Dona Nobis Pacem 2012

Here is my Peace Globe for this year.  It illustrates my wish: Peace around the world.

The little ‘world’ in the photo above is dark chocolate covered with earth-printed foil.  I bought some to share.  The beads circling my little world came from a craft store and I made a bracelet, a set of earrings, and a necklace from what you see.  I plan to share those items too. 

You see, Peace is one of those things, that if we share it, or give it freely, I don’t believe we lose any of our own.

Please,

Everyone

Act

Considerately

Every day.

                                    Goodnight Gram

In consideration of Blog Blast for Peace Day, I am off to do a good deed for a stranger.  I take photos by request for folks who want a specific kind of genealogical addition to their records. 

To read all the other Peace Posts go to Mimi Writes. She is the one who began this movement.  Read her post and then below that, are the links to posts by other peace bloggers. 

Peace, y’all.

“There’s got to be a morning after.”

Today is the day after the BlogBlast For Peace.  I’ve been blog-hopping through the Peace Posts.  I plan to get to all of them, a few at a time.  While I’m still being inspired, enjoy the road I recently travelled.  I had to!  I had a 1/2 mile warning . . .

. . . and then an arrow pointing me in the right direction!

Blog-hopping through the Peace Posts is like following the signs to find Peace Road.  Others have travelled in that direction and have left clear trails.  All the great quotes that bloggers have used are like the arrows pointing to the right path.  We just have to follow the signs.

And since I’ve been hearing this song in my head all day (and loving it), I’ll share it with you.  I can’t seem to embed links these last couple of days, so just click it:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLazPauA1c and sing along with Maureen McGovern til you find the ‘place that’s safe and warm!”

To Mimi: thanks for the BlogBlast!

To Carol For Peace:  Thought of you when I snapped the road sign pix.

Peace!

(and if you’re blog-hopping like I am and came for my Peace Globe its just below this post, though today, there is a piece of my Peace Cake missing.  North America was delicious!)

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“O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!”

                         First line of God’s World by Edna St. Vincent Millay ~    

Today is the BlogBlast For Peace.  I support Peace.  I support the BlogBlast.  To visit sites of other participants, follow this link: http://mimilenox.blogspot.com/ and then scroll down the page until you see the numbered list of participants.  Clicking any given participant will take you to their site.  I plan to blog-hop through all of them within the next few days.

I baked a special cake to celebrate today’s global event and it is my official Peace Globe.  Tonight, my granddaughter and I are going to make Peace bracelets and have a slice of . . . North America! 

If I place my cake in the middle of my table as a decoration, would that make it a CenterPeace?

If I save the cake long enough to dry it out, then fix it up with an hour hand, a minute hand and a battery, would it become a TimePeace?

If I give it as a gift to my boss, would it become a MasterPeace?

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Knitting a World of Peace

 

Knit: to join closely; unite securely.

From: The FreeDictionary.com

Knit Peace Globe was designed and knit by:  Goodnightgram.wordpress.com

 

This past summer, I had the opportunity to travel to the International Peace Garden.  I entered the Peace Garden north of Dunseith, North Dakota.  It was my second visit to the garden.  The first time I went alone – for a quiet visit.  This past summer, I took Goodnight so she could have a quiet visit, too.

Blog Blast for Peace Day might be a great day to take a virtual tour of the International Peace Garden.  Find your way to the Peace Chapel and click the link there to read the peace quotes that have been carved into stone in the chapel. 

Then travel the blogoshpere to find more bloggers for peace.  Start with Mimi’s page.  Scroll down to see the list of peace bloggers and check out their blogs for peace.  Peace is worth it.  And then check Trav’s page.  He posted a peace quote every day for the last month and on the eve of Blog Blast for Peace, he posted them all together in one place.

So . . . . . Peace to all who stop here today.  Peace in your actions.  Peace in your facial expressions.  Peace in your gestures.  Peace in your body language.  Peace in your words.  Peace in your thoughts.  Peace in your hearts.  Peace in your examples.  Peace in your pathways.  Peace in your futures.  Peace in your memories . . .

 

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I saw this on the Internet.  I like it! 

Today is Blog Blast for Peace Day 2009.  Bloggers from around the world will blog for peace.  Check here for other participants:   http://blogblastforpeace.com/  Click on the + to expand the complete alpha list of peaceful bloggers.

Peace for me is knitting.  Peace for me is speaking softly.  Peace for me is a good book and the time to read it.   Peace for me is snowshoeing in the woods by the light of a full moon.  Peace for me is hearing my favorite hymn sung.  Peace for me is hugging my granddaughter AND her great-grandmother (my mother) on the same day!  Not many of us are lucky enough to do that.  Peace for me is the formal request I made with God for having to live on after a mother’s worst loss.  (We are missing a generation in this girl group.) Peace for me is trying to find a way to leave it as a legacy to others, too.

To all: If you say one less word in anger today than you did yesterday, you will have participated in peace.  If you use your hands for helping and not hurting, you have contributed to peace.  If you stop a fight, then you have taught peace.

To BCM . . .I still keep the night watch.  To Bugsy . . .I see the moon and the moon sees me.  The moon sees someone that I want to see . . .