Dear friends, family & acquaintances, fellow travelers,

I greet you with hopes that you are well and navigating your life with joy, courage, and freedom. I bring greetings also from CPT in Barrancabermeja and from [our coworkers]. Some greet you from prison, others from hiding; some while mining gold, others while planting maíz; some while hosting a survivor; others from an urban refuge; some from court seeking justice, others while facing charges; some shout to you from the street, others serenade you from atop a mule on a mountain path.

They send their thanks, and I add mine, for your participation in a circle that sustains life and hope through direct accompaniment, listening, prayers, speaking truth to power, financial support, advocacy, and other forms of peacemaking.

While I was in Colombia, CPTer Stewart Vriesinga and I spent a week with the Southern Bolivar Federation of Farmer-Miners…