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new peace mandela – frozen

My newest peace mandala titled frozen created from a picture of ice melting on a twig.

Butterfly by RoseWithHearts

I just found it absolutely amazing that this painting was done entirely with “Sharpie” pens.

Last month I put in an application to be a CASA. When I told my son about it, his first response was “so you want to be a house?”
No, I didn’t apply to be a Spanish “casa” , but I did apply to be a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children. The application process to [...]

peace mandala-fall colors

I haven’t done one of these in a while, it’s a new peace mandala that I just added to my gallery.
It was made from a picture I found in Pixdaus of an exotic bird with feathers in the most beautiful and vibrant fall colors.
Mandalas are known to still the mind when you look into its [...]

snow falling on mars

After a wild ride of panic, politics and wall street, I decided to take a moment to step out of our world where all that doesn’t really matter.
This picture was taken by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander which arrived on May 25th for a three month mission. So far it has reached its 5th [...]

Heifer International

This is my Mother’s day gift from my oldest son, a donation of a llama on my behalf to a village in need via an organization called Heifer International .
What an amazing organization this is and it has been in existance for almost 60 years. Their main focus is on ending world hunger [...]

King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

What would you say if the leader of your country based his economic decisions on Gross National Happiness versus of Gross Domestic Product?
That is what King Jigme Singye Wangchuck the King of Bhuton (a small country near the Himalayan Mountains) did in 1976 over concerns of a weakening economy. He based decisions [...]

darfur

The tragic events happening in Darfur are incomprehensible for me to even envision, and as a person that advocates peace it is something that I have languished over. How can I as a loving and peaceful human being allow genocide to take place in the world today?
Over time, I have accepted the fact that as [...]

advocating peace

I first learned about Marla Ruzicka through Iraqi blogger Salam Pax after American troops invaded Iraq in March of 2003. Here was this young American girl literally going door to door inquiring about casualties resulting from U.S. and coalition military operations. Marla was a genuine peace maker and Iraqis soon learned to trust [...]

a sense of community

I had the opportunity this past weekend to help frame a house with Habitat for Humanity. The owner of my place of work donated the funds to construct a house and invited all her employees to participate in building it.
Most of us had no prior building experience, and I was not [...]

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