I just left this on the Wall of Beliefs at http://www.peacescooter.com

I invite you to leave your beliefs there as well. And share them here. Peace!

It is easier to wage war against nameless, faceless strangers than it is to raise weapons against friends.
Make as many friends in as many corners of the world as possible.
Make communities across oceans. read more »

Pangea is the name that was given to the supercontinent that included the entire landmass of our planet prior to the breakup of the continents. Please calendar Pangea Day for Saturday, May 10th at 2:00-6:00p.m. EDT. read more »

If you are like me, you probably used to think of yourself as a "constitution thumper." Maybe you still do. However, if you are like me and over 70% of Americans, you think this country is "broken" beyond repair. Are you surprised at that number? I sure was! read more »

Hello there everyone,

I just got back from a trip cross country and have added several new photos of peace signs to my site: www.signsofpeace.net

Please take a look and if so inspired, please send me your own photos to add to mine. That's really the reason I made the site - to have everyone looking around for signs of peace.

Thanks so much!

Rhan Wilson
www.rhanwilson.com

The following is a piece that has been submitted to the project, "One Million Peace Signs" as an answer to their call for folks to identify "Peace Heroes". I've asked that they publish the submission sometime this week, since the peace ride begins on Friday. Here's a preview for you folks. read more »

"Planting Peace"

An Affirmation for Well-Being

Every day
when we rise
we can make
the decision
to plant
the seeds of peace...
through our thoughts
speech and actions
we have the power
to maintain
our own well-being
and while the spirit crushers
and war mongers
attempt to infect us
with their malignancy
our serenity
will shield us
from their strife... read more »

I have often been struck by the parallels between Maureen Moss's teaching at World Puja and what we are trying to do with Marshall Rosenberg's model of Nonviolent Communication - this in spite of the differences between their approaches. I have shared Maureen's newsletters in this forum in the past because they give me so much power to live in my integrity. read more »

Once upon a time, somewhere in post-war Eastern Europe, there was a great famine in which people jealously hoarded whatever food they could find, hiding it even from their friends and neighbors. One day a wandering soldier came into a village and began asking questions as if he planned to stay for the night. "There's not a bite to eat in the whole province," he was told. read more »

Critically acclaimed
To be culture bias,
Not even of dark complexion
So tension rises,
Gaining high
But shot down
By redneck views,
I’m a white man
Who sings
A nigger’s blues,
So i restate it all
And throw in
An apology,
It’s not my fault
I can grasp
Anthropology,
You’ve been gassed
By your own
Pig’s feces,
Can’t tell the difference
Between Korean read more »

Washington Post-ABC News Polling on Iraq War
Released April 18, 2008 read more »