Category: ARCHIVE

revel Considering Champagne Peace,What else can you do but revelIn all the Possibilities? Now, whenThe news is so grim. Now, whenWe all feel so isolated. Now isExactly the time for reveling, forAllowing the contagion of Joy toOverflow and spill out over the edgesOf the tiny vessels in which we haveUp-till-now bottled our dreamsFor Peace. In […]

share What if we considered Power,Like the holidays, as somethingTo be shared. Shared with thoseWe love, certainly, but also withThose we’d like to know, and,Perhaps, with those we’ll neverKnow other than by the changesThey make in this World. SharingMay be exactly what brings aboutThe Advent of Peace. I have an imageOf Peace as a glass […]

elate When you consider the hair-raisingThrills of the Peacepath, considerThe last time you allowed yourselfTo be elated? Elation seems like itSticks around for a while, perhapsEven long enough to empower youTo try something new, to try harderAt something you’re finding you’veMastered, or to invite another alongAs you experiment with the headyElation of a new journey. […]

thrill For once, just allow it to happen.Allow yourself to notice and thenThrill to the abounding Possibilities.Or the marvelous Achievements.Or the sheer Beauty of this instant.Let the hair raise on the back ofYour neck or your heart stop andThen restart in the magic. How manyThings thrill you? When was the lastTime you made a list? […]

please It pleases me very much toInvite you to join me in Peace —Would it please you to join me?While I am a people-pleaser,By nature, I don’t much care toPlease the status quo. No offense,It pleases me to take another route.Think I’ll stick to the Peace route —It pleases me. The home I reach,Pleasing Peace, […]

encourage Look at you. You’ve learnedSo much in such a short time.You’ve mastered that skill —What’s next? How strong andGentle you are… I don’t knowAnyone who does that as well.To encourage! May I be oneWho encourages others toFind their feet, steady themselves,Reach for their dreams, and thenAccomplish them. You can do that,I know it! Just […]

surrender We are just so busy. So muchTo do. So many things to thinkAbout before (insert next date.).What if we were simply toSurrender to the Quiet and the Dark?What if we were to build safe spacesAnd safe relationships so that surrenderDidn’t look so horribly intimidating?Too often we think that to surrenderMeans to submit to power […]

honor Honor the sacrifices. HonorThe fact that people, no matterHow badly they chose, probablyMade the best choices they knewHow to make in the moment. It’sUncomfortable, isn’t it. This honoringDoesn’t mean those choices wereAll okay or without grave consequences.It doesn’t mean we need to make themOur life’s companion. Honoring seemsTo be a recognition from some distanceAnd […]

cherish To cherish. To bring the pastInto loving perspective and valueThose things that made us whoAnd what we are, even when theyMay have been damned challenging.Cherish and carefully protect theLife you have, the relationships youNourish, the community that encourages,And the Earth on which you live. Cherish.Remember them. Honor them. Go ahead,Spoil them a little (no, […]

enjoy Far too infrequently, do weTake the time to enjoy beingExactly where we are withExactly this group of people.A song from the 1940s said“Enjoy yourself, it’s later thanYou think.” It’s right. Life isUnpredictable — so enjoy eachLittle bit you can. Do you wantTo be remembered only as theOne who organized everythingOr as the one who […]