Once again a wonderful but short visit to Agape. I managed to make it to Francis Day from Boston with Kate! Hooray! I was glad to finally experience this event that I’d heard so much about last year. It was a gorgeously sunny and colorful crisp fall day, and there were at least 200 people there. The program’s theme was “Women and War: reclaiming our voices,” and included women speakers from Japan, Burundi, Afghanistan, and Iraq as well as Dorothy Day’s granddaughter and a U.S. veteran in her mid-20s who’d served in Iraq when she was 19. It was a powerful day, and ended with the planting of a tree in honor of the mother of two Iraqi boys who are here with their father getting treatment for injuries sustained in the car explosion (caused by U.S. gunfire) that killed their mother.
One of the highlights was the singing and dancing led by the Burundian community! It was also really nice to see so many familiar faces and catch up with a few of the people that I had gotten to know pretty well during my internship. I was glad not to be an intern though, because it meant I simply got to sit back and enjoy it all without worrying about logistics or running in and out taking care of details or dishes. Can we please stop having wars?
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