Stand by, Peace is waiting…
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Time to go for it. All of it!
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Start here:
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Talk about new!
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Tidy up, the beginning is near
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Take time to exhale
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Careful at the begining
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Balance the changes
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Talk to it, Peace.
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Double trouble = double the fun.
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Shine on you crazy diamonds.
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Let the ending begin!
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Peace for the Holidays
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Remember to give Peace
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Change sparkles red in the dark night
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Giving Thanks.
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Please remain calm…
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Occupy Change!
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Occupy Fear!
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Home is where to occupy
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Find the balance, please.
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Let us end at the beginning
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Peace will aim like a dart
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The arrow launches
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Sit back there is time.
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Break the rules, please.
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Time to talk with the judge.
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The shell is a safe place…
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One More Time: Start.
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Welcome to the future.
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Surprise ….it’s Peace!
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With balance; Peace!
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Where to now…
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Under Heaven Thunder Rolls!
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Hear ye seekers of Peace.
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Past is prologue. Peace!
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Let to be spin with Peace
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Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! …surprise it’s Peace.
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Here now to restore shattered sensibilities, Peace.
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Let it go! Let it go! Let it go! …Peace
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Out of Nowhere; Peace!
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Take flight for Peace!
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Stop making sense, make Peace.
Read More...The reason things have stopped making sense: Peace.
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Balance is its own reward: Peace.
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Something Big Starts Today; Peace.
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Peace One Day; it could happen.
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In absolute silence it is time to step out;
Peace.
Approaching the ending feels like the beginning; Peace.
Read More...I am grateful for: Blue Plate restaurant in SF – yummy Americana Comfort food with local and organic sensibilities. Mmmmmmmmm. Also they are serving Four Barrel espresso, and the macchiato I had was BEATNIK PIRATE GOOD. Like you knew it was going to be good because people talk about it all the time, and then [...]
Read More...Silence is not an option if there is going to be: Peace!
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Written By: andrei
Paying attention Due to the economic recession, I have been spending a lot of time on the phone with clients and colleagues in an attempt to both secure businesses for my team as well as to touch base with people and gain a better understanding for how my network is responding to the tough times [...]
Read More...Exploring the connection between love and the significance of a life.
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Six planets in Capricorn packs a wallop: think Peace!
Read More...When the pull is from all directions; go with Peace!
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So much new to be thankful for; Peace!
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Let out a roar for Peace!
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Without exception: chaos requires Peace!
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How funky the Peace is gonna’ be!
Read More...There is no place like home; there is no place like Peace.
Read More...History show us again how nature points out the folly of man. Peace!
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Anything can happen; that means Peace!
Read More...Endings disguised as beginnings; disguised as Endings. Peace!
Read More...Gather round the stage and let the show begin for Peace.
Read More...It’s about time to unleash change. Bring on the Peace!
Read More...At times like these, we can be so far far far from where we need to be; Peace.
Read More...It is a good day to be home in the shell and at Peace.
Read More...Time to roll up our sleeves and get working on Peace!
Read More...Sometimes we get pulled in all directions at the same time; lean to Peace!
Read More...There are two sides to every story; let’s hear the one about Peace!
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Sometimes out of the shattered sensibilities there is a reason for Peace
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Sometimes things just have to change for Peace.
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Without patience there can be no Peace.
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Find something crazy new: Peace!
Read More...With things so WRONG, so often; need alone should bring us Peace.
Read More...If we require a do-over, it may as well be from the beginning; start with Peace!
Read More...Such shocking human events cry for the balance within Peace!
Read More...In every tradition you choose to celebrate: Peace be with You!
Read More...A projectile speeding through time and space to find: Peace!
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Nothing is perfect; if you can find it. Until then: Peace!
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This is a gem of a Full Moon filled with big and sudden changes: for Peace
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Don’t slap that woman, she might have something to say: about Peace!
Read More...The stinging newness of this Scorpion Moon can still end in Peace!
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When Peace is let to roar, it is not all hot air.
Read More...Not the enraged monster, this Taurean Moon is all about the need of tranquility.
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Libra Birthday Peace! going out to Samantha Murphy
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Peace is coming to us all.
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Bernie Taupin …Podsafe? It must be for Peace!
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Skyrockets in flight; a celebration of the need for Peace!
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It’s high time for big beginnings. Find us some Peace.
Read More...Endings can only be followed by beginnings. Seek Peace.
Read More...As we stumble though our hundredth, it is much ado about something: Peace.
Read More...For those of us out of balance, here’s a second chance: Peace!
Read More...Sometimes, in an upwelling, you can be immersed in Peace.
Read More...To fly like an arrow you must know your way: Peace!
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Oh the errors and omissions of this life seeking Peace.
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Celebrate the New Moon of the Lunar Year. All hail the year of the Pig!
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Where does one hide from a Scorpion on the loose?
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Written By: eyeseetruth
Al Gore is my Jesus, my Ghandi, my Buddah, my Allah, my last hope.
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Mirror Mirror on the Wall who is the fairest of them all? Peace!
Read More...Acute challenges that have suddenly appeared on the horizon, go find Peace.
Read More...banality aside we step lightly on each others toes try and try to find some light in each others eye tread in each side step of being self and selfless and gather wonder in our heart’s discordance what tune what do we do here find here? inside of magic and nothing is there the same [...]
Read More...slender grace this raindrop from skyward falls fills inself on entrance and exhales shifts becomes finds parts of itself left behind yet its focus is unchanging once still expanding full grace gives way to peace
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Welcome to our Peaceful Podcast 2007
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May Peace bring light into our darkness.
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Quick now; the destination is about to find us: Peace!
Read More...This Ocean of Emotion is washing over us; swim Peace.
Read More...Now is a time for the rebellion to bring down the forces against Peace.
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Sometime the mold just breaks, It happens: Peace
Read More...Imagine Beings of Light blessing us with an ultra-violet pulse of the Light of Peace.
Just Imagine.
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Silence is Golden, Silence is Golden, Silence is Golden: think Peace!
Read More...“Do you feel like you woke up this morning as one man and that by lunch time you were another.†– yes exactly like that. I mean, every moment since has been like a series of new men, growing, changing, awaking into someone else – like someone I was meant to become.
Read More...A second chance is always in order. One more time; think Peace.
Read More...Informative Article posted on Organic Consumers Association (OCA) Website
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Psychic storm warnings are posted, find Peace.
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Written By: andrei
More and more I am convinced that all of life is about learning how to live with this amazingly heavy and inspiring responsibility.
Read More...Several days ago I saw a bumper sticker on a car that read “Jeb Bush 2008″. Today I read this… http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5379738&nav=2Ifu http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4172759.html -est
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Busy busy busy. So much to do, some much is changing; be Peace.
Read More...There is no greater aspiration to the seemingly impossible: need Peace!
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If we must begin at the beginning; where do we start? Start with Peace.
Read More...Semanas semejante suenos Mi corazon es el mar Salio con un murmuello Tranquillo y contento Y a veces soy una tempestad Marco el compas con mis ondas Yo soy nunca resposado Yo soy nunca durmiente Semejante suenos Soy siempre alli Mi risa es el chaparron que alimenta el mar Soy un espejo Brillo con el [...]
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Written By: veronika
Who would have thought baby making was such a big deal?
Read More...With so much happening and so much change upon us, please think Peace!
Read More...Once around the Sun and there is no stopping us now! Thank you for participating in our Peace Cell.
Read More...This is our last stop before we complete a Lunar cycle; thank you for joining our Peace Cell!
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Written By: tao
Published on Thursday, July 6, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Written by Jeff Cohen
With Mercury in retrograde and Jupiter recently direct, events are bringing change: for Peace.
Read More...Crisis! What crisis? Be thoughtful and then act: On Peace.
Read More...And yet another…war…and another….always money for war….but never enough for indispensible things like education, housing, healthcare….when will we wake up Americans?
Read More...Is the moon out tonight Will she be peeking Through the wisps of Summer’s fog Watching me As tears slip And glitter as they fall Is the moon out tonight Or is she sleeping Not aware in her bed of stars Wake and watch me! I’m not dreaming Far now from where you are I [...]
Read More...There is nothing like the Moon Child experience to make it feel like home: Be Peace.
Read More...Our apologies in the delay for posting comments. Due to the number of spam (many of them quite disgusting) we are moving to a moderated comment approach. This means that before your comment goes live it must be approved by the admin. Said admin was traveling this last week and had limitted access to the web – hence the delay. Much apologies. Thanks for your indulgence. Drop me a line if you encounter any delays in the future.
Read More...At least among many people I know, there will be a mass exodus from doing business with AT&T after reading this article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.
Read More...In this ocean of emotion we can only hope to tread water.
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Written By: laurence
There are realms of my life and work that are apparently separate, but they are beginning to merge in unexpected ways. I do not know where it is leading. I remain cautiously optimistic.
Read More...For a moment there, it felt like a turn around. As if fascism, that hate that permeates American discourse, was taking it on the chin.
Read More...Confirmed via: http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/pbs2006.asp from moveon.org : Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they’ve just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBS — unbelievably, starting with programs like “Sesame Street.” Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of [...]
Read More...At the mid-point between eclipses, we celebrate the annual Full Moon of insights: Peace be with you.
Read More...I got into a discussion recently about Reagan and heard it said that Reagan did more to bring down USSR than anyone else. It got me thinking – here are some of those meandering thoughts in the form of an email response. There are some interesting links included that I thought would be of interest even more than my half baked analysis of a situation that is well beyond my knowledge of history – more armchair historian than anything.
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Written By: andrei
These are some initial exploratory steps and research inspired by readings about wastes and toxins like bleach – included is a great list of alternative non toxic ways of doing things. Try a few and let me know what you find – I will do the same.
Read More...If one can not risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving: give Peace.
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Written By: starbucks is trash
Join OCA and Food and Water Watch June 19-25, to take the Starbucks challenge and protest or leaflet Starbucks cafes in your neighborhood. Let’s educate Starbucks’ patrons about Fair Trade and rBGH. Help us reach our goal of 300 actions!
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Written By: tao
Today at the most war-glorifying, soldier-heroing ceremony ever – the ceremony that repeatedly bellowed the lies of this war of spreading freedom & democracy while protecting our freedom & democracy – we stand in the middle of the parade route and represent the voice of peace. We (including our 77 yr. old elder) are spit on, screamed at, threatened, materials snatched from our hands & ripped up, as we stand on the grounds of peace.
Read More...It’s funny, isn’t it, that when you find your self saying ‘it’s all good’; it rarely ever is.
Read More...Sparkle Sparkle, Glitter Glitter: Please, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Read More...Silence Wakes me Finds space in my bed Between the sheets and my dreams Snuggles up and pretends it’s been there For days I focus This cloud This shine I hear nothing but the memory of dreams Its logic pours into this reality Senseless Slowly I lose the threads of thought From then to now [...]
Read More...Could it be we get another chance and a do over! Make sure to bring the Peace this time.
Read More...Our intentions manifest our experience. Thank you for joining our Peace cell.
Read More...Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

“Every time sensitive intelligence is leaked it hurts this country.” Our fearless leader came out on his pulpit today and told us this again.
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Written By: tao
Why is the hard fought, 35 years of work by the alternative organic community at risk?
Read More...Understandably the thought of “Controlling the Internet” appears to be a daunting task. In fact; could they do that? Isn’t there a hodgepodge of networks and technologies that is this wonderful melting pot for the whole world to share in? And it’s diversity almost impossible to control because of it’s complexity?
As of now, the simple answer to that is:
YES
They can control all of that.
Filed under: General,media,Podcasts,politics,Truth
Written By: dingo_the
Boeing-Boeing runs a story about UN World Intellectual Property Organization trying to organize worldwide censorship, ban podcasts and perform some other interesting things sake saving the market positions of current media-monopolies. Here is an excerpt: UN cooking podcast-killing treaty The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization has reconvened to discuss a treaty that will kill innovative [...]
Read More...It could be all in our minds. But, then where did all this change come from?
Read More...The vital issue at stake is something called “net neutrality” – it is the concept that that everyone, everywhere, should have free, universal and non-discriminatory access to all the Internet has to offer.
Read More...The order is rapidly fadin. And the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a-changin.
Read More...“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
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But something has furthered this feeling of global citizenry during my last trip and reinforced today. I know that part of it is because of the technologies involved in both travel and communication and how easy it is to move both your body and your communications around the globe.
There is a currently evolving story of a paradigm shift in the distribution of broadcast audio due to a simple technology that provides easy access to audio files, commonly known as an iPod.
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Written By: andrei

Andrisky Church
It takes becoming regular in certain places and along certain routes to recognize the patterns that teach about a place. There is no doubt that even a short visit like this can teach one about one’s self but to really learn a plus you must find a rhythm or a path and stay in it for a time.
Read More...Change is a continuum that therein Peace can be found. Please join our change engine.
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Written By: andrei

The last time I was in Kyiv, I was treated to winter. This time I am here as winter turns to spring, and more than any other part of the year in seasonal places I love this moment. The moment when out from under the cold and often dark tones of winter peeks the most tender moments in nature.
Filed under: art,education,General,Goodness,health / healing,politics
Written By: laurence
Sometimes it is the small efforts in life that add up to something much larger.
Read More...I think that so much of the wonder of being in other cultures is recognizing that underneath the language, traditions and cultures we have tribes that stretch across the earth.
Read More...Today I met my god daughter Sofia Zinchenko! She is soooooo precious – a little smiling cupid that shot a cute little arrow right into my heart.
Read More...Beginnings begin again, again and again. We wish you Peace in your newest beginning.
Read More...One thing you get clear about in traveling to new epicenters of human activity like Kiev, is that when opportunity is born people come flooding in.
Read More...So I have started over the last few months to ask myself these questions more and more. Asking myself where I am placing value, and looking for ways to do well buy doing good, rather than doing well to then do good.
Read More...It is that time in between eclipses that is so essential to change; keep thinking Peace
Read More...Get ready to have your world rocked by this Lunar (Full Moon) Eclipse: and don’t forget PEACE!
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Written By: andrei
I recently came across some of the new photos of Abu Ghraib prisoners. I found myself thinking – I know that there are good people out there who are supportive of our current leadership, but I cant help but feeling that these people are truly not paying attention at a common sense level.
Read More...The passing of an amazing soul back to her community. Flags at SF City Hall flown at half-mast.
Read More...Times are changing; this thing is growing. Thanks for tuning in to our Peace cell.
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Written By: andrei
and here are those using their powers for good
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Written By: andrei
On PETA I found a list of companies that test animals and companies the do not – this is the list of companies that do. Warning – ignorance is bliss peeps.
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Written By: andrei
exerpt from Ray Anderson’s speach to the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility – http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/article94.html
Read More...Peace is the way; and with a little practice we just might find it.
Read More...When I thought things couldn’t get any worse, they naturally did.
Read More...Our begining, at the New Moon in Leo, is now half a solar cycle through; thank you for being part of our Peace cell.
Read More...V-Day 2006: Until the Violence Stops. I was given the privilege to be part of the cast of “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler, presented on the campus of the University of Utah last night and benefiting programs for the prevention of violence against women and girls here in Utah. Although I have seen the Vagina Monologues 3 or 4 times previously, it was incredibly moving to be part of the cast representing women of different ages from diverse backgrounds and experiences. This experience moved me to post on DS after a long absence.
Read More...The last few months have seemed to be heavy to me. The other day while driving to work I heard the discussions about Iran and felt some despair about the situation. The thoughts actually popped into my head, “Just think about something elseâ€. I immediately recoiled at this. If I do what does that say about me? Does it say that I am powerless, and that I have nothing to offer? That even my thoughts and passions have no power – even over myself?
Read More...Peace may seem a long way off; all the more reason to continue now with our Peace cell.
Read More...Wow. That’s really all I can say about last night’s State of the Union. The president actually said ‘human-animal hybrids should be illegal.” No I’m not hating on the concept right now – although i think that the Christian fear of biotechnology is unfounded – but I wish to explore the absurdity and spectacular time we are living in now.
Read More...With so many planets sharing the sign of the new Moon, you just have to feel the dawning of the age of …
Read More...An incident of road rage in an Aliso Viejo shopping center parking lot, has left me wondering if race was a factor.
Read More...Thanks for joining us on our Peace full podcast and being part of our Peace cell.
Read More...Some times some things come along late; it can be like that with Peace.
Read More...It’s 2006 and our Peace train just keeps going and going and going…
Read More...Ever seen a ninja dance like Hammer?

- Grandma just called and said you’re supposed to go home.
- She didn’t tell me anything.
- Too bad, she said she doesn’t want you here when she gets back because you’ve been ruining everybody’s lives and eating all our steak.
- I’m not goin’ anywhere, Napoleon.
- Get off my property!
- It’s a free country. I can do whatever I want.
- Get off my property or I’ll call the cops on you.
- Well then do it! Go on!
- Maybe I will, GOSH!
sorry for deleting a few comments. we have been getting hit by some blog spam and while deleting the tons of new ones that occured over the holidayts i mistakenly deleted the last few. Sorry gang.
Read More...Darkness has reached its maximum and is now receding. With the new light; look for Peace.
Read More...my holiday letter that i couldn’t get in the mail on time
Mucho love to all.
All of us at P4P would like to wish everyone a Happy and Peaceful Festivus!
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Score one for intelligence in public education. Today a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled teaching so-called “intelligent design” in the classroom violates the constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. In his ruling, the judge said “Our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom” and “We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board’s real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom.” Are ID proponents the next Dodos?
Please listen to the show from Democracy Now covering Bush’s authorization for NSA to Eavesdrop on Americans without court approval http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/19/1515212
Read More...A while back, I wrote an article on “The Conet Project”. I decided to reprint the article, so that new visitors can hear these amazing sounds.
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As the Holiday Season comes upon us and we think of all we are blessed with, we should realize we have more to be thankful for than ever. Normally at this time of year we’d be celebrating just one immaculate conception: that of Jesus Christ. But this year, we get to celebrate not only Baby Jesus, but Baby Cruise as well.
Our Peace train refuses to stop and continues to grow. What should we do now? Think Peace; be Peace!
Read More...With the recent victories against the inane California Propositions proposed by Arnold Swarzenneger, it got me thinking about a repeal of proposition 227. Back in 1998 California Proposition 227 essentially banned bilingual education in schools throughout California. This amounted to a vicious assault, primarily against Spanish speaking immigrants, spearheaded by then Republican governor Pete Wilson [...]
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Written By: eyeseetruth
Aw heck. The good ‘ol US of A is flunking…
-eyeseetruth
911 Commission Report Card for the Bush Administration
Article on 911 commission report card
Read More...When the going gets weird; the weird turn pro. Thank you for joining our Peace cell.
Read More...I’ve only recently discovered Mark Doty’s poetry. His words create such lucid pictures. Usually this type of writing wallows too much in it’s own imagistic indulgences. Doty’s poetry uses imagery to work toward a greater concept. He instigates thought.
Read More...In the spirit of the holiday I wanted to briefly introduce myself by way of giving thanks…
Read More...If it feels like a struggle lately, that’s because our might must be stirred from within.
Read More...In Ukraine, one year after the Orange Revolutiuon the battle for the countrys future is still underway. Ukrainians, my dear compatriots, are trying to understand what has changed during this year. No doubt, Ukrainians have changed a lot. For the first time we have felt responsible for the future of this land. For the first [...]
Read More...Hope you all have a wonderful holiday. See you next week!

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Podcast for Peace continues to expand our peace cell. Thanks for joining us!
Read More...I’ve been doing presentations on everyday activism lately, and I’d like to invite us to talk a little about what it means to us. My questions for discussion include, “What does it mean to you to be an activist?”
Read More...I was revisiting my 8/05/05 blog on Mindfulness and Chronic Pain today to see who had written, and I was stunned by how many friends – some of you whom I have only just met – experience some kind of chronic pain.
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Bukowski Understood “Poetry Readings.” The pretension, the urge to destroy the poet through selfish shortcomings. Well, here I took three readings by Charles and remixed them into one piece. Henry Chinaski took no shit at poetry readings. Listen in.
How about you worry about protecting your own daughter, buddy?
Read More...The evolutoin of our revolution could be the solution; please listen in.
Read More...Hope waits for no one
We make it so
Love, lend your heart, give us strength
Peace in our lifetime
Suffering need be no more
Don’t walk alone
There is light, there is light
Filed under: Goodness,Justice,politics,Truth
Written By: andrei
I just got back from the Green Festival, and boy am I ready to take this fight to the next level.
Read More...I conjure you, by that which you profess,–
Howe’er you come to know it! -Macbeth
“If I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus,” wrote Parks. “I was tired of giving in.”
Read More...Filed under: education,General,politics,religion,science
Written By: eric
It was in 1859, one hundred and forty-six years ago next month, that Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, and it’s been under attack ever since.
Read More...Filed under: education,General,Justice,Love,politics,religion,Truth
Written By: shelby
I had to re-post this list. Love DOES make a marriage.
Read More...Thank you for listening to our podcast and joining our Peace Cell!
Read More...Hi, everybody! Today I have stumbled on a very interestiong instrument that misght be of interest for members of Driving Socrates community. It is Flock – a Firefox-based Web-browser for active users of Blogs and other social web-services. Besides a really neat interface it seems rather functional, though has some glitches. Still it has some [...]
Read More...Another Full Moon and another eclipse; our Peace Train rumbles on down the track.
Read More...Reviews of Japanese films from the 1940′s through the 1960′s.
Read More...Filed under: Beauty,Goodness,health / healing,Truth
Written By: andrei
When I went in today, there was a barista I do not know too well but seems like a nice person. The owner of Muddy’s was there too (I will not divulge his name as he may wish to remain anonymous) and we exchanged our hellos. I noticed a plate of candy and asked if they were already getting into the spirit of Halloween. I was told that it was a Mongolian tradition to put out candy when someone has passed on, and that Paulabarak had died in a car accident.
Read More...An interesting article run today by Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
Read More...Filed under: Beauty,Goodness,Love,Nature / Eco,travel
Written By: andrei

I am doing the recap of our adventures in installments. I will republish it all as one peice when finished, but for those of you on the edge of your seats, I figured I would give it to you as I finish it in amidst the business of being back.
Thinking about Peace is a powerful way to contribute to Peace; please join us.
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Ok, this is the entire story with my music and a bit of remixing some key parts.
Filed under: Beauty,Goodness,Nature / Eco,Truth
Written By: andrei
God I want to “go native” – as in swinging like a monkey right back into that rainforest
Read More...For the first time in history, a marriage equality bill has passed through a state legislature. The bill could reach Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk this week.
The Governor has indicated that he will veto this historic legislation.
Thank you for joining our us; what started with just a few, has now grown to be many of us that now comprise our Peace cell.
Read More...Filed under: Beauty,health / healing,Justice,Love,Nature / Eco,politics,Truth
Written By: eyeseetruth
Tonight I had a vision. I’m one who acts out their vision. I’ve decided that starting next Monday I will walk to work. I will retire my car. I will retire using oil. I can survive without oil. Can you? I will contact the LA Times. I will tell them what I’m doing. I want [...]
Read More...Heavy steps on drunken feet Join jazz beats Wake me from my sleep Now knowing the mess Of death Homes no longer possessed I long for laughter’s flight Pouring out with doorway light Into a warm Louisiana night My ache finds it’s heart Safely here, this world apart Like a shiny penny tossed I have [...]
Read More...andrei and sherry in costa rica stumble upon an internet cafe.
Read More...Civilization was a game I played on a glowing box, a mark of my own nation’s scientific achievement. I find myself playing the same game on a similar box today, only this time I am not the leader. I am the citizen.
Read More...Thanks for joining our Peace Cell. As our listeners share this; our efforts for Peace grow, too.
Read More...A friend emailed today and said she is taking a doctor, an acupuncturist, a couple of other people and a big truck (she’s also a massage therapist) and driving to Louisiana to help. She found some organizations that can use her and she is mobilizing. She asked for donations of items they could take with them and offered a list to start from with ideas. So many of those items were things I just “had in my house”, had EXTRA of, was hoarding for a time when they would be needed. (Even a COPY MACHINE, which was on the list and in my garage!)
Read More...Filed under: Beauty,Goodness,Nature / Eco,Truth
Written By: andrei

I am going back to my natural state – where my brain ends inside of me. I won’t be able to reach out into cyberspace and grab factoids and figures and I won’t be able to check statistics or online news. I will only be able to reach the natural world around me and then of course inward – into the abyss that grows less lit yet more sacred the deeper one reaches.
Filed under: Nature / Eco,politics,science,Truth
Written By: Danny Boyle
For years it’s looked like “W” and his henchmen played every card right as if all things were planned on their behalf!
Read More...I’m sharing a recent column by Molly Ivins, who offers a broader analysis of the recent and continuing disasters precipitated by Hurrican Katrina. May we all contribute in some way to the changes that must follow this devastating event.
Read More...In what appears to be a rapid, horrific spiral into the surreal, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) Has Exposed the rebuilding of the 17th Street levee to be a staged Photo Op for President Bush.
Read More...Our hearts and prayers go out to those affected by Katrina. We wish them Godspeed to safety and eventual recovery.
Read More...Filed under: Nature / Eco,politics,Truth
Written By: dingo_the
Hey, Biniyam, whazzup? Are you still playing Jimi Hendrix´ stuff in dorm´s hall? You know, these were, probably, the best minutes in my life when you put meter-large loudspeakers into the hallway, switched your guitar on and palyed.
Read More...Filed under: Beauty,Goodness,Nature / Eco,Truth
Written By: andrei
People, good decent people, will be forced to cross some lines. Some to protect themselves will use weapons against the aggressors that are on the edge of that bell curve, some out of need for food or water will loot places, some out of misery will push and shove. We must respect their struggle to maintain the connection to the law in their heart in some of the worst times of their lives.
Read More...I’m sure I’m not the only one watching this horrible disaster unfold. What we are seeing is unprecedented in modern American history. Help me restore my faith in humanity.
Read More...We’re facing the worst natural disaster in modern history – complete destruction of a large American city. 40% of the New Orleans national guard are in Iraq. Where is President Bush?

Starbucks is trash even when it is easy not to be.

Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA
A few reviews of films that feature young people in prominent roles.
Read More...Another voice joins us on our peace mission; thank you Chrisybug!
Read More...Filed under: education,General,health / healing,Justice,media,politics
Written By: tao
“While magic as I understand it is more a craft than an art or a science, the basic principle holds. The medium of magic is consciousness — one’s own consciousness, that of other people, and (more controversially, at least within the worldview of modern industrial culture) that of other-than-human entities of various kinds. The tools of magic are will, imagination, and the innate structures of consciousness itself, constellated through formal patterns of symbol and ritual. The goals of magic are defined by the individual magician.â€
–John Michael Greer
Read More...An angel sang with cherub’s beauty, I forgot her tattered wings. I know she aches from holding worlds of hopes that burn her quiet dreams. From climbing forth from painful pit, her back must ache as wings are dragged. And yet her voice from heaven’s choir cannot be stiffled cannot be gagged. I have seen [...]
Read More...I’m feeling excited and honored to have an opportunity to contribute to this growing community
Read More...alone in soft dawn light the moon pulled back the tide left softly to abide alone in placid strength with seaweed floating near waves breaking in my ears alone beside the sea with all the world asleep in fortune’s dream of peace
Read More...The following comes to me via Freepress.net. It is the prepared text for Bill Moyers’ eloquent speech to the National Conference for Media Reform on May 15, 2005. The event in St. Louis was organized and hosted by Free Press.net
Read More...This sway Like sea-legs I spin Into the bliss of oblivion Rest on the pillow of waves Awash in this Moment of purity With a careful glance behind I see the last Of the soft sunshine Pull myself into this core Wander back, new To who I was before Greet myself With this kind bliss [...]
Read More...I was just thinking about Andrei’s latest blog Taking a Vow of Connectedness and how many of us share love for the various creatures that inhabit this existence with us. I received this image of my Cat Irie today, taken by my friend Jane Pereda. I offer this image as a simple example of our [...]
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Written By: andrei
I want to reach into myself and into the stranger on the street and I want to lift out all that is holy and all that is the same. I want to take the mother of all road trips and discover every difference that can be pointed to between one person and another and I want to hold it up to what is sacred – beautiful, good and true about us all.
Read More...Peace should start somewhere, why not here? Join or Peace cell.
Read More...It sucks to not feel safe in your own neighborhood, let alone your apartment complex.
Read More...Did you know that about 2/3 of people who have never suffered from serious back pain have the same kinds of ‘abnormal’ back structures that are often blamed for chronic back pain, and that many people continue to have pain after ‘successful’ surgery? Fear is a major factor in continuing the pain cycle when there are no structural problems.
Read More...Filed under: General,Nature / Eco,politics,science,Truth
Written By: shelby
Did you know that the Chief of Staff of the Bush Administration’s Council on Environmental Quality was previously a lobbyist for oil companies???
Read More...For anyone who considers the complexity of controlling progress and the use of tools and technology in such a way as to be their master rather than their servant.
Read More...Today, I am quite concerned about the story evolving around John Bolton’s appointment to the United Nations.
Read More...If you have Farmers Insurance in CA and use their monthly billing; you need to know this.
Read More...It’s about rivers and dams. Powell Reservoir, known by its fans as “Lake Powell” and its enemies as “Lake Foul.” It’s the lake that drowned Glen Canyon on the Colorado River above the GC National Park, Glen Canyon, “the Place that No One Knew.”
Read More...Filed under: education,General,health / healing,Justice,media,science
Written By: tao
Alexander Gorlov’s helical turbine, a device that’s 100 inches long and resembles “an oversize beater from an old handheld mixer,” can harness kinetic energy from any body of water, including canals, open oceans, and rivers.
Read More...Having posted last on the day previous to the London subway bombings I find myself writing to my blog with a changed perspective.
Read More...Filed under: Beauty,entertainment,health / healing,media
Written By: shelby
Do you really know how the things that you see, read, expose yourself to during the course of your day effect you?
Read More...Gandhi, “If it is man’s privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent.â€
Read More...I am on a little bit of a journey this weekend, here in exotic Arizona. This weekend I am going to visit my sick and dieing father who I have been moderately to completely estranged to for the past 10 years…
Read More...Can’t say I completely agree with you on this one DB. Faith has always been a powerful force – both constructive and destructive. Faith is also at the heart of things like relationships, recovery from addiction as well as connection with the Other.
Read More...Filed under: humor,religion,science,Truth
Written By: Danny Boyle
It could happen!
Read More...If you’ve ever wondered why people who are hurt by Bush’s policies still vote for him, or how it is that conservatives have stolen such a mind share in this country, or how we can fight their Orwellian double speak, then pick up George Lakoff’s “Don’t Think of an Elephant”.
Read More...So how do I categorize this first blog of my life, in Love, Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Politics?
Read More...meeting minutes transcribed during the British Prime Minister’s meeting on July 23, 2002—a full eight months PRIOR to the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003
Read More...So here is a new and shining soul and what world shall I give her? What, when I turn towards this precious being will I be saying with my life? I am reminded of a mountain top experience when sitting alone at night in a redwood forest I heard my name spoken.
Read More...On the heels of the British Prime Ministers visit and call for the US to play more of an active role in reducing greenhouse gasses, a senior associate in the office that coordinates government climate research resigned and leaked that top White House aids were editing scientific reports to downplay the significance of the impacts of greenhouse gasses on climate change.
Read More...I was browsing News.com as I usually do every moring, and was struck by the headline SEC, meet the blogosphere This is yet another concrete example of ‘blogging’ becoming a revolutionary, mainstream channel.
Read More...Would the Watergate scandal ever have been brought to light if Nixon had appointed W. Mark Felt as director of the FBI after J. Edgar Hoover’s death?
Read More...I am so tired of hearing about peoples fucked up childhoods. If I hear another person try to explain away their deviant behavior by saying that they couldn’t help it because they had a messed up childhood I’m going to scream.
Read More...It has become a path for me, and at times the path has had a sound. Tonight its sounds come from Matt Bauer
Read More...So there is one person I don’t usually write about. Surprising because she is at the center of my universe, a soft orange glow, she is the weather that governs the garden I keep. My journals are filled with her name and my days are made in concert with the sound that comes through her soul.
Read More...Now I say that with some sadness. I have done my packing, its 3am in Kyiv. In two hours we will climb in a cab for the airport.
Read More...Wow being sick while traveling on business is my least favorite thing in the world � well maybe not my least favorite thing. There was that time in the Saudi Arabian dessert where I was stuck in a broken down vehicle, cold and running out of food and I� well that�s a different story.
Read More...My latest obsession: The Conet Project Call me late to the party, but I recently discovered this. In short, The Conet Project is the title of a collection of recordings from shortwave radios all around the world. But these are not simply people jabbering with each other. These are recordings of ‘numbers stations’. The first [...]
Read More...Can not come out to blog or play. Kyiv is still enchanting us. Some highlights: met many new people. I am getting a sense for the frankness of the people here.
Read More...After a great night�s sleep in our awesome apartment. A word about our abode. One of our contacts here had helped us find an apartment to rent in the older part of the city. Complete with 20� ceilings, windows almost as tall, a balcony overlooking one of the central streets and comfortable beds.
Read More...So where has life decided to take me but to the Ukraine. And though by the last leg of our flight from Amsterdam to Kiev I felt like a wadded damp towel in a mildewy New Orleans bathroom, I was still feeling excited when we landed.
Read More...For a long time I’ve had a problem with feminism. Frankly I’m pissed that now I have to go out to work, instead of staying home to be a housewife and mother. I didn’t ask for that. The economy in this country makes it such that for someone my generation to achieve the goal of full time housewife, you have to marry rich (well maybe not rich, but certainly very well). I suppose had I shopped for a husband in a state other than California, I may have had an easier time realizing my career goals, as it turned out, however, my husband, even though acquired through Yahoo! was local.
Read More...“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” Leo Tolstoy “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” Leo Tolstoy
Read More...So, my husband and I were carpooling to work today, as we do every day, listening to Air America. The commercials came on and I was only half listening, but there was a woman talking and I’ll paraphrase here what she said:
“Kids don’t just ask questions, they set traps. Like asking, ‘Mommy, why does it get dark?’ The next thing you know I’m trying to explain stars and black holes and grrrrr. Then I think, ‘Thank goodness for movies. Kids don’t ask questions if they’re watching a movie.’”
Read More...As many of you know, I have been moved by the struggle of friends in the Ukraine to keep hold of their country. The wild winds of the former soviet union states have been blowing in the direction not unlike what we saw during the Cold War. With corruption running rampant, the presidential election was rigged and stolen by corrupt politicians tied to allogations of bribes, backroom deals and even murder.
Read More...Below is a letter that was composed by technology workers in the Ukraine. What an exciting time for us as a world to have such energy being put into the struggle for moving the world in the right direction.
Read More...Well, I am off to Disney World etc. with my family for a nice long christmas vacation so I’ll be away until after the holidays. So, in the spirit of Christmas, I will leave you with the experential wisdom of some of my favorite Christian Mystics. Even though I know nothing of Christianity as a [...]
Read More...Filed under: General,health / healing,politics
Written By: tao
If you thought news about the Bush government in action could not get creepier, here are two related updates from the Organic Consumers Association
Read More...Returning from my Thanksgiving holiday with family, I am reminded that I am enjoying the holidays once again. When we were young, we enjoyed the holidays like nothing else. The anticipation, the excitement of seeing distant family members, the bounty of gifts, the time off from school and the genral joy that seems to come [...]
Read More...Hello. I’m John from down in San Jose. I tend to play free-form jazz with my words, so if I lose you — it’s my fault not yours. I’m quite good at structured, expository writing, but to hell with all that. These days, I just let my brain bounce and play with the cascading cadences [...]
Read More...givingThanksI am at times so overwhelmed with profound gratitude that I well up in tears just taking in the colors and shapes that create a marvelous tapestry that we call the world. It is never anything specific that I feel grateful for but rather the world itself. Just to ‘Be’ seems to be the greatest [...]
Read More...Friends, I have some news to report. Below is a piece of an instant messenger conversation I am having with my friend Roman in Kiev where election scandals are coming to a head with a right wing (aligned with a group of former soviet states including Russia that are moving that region back toward the cold war) and a progressive candidate who clearly has the support of the people as you can see http://www.1plus1.tv/video/camera.php
Read More...I was online this am with a friend in Kiev who shared with me the anger he and his friends are feeling as they see their country pulled away from a leader they know can make a difference in their country. Sounds like some very dubious election behavior. It is in the air…
http://www.kirotv.com/news/3940711/detail.html
Stay agitated!
Read More...Until we have built a society that would willingly dismantle the institutions, technologies and processes it has lovingly created � not because they are not in working order or profitable but because they do not contribute to the long term vision and harmony of the planet � we will continue to work blindly toward our destruction.
Read More...I’ve been particularly interested in the subject of ‘perspectives’ for the last few months or so. Not by choice but just by recognizing whats been appearing and it just seems that the theme of ‘perspectives’ has been coming up alot for a while now. I think it may have started over the summer when I [...]
Read More...How many of you have been spending the last few weeks pounding your head against every available wall trying to figure out how so many people could have voted this disingenuous, election-stealing incompetent back into office? What’s the matter with them? Do they not see how sinister and dangerous he is? Are they stupid? Has he really been able to fool 51% of us?
Read More...Lately I have been hearing a lot about people wanting to move to Canada or have the blue states secede the nation or something to that effect. But it seems to me that if we simply get back to our roots of being a federation or a ‘republic of states’ than we can remain as [...]
Read More...When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place – a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature. – Henry David Thoreau
Now this is just about the most encouraging thing I have heard. If this is a time of recreating ourselves as Marc suggested in his blog and as Mr. Thoreau points to in this quote – well then I am encouraged.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.- Plato
Read More...Dear President Bush:
Congratulations on your victory over all us non-evangelicals. Actually,
we’re a bit ticked off here in California, so we’re leaving you.
I live in a very liberal county which is in a conservative state. As a matter of fact, the electoral map of Virginia looks similar to a red eye with a blue pupil right in the middle. This tiny pupil happens to be where I live which is Nelson County and neighboring Albemarle County (home [...]
Read More...Groundhogs DayFor the last year or so, I have considered the election of 04 to be, in a sense, like groundhogs day. I say this in the sense that on November 2, 2004, the voters (being the groundhog) would come out and tell us if there was going to be four more years of winter [...]
Read More...On the morning of November 2nd I had a short meeting with Angela Davis the radical philosopher and activist and in the evening my heart was breaking from the results of the election. The next day I fell into despair as so many progressives did.
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Does everyone notice a theme here? Things are remaining pretty intense for all of us. This weekend I had the privilege to attend a the Green Festival http://www.greenfestivals.com/ that was focused on the revolution at hand.
I want to rush towards optimism – as I always do. And yes in the heart of this experience I do find light � the same light I always find. The light that lives in the hearts of those close to me and connects one to the other in love � so much beauty, so much goodness.
One has to question the nature of change when one sees such things as this. It shapes thoughts about progressive change. It would be interested to see various issues plotted against this map.
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/maps/
What a dark and dismal day. Forgive me a moment as I try to work toward some hope. I am facing the fact that our world is indeed in the hands of religious extremists on just about every front. The Evangelical Right has gained more ground in this country.
Read More...Long ago, or so science and many holy books suggest, the human race came up out of the mud. Since then we have crawled over this globe, shifting in facial features, body types and skin color. We speak different languages and perform different rituals; we sing different songs and eat different foods.
Read More...Voting Irregularities
funny – http://stupid.sweetrush.net/movies/Voting_Machine_1.wmv
Man I love this guy – If I wasn’t going to be me, or Sade, or Anthony Hopkins I would be him, only more handsome.
Read More...For those of you who think John Stewart of the Daily Show should be president
John Stewart is one of the sanest and most intelligent voices on television right now. He and his colleagues on the Daily Show have consistently taken the high road � even while interviewing guests who have opposing views.
OK Maybe he isn’t stupid – maybe it’s something worse.
Video shows what James Fallows reported as “a striking deterioration in George W. Bush’s speaking skills in last 10 years.”
http://stupid.sweetrush.net/movies/BrainTenYrs.mov
Read More...I have been wrestling with the most susinct way to convince people that we need a change of administration, but haven’t found it until now… http://stupid.sweetrush.net/movies/seriously.wmv (its worth the wait).
Read More...I have been reading more and more about PhD programs that might support some of my curiosities. Here is a synopsis so far � I would love any feedback that people have.
OUTLINE OF GOALS
Discover and communicate the ongoing impacts of information technology (defined as the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of all types of information using computer technology and telecommunication systems) on human consciousness and spirituality.
takes a few minutes to download, but worth the wait.
http://home.earthlink.net/~houval/gopconstrm.mov
So recently I received an email from the father of my later friend James Lowrie. In it was a link to a website that played something they called – “We Still Need to be Reminded” which proceeded to play some ominous music and a series of quotes from the founding fathers �then the sound of an airplane and a crash and pictures of 9/11.
Read More...Below is a letter a friend of mine from Baltimore after one of her closest friends passed away. I was so moved by her words that I had to share it with her permission. The way she describes the life of her friend is an inspiration.
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This info about the presidential debates is from the PBS website for Bill Moyer’s television series NOW – if you are not watching this show you are not watching the most informative and honest program on television.
Dear Friends,
Enough of the handwringing! Enough of the doomsaying! Do I have to come there and personally calm you down? Stop with all the defeatism, OK? Bush IS a goner — IF we all just quit our whining and bellyaching and stop shaking like a bunch of nervous ninnies.
OK, so though the journaling about the fast did not go very well the fast did. I lost in the neighborhood of 20 lbs. Though I should gain a bit of that back. More than the weigh my body feels clean on the inside, and I have been meeting with a nutritionist to get educated about the things I should be eating.
Read More...Facts about our president – our rather THEIR president: (I think I posted somethign like this before but just couldn’t help putting this up)
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Read More...That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Read More...My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein
Read More...I am at the beginning of a ten day fast – who knows where it will lead me. Will I be thin, will I have new insight into what sorts of substances I want in my body. Will I have visions (other than visions of cheeseburgers and shakes and decadent chocolate yumminesses) � stop torturing yourself man!
Read More...“I think he is a bully, and like all bullies, he�s a coward when confronted with a force that he�s fearful of. His reactions to the extravagant and unbelievably selfish wish list of the wealthy interest groups that put him in the White House are obsequious. The degree of obsequiousness that is involved in saying �yes, yes, yes, yes,� to whatever these people want, no matter the damage and harm done to the nation as a whole � that can come only from genuine moral cowardice.� So speaks former Vice President Al Gore of President George W. Bush in his interview with David Remnick of The New Yorker.
Read More...Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. -Henry David Thoreau
Read More...For Sherry On the Occasion of Our 9th Wedding Anniversary
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary:Love \Love\, n. [OE. love, luve,
1. A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; pre["e]minent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters. Of all the dearest bonds we prove Thou countest sons’ and mothers’ love Most sacred, most Thine own. –Keble.
2. Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
Read More...When you are overwhelmed by an experience in nature � a walk on the beach or an island waterfall or even a flower in a city garden � it is not because you have for some reason become a keener observer. It is because for a moment you have abandoned the illusion that as a [...]
Read More...Exploring creativity As a lifestyle creativity can change the world around you, it can foster new ideas and practices, it can beautify and reveal truth and goodness through expression. At its essence creativity is the act of taking in the world and giving it back to itself through the unique interpretation and expression of an [...]
Read More...Hey man,
I feel for you. It’s tough when an issue like this becomes personal. I’m glad to see that Kerry hasn’t punked out. He dodged the issue recently by claiming that it’s a “state’s rights issue” (a ploy that Bush used liberally in the last election) which I think was the best move for him politically. The senate would need 67 members to vote aye to pass this thing into law. I am confident that this won’t happen.
Read More...from a New York City craigslist post: A great story of racial harmony in the DC subway. ——————————————————————————–Reply to: anon-35320278@craigslist.orgDate: Fri Jul 02 07:07:16 2004 OK, so check this out, I took the red line from metro center to Shady Grove, It was delayed so TONS of people had to sardine into the trains. It [...]
Read More...In honor of women’s history month and in memory of Erma Bombeck who lost her fight with cancer, her are her words of wisdom. IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER – by Erma Bombeck (written after she found out she was dying from cancer). I would have gone to bed [...]
Read More...Liberty in the Open I have been thinking a lot about liberty lately. I have been seeing its calling in everything and I think that above all liberty is a place of origin for us all, and when our wills subside, giving way to the natural currents of love and order we feel the pieces [...]
Read More...A Favor In less than 48 hours, Congress will vote on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would permanently deny marriage equality to same-sex couples. This is unprecedented — never before has our Constitution been amended to take away anyone’s rights. This is scary stuff people As all of you know, my mother is [...]
Read More...Passing Afternoon Inspiration �There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon� � if it weren�t for those moments that I realize just how short it all is. Like I accidentally notice how quickly a day passed and for some reason connect that to where I am in my average white male life [...]
Read More...Summer Moods Never did summer feel so little like summer. It almost feels like I have enetered a season seen only on TV � the season that always seems to fit the mood. Saving for maybe a few days that felt like rain but it never came. A tenderness, a lightness of spirit sniffs against [...]
Read More...Wisdom form Thoreau That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.Henry David Thoreau The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for [...]
Read More...Change the World Smiley Smiley people make the world a better place simply through being alive. Happy people change the world by getting up in the morning. You want to change the world? Find your happiness and smile often!
Read More...Quotes to Inspire Change We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.- JOHN F. KENNEDY The [...]
Read More...Create Your Day Hi Everyone – life is busy and I am working on an essay about liberty and freedom so much of my writing time is going into that right now. I did want to share something a work colleague of mine (Thanks G.) turned me onto. This is very related to the philosophies [...]
Read More...9-14-02 (This post was a continuation from my last one where I am drawing a distinction between pain and suffering) A couple of days ago I referred to a master (Buddha) saying something to theeffect of “Nirvana is the cessation of suffering”. I don’t think that thathis understanding is different than your own and I [...]
Read More...Sharing the Dream with Shelby and Scott On a hilltop on the Northern California coast, surrounded by wild purple irises I found the words I wanted to say to my friends Shelby and Scott during their wedding ceremony. Of course I cried my way through most of it so I thought posting them here would [...]
Read More...9-12-02 (This was written to clarify what I mean by Bliss as opposed to joy.) The Bliss that I was referring to is not the same thing as joy. When I say‘Bliss’, I am referring to what you wrote below, “Originally, there isnothing but nothing,”. That ‘original nothing but nothing’ is what I wasreferring to [...]
Read More...Stormy Weather Gives Way to Sunny Skies The bad thing about not being prone to depression is that when you get it you are like a deer in the headlights of hard times. The good thing is that you can actually work your way out through a good dose of personal reflection, some herbs from [...]
Read More...9-11-02 (This was written in response to the nondualists tendency to shun the ‘I’ as being dualist) As far as the ‘I’ goes, when I hear that word, I have no problem withit. Here is a quote by Christian Mystic, Meister Eckhart. This speaks to the nature of ‘I’that I am fond of and just [...]
Read More...Long Dry Season As many of you know I have been having a difficult time lately. I feel like I have been trekking through a barren land of thorns and uncertain horizons. I am seeing signs of life though, and I wanted to thank everyone for being so supportive and concerned. I will be spending [...]
Read More...9-10-02 (This is an excerpt from my personal journal the day after the previous blog) The next day started out much the same. The Joy that I have been describing is the deep appreciation for Being while knowing that I am not. I had settled very deeply into the Witness which can be described as [...]
Read More...“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community…Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”
–Cesar Chavez
Read More...9-09-02 The intensity of what I expressed in that letter has been growing rapidly and this whole weekend has been so profound that I can hardly contain myself. Thursday we went to the fair and the first ride I went on with my daughter sparked something that has been growing day by day. I am [...]
Read More...Pitch-black Eucalyptus tower above us; dark sentinels against the ambient light of the city.
Read More...Even before the Patriot Act was enacted, the FBI had the power to conduct surveillance of people who were suspected of engaging in criminal activity.
Read More...9-05-02 (The following post was a response to a question about the difference between personal and impersonal Awareness.) It is the focusing of Awareness that creates the appearance of an identity where there actually is none. The appearance of an identity is created and sustained by the habitual identifying or focus on thoughts/memories. The reason [...]
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