Peace
November 21, 2009
- To read or have someone read to you is a warm bonding experience. Much can be shared in a short period of time, and a value can be installed. In this busy world sometimes it is easier to turn on the TV and let it entertain a young mind but it is not the best thing. I always found the time to read to my children and now my grandchildren as well. In this fast paced world we live in, ...
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November 21, 2009
- The suggested topic of the week—peace—is an interesting one. I particularly liked the quote from Dorothy Thompson, that when most people speak of peace, "They have not wanted peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war—as though the absence of war was the same as peace." I suspect that most people don't really think much about peace, they just know they don't like to be afraid ...
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November 20, 2009
- I’ve found it surprising to realise how ‘noisy’ and chaotic most of my life has been. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, however it’s been interesting for me to look back at my life and see that even as a child I always sought ways to find a place just to ‘be’, no distractions, no chaos; just me, my thoughts and I. From around the age of nine or ten I used to spend a fair amount ...
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November 20, 2009
- Marilyn Monroe rules the world, at least The part visible in a photograph, standing Above the troops she’s about to bless With a song in her porous sequin dress, her arms Durably outstretched. She hasn’t aged a day In fifty years. The men too appear impossibly Young, mooning boys clotted around a woman Who just might show them something they’ve never seen. Picture the millions ...
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November 20, 2009
- Peace in Three Parts Part I: A Third grader Personifies Peace Peace is a child, small, invisible, yet powerless over Anger and Ruthlessness, who seem to control war, the very enemy of Peace. But Peace would not go to war with Anger nor Ruthlessness, for she is Peace, after all. She would not go to war. Even though, of course, Peace is very busy, with lots of war going on. Alex Trux, ...
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November 20, 2009
- Oprah Winfrey announces that she will end her show in September 2011. She will speak about it today and it’s something that astonished me. Oprah is a wonderful woman who has made a difference in millions of people’s lives in United States and internationally. She inspired women who couldn’t find ways to regain their self-esteem, children who have been abused etc… Stories are endless and ...
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November 19, 2009
- "Peace Is Just A Word" by Annie Lennox of The EurythmicsStop the worldTurn out the sunI'm so tired of it turning 'roundStop the worldCall it a dayLeave it all behindLeave it that wayPeaceIs just a wordIs just a wordStop the worldJust let it bleedWell we've taken moreThan everything we needStop the worldJust shut it down[Just shut it down shut it down]There's no point in itSpinning ...
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November 19, 2009
- Once, while still in the U.S. Air Force, I discussed the issue of the need for world peace with someone very close to me. At one point, she very sincerely asked a question I had never considered: "What if peace comes and nobody wants it?" I answered that if peace came and nobody wanted it, then the world would see to its immediate destruction. Sometimes I think peace is constantly ...
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November 19, 2009
- "The average age of the world's civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from great courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again ...
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November 19, 2009
- Peace on earth. Peace. On Earth. Is there really such a thing? Peace. On Earth. I think so. Who can dispute that there is war everywhere in this world? People that die each and every day for a cause? Yet, I have the audacity to say that there IS peace. On earth.Yep, there is.Within me, around me, there is peace. On Earth. In my life.Within, it feels like peace of knowing ...
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