To:
Friends of Bill Marx
Sent: Friday, January 31,
2003 2:33 AM
Subject: URGENT:
Personal Pages, Requests, and List Subscriptions -- to Friends of Bill
Marx
Friends of Bill Marx,
[In the event that this is too long for you
to be able to read
now, please save and read it later. As a friend of Bill's, you
may also want to
immediately jump down to the last paragraphs
and consider subscribing to the new bpp-news list that I'll use
to forward messages from him to all of us while he's in Iraq.]
Bill Marx
leaves for Iraq on Saturday, on a courageous journey
of the heart and on all of our behalves. I know that many of
you love this man as much and more than I do. And I know that
many of you have far bigger hearts than mine and far more
eloquent voices for expressing that love. Please take the time
now, before he leaves on his perilous journey, to share some
of your own feelings with him; to reassure his own heart; and to
let him take a few small bits and pieces of all of us with him
to share with the people of Iraq.
I have published a crude beginning of
personal pages for Bill at
a BuffaloPeacePeople personal page sites like those I offer to
all.
My own pre-departure note to him is already posted there.
Bill wanted to get started with the site before he left as one way
of staying in touch with us. He expects to
send emails to me for
publication on those pages for his friends.
He also believes as I do, however, that one
of the most important
things that we can each do is to reveal and
share with others the
most intimate and private tides that move us
to do the things we do.
In so sharing, we believe, others still
silent amongst us may find
small phrases and images that resonate with
their own souls and
that help them take the first steps on the
unstoppable journey to
finding their own voices, rising resolutely,
and joining with us, as
they must if we are ever to succeed.
Bill did not have the time to learn how to
craft his own Web pages
before his departure and it may be awhile before he has the time
to do so once he returns. In the meantime,
I've offered and he's
agreed to simply have me do the best I can
to present what I think
he would want presented -- in a manner
befitting what I know of his
most personal, deeply-held and governing
spiritual beliefs.
I will publish anything you send to me,
exactly as you send it or as
you may specify separately. You may include
or attach photos, text,
pdf files, Word docs and even digital video,
if that's your preference.
Whatever it may be though, I ask only -- and I'm certain Bill would
concur -- that it speak from your heart alone and that you try to find
the core of love within you before you raise
your voice.
Bill will have occasional access to Internet
communications and will
be able to read and see whatever you offer
him, even if he does not
have time to respond to each and every
message.
I'm
asking Bill, by way of a copy of this note, to check the site
before he leaves for the airport
on Saturday. Since it may be some
time before he has Internet access again, now would be a good time
to offer your best wishes and any messages you want him to carry to
the people he meets along his way.
I'll try to see that anything I receive by
midnight Friday is posted for him
to see in the morning. I'm taking another
day off Friday to continue
working on the site, however, and would
greatly appreciate receiving
your transmissions as early as possible.
But please don't hesitate to
express yourself to him or to the people
he’ll meet even if you can't make
his departure deadline; I'll continue this
effort as long as necessary.
You may either send material direct to me or
to Bill with a cc: to me for
publication. If I receive copies of
messages directed to Bill from anyone,
I'll assume they're intended for publication
on his personal pages. If that's
not the case, and you share something
with me just for my own benefit as
one of his loving friends, please be clear
about that early in the text of the
message.
Bill's personal pages are indexed at:
And please consider building and sharing
personal pages of your own.
They do move people. I've seen the results already.
Finally, and with little forethought or
discussion, I've decided to activate
the public bpp-news
list and to use it, for now, exclusively
to retransmit
messages from
Bill while he's traveling in Iraq, to all of us. Giving
Bill the
exclusive use of the list will eliminate any
need on his part to maintain
private distribution lists for messages of
general interest to all of his friends
and supporters back home.
Please take
the time now to subscribe so you can stay informed as he
travels.
Clicking the link below, filling-in the information on the form
presented, and replying to the email
confirmation request you receive a few
Thanks & Regards,
Jim
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Not In My Name
James O'Connor Whitlock
Bitsy's Dad
Buffalo, New York
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