{"id":4968,"date":"2015-10-07T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T18:26:23","slug":"the-line-that-threads-through-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-line-that-threads-through-our-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"The line that threads through our hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;If only there were\u00a0evil\u00a0people\u00a0somewhere insidiously committing evil\u00a0deeds, and it were\u00a0necessary\u00a0only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing\u00a0good\u00a0and\u00a0evil\u00a0cuts through the\u00a0heart\u00a0of every\u00a0human\u00a0being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?&#8221; &#8212;\u00a0<em>Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This. \u00a0And a small vignette.<\/p>\n<p>In our circle yesterday, Caitlin arrived a little late, and took a seat on the outside of the rim.<\/p>\n<p>The one who noticed was a Chinese-Vietnamese woman who had come to Canada as a child refugee in the 1970s, stuffed into a dangerous boat with hundreds of others fleeing war and fear. \u00a0She turned and saw Caitlin and moved her chair to make room for her in the circle.<\/p>\n<p>She knew intuitively how to fit one more person in, how to welcome, how to alleviate the feeling of being outside. How to bring wholeness. \u00a0It was a moment in which our threaded hearts were stitched together.<\/p>\n<p>In these days, when a cultivated fear of the other is what passes for politics, this quote and this story landed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If only there were\u00a0evil\u00a0people\u00a0somewhere insidiously committing evil\u00a0deeds, and it were\u00a0necessary\u00a0only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing\u00a0good\u00a0and\u00a0evil\u00a0cuts through the\u00a0heart\u00a0of every\u00a0human\u00a0being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?&#8221; &#8212;\u00a0Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago This. \u00a0And a small vignette. In our circle yesterday, Caitlin arrived a little late, and took a seat on the outside of the rim. The one who noticed was a Chinese-Vietnamese woman who had come to Canada as a child refugee in the 1970s, stuffed into a dangerous boat with hundreds of others fleeing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-invitation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-1i8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4969,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}