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Friday, September 23, 2005

a moral education

My ten-year-old son, Joey, has already accompanied me to an anti-war rally, a campaign strategy meeting for Wes Clark, a Move-on voter-registration effort and to Denver, last year, to campaign for Democrats. Would I have gone to any of these things if not for him? I wonder. What I do know is that despite the multiple uncertainties involved in all of these decisions(Was Wes so great a candidate? Do the most radical protesters undermine the message of the majority? Should we really urge the U.S. government to pull out of Iraq right away, or to take less dramatic measures such as seeking more international support?) they feel right. Joey and his brother embody my concern about the future -- and I also feel obliged to show them that we all participate in making that future. These are such frustrating times: to watch the tremendous need in our own country and the even greater need in others, to observe our government's utter negligence in coping with the tremendous threat of climate change. At very least, Joe is getting an education in not sitting back. We've contributed money to Hurricane Katrina victims -- but he's also aware that this government's decisions on how to allocate resources played a big part in the disaster. At very least, I hope I've taught him, and his brother, to continually ask questions -- and to speak up when they disagree.....

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