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.

More changes in life

 

The front of my doctor's office in Black Mountain.

I was visiting him last Monday (a week) and then on Thursday I received several notices that the business is closing in November. 

So I quickly made an appointment with a doctor's office that I had gone to before this one became my medical home. I am so sad to lose these dear care-givers...who I've gotten to know pretty well over many years. The office was just down the street from me also, so very convenient when I felt bad.

In other doctoring news, I saw a specialist to figure out whether or not I have a blood cancer, known as multiple meylanoma. I was diagnosed with neuropathy in my legs, without any known cause, so this is one of the causes to check out. So more tests will be run, and probably the new doc will be the one following up on things eventually.

I see the neurologist about essential tremors in my hands, and the pulmonologist about bronchietasis, and then have my veins in my legs given ultra-sounds before the end of this month. Dermatologist is next month. My friend has named these specialists B's Team.

And yesterday when I was going to go to market for fresh fish, I had a flat tire waiting for me in the parking lot. The insurance road side service was quick and efficient. I already needed to purchase 2 new tires, and this one had picked up a nail apparently. No fresh fish this week. I'm driving around on that little donut tire, and staying off the interstate till new tires are on the car. 

The flat.

From the internet

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -Maria Montessori, educator (1870-1952)

The view from my windows last fall

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.

JODI PICOULT Change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. Barack Obama

Some Women's Talk

  

A piece of needlework that is very fine, done by hand I imagine. something I would have no way to accomplish, so I am in awe of the skill demonstrated by the woman (don't you figure?) or girl who made this. 

Midwife checking position of baby, Colima Mexico, 1st century BCE. This shows that women cared for women in childbirth in all societies, throughout the ages.

Everyone talks about peace but no one educates for peace. In this world, they educate for competition, and competition is the beginning of any war. When educating to cooperate and owe each other solidarity, that day we will be educating for peace.

~Maria Montessori

The Montessori Method:

Of course men and children felt the major shift of the 70s...but women changed from stiff hairstyles to long loose hair, from shirtwaist dresses to bell bottoms or mini skirts, from being subservient to knowing their power!

Kamala Harris, Democrat nominated to run for Presidency!

Today's quote:

May you live all the days of your life.

JONATHAN SWIFT