====== The generals and manufacturers of bombs and guns...the merchants of fear and loathing...are rolling out their films to incite terror in the hearts of men...but the grid has fired...and at the beginning of the week I had a vision of a tiny baby born...held in the hands of an invisible G_d... and it made my heart sing... This baby has a sense of joy and peace... like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon after a long winter...the drums of war rages on but even if the faces of the father/mother of this child were wisps of clouds...moonlight...and stardust...my heart feels a recognition of a smile...for the heavenly birth of this little child ======