Jun
04
2008
Marcia
Responsibility for peace is ours! Yes, it is our responsibility, each human being, to ourselves and the world to brainstorm ways to find peace - and then act on them.
I still believe the words I wrote last year. Click on the globe if you are a new reader, please, I would love to share them with you. As RVers, you have already most likely found a bit of inner peace and seen things in your own country that average people caught up only in their own communities don’t get the chance to see. You have also seen more of others helping others judging by many of your blogs. You are aware that one person can make a difference. You have seen movements grow.
No, I am not an RVer yet, but I am paying attention to what you are sharing.
Mimi’s most recent post summarizing all her research this past month on wars is found here: Dona Nobis Pacem ~ A Revolution of Words.
Many links for other writers on peace are found there. Perhaps reading some of them will take your thoughts on peace in a different direction, one of can do, rather than frustration and hopeless? It is hard, it is going to be hard, but one step at a time will make a difference to someone. It has to.
Tags: Dona Nobis Pacem, peace globe
May
07
2008
Mee
When does planning for the future cross the line and be seen as living in the future?
When does living in the present become failure to move forward?
When does living in the past become a stagnated future?
No, I won’t tell you…
I mean, I shouldn’t tell you…
But then maybe I should share, at least, something.
It doesn’t cross over when someone else says it does.
It only crosses when you think it does.
Of course, that requires you pay attention.
Let’s not go there today.
That requires thinking for ourselves.
And I’m sure we’ve already done that once today…
Or, was that last week?
Marcia McLees Bogaert
05/07/08
Tags: planning, thinking for oneself
Mar
29
2008
Marcia
Nov
09
2007
Marcia
Front Row Seats
Wheels turn,
spaces inside confine
until eyes cast from self
to world outside windshield.
Thoughts contained within
mix with sensory input
from roadside towns:
the occasional car
filled with laughing people,
orange blossoms
and charcoal filling stale air,
the tramp art
displayed from roofless structures,
the tattered shirts
hung on jury rigged clotheslines,
the fifteenth coffee shop
in six miles,
children at crosswalks
backpacks weighing more
than their own bones,
an elderly couple holding hands,
a thirty year old woman
screaming
at her man as their children
cower in the background,
a cross at roadside
with faded plastic flowers,
a young woman walking into an office
her head held high
her eyes taking in
all around her,
a mother and father
counting to three and lifting
their toddler high above ground
his face bringing light into
everything that surrounds him
How can people mistake RVing
for escape when their unguarded
senses take in all that is around them?
I think it may be the opposite,
RVers have both front row seats
with full view windows of life
and time to absorb them.
MeeAugraphie
11/09/07
