louie, louie

Exploring contemplative awareness in daily life, drawing from and with much discussion of the writings of Thomas Merton, aka "Father Louie".

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The winner is war itself

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  “There is one winner, only one winner, in war. The winner is war itself. Not truth, not justice, not liberty, not morality. These are the ...
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Monday, August 30, 2021

we do not know the things that are for our peace

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  Samia Ahmadi, right, whose father and fiancĂ©e were both killed on Sunday in a U.S. drone strike on a house in Kabul, Afghanistan.  Credit....
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Our Grief is not a Cry for War

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  Kathy Kelly holds a child at the Chamin-E-Babrak refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, in January 2014, a few days after the child had been ...
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Saturday, August 28, 2021

The total abolition of war

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A member of the U.S. Army in May aboard a helicopter over Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Credit... Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times...

War is our enemy

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  A juice vendor in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, shortly before the city fell to the Taliban. Credit... Mujib Mashal/The New York Times “So ...
Friday, August 27, 2021

the fiction called "the enemy"

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  Victor J. Blue at the New York TImes “I have learned that an age in which politicians talk about peace is an age in which everybody expect...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

truth & lies

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Photograph of Gal Vihara by Thomas Merton We are all convinced that we desire the truth above all. Nothing strange about this. It is natural...
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