A list of Japanese-Americans who served in the military during World War II while their families were imprisoned in internment camps would be an example of bitter irony. Fighting for justice and receiving justice are, sadly, not necessarily linked.
What have you done because you believed it was right, even though it gave you no personal gain?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a rabbit is just a rabbit, agile and soft and delighted to be out in a field of green.
What do you appreciate for being just simply the thing that it is?
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
—Tennessee Williams
What little thing do you do in hopes that it will eventually have a big impact?
Pieces of sea glass are a small treasure to put in one’s pocket, worn smooth by the ocean over time. But that lovely smooth glass gem started as a sharp and hazardous shard, a piece of something that shattered.
How has a painful broken shard in your life smoothed out and become beautiful over the course of time?
What an odd notion, that brightly colored eggs should be a symbol of a serious religious holiday about resurrection and ultimate triumph over death itself. And that’s without even getting into the whole Easter Bunny thing. But maybe this whole human story of life and death and life is just absurd enough that painted eggs and a bunny that lays chocolate eggs work just fine for symbols.
What symbol of new life makes sense to you?
