Small Reflections: Dona Nobis Pacem

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Dona Nobis Pacem - 2009's Peace Blast

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Today I join Mimi Lenox and many other bloggers in the 6th Blog Blast for Peace ... and invite YOU to join the wave today on your Blog. Just click Mimi's link and read the directions for getting your own Peace Globe to personalize and publish. Then follow the directions to share with others through her official sites ... and visit others blogging for peace.

6th Blog Blast for Peace
November 5, 2009

Imagining Peace
Photobucket images
in my Mosaic

Click to embiggen and for others Blogging for Peace

If you missed them, click for links to my previous Blog Blasts for Peace in November of 2008:
Sacred Ruminations- The Strength of Gentleness
Small Reflections-A Revolution of Music,
Blog Rolls & Bling – What if? (a Colorful Alternative to Bombs)
and June of 2008:
Thirteen Thoughts on the Topic of Peace
Peace in Every Step

Click for others participating in
the 6th Blog Blast for Peace!

See my other 2009 Peace Globes at
Happily Retired Gal
Sacred Ruminations
Blog Rolls, Bling and Blurbs

Small Reflections ... Smile Back

Thought for Today
"We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?" J. Ramsay MacDonald

28 comments:

Melissa B. said...: Fingers crossed that Peace breaks out worldwide soon!

Life's a Beach; November 4, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Travis Cody said...: This is my first Peace stop!

Happy Peace Globe Day!; November 4, 2009 at 4:53 PM
NicciN said...: Wow, that is beautiful.; November 4, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Raven said...: Three wonderful globes, but I especially love your peace collage! Well done!; November 4, 2009 at 9:38 PM
nelson said...: Thanks for dropping by my site... i love your peace mosaic!!! Peace!!!!; November 4, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Author said...: Thank you for visitng my Peace blog ~ it's the first time I've ever joined in and it seems a wonderful thing to participate in.

I love your mosaic. Peace.

My cats have also done their own Peace Globe (lol!):
http://milocat.wordpress.com/; November 5, 2009 at 1:13 AM
Carver said...: I love your mosaic and peace globe. Peace!; November 5, 2009 at 2:51 AM
secret agent woman said...: I love that poster of peace signs! Happy Blogblast to you!; November 5, 2009 at 3:12 AM
Anndi said...: Peace brings so much beauty!

The collage is exceptional.

Peace be with you.; November 5, 2009 at 6:16 AM
Marilyn said...: That mosaic is really nice.; November 5, 2009 at 6:45 AM
Vinny "Bond" Marini said...: Thank you for participating in the BlogBlast For PEACE!

What a wonderful Globe!
VinnyBond; November 5, 2009 at 7:20 AM
Robin said...: A wonderful sentiment. I love the images in the mosaic, too.; November 5, 2009 at 7:39 AM
j said...: Excellent post!

Peace!!; November 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM
rose AKA Walk in the Woods - she/her said...: Love the images!
☮Peace☮; November 5, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Akelamalu said...: Beautiful Peace Globe and the Mosaic is just amazing!

Peace to you and yours m'dear. x; November 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM
~*~Magpie's Nest said...: Beautiful Blog Blast for Peace! The Dalai Llama quote is perfect as is your final quote, lovely Peace mosaic!
May Peace Be With You and All those Around You
oxo; November 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM
Tink said...: Wonderful! I used my globe to speak for the animals that suffer because of human wars.; November 5, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Desert Songbird said...: The Dalai Lama is a favorite of mine.

The Ice Box – Dona Nobis Pacem; November 5, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Karen Jo said...: I love your peace globe and the mosaic is amazing. Peace to you and yours.; November 5, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Cinnamon Girl said...: Happy Peace Globe Day?; November 5, 2009 at 7:15 PM
catsynth said...: Great graphics for this BlogBlast for peace!; November 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Carletta said...: This is my favorite!
The collage takes me back to those wanna be hippie days of my youth when peace and love were what mattered and still does.; November 5, 2009 at 8:47 PM
Reader Wil said...: Hi Storyteller! Thank you for this post. The collage is very beautiful! Thanks for your visit!; November 5, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Julia Phillips Smith said...: LOVE your mosaic!; November 6, 2009 at 8:20 AM
Inday said...: I went to read Mimi's post for the Blast of Peace. I wish I am feeling well then I could have some strength to think well what to write as I have plenty of pictures in that theme to be shared.

Lovely cause to share around the globe. Even in our interaction with fellow bloggers in itself promotes Peace through friendship and fellowship with like mind focusing on Peace for the World.

Thank you very much Madam for this yet another good post coming from you.; November 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Mimi Lenox said...: Storyteller,

Your peace posts are always inspiring. Every year you do so much to spread the cause of peace on BlogBlast Day. Lovely globes on all three sites. Just outstanding.

You are #1517 in the Official Peace Globe Gallery.
blogblastforpeace.com; November 7, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Michelle said...: Beautiful!

Belated Happy Peace Day wishes to you. :-); November 7, 2009 at 3:21 PM
Annelisa said...: Lovely peace post!

Wishing you peace, harmony and happiness x; November 13, 2010 at 1:31 AM

Currently ...

... I'm thankful to have encountered the 'Food Court Flash Mob Hallelujah Chorus to share here at Small Reflections. I've also shared a Beautiful Meditative Video and a delightful Random Act of Culture (that happened at Macy's) at Sacred Ruminations ... just because.

I'm also grateful that I've created a personalized 1st edition 'Labyrinth Journal' for my friend Susan. I've written a second version that I plan to publish & share with others very soon.

My sister & her husband arrived in town on Wednesday, November 17th and will be around for a few months ... so that's pretty 'kewl' too!

Remember ... you can find me sharing at Giraffe Journal and Labyrinth Journal when you don't see anything from me posted here.

Hope all's well with you and yours!
Hugs and blessings,
Virginia

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Late in October of 2007, I started playfully exploring possibilities here and at SacredRuminations ... the site where I joined Carla's Sacred Life Project. I published daily on both sites initially, but in mid-January of 2008 I gave myself permission to cut myself some slack & rethink things. Since committing to Blog 365 at Small Reflections, I've continued to publish daily here, but I'm thinking about alternating days and/or experimenting a bit with a variety of possibilities in an attempt to balance my online activities with my "real life" ... without giving "short shrift" to either blog. Therefore, it's all a work in progress, and I hope you'll bear with me.

In October of 2008, I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary here at Small Reflections on the 22nd & at Sacred Ruminations on the 23rd.

I completed Blog 365 in 2008 with a total of 378 posts here at Sacred Ruminations, 234 at Sacred Ruminations, 20 at BlogRolls, Bling & Blurbs, and 30 at Happily Retired Gal for a grand total of 662 ... all in 366 days!

In 2009, my sister & her husband returned to So Cal for 4 months and I had less time to blog. Even though they're on the road again, I'm finding it challenging to recapture a daily blogging habit. Click for more specifics about this.

In October of 2009 I celebrated my 2nd Blogoversary here at Small Reflections & at Sacred Ruminations and in November of 2009 I celebrated my 1st Blogoversary at Happily Retired Gal. Little did I know what would follow when I entered this 'virtual' world.

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My Blog Blasts for Peace:
Sacred Ruminations- The Strength of Gentleness
Small Reflections-A Revolution of Music
Blog Rolls & Bling - What if? (a Colorful Alternative to Bombs)
and last June:
Thirteen Thoughts on the Topic of Peace
Peace in Every Step

My Peace Globes are below
Clicking on them will take you to the related 'Bl0g Blast' post also.
"It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear .... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to." Marilyn Ferguson

Food for Thought

(or reminders for myself)

"it takes courage to become who you really are." e.e. cummings

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"How you handle the situation IS the situation." Stephen Covey

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." Lao-Tzu

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James

"At mid-life more than any other time, we have renewed opportunity to create health by expressing our creativity fully." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"It is never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot

"Things are only impossible until they're not." Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation

"Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows." Ralph Waldo Emerson

More thoughts

"We have been so eager to give our children what we didn't have in life, we have neglected to give them what we did." Anyonmous

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are events in life that cannot be explained or changed. I acknowledge them, feel them, and I release the rage, guilt, loss, anger, and grief." Dr. Christiane Northrup

"Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win." Bernadette Devlin

"The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity." Edmund Burke

"In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us." Virginia Woolf

"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and their unlimited imagination." James Michener

"If you think you can, or think you can't -- you're right." Henry Ford

More Thoughts ...

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do." Georgia O'Keefe

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true." Richard Bach

"Telling stories causes others to remember what they have always known." Anonymous

"Character is the bridge between our beliefs and our behavior. Character is the glue of personality, the connective tissue that makes a person whole, integrated, a person of integrity." Joan Konner, journalist

"What you choose not to look at in life, rules your life." Lynn Andrews

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"When a woman changes her life for the better, her entire family (whether or not she has children) generally benefits. She sets the tone. The well-being of the family and of society itself depends upon women becoming and remaining healthy. So we owe it to ourselves to put ourselves first and take the time we need to heal." Dr. Christiane Northrup

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Dona Nobis Pacem - 2009's Peace Blast

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