Gail Barrows:
CLASS OF 1970
San Marin High SchoolClass of 1970
Novato, CA
Gail's Story
Gail is from Chicago, Illinois. Gail's schools include San Marin High School.
Music Gail likes includes Butterflyfish, Marina Piccinini, The Power of One Soundtrack. Books Gail likes include A Wrinkle in Time, Wink, By Little and by Little the Selected Writings of Dorothy Day. Movies Gail likes include Life is Beautiful, The Princess Bride, La Vie en rose. TV shows Gail likes include Homeland.
One of Gail's favorite quotes is:"As you, Father Mother, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us (John 17: 21).
"Call Me by My True Names"
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
because even today I still arrive.
Look deeply: I arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope.
The rhythm of my heart is the birth and
death of all that are alive.
I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
and I am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
to eat the mayfly.
I am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
and I am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.
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am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
and I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to
Uganda.
I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea
pirate,
and I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and
loving.
I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my
hands,
and I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my
people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.
My joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all
walks of life.
My pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.
Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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More about Gail:"Have been an environmental and special educator during which time I developed transition services for a school district in NY; am engaged in efforts toward universal education in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Nepal. Recent Mdiv graduate of Andover Newton Theological School with special interest in Christian and interfaith spiritual formation; peace and justice work.".
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