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October 12th Nightclub Bombings in Bali

In 1971, when Gridley Wright lived on Kuta Beach, Bali had two coffee shops and very little western style tourism. Over the last 31 years, life in Bali has changed dramatically. The October 12th nightclub bombings are another tragic episode of violence in our world.

Gridley acknowledged that all of us experience hate. "There has never been a man who did not have hostile feelings." However, Gridley maintained that hostility is not the same as violence. We should work to express hostility without violent acts.

Gridley Wright is not here to comment on this latest episode of violence. In the spirit of the 1960s counterculture of which he was a part, we at GridleyWright.com would like to express this:

Ignorance and narrow mindedness cause fear. Fear leads to an inability to communicate and frequent misunderstandings. Without dialogue there cannot be change. The world has always been a violent place, but the random slaughter of innocents solves nothing and only begets more violence. We feel deeply for the victims of this violence and hope those responsible wake up and find another way to communicate.

As Gridley said, "Accept the other person's reality if you are going to communicate with them; otherwise, you are just playing a word game."