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Waging Peace

Thanks to many of you who read here, the December issue of “The BeZine” with its special section “Waging Peace” went moderately viral with more visits and more shares through the whole diversity of social media than ever before. It did our hearts good. It was healing to see just how many people supported the ideas and ideals expressed in this special section. For those of you who missed “Waging Peace,” do your own heart good and check it out . . .

Waging Peace
An Interfaith Exploration

You are the promise . . . the one . . . the hope, Rev. Ben Meyers, Unitarian Universalist cleric

What Have We Done That People Can Pick Up Weapons and Kill?, Fr. Daniel Sormani, C.S.Sp., Catholic Priest

With Faith In Love Beyond All Beliefs, an open letter, Unitarian Universalist clerics

Dear Non-Muslim Allies,  Sofia Ali-Khan, Muslim activist for understanding

Peace Be Upon You, شوشان – سلام عليكم, Tunisian poet, Anis Chouchène, Muslim

Mosquitoes, American-Israeli poet, Michael Dickel, Jewish

Peace Steps: One Man’s Journey Into the Heart of His Enemies, Rabbi Mark Gopin, Jewish

Waging Peace, Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, Buddhist

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And thus we begin . . .

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May this be the year we let go of certainty and embrace mystery.

May this be the year we know love as respect and peace as decision.

HAPPY 2016!

Love,
Jamie

Wishing you every blessing…

My cousin Dan's Arabic Bible and my Mom's Rosary Beeds (Photo credit: Father Daniel S. Sormani, C.S.Sp.)
My cousin Dan’s Arabic Bible and Mom’s Rosary Beads (Photo credit: Father Daniel S. Sormani, C.S.Sp.)
Christmas 1999: Pywacket and Gypsy Rose
Christmas 1999: Pywacket and Gypsy Rose

WISHING YOU EVERY BLESSING DURING

THIS HOLY-DAY SEASON

AND

FOR THE NEW YEAR!

See you in January.

Love,
Jamie

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Order Life in Sonnets and Sestinas

51L4xDyFbtL._SX317_BO1,204,203,200_“I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can’t be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.” Sylvia Plath, “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”