The space we
inhabited when our precious loved ones, Josh, Shane, and Sarah, were held
hostage by the Iranian regime, was a space of immense pain, loss, fear. A dark, oppressive cloud hovered in
the air between us and their cells in Evin prison, hovered around us every
second of every day, making it difficult to breathe, threatening to stifle the flames within us.
Our website, freethehikers.org, taken down on Jan 4, 2013, embodied everything within us
that we couldn’t express for fear of the cracks and fissures in our hearts spreading through
our bodies and shattering us into pieces. It was the shared landscape of our
journey to FREEDOM; the place where we could meet Josh, Shane, and Sarah
across the abyss between us, and hold them close.When we couldn’t speak to or write to them, we posted our
love online for the world to see, and hoped it would travel to their hearts in
their prison cells in Iran. We hoped it would tell them that we were fighting
for them with every cell in our hearts, minds, and bodies; that it would hold
them and ourselves together; that it would bring them home.
It
was our “hope in the darkness”. I dedicate this song, "Ghosts That We Knew" by Mumford & Sons, to freethehikers.org and
every beautiful soul who created it and made it the beautiful, powerful place
it was in the darkest of times.
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