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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Peace Globe of The Day ~ Peace in London from a Very Wise Kitty Indeed


It seems fitting today to honor one of the peace bloggers from London, England. Our hearts are with the people as they mourn and celebrate the beloved Queen of England. In the year 2019 we had a special launch highlighting climate change and changing our own internal climates as well. We're thrilled to hear that King Charles III has a passion for environmental issues. We offer our sincere condolences and wish him success and progress during his reign as King of England.
You may read Wise Kitty's post HERE.

Thank you for continuing to inspire.


Monday, August 22, 2022

Peace Globe of The Day ~ Endangered Spaces


From Eileen Trainor's blog (aka Cybercelt) we have today's peace globe of the day. She was the first blogger from way-back-when to talk about the climate and environmental issues during peace globe time and consistently on her beautiful blogs. We continue to learn so much from her. This one was created in 2019. The entire informative post can be found HERE.  We love her passion and dedication to our World. 

Saturday, November 6, 2021

Peace Globe #10,555 ~ Eileen Trainor


Cybercelt
Original Peace Blogger 
San Marcos, Texas

Peace Globe #10,552 ~ STARDREAMING with Sherry Blue Sky


Tofino, Vancouver Island, Canada
Please click HERE to read her fabulous poem written on peace day

"It takes courage to keep believing in times like these. But we are poets and words are what we have, so we use them in hopes they will add some positive energy to the universe - and send some loves to the beings in the natural world who are suffering, unable to ask us to stop Mother Earth. Peace, my friends, as this tired but beautiful old world turns and turns."

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Sunday, January 12, 2020

The Horoscope Junkie ~ Peace Globe #10,485


Wanda Dawn Gilbert
Canada






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White Dog Diary Online Blogs For Peace #10,484



The White Dog Army
Albuquerque, New Mexico

They write, "There is nothing we more humbly ask for than a world in harmony, respecting each other and our planet, and harnessing the power of love."



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One Gal's Musings ~ Peace Globe #10,483

Hailing from the great state of Chicago....It's The Gal Herself!


Chicago
She writes, "So today, change your personal climate. Turn down the heat that's firing your resentments. Assume good intentions and respond in kind.

Let's manifest peace beginning with one another. Let's unmake violence and destruction, one heart at a time, starting with our own."


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Shannon's Moments of Introspection ~ Peace Globe #10,482



Shannon Wamsley
Wisconsin

In honor and memory of her wonderful son Colt. Shannon candidly shares the pain of losing her child to cancer, struggling for peace, and keeping his memory alive. Many prayers and much love to this dedicated and passionate peace blogger. 


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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Mindful Palate with The Spoon Mage ~ Peace Globe #10,480


The Spoon Mage

What a story!! Peace in action. Humanity in action. Love in action. Janice writes about her special aunt-in-law, specifically how she blessed an entire generation of folks by example and ravioli.  Please read! Here's just a part... "Please work with us all to stop the damage to our earth and regain the vibrant life that allows us to create ravioli and tomato sauce. Choose one aspect of a healthy planet and focus your efforts there - bees perhaps? Can't grow any plant without bees." 


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Doses of Wild Yam with Yamini ~ Peace Globe #10,479


Yamini MacLean
Scotland
United Kingdom

Everyone on the planet should read this post! The trees, the forest, environmental care, protecting ourselves and our environment from disease and mismanagement - all crucial issues for this particular time in history. Please click HERE and read Yamini's excellent essay. Here's just one quote,  "Oh yes, dear ones, it must never be forgotten that all the plants of this earth, but the trees most of all, are the planet's lungs. They are also, like the canaries in the mines, an indicator of the environment's general health." 
I learned so much from this post.

Peace graphic by Ann Adamus @ Zoolatry, Photo Mimi Lenox

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Jamie's Place For Stuff ~ Peace Globe #10,478

Tacoma, Washington

Jamie writes, "White storms continue to get greater and wilder, there is still time for a change to help ease climate change and to also bring peace to the world. That is the promise of the rainbow. It signals the storm has passed and in the peace that follows to reach out to cure the pains of the world."

and as always....The fabulous Bear-A-Tones!





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Stardreaming with Sherry Blue Sky in Canada ~ Peace Globe #10,477


Vancouver Island, Canada

Sherry pens a fabulous poem for peace day called Shinrin Yoku (Forest Bathing)


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Sunday, November 3, 2019

Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty ~ Peace Globe #10,475


London, England
United Kingdom

Quotes from Athena -  "Climate change is real and we can help change the climate. It starts with you. Each and every one of us. We can all do our bit to save Mother Earth. There are things we can all do as individuals to save our beautiful planet!"

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Dona Nobis Pacem ~ Bathing In Persimmon Trees

Welcome to the 14th launch of BlogBlast For Peace aka Dona nobis pacem in the Blogosphere. 
Our theme this year is Change Your Climate. Many are choosing to write about global climate change. Others are choosing to write about the need to change their own personal climates in order to create peaceful spaces for themselves ( ie: eliminating stress, self-care). I have chosen the latter.  
Please sign the Mr. Linky at the end of this post so that others may visit you and see the beautiful peace globes throughout the Blogosphere. Remember to tag me on Facebook  or wherever you are on social media. Thank you for being a part of this community of peace bloggers. Your words are powerful and important to all of us. May we lift and encourage in our quest for a peaceful more sustainable planet earth.  Grant us peace!  

Bathing In Persimmon Trees

As she got older and more introspective, my mother would spontaneously start talking about random things from her faraway childhood. On this day, she began to weave invisible spinning yarn in the air in front of her. "There are these threads....you see....threads...." as her hands moved in and around them,  making sense of mysteries in her mind,  weaving and talking as she spun, connecting branch to branch to branch. Except she wasn't really sitting there with me. She was somewhere back in time playing dodgeball with the curse.

 "I can see them going back generations."
"What kind of threads?" I asked. 
"Poverty. Brokenness. Abuse. Depression. Alcoholism. Divorce. Conflict. Addiction. 
Bad threads....don't you see them, Mimi?"
Yes, mama, I've always seen them.

Like shadows on trees in a cemetery, cast long from eons of time and generation, I had always seen them. 

If you want to go mad, 
cover them up.

If you want to break the curse,
stand in the Light.

Generational threads can tie together what desperately needs to be broken. They are inherently binding and strong.
Made of flax. Faith. Fiber. Custom. Tradition. Tribe. Toxicity. Untruth.
Even and especially love.

Whether they remain tied and woven into the next generation depends not on the strength of the cotton, but on the spinning of the pattern. Twisted legacies take whole life spans to unspin. It requires laser-sharp discernment and a willingness to plant a new field. To begin a better story. Harvesting new tribes is not for the faint-of-heart. My mother was anything but faint.


And that's when I began to remember...
warm water washing down my back.
I felt the heaviness of long tangled hair.
Soap.
And her hands in my hair.

Scrubbing and soothing at the same time.  Bare feet on a dark linoleum speckled floor, bent over the kitchen sink in the middle of a fifties wood frame in the heat of summer and the only running water in the house.  Daddy hadn't finished the bathroom yet.
My mother stood untangling the mane that was always tangled and drying me off with a ragged towel. 

And then I started to cry 

Uncontrollably. Sobs from an eight-year-old that should never be heard by a mother. 
She knew. I could see it in her eyes. She knew. From the covering of shame I felt underneath the thinness of fabric that could not cover could not cover could not cover the confusion and tremble of a skinny little girl who had just been reminded of more than innocent suds running down the back of a dark-haired freckle-faced me with grownup questions swirling in her mangled head.
She looked straight into the dripping freckles and raised her eyes to meet mine.

It was my mother's greatest gift to me. 

Unwavering trust. Unquestioning acceptance. She believed what I was about to tell her before I said it. I can still taste the shampoo on my lips and see the horror in her eyes, the quiver in my voice. I remember the way my eyes wanted to only stare at the linoleum while she gathered herself.  Standing there dripping in a torn towel while she called someone to tell them what she'd seen in her daughter's eyes.
I never had to see him again.
She saw to it.

She sacrificed family and relationships to protect me. 
Had she chosen to look the other way, I am sure without a shadow of an oak tree doubt,  I would have crumpled into a broken twig on the sudsy floor and never recovered.
Instead, it was the moment that defined me. 

In the deepest part of me that day, she taught me to trust the sacred places that no one should touch.  I owned every nook and crevice again before she even finished with the tender drying
 because my mother believed me 
she gave me permission to trust myself
She had no idea that she'd just given me my voice.


Of all the trials that came later - our arguments, her quirky temper, my stubbornness - our differences growing wider in the middle of our lives, then circling back to unconditional love, as happens with mothers and daughters  - I'm not sure she ever fully recovered from the sadness of that moment. 

Threads
You see them, don't you Mimi?


I wanted so much to know her and understand her better and all that mysterious weaving in the spirit. Those strands had names. They had stories. But there wasn't time and she was gone.  What made her so unbreakable? What stopped her from untying the last piece of tangled life and freeing herself? What kind of woman knows by instinct and love how to run straight into battle for her daughter?  That's the indestructible mother I longed to fully know.

When I felt she had no faith in my endeavors or no understanding of my independence, in hindsight, now, I wonder if the moment under the towel defined the way she would forever try to keep me from straying too far into unfamiliar territory. As I spread my wings to fly away, perhaps her holding on was the only way of protecting me.  Perspective.

I went through some things this year that broke my heart. Multitudes of unkindness and wholly undignified days. But the more vile they became, the more grace I received. 

 My body is recalibrating. Balancing. Resetting. Changing my climate, my environment, is not just necessary for peace of mind, it's mandatory for my survival. 
I am ready to put this decade behind me but not without the wisdom it contains.

Standing under the canopy of trees gives me courage and strengthens my vulnerability - that delicate balance between authenticity and prudence.   It resembles the act of protection and trust. Intimacy and connection.  You might not have a lifetime or even a decent swath of moments like these with the people you love. 
But it only takes one.  
Divine grace echoes on the walls of my heart. 
My mother's grace reverberates decades later.

And she is the reason that I can stand uncovered in a field of persimmon trees
without fear 
without shame
without scars


I finally learned to accept all our twisted roads and fallen places.  How she tried to exhume the genesis of those invisible threads in her hands, never quite finding where the first broken piece began and the last continued.  
 You see them, don't you Mimi?

She died before she could unravel all the threads
But she deposited in me just enough spitfire to keep my end of the peace treaty intact:
To leave the untelling on the kitchen floor 
To live without hiding behind trees 

To forgive those who want to see me broken
To be open and brave when your words need wording
and to be loud in the most vulnerable of places

and that's why I need trees
Had you told me a year ago that people can feel energy from trees, I would have silently patted you on the head and sent you on your way. And yet, since her death six months ago, I find myself running to the forest on my mountain, sitting for hours in the sanctuary of their branches. Breathing in oxygen. Absorbing life into the cells of my stress-laden body.
 Finding the Mother trees. They shelter the young saplings and strategically branch out in directions that give them the most nourishment from the sun.
Did you know there are mother trees?

We are made stronger when we understand where we came from
when we uncover what is hurting us
We discover which branches are strong and which need pruning.
I am learning to be thankful for the miles of memories that created me
all of them

Safety sometimes lies in being unseen
but never in being unheard.




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Blog 4 Peace 2019 Participants
1. Sherry Blue Sky
2. Claudia Hall Christian
3. Cate Reddell
4. Mimi Lenox
5. Jamie White
6. Yamini MacLean
7. The Spoon Mage
8. Waiting For The Muse ~ Ann Tracy
9. Moments of Introspection
10. Athena Cat Goddess
11. The Gal Herself
12. The White Dog Diaries
13. Dawn
14. Wanda Dawn Gilbert
15. Scrappin With Life
16. Callie
17. Tinkerbell in the Netherlands
18. Animal Shelter Volunteer Life
19. Bonnie @ Bonnie's Books
20. Zoolatry
21. Mickeys Musings-Dona Nobis Pacem
22. Laurie @ Meditations in Motion
23. Linda Lee Lyberg
24. The Spoon Mage
25. Bertram's Blog
26. Stunning Keisha
27. Mama Pajama
28. Susie Clevenger
29. Speedyrabbit
30. Mike ZGolch
31. Mike Golch
32. Friends FurEver
33. 15 and Meowing
34. Louie's Chaos
35. Eileen Trainor
36. CyberCelt
37. The Island Cats
38. Canadian Cats
39. Sandra Hammel
40. Brian's Home Blog
41. Gemma Wiseman - Mornington Peninsula Daily
42. Sicily Scene A Welshwoman in Sicily
43. Sandra Hammel
44. Friends FurEver - BlogBlast4Peace
45. Sparkle Cat
46. Lone Star Cats
47. Waiting For The Muse ~ Ann Tracy
48. Kinley Westie
49. Kathy Duffy Thomas
50. The Matriarch's Corner
51. Karen Nichols
52. Mickey's Musings
53. Loristory
54. Charmed Chaos
55. Diane Hasz Blog4Peace DJ
56. Raven Wolf
57. Two Spoiled Cats
58. The Psychokitty Speaks Out
59. Just Ducky
60. The Cat on My Head
61. Forty Paws
62. Blog 4 Peace The Official Gallery
63. Little Binky and Granny
64. Marcia McLees Bogaert
65. Binding Ink ~ Michelle Culp
66. Clawdia @ Bonnie's Books
67. Kim Marie Moon
68. Thumper Thinks Out Loud
69. Diane Hasz
70. David Timothy Holdsworth
71. Deb Reslake
72. Amarillis Kroon
73. Diane Hasz
74. Ken Smith
75. The Cat Blogosphere
76. Catscue
77. Mark's Mews
78. Driller's Place
79. Spike William Pratt A Cheshire Cat
80. Julia Phillips Smith
81. Correna Grogan
82. Speedy The Cheeky House Bunny
83. Bluezy
84. Jessica Obsenschain
85. Sue Earle Glashofer
86. Sanni Jansen
87. Bud
88. Living with Loulou

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Special Launch Event Thursday, July 12, 2012

We launched the 2012 BlogBlast4Peace season with a trip to the shore (real and virtual). I am already on the Atlantic. If you were here with us July 12 at sunset, even in spirit, then you were a part of the 2012 launch for BlogBlast4Peace. I can think of no better way to announce our November 4th campaign than a designated time for all to bring the same thoughts and vibes to the table....er...ocean. Then it won't be just me making an announcement. It will be all of us. I like it!
Facebook Event page is here. It was a great success. Thank you. Let the peace begin.

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