I work with the Network of Spiritual Progressives (affiliated with Tikkun Magazine) - a spiritually oriented progressive political group whose members include people from a variety of religious and spiritual traditions. On Sunday, 06 Aug 2006, we held an interfaith gathering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Pray for Peace in the Middle East. During the course of the four hours we were there, about 80 people - Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, and others - came to share their pain, prayers, and hope regarding the violence, and the possibility of peace, in Lebanon, Palestine, and Israel.
Early on in the event, I sang a song that I wrote in 1978, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of both the founding of the Jewish state of Israel, and the Palestinian naqba ("catastrophe") of dispersion and exile [See blog entry, "Land in the Middle"].
A Buddhist nun responds to my Israel/Palestine peace song, "Land in the Middle" (see my blog, 21 Aug 2008).
Our tree shrine in the foreground.
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iPeace is deleted from David Califa the end of June. Here you can find a new home.
http://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/
You are cordially invited.
Warm regards, Eva
I'm Aaditya from India
I am a film student
I have made a video on world peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly4bDl0ulf4
Plz watch it and comment and rate it!!!
please add this video to your blog/website/myspace/facebook account
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Plz join my group on facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54261082633 and http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=64551173328
Thank you for your kind words and suggestion. I filled out the form on the link you sent. we'll see what happens. Many have said the same when they have heard the song and seen the video.
Here are the lyrics to the song.
Love & blessing upon you as well. SMILE
On Our Way Back Home
I know I can't see how you see
I know you can't see how I see
We really don't need to agree at all
We're both in separate grocery lines
You're in your world, I'm in mine
Living our own dreams, great or small
We're on our way back home
Some to cities, some to fields
Some outspoken, some concealed
Some religion, some no god to call
Some to privilege, some to lack
Some the future, some the past
Always moving toward a common goal
We're on our way back home
To be understood means understand
We're all the same. All just man
Living, working, trying not to fall
So few of us are truly mad
And most of us, if had the chance
Would choose a kinder life, after all
We're on our way back home
Crowded streets. Country roads
Shouldering our private loads
Watching hopes and dreams, rise and fall
We need to take less than we give
Be forgiven and forgive
Celebrate our differences
And love and live and just let live
We're on our way back home
I have filled out the form on the link you provided. Many have said the same. I'm honored.
Love & peace in deed to you.
Smile
I have just now mastered the simple instruction: how to find my IPeace page.
My focus on the election was overly intense for overly long. I think I wore out my neurons. My long message was that I, too, was born in Chicago IL USA and share many other interests and experiences, including an ancester who
dwells in Boston, which once hung her as a mischief maker but now honors her as an early Quaker, Mary Dyer. Her statue now adorns the town square.
The rest of my message was soon forgotten. I tend to do that. I must pick up radio waves from the ether which if not repeated immediately float into space to be absorbed by some other group of receptive brain cells. This sometimes happens to me in a crowded room, and I hear another person repeat the idea.
So, about collaborative development, Ruach, the U.S. President-Elect has only to think the changes he has in mind and a cadre of volunteers will be at his service to put the idea into a working scale model, or so it would seem. It may not be that easy, but I think the Internet will be fully utilized, world-wide.
We are at a turning point in human history when old grievances must be put aside, ancestor worship forgotten, resources shared, futures reconfigured for the sake of survival. We've said it before, but now the wolf is at the door. Only those in denial will wait until it is too late, and fail to survive. This beautiful planet has passed a point of no return. Evacuation Day is within sight. It will be orderly for those who are prepared. This will happen within our lifetimes. The planet will rebirth. When it has completed this process, we will return.
I have tried, twice, to send a message to you. The first message was too long and got erased, I think, since I saw no confirmation that it was sent. The next included a request to be your friend. I'm too new at this to know how to reply to messages of people who are not friends, so add me if you would like to. M.
thanks for adding me as friend :)
Love
Haleh
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