NJC affirmation

[vince]

On a White Sox list to which I belong, we have been disagreeing most vehemently with one another on the Iraq North Korea Bush as cowboy shoot from the hip threat to US security and freedom issues -


and it has been helpful in the midst of very passionate tensions to affirm that we are friends and White Sox fans first and foremost and that all disagreements however heated and intense are reflections of the grave issues confronting us all -

but that we are first and foremost friends with a common interest and we will not let our very deep disagreements on other things divide us or wreck our friendships -

I think it has been good to touch base with that sentiment periodically, it has helped to place things in perspective in the midst of our disagreements -

strong words and emotions in the times when we have deep and serious issues that confront us, life and death issues such as war and injustice, may not be avoided -

but losing touch of human connectedness as friends in these times is to lose purpose of caring for peace and humanity to begin with -

just my thought -

everyone who has posted the past couple of days, I want to affirm your value to me and I wish we could have gathering right now where we could hug each other and remember that which binds us as opposed to that on which we disagree so that we can disagree however vehemently without losing each other in our emotions or in our lives

Vince