Peace Requires Action!

Eleanor Roosevelt said, "It isn't enough to talk about Peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

Check out James O'Dea's The Path of the Peacemaker if you need ideas on how. OR attend the Imagine Peace Conference at U.C. Berkeley 9/10-11. OR find a shang ha and practice meditation and mindfullness. OR Go 1/2 speed today. Or volunteer to be of service. Or practice forgiveness!

There are no shortage of ways to work at it!

Love,
Darlene

Trusting and letting go..........

I often hear that it's hard to let go and trust.
Yet humans are designed to do this automatically!

We do it as we breathe: we inhale and exhale trusting there will be a next breath.
And we can only inhale if we trust and exhale.

Trust and let go: It's what you are designed to do!

Now that you know you can, where else will you do this?

Love you lots!

Darlene

"Your one wild and precious life"

Mary Oliver asks, "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life"?

Have you noticed that folks who die at Peace have often lived fully "their wild and precious life", and many who played it safe, die with regret.

It seems there may be no Peace without risk and that safety is an illusion. Or so it seems.


Love,
Darlene

Why not become the one?

With That Moon Language

Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me".
Of course you do not do this out loud;
Otherwise,
Someone would call the cops!
Still though, think about this,
this great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one
Who lives with a full moon in each eye
That is always saying,
With that sweet moon language
What every other eye in this world
Is dying to
Hear?

Hafiz

Altitude is Peaceful

Any pilot (or bird) will tell you to face and race into the wind to take off! You create your own lift by doing this! So, the next time you feel a challenge blowing the best way to gain altitude is to face and race into it. Yeeee Haw!

Altitude is reeeeaaallly Peaceful.

Love,
Darlene