Give Peace A Chance

Well, I wish we had more of it --- peace, that is. Peace to you and yours, and thanks for visiting.

Dona Nobis Pacem. Doing Our Part.

November 5, 2009

Rabbit was hopping along one day, when he stumbled over Hummingbird, who was lying flat on his back in the middle of the path. He had his feet sticking straight up in the air.
“Are you sick?” asked Rabbit.
“Nope,” said Hummingbird.
“Are you hurt?” Rabbit inquired.
“Nope,” said Hummingbird.
“What’s going on?” cried Rabbit. “Why are you [...]

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In Harmony

January 6, 2009

I visited the blog of my friend Robin, who lives just outside of Tel Aviv in Israel. I’ve been worrying about her since this latest war began, though she assures us she is “safe.”. She begs the question “what is the etiquette for blogging during wartime?” Robin lives in the center of [...]

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Old Fat Naked Women For Peace- The Righteous Mothers

November 9, 2008

If I wasn’t hiding from my e-mail inbox, I’d have had this video for Mimi’s Blogblast for Peace. My Daddy always said I was “a day late and a dollar short.”
A peacenik friend of mine forwarded a link to this, but doggone it I didn’t follow it until after the fact. Go ahead [...]

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Dona Nobis Pacem

November 6, 2008

A Peace Tale for the Blog Blast For Peace.
[This is my version of a folk tale told in Burma and Thailand. The story can be found in the book Peace Tales, by Margaret Read MacDonald.]
In a time long ago, there lived a king who loved to hear himself talk. One day, he [...]

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Dona Nobis Pacem

June 4, 2008

Today across the blogosphere, we are blogging for peace. This song by Nanci Griffith says all I have to say, but she says it better. Click it to play, close your eyes and enjoy.
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I wish you peace.
If you stop, leave a comment and I will link you here:

Around The Island
Vixen
Communiqué by Ivanhoe
Miss Moneypenny [...]

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No Peace I Find

March 29, 2008

Y’all, my poor Sweet Spousal Unit has discovered that there is no possibility of having a peaceful meal when you are married to a blogger. Everything is an opportunity for a blog post.
We went to a local restaurant on the square here in Denton, Texas. All in the world we planned was having [...]

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Dona Nobis Pacem

November 7, 2007

“Choose
The single clenched fist lifted and ready,
Or the open hand held out and waiting.
Choose:
For we meet by one or the other.”
—Carl Sandburg
Peace is more than an absence of war, it’s an absence of malice. Let’s meet each other with open hands, shall we?

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Give Peace A Chance

June 6, 2007

“Dost bin ise azdir;
Dusman bir ise coktur.
One thousand friends are too little,
One enemy is too many.”
~Turkish Proverb
“One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”
~Agatha Christie
“Ewaikahi ka pono i manalo.
It is well to be united in thought, that all men [...]

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