by Susan | Apr 11, 2016 | National Poetry Month
Mouths full of laughter, the turistas come to the tall hotel with suitcases full of dollars. Every morning my brother makes the cool beach new for them. With a wooden board he smooths away all footprints. I peek through the cactus fence and watch the women rub oil...
by Susan | Apr 11, 2016 | Monuments
This monument, featuring a German artillery shell, was erected on the grounds of Rollins College on November 11, 1938. In March of the next year Rollins hosted a world peace conference (along with the Church Peace Union and the World Alliance for International...
by Susan | Apr 11, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 11, 1963 Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in Terris, (Peace on Earth) an encyclical on establishing universal peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty. In it he wrote: Everyone must sincerely co-operate in the effort to banish fear and the anxious expectation...
by Susan | Apr 10, 2016 | National Poetry Month
In the cave with a long-ago flare a woman stands, her arms up. Red twig, black twig, brown twig. A wall of leaping darkness over her. The men are out hunting in the early light But here in this flicker, one or two men, painting and a woman among them. Great living...
by Susan | Apr 10, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
April 11, 1941 Ellen Goodman “I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.” April 13, 1957 Amy Goodman...
