Featured Blog Posts – February 2009 Archive (47)

twenty five things....

I know that hope is a renewable resource.

I appreciate and love good health more everyday.

fresh flowers, music and dance will always restore me.

relationships of all kinds become more valuable to me each moment that i remember to be mindful.

I love my sons beyond words.

I have learned more about myself through pain than anything else.

I believe in peace and humanity's strivings towards it.

I love growing, cooking and… Continue

Added by Francine van der Schoot on February 16, 2009 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

Wow! The video we made last night is on the iPeace home page

http://www.ipeace.me/

This is a great honor and a happy surprise to find out that the video inspired by iPeace that my friend and I made a couple of nights ago and put online yesterday morning found its way to the home page of iPeace. Thanks to iPeace and the team for choosing it. We are glad to offer it to the community. This was done in a quick splash of inspiration without spending to much time for finalizing the small technical details. So with the positive and encouraging… Continue

Added by SunBôw on February 16, 2009 at 3:26am — 8 Comments

Unconditional Love Sometimes Hurts

Unconditional Love Sometimes Hurts

I have decided to tell you the story before any rumour mill gets going. This story concerns my younger son and his choice of career. I think it has surprised my family that I can be calm and measured about this when they expected me to hit the roof…I think my younger son did as well.

Let’s start at the beginning with him leaving school two years ago after being a school prefect and a mentor figure to many younger people during his last… Continue

Added by David Gould on February 16, 2009 at 3:03am — 12 Comments

25 Things abour me

1. I am 78 years old.

2. live in California

3. was born in Phoenix, Arizona

4. from Pima (Tohono'Akimel) Native American Tribe and Mexican Spanish

5. have one son and two step-sons and love them all (my wife claims she had them all!)

6. have two grandsons in their teens

7. am a believer in the basic goodness of the human race. (there are a few who are evil but most are good)

8. i know and believe in the All-Highest and… Continue

Added by Ernest Lopez on February 16, 2009 at 12:34am — 8 Comments

Twenty 5 Things About ME

1. I have never been a group person but think the world of iPeace!

2. I love wind (in this picture maybe it's a bit too much)

3. I've had two photography shows and will be having others....actually I am not even a photographer, that's the ironic part!

4. I play piano by ear and a little… Continue

Added by Stephanie on February 16, 2009 at 12:30am — 6 Comments

25 Random things about me about The Queen Of The Empowered Soul ( TM)

1. Love beautiful fingernails

2. Have been saved for most of my life and would not change it for nothing else in the World

3. I am the proud mother of a 6' 3" three hundred pounds handsome 27 years old man who lives in Jamaica West Indies

4. I am writing a cook book

5. I cut my own lawn during the summer

6. I was born and raised in Jamaica West Indies

7. Although I was born and raised in Jamaica with some of the most beautiful beaches...I still do not know how to… Continue

Added by Daphne Clarke-Hudson on February 15, 2009 at 10:26pm — 3 Comments

25 random things about me

This is something that we 'imported' from facebook.

1. Write a "25 random things about me" and post it as a blog.

2. Share it with ALL your friends on iPeace (share button on bottom left >> More Options>>Share with friends)

3. We get to know each other better

We are almost 17000 and we come from 180 different countries and cultures. This can be exciting.

here's mine:

1. I used to have… Continue

Added by David Califa on February 15, 2009 at 9:26pm — 60 Comments

25 wordy things about me.

1. Without spell checkers it would be near impossible to understand what I am typing.

2. I type fast but approach super sonic with the backspace key.

3. I try to read a lot to keep an open mind. It's seems impossible not to have an opinion about something you know a lot about. Therefore, the more that I read the more opinionated I get.

4. I like to keep a person's secrets secret. But having a wife to tell makes others secrets more difficult to… Continue

Added by Peter Skadberg on February 15, 2009 at 5:54pm — 3 Comments

25 Random Things

1. I’m ADHD!

2. I wish I were more organized … and not such a procrastinator.

3. I love all the arts … music, dance, theatre, but I can’t imagine my life without music. Music is a vital part of who I am. I wish I had been an elementary music teacher. Kids and music are a dynamic combo!

4. I’m unimpressed by power, money, and/or celebrity.

5. The mountains are where I find real peace.

6. I have always loved snow days … when I was a kid in school, (my Dad and I used to… Continue

Added by Lynne Elmlinger on February 15, 2009 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

25 Random Things About Me - especially for David!

1. Write a "25 random things about me" and post it as a blog.

2. Share it with ALL your friends on iPeace (share button on bottom left >> More Options>>Share with friends)

3. We get to know each other better

We are almost 17000 and we come from 180 different countries and cultures. This can be exciting.

here's mine:

1. I reconnected with my first love 35 years after we met in 1965; we picked up right where we left… Continue

Added by Janice Bernath on February 15, 2009 at 12:49pm — 5 Comments

25 Random things about me

1. Born in South Africa into a huge connected family.

2. Lived in a interesting neighborhood with people of all nationalities.

3. The Jewish community was strong and very respectful of all people.

4. I never went to a Jewish Day School as my Dad insisted we were

in a country of mixed origins so we should not isolate ourselves.

5. In the middle of the second last year of school I threatened to

quit and got my wish to move to a college.

6. Learned Fashion Design… Continue

Added by Ziona Etzion on February 15, 2009 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Happy True Love Day!

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

It's Valentines Day! How about we transform a Hallmark occasion into an opportunity to celebrate True Love. The kind of love those icons on the ipeace poster are talking about - Gandhi, The Dalai Lama, John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr. They knew a thing or two about what true love really… Continue

Added by Velcrow Ripper on February 15, 2009 at 12:30am — 36 Comments

The Tree of iPeace

I came to iPeace

I came after doing a search for it in the ning network.

I was almost willing to start it if it did not already exist, feeling almost pressured to do so.

It was not meant for me to be the one to do this, and I know that so I was very relieved when I found someone else had done so.

Here is part of the wisdom of that.

I am defending iPeace, and if I had started it, it would look different, as though I was protecting my own interests rather than the… Continue

Added by Tree Thunderchild on February 12, 2009 at 8:30pm — 2 Comments

Dalry's Story Part1 Biographical background....working with explosions Part 2..Witness to Suicide Bombing Part 3.. Time in Nablus and Jenin during Intafada Part 4 ...Back to the Source of explosives w

I’m a 5th generation Australian grandmother….responding in relation to TAKING SIDES……maybe what I experienced for myself of both sides.... Israelis and Palestinians..... can shed some light on this…..

Over a period of years I have given everything away and reduced my belongings to a small suitcase. My sole income is the Australian age pension. No insurance or back up. Trust in myself and the universe. Left Australia in March 1999. Travelled 10 countries alone. Met many many wonderful… Continue

Added by Dalry Mary Jones on February 12, 2009 at 9:53am — 8 Comments

Is this we want our children to inherit?

Its been quiet some time I have been off the blog for my recovery process. Slowly and gradually I am getting back to my normal life. I had a wonderful holiday to Kolkatta few days back an it was relaxing and fun.

The world I believe is going through one of its most challenging times with economy and distress. There is so much of tension and mistrust all across the globe. Every day as we read newspapers and watch television - we see so much of innocent lives being lost to unwanted… Continue

Added by Sandeep on February 11, 2009 at 7:23pm — 2 Comments

Gaza Development Authority

This text was written in June 2008 at the time of the first Israel-Hamas Cease-fire and thus prior to the present conflict. It needs to be updated, but the aspect concerning a Gaza Development Authority or Corporation still holds. At a time when the election of B. Omama and the financial crisis recalls the New Deal, it is useful to recall the TVA, one of the most successful of the New Deal measures.

Israeli-Hamas Truce : Bold Steps for Gaza

Rene Wadlow

The truce… Continue

Added by Rene Wadlow on February 8, 2009 at 12:05pm — No Comments

Waltz with Bashir

Seeing Ari Folman's prize-winning film, 'Waltz with Bashir,' is having an unexpected therapeutic effect, not only on soldiers who served in the first Lebanon war - the film's subject - but also on those who fought on the Egyptian front, in the intifada, or in the Second Lebanon War.

Kobi Ben-Simhon - Haaretz

This is a long post, but interesting and worth reading. What triggered it is a discussion posted a… Continue

Added by David Califa on February 6, 2009 at 4:28pm — 3 Comments

IF ONE DOESN'T TAKE A STAND, CHOSE A SIDE, DOES ONE SEEM UNCARING?

It's hard to take a stand sometimes. To say "I believe in THIS". I DON'T believe in THAT". It means sticking up for something, and having the facts to back it up and not being afraid of criticism. It means you believe in yourself enough to not lose sleepless nights if one or many turn against you saying, "What you believe is totally wrong."

If you don't chose sides, does that mean that your opinion isn't worth much or that you see both sides as possibilities?

I… Continue

Added by Stephanie on February 5, 2009 at 8:30pm — 16 Comments

Bereaved father chooses the path of light. Which path shall we choose?

Slightly over 2 weeks ago I posted a blog titled: I cry with you Abu al-Aish , about a special moment in the Gaza war when Palestinian civilian suffering drove home to every Israeli living room.

Today, the IDF published the results of its inquiry into the incident. The IDF admitted that 3 of Dr. Abu al-Aish daughters were killed by 2 tank shells that… Continue

Added by David Califa on February 5, 2009 at 7:31am — 23 Comments

Hippie Days are Here Again... grab your voices, your signs,your pens and join us!

When asked about the hippy days, Chris Bettini the talented maille artist behind IkowDesigns: said ‘I was 3 years old in '72, but my mom tells me I was all out the hippies. She said I used to go around doing the peace sign and saying "two peaces (pieces)".’

Wayne Elkin, a self described aging hippy posted a picture of a peace sign on a barn in Marin. In the past two days, I have received e mails on the Department of Peace and an… Continue

Added by susan chandel on February 4, 2009 at 6:00pm — 6 Comments