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Vietnam Journey To Forgiveness by Namaya 2020
How do we forgive and make peace with our past? These were my guiding questions as I visited Vietnam at the beginning of this year, forty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, to create a writing and art project, “Journey to Forgiveness.” I am a US Navy Vietnam-era veteran, and this journey was …
My Lai Prayers: Honoring the Victims of the My Lai Massacre
My Lai Prayers Jan 2020 Breakfast of rice porridge was cookingon the wood stoves,people chattering,children laughing,mothers singing and cooking, and fathersready to work in the rice fields. Then American soldiersdescended on this village in a few hoursmethodically killedfive hundred four men, women, and children.Women and girls were raped. War came and went, one conqueror …
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I WILL NOT CELEBRATE MEMORIAL DAY
I am the Vietnam Generation: Generation of Witness: Rage! Sing the rage for the innocents. Rage! Sing the rage and call for atonement. As rage dissolves to contrition and leads us home to love. The Dharma is not war, it is the journey home to love. Dharmapada, the path to true Dharma, to give to …
I am the Vietnam Generation: Can we be the generation of contrition
by Namaya 5 Jan 2020 I am the Vietnam Generation: Generation of Witness: Can we be the Generation of Contrition? 1. Prelude: Rage! Sing the rage for the innocents. Rage! Sing the rage, and call for atonement. As rage dissolve to contrition and lead us home to love. The Dharma is not war, …
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On the way to Vietnam: 19 Dec 2019
Friends, We are so pleased to be getting ready to leave for Vietnam on the 2nd of January 2020. We have been preparing for this journey and our art residency in Hue Vietnam. We will endeavor to post photos, reflections, art, and writings about this “Journey to Forgiveness.” every few days. As we take this …
Journey to Forgiveness: The Lynching Museum
“Witness: Museum of Lynching” There are no words, no poetry, no song, nor prayer that can hold this witness In the heart of Montgomery. in the center of the slave city. On a hill that overlooks down-town Montgomery The rows and rows of rusting steel boxes with the names, date, and place where these men, …
Moment of Peace: Journey to Forgivness
Dr.Namaya will speak on 6 September 2019 at the Center Congregational Chuch 193 Main
Yemen My Life
Yemen My Life: A Peace Corp Volunteer’s Memoir This weekend was the thirty-five year reunion of Peace Corps volunteers, Irish Concern, and other international organizations who served in Yemen together. We were innocent ambassadors to the ways of the country and Islam. The baptism of my youth was in the glorious, incomprehensible, but always welcoming, …