January 2009 Blog Posts (767)

THE ESSENCE SHOW - Play List January 4th 2009, Show # 63

THE ESSENCE RADIO SHOW

Host Kara Johnstad

Play List January 4th, 2009

Show 63 Sundays at

www.globalvortexradio.com

Kara Johnstad - Hurried Nights

Diana Krall - From This Moment On

Tito Renesi - Dragon

Kara Johnstad - With You

Joni Mitchell - Morning Morgantown

Hannelore Elsner - Du muss das Leben nicht verstehen

Tina Malia - Walking Home

Eric Serra - Plavalaguna

Emmanuel Binet - La 7 Eme Vague

Chico & The Gypsies -… Continue

Added by Kara Johnstad on January 2, 2009 at 10:57am — No Comments

iPeace day in Ladakh

the 31 decembre was the iPeace day, and I really wanted to do something.. I am in Ladakh in this time ,so I started to ask to the people I meet what they thought if I organised a morning prayers for Peace in the main temple of Leh the capitale........They seemed to like this idea so I decided to goes on.The begining was not quite encouraging untill I found the right personns the president of thre Tibetan cometee and the President of the buddhist association of Ladakh.After one week everything… Continue

Added by FRANCOISE on January 2, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

2009 UPDATE: HAPPY NEW YOU!!!

Last New Year's Eve, we held a fantastic cyber-party on the original Secret forum. Since the discussion thread is no longer available for viewing on the old PI site, I thought it would nice to follow-up and see how everyone who attended the big 2008 bash is progressing toward their goals. My JOYFUL SECRET COME TRUE is posted on my blog -- it's been ONE AMAZING YEAR and You're Cordially… Continue

Added by Penne on January 2, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

Calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza =PLEASE SIGN=

Dear friends,

In less than 72 hours over 150,000 people from every country have signed Avaaz's emergency petition calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. But as the situation continues to escalate, and news emerges that calls for a temporary truce have been rejected, we must amplify our global public outcry and seek to end the violence on both sides.

It is not too late to add your name to the petition below!

The answer to this crisis, lies with the… Continue

Added by EYES WIDE OPEN INTERNATIONAL on January 2, 2009 at 7:10am — No Comments

NEW YEARS EVOLUTION

Kay, it’s that time of year when we all are thinking about how we're supposed to be making a bunch of stinking New Years resolutions that we’re never going to keep and that are just going to make us feel bad about ourselves for the next year.

Well my first New Years Evolution is to stop feeling bad about myself for any of my shortcomings - just let that go. But first I have to do a very un-male thing and accept that I actually have a… Continue

Added by Velcrow Ripper on January 2, 2009 at 4:00am — 3 Comments

Cry First...

Cry First

I never sought this woeful existence

This futile endeavor of vain persistence

Safe and secure in my prior autistic night

Sensory driven through touch, taste and sight

The simple joy of breath and warm sunlight

A heart beating in my chest with all its might

The soft lush panorama of flowers in rows

The silky caress of grasses on naked toes

Attuned to the cacophony I could hear it

Animals and trees spoke in spirit

Then came… Continue

Added by christopher cole on January 2, 2009 at 2:53am — No Comments

Remembrance...

Mellow and mild a soft wind hisses,

Beckoning me back to white wine kisses,

Purple ribbons round white fences twisted,

Peppermint moons and marshmallow fishes.

An angel's call prompts me thither,

To blue green waters and rushing rivers,

To soft sweet sobs and hot pink faces,

Outstretched arms and warm embraces.

The silky slide of palms o'er tender skin,

Of cobblestone streets and apricot gin,

Headfirst into deepest blue… Continue

Added by christopher cole on January 2, 2009 at 2:37am — No Comments

Inner Peace

Inner peace - how elusive and yet so essential. Like trying to grasp air. I spent my entire life chasing it. Angry and hurt because I couldn't attain it. Mad at God because he wouldn't grant it, banging my fists against the altar until they bled. Defiant, haughty, and proud, I kept pushing further and further away, until I realized!

I finally realized it takes cooperation. It takes humility. It takes looking within, and it takes forgiveness of self. You must relax the mind and the… Continue

Added by christopher cole on January 2, 2009 at 2:36am — No Comments

I thought I Could go it Alone...

I once thought I could go it alone,

Embrace the things of this world, find my way home.

Exhausted and anxious I came to this place,

Upon the precipice of the Void I arrived in my haste,

Out from under the weight I once embraced.

Extracting the existential spikes of pleasure and pain,

Ending the cycle of short circuit in my brain.

Letting go of all that I once grasped,

The anxious monotony of lusting for the crass.

Stabilizing… Continue

Added by christopher cole on January 2, 2009 at 2:34am — No Comments

EARTH DAY April 18 2009

Beginning Earth Day, April 18, 2009 for 11 days, Indigenous Elders and Future Wisdom Keepers will make a World Pilgrimage through Northern Arizona. This pilgrimage has been prophesied by their ancestors, the Hopi, the Mayan, Elders from the mountains of the Andes, Elders from the plains of Africa, and many more…come as One, speak as One, and share their wisdom with the world. They will create new guide stone tablets of prophesy for the upcoming 500 years…as their ancestors did 500 years… Continue

Added by Diamant on January 2, 2009 at 1:44am — 3 Comments

Shiv'a in Gaza: December 2008 by Deb Reich

This is rather long but I think well worth reading for those of us who are not iving the reality of Gaza.

I received it on facebook, but being a bit of a techno idiot, I didn't know how to send the ink and wil just paste and repost

Shiv'a in Gaza: December 2008 by Deb Reich

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Today at 1:33pm

My heart has been broken so many times, writes Alice Walker somewhere, that it feels like an open suitcase with the wind blowing through it... But maybe, she… Continue

Added by Chenae on January 2, 2009 at 1:24am — 2 Comments

THE ESSENCE SHOW - January 4th, 2009

The ESSENCE RADIO SHOW

Host Kara Johnstad

photo artwork Michael Justice

www.globalvortexradio.com + reddog medias + www.karmacaffe.com

January 4th, 2009

This weeks artists! Diana Krall, Tito Rinesi, Hannelore Elsner, Tina Malia, Emmanuel Binet, Chico & the Gypsies, Estrelle Morente, lea Longo, Narayan Chandra Adhikary& the Balus of Bengal, Jean Marie Hauser, Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale, The Idan Raichel Project,… Continue

Added by Kara Johnstad on January 2, 2009 at 12:36am — No Comments

PEACE around the table on New Year's Eve

Thanks Teresa, Germaine, Giuseppina for partecipating in creating food and proverbs regarding PEACE at my New Year's party. There was a surprising silence as I spoke a moment about iPeace, and one friend read famous people's thoughts about Peace. Hope you enjoy seeing the dishes prepared with peace in mind.…

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Added by Stephanie on January 1, 2009 at 11:30pm — 3 Comments

Touching words from a Palestinian American on Palestinerembered.com

When Israelis strike at Palestinians; they are not only sending messages to Palestinians, they are not only retaliating against Palestinian violence, they're also sending messages to their deprived self-esteem (for lack of a better term) and to the rest of the world that the Jew will not be the victim again. From my experience, rarely you rationally can discuss the conflict with neither a Jew nor a Westerner without the memories of the Holocaust being so close behind; I always felt those… Continue

Added by Roro Faraj on January 1, 2009 at 8:23pm — 3 Comments

Align yourself

(This article is contributed by Khajal Khurana)

Easy is to Get

a place in someone's Address Book..

Difficult is to Get

a place in someone's Heart..

Easy is to Judge

the Mistake of others..

Difficult is to Manage

your own Mistakes..

Easy is to talk

without Thinking..

Difficult is to Refrain

the Tongue

Easy is to Hurt

someone who Loves you..

Difficult is to Heal

the… Continue

Added by amit agarwal on January 1, 2009 at 8:05pm — 1 Comment

Healing Wisdom 01 January

"Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world." ~ Martin Lowenthal

"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space."

~ Pema Chodron

A… Continue

Added by Humanity Healing Foundation on January 1, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

hi theresa so glad you joined ipeace..

welcome aboard,, my dear friend,, soul sister denise

Added by denise on January 1, 2009 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Get kids involved. Get kids involved. Get kids involved.

How can WE get KIDS involved HERE?

There are some ideas I would like to share with you. They are only proposals, I don't even know, if the technical equipment and the knowhow HERE allow to realize them. But if some people here like one or some of the ideas, I'm sure, there will be people and a way to realize them. I myself, I'm neither an activist nor a good organizer or manager. But after some weeks BEING IN HERE, I know, that there are… Continue

Added by Sabine Theresia on January 1, 2009 at 3:36pm — 7 Comments

....Fireworks...

I am a very Peaceful person...it is the major driving force in my life....and I really hate to start the new year on a rant....but this would qualify real easily....I live in a beautiful spot in the country outside Austin, Texas....it is ever so quiet....all night long the neighbors have been shooting off fireworks...it is not the sleep deprivation that bothers me...it is the fireworks mentality and the robot mentality of humans...it is 6:16 A.M. as I write this and they are going off....you… Continue

Added by Johnnie on January 1, 2009 at 2:33pm — 3 Comments

i hate wars. i want peace. i condemn the situation in the south

hello all you peace wishers.

i have a blog in the neighboring site *mepeace*, & since much of its members are also present in this site anyhow, i thought maybe it's wiser to write here, cause this site is bigger at the moment.

so, i don't wanna blurb too much about it. you are most invited to read the beginning of this blog there at: http://www.mepeace.org/profile/adisilberberg & i will just continue now as normal, but -… Continue

Added by adi silberberg on January 1, 2009 at 11:52am — 2 Comments