreciate,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">And celebrate these words today!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Use them to decorate your inside rooms!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">May these beautiful rocks </div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">In pathways and at seacoasts</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Rekindle your integrity, solidarity, interculturality,</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Community, human dignity, and unity in diversity!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">Let them shine for ourselves and for the rest of humanity!</div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"segoe ui","lucida sans",sans-serif;font-size:14.16px;background-color:rgb(253,253,253)">--David Balosa 2022</div><br><pre id="m_723402146458370618gmail-tw-target-text" dir="ltr" style="unicode-bidi:isolate;font-size:28px;line-height:36px;background-color:rgb(248,249,250);border:none;padding:2px 0.14em 2px 0px;font-family:inherit;overflow:hidden;width:270px;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span lang="pt"> </span></pre><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>David M. Balosa, Ph.D. <span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Language, Literacy, & Culture </span></div><div>Interculturality GSO President 2012-2013</div><div>*University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)<br></div><div>**1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250*<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://llc.umbc.edu/home/news-events/?id=56945" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://llc.umbc.edu/home/news-events/?id=56945</a></div><div><a href="https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/tag/david-balosa/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/tag/david-balosa/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The world would be a better place if we all strive for existential unity: communities' prosperity, social justice, peace, faith, global solidarity and diversity, human rights, and human dignity for all. -David Balosa</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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