every christmas, the great artist yoko ono publishes an ad to rolling stone asking for people to pray for peace, work for peace, think about peace. i love her words and believe in her and her message completely.
some argue that peace doesn't "fit" in our world, that it's human nature to fight. i can see this point, but i can also see what john lennon says about how the world has always been in turmoil and never given peace a chance, so how could we possibly know what we're talking about.
last night i saw an episode of the amazing series "Iconoclasts" on the sundance channel. unfortunately it seems (don't know for a fact) that one can only catch this show on cable, and may not be able to rent it. anyway, the show puts two thinkers/movers/shakers/creative people together to see what they may say in the presence of each other. this particular episode featured Mike Myers (the comedian/writer/director etc etc) and Deepak Chopra (the first person to ever combine "old world" beliefs with modern science).
(I'd like to go off here on deepak and how he has blown my mind a few times, but not as much as i'm about to let him)
On the show, there is a segment showing deepak in a radio studio where he goes to do a radio show called "healing something something", and an 11-year-old boy calls in and asks deepak what he should tell people when they ask what his religion is. the boy explains that his religion is catholic by birth, but that he has muslim friends, and likes aspects of judaism and has just discovered buddha and likes buddhism now. "What do i tell people what my religion is?"
deepak says, "You tell them it's 'LOVE.' Love is what Buddha and Christ were all about. Love is what ties us all together."
once again, it's the christmas season, and i LOVE yoko for putting out her message of love and peace as a way to get through the day in a fucked up world with fucked up values. as well as just an idea to spread around.
for those of you who are technologically inclined, i encourage you to break the law and find a copy of this to download. mike myers contributes many great thoughts to the episode as well.
when i was "getting known" at my job that fired me for no good reason, it became known that i'm a huge yoko ono fan, and it was said to me that i'm the only yoko ono fan any of them have ever known. to that i say, shame on you for believing the propaganda on this amazing woman artist, and rebel, and revolutionary.
ps. i've had the "war is over" magnet on my fridge for years, but i think this year i'll take the tiny effort up a notch and stick it in my car window like she suggests. i'm thinking of my friend E. and his car window messages as i write this. yay E. for your car window messages.
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