Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 307 – October 19, 2014

Named Open Heart 5 Lotus

these words perfectly reflect today’s pilgrimage which begins in the shadows of feeling small and not up to the challenges of the moment… breathing in prana from the earth mother and up through the extended root system into every cell and radiating out the golden light into father sky and beyond…

always coming home to the heart, to the garden of peace, being present in the moment, in the presence of the beloved… resting in the stillpoint, the unchanging, taking a pregnant pause in a moment of feeling so stretched and uncomfortable right before birth… in this moment of presence, i open more fully to this outer move as birthing the new… surrendering to nature, to love and creating from this sacred space… YES! to full blooming lotushood…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 306 – October 18, 2014

Named Open Heart 18 Gratitude - EmotoIn honor of Dr Emoto, i re-member beginning this phase of the pilgrimage almost 3 years ago by occupying the abundance of infinite love and gratitude where now i dwell… So, i’m contemplating on this day of peace how pure the water that fills  the body so that we are shining crystals of light in the garden of eden… Thank you, rest in peace…

Haiku Prescott FT 10-17-14 019

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 300 – October 12, 2014

Named Open Heart 12 PEACE Cranes

Friday’s news that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Malala Yousafzai, a remarkable young woman from Pakistan who risked her life to speak up for equal education opportunities for girls reminds me of another young girl named Sadako Sasaki who died of leukemia ten years after the atomic bombing in Hiroshima during World War II.

Sadako was two years old when she was exposed to the A-bomb. With no apparent injuries, she grew into a strong and healthy girl. However, nine years later when she was in the sixth grade of elementary school she suddenly developed signs of an illness. In February the following year (1955) she was diagnosed with leukemia and admitted to the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. Believing that folding paper cranes would help her recover, she kept folding them to the end, but on October 25, 1955, after an eight-month struggle with the disease, she passed away.

Sadako’s death triggered a campaign to build a Children’s Peace Monument to pray for world peace and the peaceful repose of the many children killed by the atomic bomb. Approximately 10 million cranes are offered each year before the Children’s Peace Monument.

Anyone may place paper cranes to the Children’s Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park. Please send your cranes to the address below. Additionally, you may enter your name and message for peace into the Paper Crane Database so that your desire for peace is recorded for posterity. For this purpose, please fill out this registration form and send it in with your paper cranes.

Peace Promotion Division
The City of Hiroshima
1-5 Nakajima-cho Naka-ku,
Hiroshima 730-0811 Japan

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 283 – September 25, 2014

Named Blessingway 25 Celebration Sungazing at Wyeth CO Installation 015

so many moments of celebration on the rainbow trail…

dolphin dancing with cosmic pod opens portal to our one heart

tuning into cosmic hum trusting in and surrendering to divine flow

journeying to a field of peace carved by pilgrims of old who heard earth song’s call

meeting pilgrims of now in whom the song’s call resounds to immerse in beautyway

thanking all relations for walking in the sacred way…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 277 – September 19, 2014

Named Blessingway 19 Peacemakers of Earth Motherevery moment is pregnant with the promise of peace… for all the moments of the next two days, i will be in deep peace as i unplug from the grid to be peace in each moment… let us join with the Mamos from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in an effort to achieve peace for Mother Earth.

                                                      INVOCATION

We call all noble-hearted people to find within the light of love and divinity that dwells in them from immemorial times, since their souls have existed.
May this light … expand on the earth showering her face with peace and harmony.
May this light … calm and harmonize the black shadow of war, violence, hate and disharmony .
May this light … fill the hearts of all people and the sites of nations where the shadow of violence has found a place to stay.

May this light reach the hearts and minds of ALL the Heads of State,
of ALL leaders of the revolution from  right to left from north to south.

We extend our profound gratitude to all the Shamans (Mamos) of the world, all men, women and children from  different cultures, races and creeds, from all cardinal directions who have joined us and those who will join us in this effort to raise a prayer for peace and nonviolence .

We wash away the cries of the distressed, the blood of the victims of violence, the pain of their families.

May they be replaced by the innocent laughter of children, the ideals of youth and the wisdom of life of our elders.
May we no longer know the signs of strife: to hear birds singing sorrows, nor watch clouds stained with blood, nor feel breezes intense with heat, nor see rivers swollen by the mountains’ tears .
That new fraternal bonds of unity and peace formed through our invocation together, may embrace humanity in harmony with itself and with nature.

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Day 269 – September 11, 2014

Named Blessingway 11 Oregon Coast Pilgrimage July 2014 003 Wildpeace

awaken today to trees dancing wildly as the winds transform them into whirling dervishes and herald the return of spirits to the Pacific NW… a song of blessing the space begins singing me making the pilgrimage today truly a walk in wonder into deep recesses of peace in the ground of being… thank you, thank you, thank you…