Posted on 01/14/2008 12:02:53 PM PST by LA Woman3
The Peace House in Crawford, which has had its share of publicity the last few years as well as its documented struggles with money to stay open, appears again to need an infusion of cash. This e-mail was sent to the Trib:
“I’d Love to change the world, but I don’t know what to do, So I leave it up to you .” Alvin Lee with the band Ten Years After
We need your help Five years ago in January 2003 I put a down payment on a house in Crawford, Texas with the hope of giving a home to peace and justice. * Many were inspired to join in this endeavor. Donations were raised at rallies in Dallas. The house was cleaned, painted and fixed, a kitchen was furnished, a labyrinth was built and a garden was planted. On Easter Sunday, April 2003, the Crawford Peace House was born. During the first year of its existence I mostly paid the expenses out of my own pocket. *In the summer of 2004 We hosted an outdoor showing of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911. That event raised almost $15,000 and enough to fund the Peace House for the next year. In the summer of 2005, we were down to less than a hundred dollars in the bank. Then, in August, Cindy Sheehan made her courageous stand in the ditch outside the Presidents ranch. The Peace House was there for Cindy, and Cindy was there for us. At her request, thousands of dollars flowed to the Peace House within weeks. * From that funding Camp Casey II was born, and a city with its infrastructure was erected. Thousands of people were fed a sheltered for weeks. With what was left of that funding, Camp Casey was again erected for Thanksgiving 2005, Easter 2006 and at its new home in August of 2006. *We built the Casey Sheehan memorial garden at the Peace House and for the next two and a half years the Peace House’s mortgage payments were made and expenses have been met until now. *Today, we are down to under $100 in the bank, with another year to go to honor our commitment to keep the Peace House open until the Bush administration ends. We need your help. Please join us at our annual meeting noon Saturday, January 26, 2008, at the Peace House. Also please click on the link below and support our work. Thank you for making our house your home in Crawford.
Peace and in Loving Service, Johnny Wolf
The Crawford Texas Peace House 9142 E. Fifth St. Crawford, TX 76638 http://www.crawfordpeacehouse.org/node/22
Cindy Sheehan is so fifteen minutes ago.
Cindy WHO????
Since "Peace House" uses its funds so wisely, it would seem a shame not to hand them some more.
When I drove by the “Peace House” a few years ago, it looked like a “soap free” zone.
please send money or my free place to live will be gone!!!!
I’ll donate money towards a 500 pounder if others will pitch in... :)
Get jobs!
;'}
Tell them to start a commune that can raise free range chickens, and grow alfalfa, and sell it all for a profit.
Oh wait, thats work...
No thanks.
Those of us who endured growing up amid hippy granola cafeteria Catholics are familiar with something called "labyrinth spirituality."
Basically, medieval cathedrals often had labyrinth patterns laid out on their floors in tile or stone - just another way to create intricate decoration for elaborately adorned churches.
The idea took hold in the 1960s/70s that these patterns were some kind of secret prayer tradition among women who would "walk the labyrinth" as a form of meditation.
There is absolutely zero historical evidence of this - but it became popular as a form of "subversive, non-patriarchal spirituality."
Pretty soon every parish had hippies giving "walking the labyrinth" seminars.
Cindy Sheehan, as a 50-something cafeteria Catholic from Northern California fits the profile of a "labyrinth walker" perfectly.
I see. Thank you.
Although they win either way.
If they get fools to send them money, they get free money.
If fools wise up and stop sending them money, they will get to blame "The Bush Economy" for the default on their Peace House mortgage.
It’s not easy being a sponge
Hundreds of thousands of dollars and they still can’t make their bills on a house?!!
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858507037
Ten Years After: I’d Love To Change The World
“Tax the rich, feed the poor,
Till there are no rich no more”
I hear there is some free lodging in the trees at Berkley...
Are there nuts in those trees?
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