Yesterday, the official death toll of American soldiers in Iraq reached 4000. Thorn Coyle blogs today about a candlelight vigil to be held tonight at 7 pm PDT at the San Francisco Civic Center. Again, I long to be in the city where my heart seems to have stubbornly planted itself.

If you are near San Francisco, please join Thorn and all the others in this solemn recognition of lives that continue to be lost for something that seems more pointless every day. For those of us far away, perhaps we can light a candle at the appropriate time (10 pm in my time zone) to join them in spirit.

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Listen, listen:
longing and loss.
In the struck bell's
recurrent calling,
no moment in which to forget.

- Izumi Shikibu

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 3:29 PM