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Wage Peace
Nov. 30th, 2007 12:55 am"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
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
For Retno, peace, and souls in Bali
Oct. 4th, 2005 10:21 am(From my friend Retno)
My dearest friends:
I’m sure most of you have heard of the recent terrorist bombings in Bali. I would like to respectfully ask if you can please visit a body of water nearby (ocean, lake etc.) and light a candle or scatter some bright colored flowers along with a simple prayer or thoughts of peace. We Indonesians believe that such cleansing acts will help release the victims’ soul high to the heaven and skies…
Thank you in advance for joining me in this traditional cleansing ceremony… Your time and efforts are deeply appreciated.
Much love, Retno
.....and so, I went to 'the magic bay' again...this time with a bowl of daisies picked from our yard. Such peace and magic there (always- can you blame me for wanting to live near to this spot forever and ever)...I can only hope that all I connected with there can spread and enter the hearts and souls throughout space. I prayed and floated the daisies one by one....little missionaries of peace travelling across the water... and picturing others engaged in similar hopeful rituals in so many other places....perhaps you?
holy water
( more photos here )
My dearest friends:
I’m sure most of you have heard of the recent terrorist bombings in Bali. I would like to respectfully ask if you can please visit a body of water nearby (ocean, lake etc.) and light a candle or scatter some bright colored flowers along with a simple prayer or thoughts of peace. We Indonesians believe that such cleansing acts will help release the victims’ soul high to the heaven and skies…
Thank you in advance for joining me in this traditional cleansing ceremony… Your time and efforts are deeply appreciated.
Much love, Retno
.....and so, I went to 'the magic bay' again...this time with a bowl of daisies picked from our yard. Such peace and magic there (always- can you blame me for wanting to live near to this spot forever and ever)...I can only hope that all I connected with there can spread and enter the hearts and souls throughout space. I prayed and floated the daisies one by one....little missionaries of peace travelling across the water... and picturing others engaged in similar hopeful rituals in so many other places....perhaps you?
( more photos here )
Designing Palestine
May. 18th, 2005 12:15 amThe Day After Peace: Designing Palestine NY Times article regarding The Arc- A vision for Palestine. aerial renderings, slide show, all the yummy mapping of possibilities stuff.:)
