http://www.peaceisawomansjob.com/index.html
Monday, March 9, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
gaming for peace
Virtual Swords to Ploughshares
Duke-developed simulation game looks to train a new generation of peacemakers
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/11/virtualpeace.html
Duke-developed simulation game looks to train a new generation of peacemakers
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/11/virtualpeace.html
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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.
... 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
I want to laugh.
David Hazen - DOP State Coordinator message board:
"It has been remarked by many throughout the ages that the core of life is joy. Many who have talked about being enlightened describe the state as blissful. At Kataria’s website, www.laughteryoga.org, there is a clip of John Cleese, the famous Monty Python comedian, visiting various laughter clubs in India. Memorably, he says that when people laugh together, it’s very hard for one group to exercise authority over another; it’s the greatest force for democracy.
"Allying our consciousness with this force, easily accessible through twenty minutes of whole-body laughter per day, we make transformation not only possible but easier. When, by contrast, we lose sight of this realization, we use futile means to effect change, for example, bombing terrorists or judging ourselves (making ourselves “feel bad”)."
From The Countless Laughter of the Waves By Peter Moore
"It has been remarked by many throughout the ages that the core of life is joy. Many who have talked about being enlightened describe the state as blissful. At Kataria’s website, www.laughteryoga.org, there is a clip of John Cleese, the famous Monty Python comedian, visiting various laughter clubs in India. Memorably, he says that when people laugh together, it’s very hard for one group to exercise authority over another; it’s the greatest force for democracy.
"Allying our consciousness with this force, easily accessible through twenty minutes of whole-body laughter per day, we make transformation not only possible but easier. When, by contrast, we lose sight of this realization, we use futile means to effect change, for example, bombing terrorists or judging ourselves (making ourselves “feel bad”)."
From The Countless Laughter of the Waves By Peter Moore
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address
Nov. 19, 1863
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal."
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
This version of the Gettysburg Address has been verified against the version on display at the National Archives.
Nov. 19, 1863
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal."
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
This version of the Gettysburg Address has been verified against the version on display at the National Archives.
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