In fact, it's so well done, that it might surprise you to learn the blogger is a mere 16 years old.
At 5 feet 4 inches, with wavy red hair, braces and a cat named Kiko, 16-year-old Ava Lowery hardly seems like a girl who has angered some people enough to call her "a traitor" and a "terrorist" who's responsible for "emboldening the enemy."Ava Lowery is the kind of person I love to write about - a young person with brains, guts and initiative - a leader. I'd like to try to interest a teen magazine in her story. My experience with the glossy teen mags tells me it's probably a waste of time, but it's worth a shot.
That she has been the victim of vicious threats -- one e-mail to her Web site stated she needed "to die" and "get raped while your corpse rots in the sun" -- seems, upon meeting her, surreal. "I'm just a normal teenager," she says, turning on her computer in her room while Kiko sprawls on her bed. . . .
"I don't represent any group," Ava says in response to accusations that she's a front for a leftist organization or, as one e-mail accused, a "parrot" for liberal parents.
With two uncles who've served in Iraq and the first Gulf War and a "conservative" granddad who's a Vietnam veteran and former Pentecostal minister, Ava says matter-of-factly: "I speak for myself."
At the age in which most kids count their lucky stars for finally being old enough to drive, Ava feels proud of the fact that, as she calculates it, "I get 30,000 hits a day," -- the number of Internet users who visit her Web site, PeaceTakesCourage.com.
Thanks to Allan for the tip on Lowery's site. Thanks to Ava Lowery for being who she is.
4 comments:
Thanks for the tip. I look forward to reading more.
BTW, the bottom link in your post takes me to a blank wmtc.ca blogger page. The top one seems to work.
BTW, the bottom link in your post takes me to a blank wmtc.ca blogger page.
Fixed now - thanks!
On a related topic, pundit Max Boot had an op-ed in the LA Times recently in which he suggested that Bush needs to create a Department of Peace.
While he's at it, he can create a Department of Truth, a Department of Love, and a Department of Plenty.
The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.
This very weekend there's a conference in DC about the campaign to establish the Department of Peace, http://www.thepeacealliance.org/. I ran into Dennis Kucinich at the airport last summer and he was on his way to Vancouver (go figure) to give a talk about it.
This is from his house-dot-gov site: "On September 14, 2005 Congressman Kucinich introduced H.R. 3760 (first introduced July 11, 2001) a bill to create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace and Nonviolence which embodies a broad-based approach to peaceful, non-violent conflict resolution at both domestic and international levels. The Department of Peace and Nonviolence would serve to promote non-violence as an organizing principle in our society, and help to create the conditions for a more peaceful world."
Post a Comment