on this day of  re-membering it’s the 76th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, a day when my country entered a war that was to end all wars, but, on this day as we glance across the planet we see we are engaged in endless war resulting in climate and cultural disasters with 152,000,000 million beings in need of humanitarian assistance and 65,000,000 million beings displaced from home…

right now, it’s like this… we are coming into holydays,  a season of welcoming the stranger, a moment to envision Pearl Harbor anew… as a safe harbor, a place of true refuge, a place of beloved community in every neighborhood across the land including our inner landscapes, the sacred space where peace begins…

join with me now in breathing deeply in to the womb of being while placing a hand on your heart and with each deep breath, feel your heart, our one heart, opening a little wider to welcome the stranger and offer warmth beginning with yourself and slowly moving out in ever widening circles of inclusion re-membering we all belong to each other, each of our individual destinies is tied with our one collective destiny… to journey to the core of our being, to our heart of gold to be our original face of radiant love, dancing with rainbow mystery…