I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.

~ Rumi ~

the children of the earth gathered today in front of the Atomic Dome in the Hiroshima Memorial Park at exactly the time 72 years earlier that an explosion of atoms shattered the world… today, as the millions gather in front of the dome and across the world, we gather for an explosion of a different sort… an explosion of love, a chorus of voices with every country in the world represented in one unified prayer for peace…

yes, the heart of all our relations choir is now unstoppable… yes, peace prevails on earth…

thousandfold thanks for standing together in love…