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Ending with Peace; Beginning with the Same
Peace. It’s what we need. Sometimes I wonder if I’m just naive or blind… beating just this drum… am I doing enough to make Peace happen or just dreaming about it. But then I think, I don’t know what...
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In Peace, Breathing Matters
For the past four years of my musings, i’ve danced with one picture a week or a month. It’s been a wonderful adventure. It’s different this year to have a picture come in every day. It’s different in...
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Sharing Chocolate for Peace
Sigh. When it’s as beautiful as the chocolate in this photo, it’s hard not to hoard it… But, no, really, I usually share. Usually! Thinking about this made me laugh. I remember one time when there was...
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Heart Problems Galore
Dear Bartender and Priestess, I am a 22-year-old man and recently got dumped. Again. And this last one really hurt. We were together for about a month, and I really liked this girl, “Sally”. One night,...
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Are There Miracles? Is There Peace?
We know that Spring happens, but it still feels miraculous to see those flowers burst forth — and to weather the early spring storms. The brilliant green of June, the blink of fireflies in July, I can...
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Making Time for Peace
You think life looks one way and it does, for a while. And then it changes. And so do you. Waking on my 64th, somewhat bemused that this is where I am in life, I’m aware of two things: How very lucky...
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Our Force for Peace Must Stand Firm
The elements are powerful and work at returning life to its most, well, elemental. We’re the ones who can bring care and understanding and Peace to life. It is perhaps not the most natural of states....
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May Peace Be the Mirror of my Soul
There are so many things I love about water. I love it in all its guises. Everyone, from rain to oceans brings something magical to the world. Still water offers many gifts. One sweet one is its...
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Wow! There’s Peace in the Neighborhood!
Some friends are helping me remember that there’s more generosity out there than we realize, and we need to not give into the fear. All of us seem to clutch our fear to our chests. It’s what we know....
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Until We Know, Peace
There are a lot of fears right now. Few of them feel unjustified, but all of them are unknown… I will stand firm on my beliefs and proudly beside those who are targeted, but I’m not ready to aimlessly...
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Hope and Love and Peace
There is so much ugliness in the world. Some of it is huge and stunning. Other pieces are simply small and petty. Today I’m tired of it. Today i long for something different, even while knowing we’re...
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Gather in Peace
I wrote about gathering for the holidays and finding your pack. But today, my mismatched pack will gather in Love outside a mosque to say no to the haters and to put them on notice. We are here. We are...
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Blessings of Light and Love and Peace
Happy Chanukah. Happy Christmas. Were you a Solstice person? Still celebrating? May your celebrations be filled with Love: all you hold sacred and all you hold dear. Peace be with us all. (Sure! Now i...
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Gratitude and Peace
The old year ends and the new year begins. And so we give thanks. For the reminders of all we have gained with the passing of those gifts. For the surprises that entered our lives, that often, even if...
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Lovers Singing Peace
When people who love each other, live with each other, and have for a long time, sing together, magical things happen. These two have known and loved each other a long time. And their singing shows it....
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Love and Peace
My father died, officially of old age, 7 weeks after this photo of Betty was taken. He announced his intention to die when Mommie and he were separated. “You’re ending my marriage, I took a vow to care...
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Love and Peace in your Young-Old Years
It’s a risk to marry at a point in your life where you are so much yourself. It’s hard to make a place in your life for a lover. I remember my friend Carolyn saying as she was falling in love with...
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Happy Valentine’s Peace!
Remember to Love people boldly… your partner, your friends, your neighbors, the strangers, the world. The world is a much better place when we do. Breathing in Love, as the song goes, we breathe out...
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Faces of Peace, Wherever You Look
There are so many places on cliffs and in streams where a profile or a whole or partial face appears. Geologists can explain how they were worn or why the rock broke in that way. But even the not so...
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Rocks of Peace
I am a rather reluctant outdoorswoman. Now more than ever there’s that allergy thing. And I don’t know whether it’s inertia or friends, or what, but it’s hard to get me outside, unless there are...
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