Saturday, May 9, 2009

Happy 88th Birthday Dan Berrigan!!!!!!!!!!

on this day in 1921, Daniel Berrigan,S.J. poet-priest peacemaker was born on the Iron Range in Minnesota, home to such great poetic minds as Bob Dylan, Bill Holm and Eugene McCarthy to mention a few. Daniel Berrigan is my candidate for the sanest man of the 20th century, for his lifelong witness against POWER, for his lightness of touch, his wonderful sense of humor, his superb[and greatly underrated]poetry. He is quite simply, the greatest man I have ever met, and has been a guiding light in my life since high school. If Pete Seeger is feted` for 90, Daniel Berrigan should be lionized. simply, a good great man. Happy Birthday Fr Dan! Many many more!

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