I have never attended the May Day Parade before, but this year, Dan and I decided that it will be a yearly tradition from now on. We've never seen so many leftie hippies in one place before! Although the parade got off to a slow start, it was well worth the wait.
The title of the parade this year was, "A New Bridge: Infrastructure for the Future Beings." (The parade always has some sort of social-consciousness-raising theme.) To quote the May Day brochure:
"On August 1, 2007, we witnessed the fall of the 35W bridge. During the profound Ecumenical Memorial Service for the 13 citizens who perished in the river, Hamdy El-Sawaf of the Islamic Jurisprudence Council of Minnesota offered these words:
"'If a bridge made of iron, steel and concrete can fall down, then a human bridge of faith, trust, confidence, and hope must be established.'
"These words challenge us to receive the tragedy of the fallen bridge as an opportunity to consider the infrastructure we are building for the present and future beings.
"Are we building toward depletion and collapse as consumers and conquerors, or are we building a path to sustainable, reciprocal harmony with the rest of the earth?
"Let us turn together with trust, faith, joy and ingenuity toward the work of building a bridge for safe passage through our transition to a glorious, sustainable, healthy life for all future beings."
2 comments:
wow, you certainly DID have a super-busy weekend - great photographs!!
mmm, that VT breakfast quinoa looks incredible! yum!
Hey there! I actually stopped by to check out the Haiti pics (which are pretty cool) and I was blown away by the May Day parade pics instead. Those are just awesome.
I've been on a smoothie kick lately too. Dreena's PB cookies are on my list to try out.
The tip for opting out of magazines is great.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. You are correct, I have been a quite the slacking blogger. There is a long queue of post in my head and photos on my laptop. Hopefully, I'll get to blogging this week.
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