a different type of Memorial Wall
Our Rocky Mountain High Tour continues… We headed north to Boulder where we visited the “Memorial Wall for the Unborn” at Sacred Heart of Mary Church there. It honors: “All unborn babies lost to abortion, miscarriage or stillborn.” At the top of the section on the wall to the babies who have been aborted, it reads: “Blessed are they who morn, for they will be comforted.” -Mathew 5:4. Below were various rectangles with various short thoughts inside. Some read: “I realized too late.”; “Part of me died too.” –Your loving sister; “Please for give me.” …Leaning up against the bottom of the Wall was a small basketball, a doll, a model plane… In Boulder, we also went to the Whole Food Market for lunch. As I was walking in, a man asked me about my platform. I said I would be considered progressive leaning when it came to my stances on the environment and social justice. And I would be considered conservative when it came to “life issues.” He asked what that meant. With the Memorial Wall still fresh in my mind, I said I’m, for instance, against abortion. “I guess that’s all I need to hear,” he said, turning and briskly walking off. As I watched him go, I thought of the small basketball leaning up against “the Wall,” that would never get bounced. Note: Some 11 Russians have just been arrested as part of a spy ring in the U.S. The Wall Street Journal noted that for the past 20 years, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, both Russia and the U.S. have continued to participate in “espionage and counter-espionage” against each other. Maybe this is just me, but if we don’t want Russia spying on us, MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP SPYING ON THEM! (I’m serious.)
