***** Pic. Live a full and total solidarity with the world's neediest.

I have come to believe that this is what Jesus lived and taught and that by violating it for 2000 years we have brought on ourselves near certain and total destruction of all that is good in the world. This gets clearer to me with every passing moment. The best of us convinces our self that it is okay to live with greater resources allocated to ourselves than to our neediest sisters and brothers. I believe that Jesus said, and lived, no.

Video. Homeless man sacrifices his life to save a woman from attacker

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156224555250265&id=807990264

Psalm 23King James Version (KJV) 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh......

Psalm 23King James Version (KJV)

23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

***** I see absolutely no hope for humanity. I see nothing but doom. Elysium. Hunger Games. The Matrix. The only individual salvation from this is to live as a force for good no matter what; in absolute, water, breath by breath, lived solidarity with the global neediest. In this is the only joy, the only peace, the only humanity, the only kindness to others.

***** I see absolutely no hope for humanity. I see nothing but doom. Elysium. Hunger Games. The Matrix. The only individual salvation from this is to live as a force for good no matter what; in absolute, water, breath by breath, lived solidarity with the global neediest. In this is the only joy, the only peace, the only humanity, the only kindness to others.

Will you help me? Yes I replied. 60 seconds later he was sprinting away on his bicycle having stolen my cell phone/ tablet that I work on 14 hours a day.

Will you help me? Yes I replied. 60 seconds later he was sprinting away on his bicycle having stolen my cell phone/ tablet that I work on 14 hours a day.

Good Samaritan Gives Shoes to Homeless Woman on Subway

http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/good-samaritan-shoes-homeless-woman-subway/story?id=35323740

***** "James, whoever I spoke to in Washington had seen your advocacy work and thought about what you are doing." This, from the young activist.......

"James, whoever I spoke to in Washington had seen your advocacy work and thought about what you are doing." This, from the young activist I had worked with closely, one of the rare activists for whose work I had any respect. I had not seen him in a couple of years. He, unlike I, works extensively within the NGO and activist community. So what he shared with me was information that I had never before received.  "Beyond any other influence I've had in my life, you were, and remain, my spiritual North Star."

***** "Hello James. I met you briefly several years ago with my daughter on a field trip. While the other mothers raised an eyebrow at our desire to speak and learn from you; I........

"Hello James. I met you briefly several years ago with my daughter on a field trip. While the other mothers raised an eyebrow at our desire to speak and learn from you; I just wanted to take this moment to tell you that you have help shift my life and beliefs in the most positive and beautiful ways. Today I am thinking about you. Peace & Blessings."  My reply: "What a deeply kind and moving comment from you. I'm deeply appreciative of your note. If and when I find that the path I'm on is other than the one that the most enviable throughout history have walked, Jesus, Martin Luther King, Bonhoffer... I will say so and March in a different direction. until that happens, & I am certain that it will not, I will continue to march in the direction I am marching, & I will pray but others do the same for the infinite personal joy of it, and for the tiny ray of hope that it will be for the rest of creation."

***** Truly, I have pretty much concluded that among the things I have been wrong on for most of my life, incorrect on, is the notion that during Jesus day he had many followers, if only for a hundred years or so. I no longer think this was true. I don't think anyone got him then, oh, there were probably a few. And no one has gotten him since. Well, I mean, Martin Luther King did, a handful of others, but tens of thousands, millions, a billion or more today? Not more than hundreds at most.

Truly, I have pretty much concluded that among the things I have been wrong on for most of my life, incorrect on, is the notion that during Jesus day he had many followers, if only for a hundred years or so. I no longer think this was true. I don't think anyone got him then, oh, there were probably a few. And no one has gotten him since. Well, I mean, Martin Luther King did, a handful of others, but tens of thousands, millions, a billion or more today? Not more than hundreds at most.

Hero dad sacrificed himself to save hundreds by tackling Beirut suicide bomber

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hero-dad-sacrificed-himself-save-6836703

If you haven't lost, if you haven't sacrificed, pretty much everything that this society values, then probably you are of no hope for a better future for all of creation.

If you haven't lost, if you haven't sacrificed, pretty much everything that this society values, then probably you are of no hope for a better future for all of creation.

***** My body dreads resuming the travels. My soul knows nothing but doing so.I have.....

***** My body dreads resuming the travels. My soul knows nothing but doing so.

I have nothing but deepest gratitude for the opportunity to resume the campaign, traveling around the country with this vehicle for Palestine, for the future of all creation. My body dreads the departure... sleeping in parking lots, unwanted everywhere, no security, extreme danger, at times, on roads, cold, wet, uncertain food based on unsolicited donations,  physically exhausted and in pain....

I care about my body. I listen to my body, occasionally. But my soul who is who and what I am. My soul is all that I want to be. So is all any of us should want to be if we were saying.

Seen on Facebook long ago: you do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

Departure time is uncertain: have pending medical exams, orthopedic, vision, and dental. Hopefully all this week, and from them I should know whether I can depart late this week or whether some future medical appointments will dictate that I stay in DC longer. And each day I stay increases the likelihood that weather could postpone my departure by months. 

But my guess, and my determination, is that I will depart before the weather makes it impossible.

My expectation is to head south, probably along the recently devastated coastline, to Florida. And then to travel west along the coast. I don't know how one crosses the desert on a vehicle like mine, or a bike.

I'll end of the journey when I see some better way to serve humanity or my life or health are terminated. My guess is that this journey will take me around the country for the next 10 - 12 months. I have some vague sense of attempting to transit all 48 contiguous states.

What then? I don't know. But I have a sense that this vehicle will be my home base, my home, 4 whatever years I am left on earth.

 I find spending more than is represented by this vehicle morally abhorrent on a planet with so many in dire need.

What resources may come to me in the future, beyond the bare requirements of sustaining this ride for creation, belong not to me, but to my needier global family. And high on the list are the masses that have been destroyed, largely, to generate what wealth I have had in my life... The Native Americans and the African Americans.

***** It is the example of others lives that has moved my life back in the direction of.....

It is the example of others lives that has moved my life back in the direction of sanity, humanity, compassion, empathy, decency... the self into which we are all born. The lives of those like Eleanor Roosevelt, Malala, Teresa of Calcutta, Alice Paul, Dorothy Day, Gandhi, Martin Luther King jr.... It is only then that their words have helped me understand how to accomplish that move.  "Example is not the major thing in influencing people.  It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer

Edward Snowden, I am ready to go to prison. "I have paid a price but I feel comfortable with the decisions that I have made. If I'm gone tomorrow, I'm happy with what I had. I feel blessed.

http://cnnphilippines.com/world/2015/10/07/Edward-Snowdens-ready-to-go-to-prison-waiting-on-answer-from-US.html

Man Dies a Hero, Pushes His Wife to Safety and Out of Path of Oncoming Car

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/28/man-dies-a-hero-pushes-his-wife-to-safety-and-out-of-path-of-oncoming-car/

***** I think our job to be hated for our Loving. Truly, I think that it is. To be deeply hated for our utter foolishness of Loving completely and unconditionally, and if we are not regularly hated that we probably aren't doing it right. Please consider: Somewhere......

***** I think our job to be hated for our Loving. Truly, I think that it is. To be deeply hated for our utter  foolishness of Loving completely and unconditionally, and if we are not regularly hated that we probably aren't doing it right. Please consider: Somewhere in the Francis visit coverage in the final days I heard martyr described as someone who is hated for their faith. I think it was Francis that I heard speaking of this and I view him as practicing the faith of Loving. And, along with other things I am learning, and experiencing personally, it brought to my mind that yes, in the near complete evil darkness that is 2015 earth, it is our job individually to be so radiantly Loving that we are hated for it and thereby might cause the hater, in expressing their hatred towards us, to be convicted by the shard of Loving that they were in their infancy, and that still resides within them as a distant memory. And in having that shard of Loving within them convict their evil spirit that rules almost all of us, therein lies the hope to return their sanity, decency...  humanity. I do think it is our job to be so Loving that we are hated by almost all. I hope to do a better job at this. Oh, without question, to do this, one must be willing to happily die for it. It occurs to me I will be more directly facing this as I travel through the southern states.

12 Lakota Virtues, Essential to balance and happiness. (VIDEO)

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2014/11/12-lakota-virtues-essential-to-balance.html?m=1

***** Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you've been buried but you have actually been planted. Seen on Facebook

Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you've been buried but you have actually been planted. Seen on Facebook

***** must read article.... Niebuhr also knew that traditional liberalism was a useless force in moments of extremity. Liberalism, Niebuhr said, “lacks the spirit of enthusiasm, not to say fanaticism, which is so necessary to move the world out of its beaten tracks....

http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/a_time_for_sublime_madness_20130120

Reinhold Niebuhr, as Cone points out in his book, labeled this capacity to defy the forces of repression “a sublime madness in the soul.” Niebuhr wrote that “nothing but madness will do battle with malignant power and ‘spiritual wickedness in high places.’ ” This sublime madness, as Niebuhr understood, is dangerous, but it is vital. Without it, “truth is obscured.” And Niebuhr also knew that traditional liberalism was a useless force in moments of extremity. Liberalism, Niebuhr said, “lacks the spirit of enthusiasm, not to say fanaticism, which is so necessary to move the world out of its beaten tracks. It is too intellectual and too little emotional to be an efficient force in history.”......

nd. Day 35 and holding. Three days of little more than sleep. Apparently......

nd. Day 35 and holding. Three days of little more than sleep. Apparently 35 days of all day cycling and resting in Walmart parking lots all night was much more exhausting than I realized. Subject to my cancer exam next Monday I hope to be resuming the journey for many months after that. -- Sent from Fast notepad