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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 39 – 1/24/2017

January 25, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

here we are… children of the earth, citizens of the world, all gathered for an historic march where we speak truth to power and stand for peace and justice and love and compassion…

“Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness. As with compassion, when cultivating loving-kindness it is important to start by taking a specific individual as a focus of our meditation, and we then extend the scope of our concern further and further, to eventually encompass and embrace all sentient beings. Again, we begin by taking a neutral person, a person who inspires no strong feelings in us, as our object of meditation. We then extend this meditation to individual friends and family members and, ultimately, our particular enemies.
We must use a real individual as the focus of our meditation, and then enhance our compassion and loving-kindness toward that person so that we can really experience compassion and loving-kindness toward others. We work on one person at a time.”
~ The Dalai Lama ~

yes, may we all work on one person at a time re- membering Love Trumps Hate, many hands make Light work and it’s light and only light that drives out darkness…

standing in solidarity for love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 38 – 1/23/2017

January 24, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

there’s a low tide of consciousness all over the globe seeping into our pores, but, when the tide is low, we leap high no matter what… it’s a curious happening, a paradoxical habit, this ability to bounce back in the face of a goliath like wave with the wherewithal to crush everything in its path… instead of succumbing, we are coming together, showing the strength of our numbers, standing together speaking truth to power from a place of love, alchemizing the call for justice with weaving a world that works for all… let us invoke the goddess maya for our movement poem…

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Maya Angelou

may we rise, may we rise, may we rise, everyday may we rise gracefully to the occasion and weave a world of peace built on justice and guided by love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 37 – 1/22/2017

January 23, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

Lee,Chang W. – from camera serial number NYTCREDIT: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

how auspicious! the astonishing light of being weekly image falls on the 22nd, the number of grace and if you are feeling what i am, you are feeling still in the glow of grace, still hearing the breathing of the new world founded on justice and guided by love… yes, today we celebrate the astonishing light of our being and what better way than through music… below are the lyrics and video showcasing an inspiring group of women from all over the states who practiced online and then came together at the march meeting for the first time… yes to re-joy-sing, yes to harmony… it’s been suggested that this song become our anthem, hell yes to that as well… agree?

I CAN’T KEEP QUIET

put on your face
know your place
shut up and smile
don’t spread your legs
I could do that

But no one knows me no one ever will
if I don’t say something, if I just lie still
Would I be that monster, scare them all away
If I let the-em hear what I have to say

I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
A one woman riot, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

I can’t keep quiet
For anyone
Anymore

Cuz no one knows me no one ever will
if I don’t say something, take that dry blue pill
they may see that monster, they may run away
But I have to do this, do it anyway
I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
I can’t keep quiet, no oh oh oh oh oh oh
A one woman riot, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh I can’t keep quiet

Let it out Let it out
Let it out now
There’ll be someone who understands
Let it out Let it out
Let it out now
Must be someone who’ll understand
Let it out Let it out
Let it out now
There’ll be someone who understands
Let it out Let it out
Let it out now

I can’t keep quiet

“Quiet”
Written by MILCK and AG
Produced by AG

https://youtu.be/xgrtOO9dGsE

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 36 – 1/21/2017

January 22, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

today, people all over the world come together to stand together, to march together, to witness together our solidarity with all our relations…

thousands and thousands speaking truth to power…

we are standing together in love for love knowing this most powerful medicine, love, trumps hate…

we are standing together in peace for peace knowing all life is sacred…

we are standing together in respect seeing the inner light dwelling in all…

we are standing together in strength, both fierce and gentle, empowered to go the distance and keep the faith…

we are standing together for equality and justice and freedom and a world that works for all..

today, we see the world coming together, each one of us picking up a thread to weave the new story, knit the new world founded on justice and guided by love where everyone is in belonging to the whole, vital for the weaving of the interconnected web of life in a circle forever unbroken…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 35 – 1/20/2017

January 21, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

today the world witnesses the peaceful transfer of power in the states of north america at a moment of conscious uncertainty on the world clock… for this new beginning, i resolve to be what Buddha calls us to be… yes, today, i pick up my thread from the unraveled world tapestry and resolve to weave a new story/re-member the ancient dream of the people… thousandfold thanks for doing the same, for in our coming together to stand in love for love and acting from this place, we are the beloved community…

in honor of this day of transferring power…

Psalm 15

Lord, who can be trusted with power,
and who may act in your place?
Those with a passion for justice,
who speak the truth from their hearts;
who have let go of selfish interests
and grown beyond their own lives;
who see the wretched as their family
and the poor as their flesh and blood.
They alone are impartial
and worthy of the people’s trust.
Their compassion lights up the whole earth,
and their kindness endures forever.

(A Book of Psalms, translations by Stephen Mitchell)

may we all resolve to use power passionately in the service of justice speaking truth from our one heart and being compassion and lovingkindness in every thought, word and deed… namaste…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 34 – 1/19/2017

January 20, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

on this eve of the peaceful transfer of power in the usa, i re-member the words of the Dalai Lama about our island home desperately needing more peacemakers, healers, restorers, lovers and storytellers which reminds me of an old legend of the first peoples of this land…

a legend about a savior named deganawida, the peacemaker, originating over a thousand years ago during the final decades of pre-columbian america at a time like now, a time of pervasive fear and instability in the iroquois world when a young virgin gave birth to a son… she was told in a dream that “your child will be a messenger of the creator and will bring peace and harmony to the people on earth.”

when deganawida came of age he told his mother, “I shall now build my canoe from white stone, for the time has come for me to start my mission in this world. I know I must travel afar on lakes and rivers to seek out the council smoke of nations beyond this lake. It is now time for me to go stop the shedding of blood among human beings.”

as deganawida began his mission he first encountered a group of hunters who were fleeing from the bloodshed in the their own village and he instructed them: “Go back to your people and tell them that the Good News of Peace and Righteousness has come to your nation.”

the peacemaker’s mission, as the many accounts of the legend make clear, was to reestablish the natural equilibrium on which the wellbeing of individuals, societies, and the whole of creation depends… deganawida achieved this mission by healing them—by “making their minds straight.” deganawida’s role was not that of a warrior, but a redemptive shaman—a healer… he was quite explicit about the mission: “health means peace, for that is what comes when minds are sane and bodies are cared for.”

may we all be peacemakers…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 33 – 1/18/2017

January 19, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

holy synchronicity! i wanted an image of weaving a tapestry to illustrate the story i want to share today and i’ve been wondering why i’ve taken a sabbatical from posting peace prevailing on earth images and so the universe responds with the image above combining the message of peace prevailing with a call to weave a tapestry…. more in a moment…

first,the ancient story, a creation myth of grandmother spider as the old woman living in a cave weaving the web of life, a beautiful tapestry of thousands of threads all flowing and merging together until…. a dog wanders into the cave and paws the tapestry catching a thread that unravels the old woman’s mastery peace…

holy chaos! does the old woman throw up her hands in the midst of the destruction of her life’s work? does she curl up in fetal position? does she rue the dog’s existence?

she walks the way of wisdom showing us a creative response to times such as these… she picks up a thread, simply one thread and begins weaving a new story arising from the earth, whispering from the heavens… a song in rhythm with where we are moving, a tapestry of our coming together to meet the challenge and stand together in love for love… and now back to the tapestry/quilt image…

the WPPS is collaborating with PIECE for PEACE, a project of Women Wage Peace in Israel. WPPS pledged to collect and send quilt squares stitched with the message, May Peace Prevail On Earth. Squares will be woven and collected from all around the world in the end forming a huge patchwork quilt giving expression to the voices of women calling for peace to prevail in Israel and Palestine.

Design a Quilt Square

Stitch the Message

May Peace Prevail On Earth

SPECIFICATIONS

Size:	14″ x 14″ square (35 x 35 cm) Leave 1″ seam on each edge.
Color:	Sew your design on white or off-white cotton fabric.
Design Method:	Appliqué, embroidery, glued, beaded, drawn with permanent pens or markers.

MAILING INSTRUCTIONS

Mail May Peace Prevail On Earth Quilt Squares to:

Ms. Hagit Ra’anan

POB 39, Kiryat Ono, Israel 55100

Mail in envelopes and avoid big boxes as it will not fit in the mail box.

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 32 – 1/17/2017

January 18, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

What Dream(s) Are You Watering Today?

everyday, i dream of peace and act on the dream… today, i share a dream with Martin of the creation of Beloved Community… a field of our relations gathered together with the shared intention and attention of transforming enemies into friends, being our daily practice of an understanding goodwill with the power to transmute our gloom into gladness as we stand together in love for love…

we need to all be dreamers in this time of unraveling, to pick up our thread and weave a new story re-membering it takes a little chaos to give birth to a dancing star… lovely dream…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 31 – 1/16/2017

January 17, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

in the excitement of celebrating birthdays yesterday and the extraordinary light of Martin Luther King, et.al, i didn’t share the image for the weekly edition of a picture worth a thousand words describing the astonishing light of your being… so, it is with great delight i share this image of your inner light… please forgive my not going into the long story of how this illuminated you came to me…. suffice it to say an angel of light is involved…

whenever you are feeling lonely, overwhelmed, out of sorts, look at the light you are re-membering what always glows inside of you… the power to drive out darkness…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 30 – 1/15/2017

January 16, 2017 Jo BeallLeave a Comment

on this ides of January, the moon of dreaming, let us celebrate the birth of one of our foremost modern day prophets who dreamed of his little children living in a world where they were judged by their character rather than their color, a dream still being dreamed today along with his call of sixty years ago to face the challenge of the new age with the creation of beloved community for only love transforms the fear of the old paradigm into the gladness of a new paradigm by opening our hearts to the miracle frequency of boundless love… “darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”…

Happy Birthday, Martin! Celebrating you today with great faith in what is and what is coming… may we all journey with you to the mountain top where we tune in and listen to the celestial hum mapping out the path of the freedom road and journey a thousand miles and more without lifting a foot… loving how the circle of co-creators is expanding exponentially, a fractal of the universe we are… loving the flight into freedom we are sharing and so thankful for all of our relations whom have paved, are paving and will pave the way…