ACTION, LOVE, PEACE, SUMMITS
The Alps are among the most spectacularly beautiful features of our planet...I will never forget the moment I first saw them. My mind goes to the many ways in which we people must climb mountains to achieve what should be automatic and universal. Several dozen of us at World Oceans Arts are about to go into production of a feature film, 1969. As a person who was alive in the 1960s, I have a flood of memories of peace and war, violence, protest and the rights of people.
This morning the mountaintops of our society are crowded with thousands of brave and mentally brilliant young students and others, who will march through our streets today to remind us that the preservation of life and dignity and freedom must always be at the top of our summit of goals. I salute the many students in Florida and elsewhere who have woken us up to what our priorities must be.
At WOA we are also just days away from production of a public service video about Behcet's disease. One thing I learned in the '60's was that the most enduring enemies are often those which are invisible. Behcet's is a debilitating disease which has few or no outward symptoms, no known cause or cure, and little recognition among the general public. Conquering this kind of enemy must begin with knowledge, awareness and caring....just as conquering an enemy like mental illness (the kind that can lead to the slaughter of innocent kids) must begin with knowledge, awareness and caring.
No matter how many guns, alarm systems, hospitals, protective measures and declarations of good intent we have, no hidden enemy can be defeated if we lose ourselves in blame games and angry accusations. We must all march together to achieve universal dignity, safety, freedom and peace. As we learned -- or should have learned -- in the 1960s, these lofty goals will never be achieved if we continue trying to control each other and surpass each other. They will only be reached when we dig deep inside ourselves and find better ways to care about each other.
--James Gibson
This morning the mountaintops of our society are crowded with thousands of brave and mentally brilliant young students and others, who will march through our streets today to remind us that the preservation of life and dignity and freedom must always be at the top of our summit of goals. I salute the many students in Florida and elsewhere who have woken us up to what our priorities must be.
At WOA we are also just days away from production of a public service video about Behcet's disease. One thing I learned in the '60's was that the most enduring enemies are often those which are invisible. Behcet's is a debilitating disease which has few or no outward symptoms, no known cause or cure, and little recognition among the general public. Conquering this kind of enemy must begin with knowledge, awareness and caring....just as conquering an enemy like mental illness (the kind that can lead to the slaughter of innocent kids) must begin with knowledge, awareness and caring.
No matter how many guns, alarm systems, hospitals, protective measures and declarations of good intent we have, no hidden enemy can be defeated if we lose ourselves in blame games and angry accusations. We must all march together to achieve universal dignity, safety, freedom and peace. As we learned -- or should have learned -- in the 1960s, these lofty goals will never be achieved if we continue trying to control each other and surpass each other. They will only be reached when we dig deep inside ourselves and find better ways to care about each other.
--James Gibson
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