Blog4Peace 2025 ~ Dona nobis pacem ~ Join us!

Announcing Blog4Peace ~ Post4PeaceTuesday, November 4, 2025
Welcome to the 20th year of peace blogging! (with a special challenge below!)Dona nobis pacem (Grant us peace)
This year's theme is....SPEAK LOVE
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November 4, 2025 bloggers and social media posters from all over the world will blog for peace. We will speak with one voiceone subjectone day
We've been speaking peace for 20 years. It's a beautiful thing.
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And now for a special 20th anniversary challenge!
It's called the Blog4Peace SPEAK LOVE challenge and will run from today until the eve of Blog4Peace. Since our 2025 theme is SPEAK LOVE, I've committed to doing one small (or large) thing each day to experience what it means to walk in love.  I invite you to do the same! Please share on your blogs and social media if you'd like to participate during the days leading up to November 4th (not a requirement, just lovingly suggested) Are you intentionally doing the love walk with your families, yourselves, your communities, OUR WORLD? I'm going to give it my best this month.
There can be no peace without love.
I want to be intentional. I want to make a positive difference, even in the smallest of ways, to as many as I can, as often as I can.I'll be sharing my experiences during the month of October on my Facebook page. Come on! We need this!
Day 1 Blog4Peace SPEAK LOVE Challenge!Join me each day now until November 4th

Here's mine ~ Day 1Waiting at the doctor's office. I'm fine, just in for a checkup.My goal today is to smile at 5 people with my eyes (above the mask) and see if they smile back.

See? It's easy! I can't wait to read yours!
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Monday Mimisms ~ New Seasons

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It's so good to be back on the blog again after a self-imposed hiatus; I've had time to reflect and re-assess my life and purpose. What began as a promising year of publishing and writing turned into unexpected postponement. A few months of rest and reflection has been good for me in many ways. This space will take on a new purpose (me-thinks) very soon. 
New Seasons. New vibes. New inspiration.Thank you for being patient while I adjust my direction. I missed you!  

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Happy New Year! Twenty -Five Years of Blogging and Friendship

 I am thankful to be alive and relatively healthy, still here, wanting to do many many more things in my life! Being single at this stage of life is the best! And the worst.....Sometimes I think I'd enjoy the company of a man on a regular basis, then I remember cooking obligatory dinners (when I'd much rather cook together), checking with someone else before I make a decision (like I would), coordinating family plans and events with extended families...nd a million other small add-on stressors that you gloss over when you  live with someone else.
 But if I fall in loveI shall reconsider(wink)
After being happily alone for more than twenty years, I've realized how blessed I am in the Late Fall of my life. I retired from teaching six years ago. I love a life without alarm clocks, bells and cafeteria food.I enjoy my own company, but I do get lonely from time to time. 

From 2008 "The Christmas Meme" 

I love spending time with my kids and grandchildren, ages 20, 13 and 5 - college, middle school and kindergarten. Never a dull moment at the dinner table. 

Baby Boy is majoring in Computer Science, Beans is majoring in girls and BabyBree is majoring in Barbie. Perfect! They teach me about video games and I sneak in a peace globe conversation from time to time. I want them on that rain ya see......
Which season are you in?Which season have you enjoyed the most?
I've noticed, also, that people from my past keeping showing up.  I'm stumbling over them in the grocery store and thrift store. Long lost relatives with news to tell, high school friends, friends of friends and acquaintances that should have been more than that; maybe we'll get a do-over. Who knows?  Is it truly a coincidence? Or does the Universe have a rhyme and reason?That's to be determined. I'll keep you posted.Has this phenomenon ever happened to you?

                                                         Out on the river in 2018 with my Beans

As for you and I....I'm glad you're still here in Blogworld.I'm happy we met in the BlogoVerse in 2005when learning to decorate a blog with colored fonts and photos from PhotoBucket and ImageChef was as high-tech as we could go. But we helped each other through it and some of us even learned to code from scratch. Technorati was everything and memes rocked our world. ReMEMEber?
I wish you the best of health and true happiness in our twentieth year of friendship. I think I know most of you well. I've met several of you in the real world. A pleasure! Let's keep in touch. 
Tell me about your season.How's your life going?

2006 Blogging Meltdown at the computer
                   
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Blog4Peace 2024 - Hold The Light

Welcome to the 19th year of peace blogging! 

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Dona Nobis Pacem ~ 

Hold The Light

The year was 1968.  Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy had been slain. Our country was in turmoil. The controversial war in Vietnam polarized our politics and our hearts. Richard Milhous Nixon was about to become the 37th President of the United States. 

I was about to begin my education. 

                                     It started at the back door.

                A knock.

"Come on in, Joe!" Papa exclaimed with a laugh. "And Joe, come around to the front door. I'll let you in."  In some areas of the south in the sixties, visiting black men in small town USA, still did not approach the front door of a white man's residence. Fifty-six years later, we've made progress...but there is much work to do. 

I do not know the direction my Grandfather's politics would have taken had he lived to see this election, but I can promise you one thing: the candidate's social status, the color of his skin, his religious affiliation, political slant, or the cost of his shoes would not have mattered. Papa's welcomes were equally sincere and easily given. 

The man needed a job. He couldn't feed his family. I heard low whispers from the living room and shuffling of money. My grandmother brought coffee and cake; then the front door shut.

 Lesson one duly noted. 

At my grandfather's wake, literally half the town showed up. There was a "colored" funeral home and "white" funeral home. It was out of the ordinary for blacks to visit the dead on the other side of the tracks. 

But visit they did. 

I heard stories I'd never heard.

"One day at work, your Papa noticed my feet were almost bare. 

He gave me his shoes."

" He helped me and my family keep our home."

"He brought groceries to our house and in the winter he kept our furnace lit."

"He paid my telephone bill and brought toys for Christmas."

"He bought school clothes for my kids."

 Apparently, he'd been sneaking around with blessing baskets for years. Then I started to remember those strange quiet back door whispers, "coincidental" meetings on the sidewalk, times when my grandmother had to suddenly whip up a chocolate cake, and rides in his station wagon to places he never talked about. "Stay here, Sis. I'll be right back," he'd say.
I always wondered what those porch conversations were about. Now I know.

He was the bridge builder. And the door opener. 

And the example of moral courage in my life. 

He was my light holder

Today, when I visit his double-hearted spirit in the cemetery, I'm reminded of this photo. When I developed the picture long ago, my shadow had fallen across the stone. It looks as though we are perfectly in sync - still.  Now, I choose to let my shadow fall upon his and allow his to fall upon mine.  With whom do you align? Choose carefully.

It started me thinking how my time has eerily overlapped his time - a slice of American history that was shameful in so many respects - the abundance of ignorance, the quest for power, were just background noise to the voices that truly mattered...those that marched and voted and wrote policy. 

What it boils down to is the right of all persons to be treated with dignity and respect. 

Those voices still speak in us. 

Collectively, we are more than a stump speech and a soundbite.

The voices of our time matter too.

Unrest and violence prevailed in 1968.

Unrest and violence still thunder in 2024.

Please hold the light for those in darknessPlease hold the light for those in needSet your foot rightly, for the downtroddenmight come to your door

Let it deliver and emancipate like Peter's shadow in the Book of Acts. 

Let it heal people. Let it love people. 

That's what light does.

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Blog4Peace - Post4Peace 2024 ~ Will be Held NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Announcing Blog4Peace ~ Post4Peace November 4, 2024 Join us on blogs and social mediaIt's our 19th year of peace blogging in the Blogosphere!Click HERE for free templatesClick HERE for HOW TO
This year's THEME is... Hold The Light 

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When was the last time you held the Light for someone? These days it seems that the whole world is stumbling around in darkness. If we listen to the loudest and most critical voices, we can easily come to that conclusion.But it's not so.
We don't have to watch people stumble or be confused. We don't have to respond. We don't have to add to the momentum of suffering and deceit in this world by default. Do you know that there are people who need you to hold the light for them? Hold space. Hold the line. Hold the Light. We're all having a hard time right now.
I'm not talking about judging them or trying to convince them to go your way - there's too much of that happening already. We can love people without agreeing with them. Can't we? 
When I was a little girl, my Dad worked on cars and faucets and mechanical issues around the house. He could fix anything. I was his "light holder." I wasn't very good at it and sometimes he'd fuss if the caged light I was holding swerved to the left or the right. Why was he frustrated with me? Because I had one job. ONE JOB. And that job was to hold the light for him.
His task was daunting. It was dark and he was weary. He needed to SEE. I couldn't see what he was seeing and I certainly couldn't help him; but I could stand steady and still, listening to his voice and directions, offering illumination and support.He didn't need a play-by-play of why I couldn't hold the light still or what my opinion was about how he was fixing things. My opinion, my argument, my sass...didn't matter.I had one job. He couldn't do the job without me and that light. 

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You don't have to speak to hold it - just hold it.You don't have to expose or uncover or guide or judge the path they have chosen.You just have to be there and let them find their way. 
AND SOMETIMES....holding a Light means railing against injustices and CHANGE that needs to happen! Your words won't help them see but the unconditional silent steady light and TRUTH flowing from you to themheld without judgmentwithout opinionwithout directionsmeans that the one needing light has a clear path to make decisionsone that isn't muddied with your opinion, your "rightness" or the loudest voicewhether they're fixing a carburetor or mapping out a plan for world peaceor choosing the leader of the free world
The most powerful words of all are the ones we deliver in deed.Sometimes that means standing stilland holding a Light
We can do that, right?How will you do that?That is the question I want us, as peace bloggers, to answer ************

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Monday Mimisms ~ Touching Memories

Don't you hate it when you're discussing something of importance to you that is causing some angst and the person sitting across from you says, "Oh, let it go. You've got to let that go. Just let it go." REALLY ????POOF. GONE like Girl Gone??
HardlyWalk a mile in my snowshoes, Buster! I don't know what the magic bullet is in these matters, but I DO know (and have recently discovered) that when I'm ready to let something go, I'm ready. REALLY ready. Not one minute sooner. Not at the moment of glibness, right on time! 

As I opined on Facebook's mass platform of memes....
I'm getting better at letting go. I noticed today as I threw out bag after soggy box in the basement (Did you know there was a GREAT FLOOD in Bloggingham yesterday??) that hardly any of it bothered me. Nothing I couldn't part with was damaged and it game me an excuse to deeply purge. That roll top desk I've been staring at for 40 years? I used it in the piano room of my first house. Donated.

My son's infant chest of drawers. Donated.
Twelve notebooks of meticulously created Music Theory and Sight-Reading lessons, complete with originally composed vocalize for my classroom back in the day?

That was a hard one.....ummmm...it took weeks to gather all the resources (stop it, Mimi!) You're not teaching anymore and you're so old those resources are out of print)! GONE
But it was nice to sing them again before I trashed them. 
A few lamps were ruined but I realized they weren't my style anymore. Now I can buy newer ones that suit me better.   Silver lining!I threw away five Christmas trees. FIVE! Who wants a soggy tree?Twenty-five bags later and I'm still far from finished.

I'm exhausted and exhilarated at the same time.Rinse. Repeat. Tomorrow.
I touched a lot of memories today. Stories! Stories I'd forgotten.You will most undoubtedly hear them.There are some sad AND marvelous tales in that basement...most are completely unbloggable.
Homer made me sign a non-disclosure agreement 

Back to the soggy dungeon.  See you on the upside.

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