Brian Haw
November 15, 2008
In case you don’t know, this is Brian Haw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Haw
Living in London when the US and UK invaded and occupied Iraq was formative in the way I think about politics, the world, and the way people act. Brian Haw, with his weatherbeaten face and light, determined eyes is embedded in my memory. I saw a friend in the street a little while ago who has just been imprisoned for his political actions. He had the same eyes. I love and fear that determined look – I love that some people are so wholehearted and selfless that the practicalities of life are totally subordinate to their cause. I fear because I don’t want it to be me – just as as a child I feared that God had chosen me to be a nun – I just didn’t and don’t want to be that good.
