Do you ever have that feeling in your stomach like something in your life needs to change ? Or there is a time that comes within your life when you wonder ..... why am I in the position I am in and how can I make it better for me ? It is a difficult thing to do and something that takes time to be able to fix and a battle that has to be won not only by your psyche but your heart. A lot of people in this world work their butts off and try to make ends meet and somehow they are never able to. I… Continue
As much as I have written about war and peace over the years, I have never heard of this one... The story speaks for itself... wonder if it also has to do with the huge percentage of soldiers families who are so poor they are on food stamps?
WASHINGTON - Children of U.S. military troops sought outpatient mental health care 2 million times last year - double the number at the start of the Iraq war.
There was also an alarming spike in the number of military kids… Continue
I wrote this poem when Bush was about to invade Iran. I majored in Military Intelligence, and was doing some consulting at the time with... well, that's confidential... but trust me, they were close... I am putting it up here now because poem seems all the more relevant with the Iranian protests in full swing.
NOT ONE DROP OF PERSIAN BLOOD
the blood of persian poets
has barely been washed off our hands
When did we vote to say that the government can listen to every conversation
monitor every line of type that flows from our fingers?
Did I miss that ballot box?
Where is the politician who is supposed to damn this intrusion?
Jimmy Stewart all alone and proud and indignant got voted out
After the Lobbyiests gave someone else the money to get elected
occasionally the media creates a camelot
to siphon the steam off our dreams
before we… Continue
I am trying out these two... to find me, go to tweeter and search for my stage name JohnnyPain... capitilzation is crucial. On Facebook, search for john scott ridgway...
On myspace, you can listen to our old stoner radio show... peace and pipedreams by doing a simple search.
The song you are hearing, (to hear this song, just click here and my profile page will open- Quest For Peace will begin playing automatically), Quest For Peace, was composed and played by my mother, Marlane T. DuBois. It is a visionary song. It is her heart speaking out, through the Universal Language...music.
This song tells a story. Listen...and you will hear it.
(ne-vé shal-om / waah-at i-sal-aam: Hebrew and Arabic for Oasis of Peace [Isaiah 32:18]): A village, jointly established by Jewish and Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, that is engaged in educational work for peace, equality and understanding between the two peoples.
I first heard about this on LinkTV show explore (visit explore.org)
Visit this website for more infomation
http://nswas.org/
Added by Ally Baby Cakes on July 6, 2009 at 8:21pm —
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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
Anthony de Mello Continue
I wrote this shortly after 9-11. I believe the message applies to the entire planet- our children must feel safe and live in a world filled with peace. Sometimes the world we live in is uncertain-in a moment what's known can slip away. And we feel as we walk among the ruin-our hope dwindle as we greet the coming day. Faces full of tears, such pain and desperation-you can almost feel it blowing in the air. Clouds billowing, a cold and sad…
When we open our hearts and desires to another person we become extremely vulnerable and a little anxious about how safe and secure we are. Relationships put us into a natural head-space of either complete surrender or total defense- depending on our past. There is so much happening on the spiritual and energetic levels when we walk the path of relationships, and I think that understanding some of these subtle dynamics can help ensure things go forward in… Continue
Added by Josh Williams on July 5, 2009 at 10:29pm —
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u sit at your computer
recently knighted
at the center of a vortex
of groceries, socialization, physicians, teachers
cops and cunt and cock and revolution and redemption
ready to poke your little head in all over
a reluctant revolutionary
aware the sewer system goes down and millions die
a buffalo soldier
in the war for america*
in your medicine bag:
as much tv as humanly possible
comics books concerts… Continue
Friends: What makes friends so special is how they come to a mutual
understanding of the truth. Friends care enough to dig through any rubble
causing disharmony- restoring harmony. Friends are devoted and true to
each other. Friendship endures the most violent of storms, and finds
itself resting in the sun, on the softess of grass.
"Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life?" ~Martin Luther King, Jr.