by Susan | Feb 14, 2016 | guest blogger
This column was originally printed in the Express-News on Valentine’s Day, 2004. — Susan Ives I imagine St. Valentine and Martin Luther King Jr. hanging out in heaven, leaning against the pearly gates, trading war stories — no, make that peace stories. The...
by Susan | Feb 14, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
February 14, 1817 Frederick Douglass “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” February 16, 1948 Eckhart Tolle “Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with...
by Susan | Feb 14, 2016 | Season for Nonviolence
15. Reverence Environmentalist John Muir said, “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul.” Today go for a walk and realize the beauty around, above and below...
by Susan | Feb 14, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 14, 2011 As a part of Arab Spring, the Bahraini uprising, a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of civil resistance, in the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain begins with a ‘Day of Rage’. Inspired by the successful uprisings...
by Susan | Feb 13, 2016 | Season for Nonviolence
14. Humility Making mistakes is a part of learning and growing, simply an “error in approach.” Today, freely acknowledge at least one mistake you make and reflect for a couple of minutes on what you have...
