a peace by any other name

... recalling the words of Walter Cronkite, urging us to "get that word, PEACE, out there" and repeat it again and again until people HEAR it.

... short quotes from Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. Of Mexican mestiza and Magyar heritages, she comes from immigrant and refugee families who could not read or write. Estés is a certified Jungian psychoanalyst and her book, Women Who Run With the Wolves was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 145 weeks.

"We are all los immigrantes, the Soul is The First Immigrant: The Soul cannot be held back by any imaginary boundary drawn against it; not by mountain ranges, not by rivers, nor by human scorn. The Soul, goes everywhere, like an old woman in her right mind, going anywhere she wishes, saying whatever she wants, bending to mend whatever is within her reach. Wherever she goes, the Soul brings new life." --- from 'The Dangerous Old Woman'

''If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith… there is yet time." --- from Women Who Run with the Wolves

"Do not lose heart, we were made for these times...Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

"I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.

"Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.

"In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that.

"There is a tendency too to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails. We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear." --- from Letter To A Young Activist During Troubled Times