Peace on earth

 

Peace: A Gift for All Beings

"May peace flow like a quiet stream through all hearts and across every corner of the Earth.

May it touch the wings of birds, the breath of animals, the souls of humans, and the roots of trees alike.

Let kindness be our language, compassion our gift, and understanding our bridge—so that all beings, seen and unseen, may live in harmony, free of harm, embraced by love."

posted on FB Serendipity Corner in 2024

by Anna Speshilova

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Where we've been, historically speaking:

As published in 2020, a Timeline of World History!

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Environmental news

Australian good eco-news! That's ecology, not economy!

The Australian government has just announced that beginning next July, residents of three of the country’s six states will get three free hours of electricity every day, with the rest of the country to follow in 2027. This is because the country has put up so many solar panels that at midday, when the sun is highest, they’re producing truly massive amounts of power.

The free offer is a way to get Aussies scheduling their lives a little differently to take advantage of the surplus—one imagines that many of them will be programming their washing machines to run midday, and charging their EVs then, too. It’s a good moment to be selling ever-cheaper household batteries too, since Australians can fill them on the cheap power and then run their homes all night.

In the largest sense, this is truly remarkable news. For at least 700,000 years humans have worked hard to get energy—first by gathering firewood, more recently by scraping together the money to pay power bills. But now—thanks to our new understanding of how to generate energy from the sun—we can be relieved of that burden.

It’s potentially an epochal moment—in some ways as remarkable as the invention of agriculture or the Industrial Revolution. Back in the 1950s, the nuclear industry literally promised electricity “too cheap to meter.” Now, thanks to the largest nuclear reactor in our corner of the universe, that is entirely possible.

Thanks Katharine Hayhoe

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So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide.

John Lewis

Today's goddess

Dogū Goddess. Ebisuda site in Tajiri, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, 1000–400 BCE. Dogū are analogous to the stone figurines that were made by people throughout the late Paleolithic and Neolithic eras.

Thanks Jenny Mendes Ceramics on FB

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Today's quote:

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. HOWARD THURMAN I love the idea of a cease to all conflict and war. That doesn’t mean I don’t want consequences for the behaviors that have hurt others. Yes, I can be angry about injustice, and want resolution of harmful acts through legal civilized means, but not by becoming as hurtful as those who are being judged. Others may feel justified in wanting revenge. I won't go there, as it just perpetuates violence. My doctor visit yesterday was uneventful. I'm grateful that my migraines just give me auras, and no pain. I do continue to be sensitive to light following them, and it's so frequent suddenly that I wanted to address the problem. For the last 30 years or so I've only had a couple a year. For the last month, almost daily. So I'm being referred to a neurologist (who I already see for the essential tremor in my hands and neuropathy in my legs) an eye doctor to check that my visual nerves are ok, and a CT scan to see what's going on in my brain. No drugs, since she said they would have worse side effects than not taking them. Anyone on social media should have become aware by now of the Monks walking in the Peace March from Fort Worth TX to Washington DC. They are now in Georgia I believe.