Above is the picture that I sent in as today’s contribution to One Million Peace Signs- a blogspot where you should definitely RUN FAST to contribute your peace photos. I noticed that a soldier left his definition of Peace on the website last night, for which I am very honored and appreciative. “How do [...]

There is a hip gentleman known as The Beach Blogger who makes me realize that a message can be left anywhere, anytime, anyplace, anyHOW. It is just important to get the message out; to be the change you wish to see in the world. I caught up with this “Peacer” through One Million Peace Signs, [...]

Ohhhhhh. I’m so excited to share this article with you. It came to me in response to a question I proposed. The question: “What do you think about Obama and Clinton sharing a ticket?”I read the email, I read the following article and then I realized I’m tottering dangerously on a see-saw of my own [...]

July 28, 2007 Montgomery, AL Oh, it was hot, deep into the summer, in the Deep South. The historic soil of Alabama, where revolutions were started in 15 minutes, revolutions that challenged centuries of oppression. Thats about the time for it all to go down, from Rosa Parks boarding the bus until the cops escorted [...]

July 15, 2007 I scooted on up to the White House, GWB’s place of business. There I met Denise, who bought me a cup of coffee, and Samuel, who below, offered his definition of Peace. There was symbolism to the departure date, it was in tribute to Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis in Confidence,” speech, an amazing [...]

WOO HOO! Here is the first video footage made available, weighing in at 4:08 minutes. Can’t wait to put more up and have more people offer their words. Wow! We are doing it over here, however slowly, it’s happening. The star of this one is Matthew, from Maui, an Inspirate as he calls himself and [...]

Writing you from Maine! Woke up and while the coffee was brewing, I started playing with fruit and eggs. The best thing was when the kids trudged in and helped complete the art piece. Ironically and SADLY, the day Dennis Kucinich announced his exit from the Presidential race, a card arrived in the mail from [...]

One question I propose to people is “How do you teach Peace to your children?” This question seems to help when people are stumped as how to define Peace-that’s the other question I ask people all the time…. So, juices flowing? Please, contribute your thoughts-How do you teach Peace to children? At work this week [...]

   *photo taken July 27, 2007, in Atlanta, GA In honor of a man who shared with his dream of liberation with the world, and whose legacy still nourishes the ideas of justice and freedom. Today all the Presidential candidates offered their respects, and oh do I pray that they begin to embody the truth [...]

The places, characters and events that I experienced last summer were so significant that it seemed only right to compile a brief list about ‘em. Enjoy! Don’t see something you want to know? Email me. Cheers! Key Dates: May 29 Decide to do P.E.A.C.E SCOOTER, with no experience or money June 14 First conversation with [...]

*Photo/Karen Sherlock What better way to spend a cold winter evening than huddled with hundreds of your neighbors, in the shape of a peace sign? What better way to illuminate the senseless violence taking place in Racine, WI and to honor your loved ones and community? Pete Selkowe, retired journalist, sent the picture below and [...]

Ok, all those with a glass (hopefully full), please lift it and join me in a toast to serendipitous events. Check this out: 1) December 31, 2007, Crystal Waters sends me a picture of a Peace sign she found on a house. She writes, “We have been looking at houses to buy, and when I [...]

Crystal Waters sent this photograph to me. Apparently, Crystal discovered this on the garage outback a potential home purchase, in Vermont. My heart skipples, (a new word folks) that she thought it a good sign and that she also thought about me. YAY! Peace on Earth. And especially Peace for women who ride scooters and [...]

***Update*** Daphne commented that this blog seemed to be more contentious than most of my posts. She asked about the “point two fingers, not one,” philosophy that I promote. Yea, well. Sometimes I walk that line-accountability is a tricky thing, especially when I can so clearly see we do have a system that perpetuates injustice. [...]

I checked out a book on Buddhism from the library. It’s an attempt to force myself into stillness and to expand my mind, and spiritual understanding. This next passage illuminates my sense of motivation for reaching out to thousands of people, enduring hardships with optimism, and experiencing the sense that we are always, as a [...]

Here are three different maps that illustrate the routes driven this summer. Perhaps they could be photoshopped into one? Google maps gets overloaded when I try to do the whole thing consecutively, and most of it has to be done in little increments, or else Google creates a different route altogether. Anyhow, this is a [...]

  Daphne, a.k.a Switch “The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Sacred, and that this center is [...]

A few weeks ago my roomate Wendy started a batch of home brew. Tonight I was her assistant bottling the batch. I got to thinking about my purchases in general and how to follow the trail to their origin. Often, its an elusive one to follow and often, by the time you get to the [...]

Happy New Year to all! I spent New Year’s Eve day at work, asking customers: “2007-was it a YES or NO?” Mostly, No’s, or begrudging “okays.” So then I asked, well, did you learn anything that will make 2008 different? People softened, responded, at least storing that question away for later contemplation. I am not [...]

AN UNREASONABLE MAN: ” The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him… The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself… All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -George Bernard Shaw Today I watched Unreasonable Man, a documentary about Ralph Nader. It’s really about time I started studying this man. Honestly, I feel [...]