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Jason White — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:44:01 -0500

Many thanks to you as well, Silent Lotus. It has been wonderfully gratifying to watch and be a part of this growing online community. Your beautiful poetry helps keep us connected and aware of guiding principles.

Peace.Jason.

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silent lotus — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:40:50 -0500

Dear Jason

Thank you again for sharing your experiences and the updates.

They are greatly appreciated.

a warm smile

silent lotus

" May your voice be loving enough to silence your own fears." ..... silent lotus
www.silentlotus.net

A World That Works for Everybody

propeace.net — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:14:16 -0500

By Robert C. Koehler Tribune Media Services By the time the Rev. Michael Beckwith - this was on Sunday morning, a day and a half into it - invoked the idea of "a world that works for everybody," I felt an unbearable cry from the private depths of my heart: I believe! I believe! The cry pushed ferociously against an almost equal disbelief and I felt split in two - but maybe giving birth is always like that. ... Kucinich's legislation, which calls for the creation of a cabinet-level Department of Peace, funded at 2 percent of the Defense Department's budget, is just a step in the process. It's not a fabrication out of whole cloth. It would fund and coordinate programs already in existence, in schools, prisons and elsewhere; link the concepts of domestic and international violence; and give the U.S. government access to the latest thought and research on everything from safe schools to international arms control.