Shirtsleeve

Tom dried his tears with his shirtsleeve.

He wiped his hot forehead with his sweaty shirtsleeve, turning with a smile toward his mother.

The patches on their shirtsleeves read, "Tribal Law Enforcement."

He pulled me to a pillar, pushing up my shirtsleeve and looking again at the skin in the crook of my arm.

The desire to roll-up shirtsleeves and get down to work tackling conflict and violence is certainly laudable; however, the desire for action cannot be allowed to push analysis out of the peacebuilding process.

“At least part of the stir over Carter’s shirtsleeve religiosity is that he seems to practice what he preaches,” Newsweek magazine mused a few days after the “born again” question made headlines across the country. “Kennedy went to Mass and Richard Nixon spoke affectionately of his Quaker mother, but neither appeared to be truly religious.”