Of course the people don’t want war.

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?

A favor to ask…

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

Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA

Are you a “dirty red”?

A few reviews of films that feature young people in prominent roles.

Please allow me to introduce myself….

San Francisco, CA

Another voice joins us on our peace mission; thank you Chrisybug!

“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.”

–John Michael Greer

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 this angel quiet,
holding up her
shoulders strong.
She emerged with
radiant beauty,
with wisdom fresh
and this new song.

I’m feeling excited and honored to have an opportunity to contribute to this growing community

Our Peace Train rumbles on down the track. Don’t miss it!

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

Mandatory reading programs are stifling teacher and student creativity. Are we really raising “factory model” children? What impact to the reading programs that we are required to teach have on the WHOLE child?

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

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
Like a hand of friend and lover’s kiss

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 [...]

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.

Peace should start somewhere, why not here? Join or Peace cell.

These ancient chants,
Sound strange to you,
As you sit there in your churches.
But I would like to remind you,
Of the book which fell from your lips,
And landed on the bloodstained steps,
Blending,
With these ancient chants.

It sucks to not feel safe in your own neighborhood, let alone your apartment complex.

i rise in the morning…

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.

It’s our original attempt to podcast. We hope you all like it.

Did you know that the Chief of Staff of the Bush Administration’s Council on Environmental Quality was previously a lobbyist for oil companies???

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.

Today, I am quite concerned about the story evolving around John Bolton’s appointment to the United Nations.

If you have Farmers Insurance in CA and use their monthly billing; you need to know this.