Wage Peace

"Wage peace with your breath.

Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.

Breathe in terrorists
and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.

Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.

Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.

Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.

Make soup.

Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.

Learn to knit, and make a hat.

Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief
as the outbreath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.

Swim for the other side.

Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:

Have a cup of tea and rejoice.

Act as if armistice has already arrived.

Celebrate today."

wage peace – judyth hill – 2001

thankyou maryann for sending this Perfect reminder

Data is Nature

My art was just posted about in the wonderful blogsite Data is Nature! LOVE this blog. as you can imagine...right up my interest/obsession alley...

come see: Darlene Charneco - Dioramic imaginings
and read around some other posts- fascinating stuff on there

art

"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."

-Vincent Van Gogh