by Susan | Dec 4, 2017 | Monuments
Commissioned by the city, artists Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz described their design as a Gegen-Denkmal––a countermonument. They rejected the city of Hamburg’s offer to place it in a park and instead constructed it in a pedestrian shopping mall in the...
by Susan | Dec 3, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
December 3, 1935 Eddie Bernice Johnson “We can’t go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.” December 4, 1795 Thomas Carlyle “The spiritual is the parent of the practical.” December 5, 1830 Christina Rossetti...
by Susan | Nov 27, 2017 | Monuments
It is perhaps a stretch to call the Teddy Roosevelt memorial a peace monument, as the only reference to peace on the four slabs that are engraved with his quotations falls not on the side of peace. “If I must chose between righteousness and peace, I chose...
by Susan | Nov 26, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
November 28, 1944 Rita Mae Brown “The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.” November 29, 1969 Sheena Iyengar “Choice is more than picking ‘x’ over ‘y.’ It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and...
by Susan | Nov 20, 2017 | Monuments
At a peaceCENTER’s meeting last week we were talking about the postal service and Andy quoted this poem, engraved on the pediments of the old District of Columbia Post office, now the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum, at N. Capitol & Massachusetts...
