Someday at Christmas - Stevie Wonder
(I'm catching an early train tomorrow, so this edition comes to you just-past-Ontario-midnight. Merry Christmas!)
Earlier this month, I toured UN assembly rooms with some other iGEM-affiliated youths. We crept through an unlocked door into the upper balcony of the Room Where It Happened, the place where the Bioweapons Convention (the reason we were in Geneva that week) was first signed.
On the far side of the room were a pair of heavy-looking metal doors. "Oh, those are the peace doors," said the person showing us around the building, "they're supposed to stay shut until the world is at peace. Then they'll be thrown open, apparently."
Someone snorted. One of my fellow iGEM delegates wondered if the doors open at all. But... what's so funny about peace, love and understanding? I don't like that our first response to those doors and that dream is to laugh. I like the lack of irony in this song:
When we have found what life's really worth
There'll be peace on earth
I know it's not always easy, but I do think it's worth trying to be sincerely hopeful once in a while.
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
(I'm catching an early train tomorrow, so this edition comes to you just-past-Ontario-midnight. Merry Christmas!)
Earlier this month, I toured UN assembly rooms with some other iGEM-affiliated youths. We crept through an unlocked door into the upper balcony of the Room Where It Happened, the place where the Bioweapons Convention (the reason we were in Geneva that week) was first signed.
On the far side of the room were a pair of heavy-looking metal doors. "Oh, those are the peace doors," said the person showing us around the building, "they're supposed to stay shut until the world is at peace. Then they'll be thrown open, apparently."
Someone snorted. One of my fellow iGEM delegates wondered if the doors open at all. But... what's so funny about peace, love and understanding? I don't like that our first response to those doors and that dream is to laugh. I like the lack of irony in this song:When we have found what life's really worth
There'll be peace on earth
I know it's not always easy, but I do think it's worth trying to be sincerely hopeful once in a while.
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime