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Category Archives: peace
Gembaku no ko
Today is the 71st anniversary of the dropping of the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. We visited there four years ago with our son who was teaching in Satsuma Sendai at the time. The many memorials and monuments to peace and nuclear non-proliferation … Continue reading
Posted in film, Japan, movies, peace, violence
Tagged Arata Osada, atom bomb, Children of hiroshima, film, Gembaku no ko, Hiroshima, japan, Japanese Teachers Union, Kaneto Shindo, nuclear non-proliferation
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“Sapphics Against Anger” by Timothy Steele
Angered, may I be near a glass of water; May my first impulse be to think of Silence, Its deities (who are they? do, in fact, they Exist? etc.). XXX May I recall what Aristotle says of The subject: to … Continue reading
Posted in peace, poetry
Tagged anger, passion, peace, poems, poetry, rage, Timothy Steele
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Jane Addams 1860-1935: A Foe of War and Need
When I permanently moved to Chicago in the early seventies, I volunteered at Jane Addams Center Hull House on Broadway, a northside branch of the original Hull House. (In the early 60s, 12 of the original 13 buildings of Hull … Continue reading
Posted in activism, compassion, democracy, museums, neighborhood, peace
Tagged Hull House, jane addams, peace, social justice
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“Doubletake” by Seamus Heaney
Human beings suffer, They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. The innocent in gaols Beat on their bars together. A hunger-striker’s father Stands … Continue reading
Buddhas in the ‘hood
Indira Freitas Johnson has carried out a new public works arts project, in collaboration with Ten Thousand Ripples, which embodies her belief in tolerance and dialogue, peace and communication. She has made 100 castings of a partial Buddha head and placed … Continue reading
Posted in art, artist, Buddha, chicago, compassion, peace
Tagged Alonso Nieves, Buddha, Indira Freitas Johnson, public art
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Distillation and Demons
Distillation is the process of separating mixtures. As opposed to the process of reduction in cooking where the whole is cooked slowly and only moisture is removed, in distillation it is the impurities which are removed from a substance, as from … Continue reading
Posted in aging, compassion, family, peace, relationship
Tagged aging, demons, distillation, mother, relationship
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Two atom bombs were dropped on Japan 67 years ago, one on Hiroshima on August 6 and another on Nagasaki on August 9. They were dropped to end the war in the Pacific, which, in fact, did end with the … Continue reading
Posted in peace, World War II
Tagged atomic bomb, Hiroshima, japan, Nagasaki, nuclear non-proliferation, peace, sadako and the thousand paper cranes, war, World War II
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Martin Luther King
Posted in activism, peace, politics, transformation
Tagged activism, Martin Luther King, peace, politics, transformation
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Reaching for the “better angels of our nature”
President Obama’s speech at the Tucson Memorial Service:
Posted in centering, compassion, death, democracy, freedom of speech, peace, politics, transformation
Tagged centering, compassion, death, democracy, freedom of speech, Obama, peace, politics, transformation
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Sin(g) for Peace
The Charter school I worked at, located in an old Catholic School building connected to a rectory, church, and convent (see Maria esta aqui!), used music as its central focus, providing students with a unique discipline and a positive way … Continue reading