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Category Archives: Peace
The Devil’s Dance
I usually post my poetry on my poetry blog A Grateful Man’s Poetry at A Grateful Man’s Poetry rather than this one but in this case my heart whispered to include it on this site as well, and I’ve learned to listen … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Breakthroughs, Choices, Courage, Growth/Learning, Heroes, Peace, Poetry, Poetry I Wrote
Tagged choices, courage, death, Life, peace, poetry, war
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A Day in Paradise
I’ve just completed creating tables of contents for the five non-fiction books I’ve either written or compiled. They’ve been sent to my layout person. Once she’s done, all future copies of the books will include a table of contents. Going … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Contentment, Joy & Happiness, Love, Making Memories, Marriage, Peace
Tagged beauty, contentment, Love, paradise, peace, redwoods, stream
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I Just Opened a Window
It began to feel a bit stuffy in my home office, so I just opened a window. It only took a moment, but in the space of a heart-beat magic happened. My senses were aroused by the sumptuous melodies of … Continue reading
Posted in Abundance, Animals, Awareness, Blessings, Connection/Connecting, Contentment, Feelings/Emotions, Gifts, Gratitude, Heart, Joy & Happiness, Miracles, Nature, Peace
Tagged beauty, birds, blessings, carressing, connectednes, connection, flowers, miracles, nature, Pleasure, songbirds, touuching, writing
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“A Heart Like A Stormy Sea”
As I just read the phrase “a heart like a stormy sea” in the interesting article below, this came to me: A Heart Like A Stormy Sea He had a heart like a stormy sea Crashing and pounding on rocky … Continue reading
Posted in Courage, Loneliness, Love, Peace, Poetry I Wrote, Uncategorized
Tagged 81-year old widow, beach, clean-up, heart like a raging sea, Hero, jacket, military, Sandy, tunic, West Point
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A Great First Step
I admire the creativity of the person who created the “Coexist” graphic which is spelled out using several religious symbols. It is clever and important message. Coexisting is a great first step toward global peace. And, I believe that humanity … Continue reading
Blessed Day
I dream of the blessed day when humanity awakens from its terrible nightmare and begins to fight for peace with as much ferocity, tenacity, and heroism as we’ve fought our wars. –Russ Towne
Posted in Breakthroughs, Courage, Dreams, Growth/Learning, Hope, Making the World a Better Place, Optimism, Peace, Poetry I Wrote, Words or Quotes I Believe I Coined but please let me know if you heard them earlier elsewhere
Tagged dream, ferocity, fight, fight for, for, fought, heroism, humanity, nightmare, peace, tenacity, wars, world
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Whole Universes of Life & Activity Inside Us
Be gentle with yourself. “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.” – Max Ehrmann This sounds like good advice to me. … Continue reading
Posted in Attittude, Observations, Peace, Quotes I Love
Tagged child, galaxies, gentle, Life, Max Ehrmann, peace, soul, stars, trees, universe
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