Nobel Peace Prize 2015 awarded to 4 groups uniting for peace and stability in the north African country of Tunisia click here
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Walking across the bridge to Philadelphia click here
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Yes, Quakers served a free lunch until Dec 2015. In Camden, every 2nd, 4th, 5th Sunday click here
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Farai and Natasha rap for peace; Natasha wants to train as a physician click here
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Caribbean Movie Night: discussion of when the United States of America invaded the sovereign nation of Grenada in 1983 click here
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Make peace with the earth. SJ Dodgson MJoTA 2014 v8n2 p0923
We declared war on the earth the minute we learned how to start a fire, how to burn wood and oxygen into ash and that stayed on the ground and carbon dioxide that floated in the air.
We can declare peace by accepting that we do not own the earth, we are merely stewards passing through, and our duty is to cut down use of resources, and cut down waste.
1. Walk, ride a bicycle or use public transport.
2. Do not buy or accept plastic water. Drink tap water in the United States and Europe. Recycle all plastic.
3. Bring buckets into the shower and use the run-off to flush the toilets and water plants.
4. Collect rinse water from washing machine and use it to water tomatoes, peppers, spinach, soy beans.
5. Do not buy too much food. Have a small fridge that goes under the table so you don't have the possibility of loading it with food you will throw out.
6. Avoid processed food. Bread, that is ok, make it yourself if you can. Avoid buying anything that comes in a paper or plastic box.
7. Avoid canned and fresh fish. Overfishing and trash has decimated the fish populations, and the world's coral reefs and turned the oceans into trash dumps.
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a : freedom from civil disturbance b : a state of security or order within a community provided for by law or custom <a breach of the peace>
2: freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions
3: harmony in personal relations
4a : a state or period of mutual concord between governments b : a pact or agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity
5—used interjectionally to ask for silence or calm or as a greeting or farewell
— at peace: in a state of concord or tranquillity
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No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
by John Donne
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Synagogue in Freiburg im Breisgau, burned to the ground by Germans supporting Hitler in 1938, memorial garden until 2015, when all traces of Jewish life and genocide were obliterated by German Greens click here
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Peace Scientists celebrates Martin Luther King jr by remembering Bayard Rustin. Bayard lived a Quaker life in deed as well as in faith click here.
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When I was young I occasionally stopped by a pub for a drink. In 1986 I did that in the city in the Black Forest of Germany, in Freiburg-im-Breisgau. It was ANZAC Day. I convinced the pianist to play Walzing Matilda, Lothar offered me a drink....
Oh dear. Life goes by far too fast. Parkinson's Disease sucks.
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We can only save our planet, Earth, if we change how we live, and if we repair that which we have destroyed, evolving list of how we can do this click here
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War
: a state or period of fighting between countries or groups : a situation in which people or groups compete with or fight against each other : an organized effort by a government or other large organization to stop or defeat something that is viewed as dangerous or bad
1:a (1): a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations (2): a period of such armed conflict (3): state of war
b : the art or science of warfare
c (1) obsolete: weapons and equipment for war (2) archaic: soldiers armed and equipped for war
2a: a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism b: a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end <a class war> <a war against disease> c: variance, odds
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