Category: UC Berkeley

Buy and fly the UN flag

Posted on by Lee Trampleasure

Buy and fly the UN flag

Fly it as a prayer for peace,
speed the day when all wars cease.

Fly it as a vote for Earth,
by a midwife for global government's  birth.

Fly it as an earthly embrace,
give a healing hug to the whole human race.

Fly it as a flicker of light,
let your hope shine in our nuclear night.

If you’d like to buy a UN flag, I suggest finding your local chapter of the United Nations Association of the USA. Yeah, you can get one on Amazon, but your local chapter of UNA/USA would love to see you.

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Two letters about hills and mountains

Posted on by Lee

The following are letters to the Berkeley Daily Gazette written by Bill in 1971, published in the “The open forum” section. (Information on Reverend Doug Smith’s Vietnam War Protest on Mt. Shasta can be found here.)

From the Mountain Top

(published August 20, 1971)

Tuesday morning I watched the sunrise from the summit of Mt. Shasta. I was with my friend Dough Smith, a man of peace. I had climbed Shasta on Monday, the 26th anniversary of the sunburst explosion over Nagasaki. I had climbed to be with Doug, to hug Doug, to support Doug. I had climbed to draw closer to my God and to myself. I had climbed because Shasta had begun to cast her spell over me since Doug had first shared with some of us his hopes and plans for the Shasta project. Finish Reading: Two letters about hills and mountains

Golden Tree

Posted on by Lee
Golden Tree 2010
Golden Tree, December 12, 2010
        there
      is     a
glorious golden tree
 still so alive for me
    these many years
 since first I glimpsed
    its shimmering,
    glimmering glory
      that I know
      it will glow
        and grow
        ever  so
     long after all
    the leaves fall
     long after all
          the
         trees
         fall
          long
         after
          all

This poem has appeared in several books.

Mary and Bill, December 12, 2010
Mary and Bill, December 12, 2010