Vigil for Health Care: Light a candle!
Light a Candle for Health Care
Click on the candle below or the link above. It will guide you to light a candle. You can join the candle group "TPM" or start another candle group. You can add a message as well as your name and your location before you light the candle. Once you've "lit" one, you will be given an opportunity to email your candle. Email it to your representatives in Congress. Let them know you prefer to light one candle than to curse the darkness of those who seek to disrupt health care legislation. Ask others to join this quiet demonstration in favor of justice and health care for all.
Health care is basic caring for our fellow citizens. It is a way of being a Good Samaritan. We cannot turn our backs on those in need. And we must find ways, quiet peaceful ways, like this one, to demonstrate our determination that our country take care of all citizens, especially its weakest and most vulnerable.
I urge you to copy this candle and place it on your blogs along with a link so others can make use of it to light a candle. Each virtual candle lasts for 48 hours. We need to keep them lit and relit. If mirror sites are needed for this, then those who are adept at code and the internet can provide them. We need to keep this vigil going until health care legislation, which is just and equitable, is passed by our Congress and signed into law.
We cannot sit by and let thugs define America.
Let us define America as peaceful, just, and caring. Let us blanket our land with candles. Candles for peace. Candles for love. Candles to show We Care about our fellow citizens.
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Update:
You can click here and see the TPM candles and read the messages. You can also light a candle directly from this TPM candle page. (just click on an unlit candle and you'll be guided)
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I have broken my silence in order to send a message. A message against thuggery. A message for peace and justice and caring for our fellow Americans.
August 4, 2009 12:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Blessed are the peacemakers.
August 5, 2009 9:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Blessings upon us all who struggle for justice, peace, and compassion.
August 5, 2009 11:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is a positive response - particularly given the hateful response being incited by lobbyists of the health industry.
Rec'd and candle lit.
August 4, 2009 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I see so many ways we can use this image.
Peace be with you, Rowan! And HEALTH be yours!
August 4, 2009 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Big Pharma Adharma to Healthcare Dharma
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August 4, 2009 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow! You take the cake! A cake full of candles!
August 4, 2009 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Beautiful, Thera. Rec'd and lit.
August 4, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bless you! :-)
August 4, 2009 1:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rec'd and done...Thanks for this Thera, I know your private time is very important to you right now, and I thank you for taking the time to set this up and ask us to join in...
August 4, 2009 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
This comes FROM my private time, stilli. It literally came OUT of my effort to dwell within. I felt such a sense of inner anguish due to the thuggery going on via the tea-baggers. And this came to me this morning as a balm and an inner command.
I hope people make large posters of candles to take places. And wear buttons. And put photos of candles in their car windows. And windows of houses. And on blogs.
I want this to take on a life of its own. I hope and pray for that. But I've done my part. We'll have to see what happens now.
Peace be with you.
August 4, 2009 1:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
With this candle
I hope to light a fire
in a cause which strives
to lower our worry,
reduce our pain,
and further a semblance of equality
for the people in the country I love.
August 4, 2009 1:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bless you, matrya. What a beautiful message!
August 4, 2009 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really don't want to be mean because, for the most part, I respect the people who share their thoughts (and news) on this blog. But... this is the cupcake lobby all over again.
I get it... I do: we want to rise above the fray as the shining examples of human evolution that we consider ourselves to be.
However, while we're sending messages of sweeetness and light, the Republicans are kicking our butts all over the place.
Come on... PLEASE... get out their and fight for what you want! You don't have to roll in the muck to make a point, but this kind of stuff just tanks my heart. If this is all we can muster, then we're done. I'm sorry... nice thought though it was.
I can't light this candle with you... but I'll fight like hell for you, out there, where its nasty as hell and the idiot parade never takes a break.
August 4, 2009 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Peace be with you.
August 4, 2009 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you TheraP; wishing you and Mr. T well.
My candle is lit for my friend, DGB, 1952-2009. A person who was far more than one more statistic in ongoing healthcare rationing.
August 4, 2009 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bless you, Wendy! A lovely idea to light a candle for a specific person!
August 4, 2009 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you, TheraP!
More possible antidotes to thuggery:
Check out this Daily Kos post about progressive Dems successfully countering tea-bagging shouters at a townhall event:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/4/761608/-Tea-Baggers-FAIL-to-disrupt-Health-Care-meeting,-lessons-shared.
August 4, 2009 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank YOU, tt! What a great list of ideas! It is so important to make clear what democracy is and is not, what America is and is not. America is not thuggery!
Peace be with you, dear tt.
August 4, 2009 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
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August 4, 2009 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I so love you, tt. :-)
August 4, 2009 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll light a candle under a certain person's backside and demand he deliver the public option he promised.
August 4, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's creative!
August 4, 2009 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you want more than a candle.... imagine a torch, then maybe a pitchfork. In this case I don't see that they are incompatible.
=D
August 4, 2009 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
A torch! And a pitchfork! Well, the more light the better! I'm sure the tines of the pitchfork will shine brightly in all the light! ;-)
August 4, 2009 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
They do, they do.
=D
It seems to me that focusing our thoughts and thinking positively is a tremendous force that we don't give enough credence to, dear Thera, thank you so much for reminding us all.
It helps. It realllly does.
August 4, 2009 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. This is a very powerful force. The mere act of lighting the candle gives each one a sense of doing something - something positive. And seeing all the candles is effective and powerful as well. And the force of this for good - within the universe - is far greater than we can comprehend.
August 4, 2009 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I read and rec'd this morning TheraP. But I just lit the candle. What an experience.
You are attempting a positive message here. I was so angry at the paid protesters disrupting our message all over the country.
But the candle settled me down.
Thank you.
August 4, 2009 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bless you, dear dd. I was grateful as well for something healing we could all do. :-)
August 4, 2009 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just lit another in gratitude for the release of our two journalists by N. Korea. Statesmanship and ritual can still be good. Thank you, President Clinton. And thank you again, Thera, for your focus.
August 4, 2009 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I saw your candle before your comment. Thank you so much for doing that! What a blessing all the way around. Including you! :-)
August 4, 2009 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thera,
As always, please accept my appreciation and best wishes. Candle is flaming as is my hope for the best for all.
Blessings to you and yours.
August 4, 2009 5:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love seeing those candles multiplying! Peace and blessings upon you and yours as well.
August 4, 2009 5:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Peace has the microphone.
August 4, 2009 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, tpmgary, that is so wonderful..... so, so wonderful...
Shhhhhhh..... Shalom....
August 4, 2009 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the link, TheraP.
I lit a candle, but it didn't feel right somehow to send an email to my representative from the site. So I sent one for my mom to contemplate instead. Needless to say she was very intrigued.
CM
August 4, 2009 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is wonderful! Very wise to decide from the heart! Peace be with you.
August 5, 2009 10:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Well done.
---s
August 5, 2009 1:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now you have me intrigued.... 3 fingers... Thank you for stopping by. Peace be with you.
August 5, 2009 10:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for your leadership on this TheraP. It's one way we can organize for change together:)
August 5, 2009 1:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Peace be with you, Sync! I actually have some more ideas here. Could send them via email if you like. :)
August 5, 2009 10:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Beautiful way of sending a message - thank you for the chance to light a candle..........
August 5, 2009 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Any time you want to light a candle, Maggie, I have a place in the sidebar of my blog, Nothingness - the link for which is in my profile now.
I think this is such a positive way to send a message. A healing message. Thanks for your participation! :-)
August 5, 2009 10:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Great video from CNN ireport
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-309654
August 5, 2009 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you for that. It just makes me want to cry....
August 5, 2009 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink