Posted in movies, peaceful world on Jul 21st, 2008
The year before the first Desert Storm, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit my husbands family in Baghdad. It was the year I fell in love with them… these beautiful loving people that accepted me so lovingly into their home and their life. I had big dreams of going back every few years to [...]
Posted in daisygrams, music, peaceful world, peaceful you on Jul 6th, 2008
I tried doing this about a year ago using Macromedia Flash, and the music just didn’t sync when I went to upload it. So I have redone it using Windows Movie Maker and Photo Story 3. The results are much better, It was so much easier to work with, plus I am able to [...]
Posted in peaceful world on May 11th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in peaceful world on May 3rd, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in be inspired, peaceful world on Mar 30th, 2008
On my drive back and forth to work, I like to listen to National Public Radio which is an independent radio station supported by private donations.
NPR offers to me a refreshing alternative to the major news media and one of my favorite segments is on Friday mornings where they have this [...]
Posted in be inspired, peaceful world on Feb 14th, 2008
This is a very touching story about a soldier on his second tour in Iraq, who befriended and nursed an abused dog back to health. He named the dog Nubs because the poor thing had his ears cut off, apparently on purpose to make him more alert. After only a few months from taking [...]
Posted in be inspired, peaceful world on Feb 14th, 2008
I have followed many presidential campaigns throughout the years, and never has a candidate so inspired me like Barack Obama.
I sat and listened to Barack speak for the first time on Tuesday as he addressed 18,000 cheering supporters in Madison Wisconsin. The audience was electric and Obama had them on fire. One could [...]
Posted in peaceful world on Oct 4th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in be inspired, peaceful world on Sep 15th, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in peaceful world on Aug 2nd, 2007
I challenge you to take a journey to a place called Iraq. Do not be afraid, for in this journey war does not exist. If you imagine Iraq to be of mostly desert and camels, you are deeply mistaken.
While looking upon these beautiful pictures, quietly send your thoughts of peace to this proud and [...]
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