Stephanie's Blog – January 2010 Archive (8)

1. Busy

2. Reading but not responding

3. Overwhelmed with too many blogs, comments, this, that...the WORKS!

4. Trying to stay out of things

5. Afraid

6. Polite (!?)

7. Poor conversationalists

8. Fed up with too much chattering, writing, responding

9. Not wanting to get involved

10. Sort of apathetic to everything



BUT, I believe....I think people ARE reading, thinking, contemplating....but just not responding.

I write this with a… Continue

For those "older" members of iPeace, doesn't this moment here remind you of how we were as a group during the beginning of the war in Gaza ? We were so united. We helped each other. We tried to keep our morale up. AND we tried to keep David's morale up, he in Israel, he having an enormous "chore" to keep about 15,000 people happy and going strong.



Now we are feeling something that is uniting us once again in a deep feeling....we are terribly concerned about this… Continue

Lots of "hush hush" going on here
Get with it! Check out A Blog Post with no Title
Let's talk about the problem of comunication!

Hard to comunicate when only one side does. It gets totally out of perspective! Rumors start, imaginations get going...wildly! People come to conclusions, people come to assume things that aren't true.

I have had SO MUCH of this in my last many years of life....For work I needed to comunicate with someone and imagined that YES I was doing the job and then NO I wasn't...and all this back and forth thinking, worrying, planning in two separate directions, one for yes and the other for… Continue

It might just be the right time to say "I'm sorry". I think more than a few people, including myself, expressed themselves in a way that could have been a little softer, more polite, filled with more compassion. We "got at" the fact that iPeace was closed for a day, when actually, it may have just been an urgent and easy way to take a breath with all the changes that have gone on here lately, and to have a well-needed pause. One cannot say that doing so didn't cause quite an eye-opener for many… Continue

How do people deal with problems? In ALL different ways! Technical problems are solved, but it's the emotional problem that isn't easy to find "the simple way" to solve. Those involving people are the difficult ones to approach and resolve. If someone is used to getting things out in the open, and finds others keeping things in, THIS in itself is a problem.

I can't understand why someone else doesn't open up, and that person doesn't… Continue

I just read that Renee is leaving her position as site editor and I am sorry.

Last week I heard that Gordon too is no longer in his position, though still a member of iPeace.

I ask - is it possible that a group such as iPeace slowly has no named leaders, editors, people we know are there in case of needing someone to talk to, complain to, discuss with?

For sure, things are happening without us knowing everything, for sure there are problems that, if we knew what they really were,… Continue

New Year's eve in Siena's magnificent plaza, Piazza del Campo. Here are a group of lively young people anxious to be photographed making the peace sign.

The projected moving images were gigantic cars moving, people's faces, graphic designs, all moving to the sound of modern music, blaring into the ears of thousands of people, completely covering the piazza.

A couple photos of the 360° view of the… Continue