#6 You can make a statement without getting a tattoo!!
Created by Silvia Hoefnagels in Ireland
#7 We're blowing each other up.
#8 Seriously, you should be sick of #7 by now.
#9 Words are Powerful...this matters
Created by Ann Adamus at Zoolatry.blogspot.com
#10 Blogging for Peace brings people together from all over the world.
And it's free.
Here's a blank background. Grab it and use it. Decorate at will. Sign it. Post it. Wherever you are online. Nov 4-6, 2022 You're a peace blogger. Welcome to the movement.
See how easy that was?
There are many more template choices @blog4peace.com ~ Dona nobis pacem means Grant us peace in Latin. Go to blog4peace.com for more info. Can't wait to see you there.
Colors of blue and light gold are particularly beautiful when placed in close proximity to each other. Wherever you go on the web today, you will find glorious support for the people of Ukraine.
Different artists. Different countries. Different beliefs.
Same voice for peace.
Here are just a few samples of the peace globes I've found in the Blogosphere and on social media this weekend during our Blog4Peace/Post4Peace Ukraine Event. Follow the trail at this link where you can find a Mr. Linky list of peace posts with more beautiful articles and art to find on the web. If you haven't already, continue to post4peace and blog4peace throughout the weekend and visit each other. I'm going to keep peace flying here on Mimi Writes and at the Official Site of Blog4Peace and in the Official Gallery for some time to come. Our Facebook page has MUCH information and many many posts and peace bloggers communicating with each other, posting inspiring links and news from Ukraine. Peace Bloggers GROUP and Blog4Peace Facebook Page Now, back on the trail for peace.
I found this work in my Facebook stream over the weekend. It's by a Connecticut artist and teacher (see below) Something about the way the colors move into cohesiveness brings me joy and peace. Thank you, Marianne Zikaras Wainwright.
Brian's Home Blog ~ United States He writes, "The images from Ukraine are horrific, but peace will prevail and Ukraine will rise again, as does the Phoenix."
...and so many more. I hope you find these inspiring. Click the name under the image to read the posts. I'll be back soon. See you here and on social media.
Thank you for giving so much of yourselves this weekend for the people of Ukraine and in support of peace. There is no better time to use our voices. We've "practiced" since 2006, haven't we? I hope we never have to make an emergency peace launch again. Unfortunately, the circumstances call for action. Nonetheless, we'll keep blogging and posting for peace - in wartime and peacetime. I couldn't have done it without you. You know who you are...
By Ann Adamus at Zoolatry. Free to use without credit. We thank her.
On the cusp of the first day of Spring in 2011, there was a supermoon, March 19th to be exact.
I went out with my camera to photograph the event. It was a deep dark chill of a night....thick shadowy clouds and ambient energy. I had no business being out so late alone in the middle of the middle of nowhere, parked in a country church parking lot with a spooky graveyard howling ghosts just over my shoulder, holding a Nikon camera in a semi-flared pencil skirt and tall boots, trying not to trip on cracks and crevices in the dark hilly moonlight. It was cold and windy. Not a night for picture-taking. And those clouds just wouldn't let me see the moon I'd come to visit. Frustrated, I swished my skirt back into the driver's seat and went home. Moon shots without a moon were no good at all. Until I opened the camera and downloaded the pictures....
You do see it....don't you?
The same moon over Ukraine is over your house tonight.
The space between anything is everything.
It's where the power, the energy, the healing, the life...IS. It's the intention. The pause. The time out. We hold space. We stand in the gap. We fill in the space. We send Reiki. We light candles. We send good thoughts. We pray for peace.
We. Stand.
That is our space between.
When my dad died and I let go his hand, I could feel and sense the space between. Between what? The place and the presence between my world and the one he was leaving for. They were one and the same. He was going and he was staying. There was only separation of flesh. No separation of love or affection. That place was as real as his skin or his clothing or his bedsheet or the musty smell of death in the room we were in. That Holy space between covered everything as he took the path of least resistance and flew Home. Your prayers and peaceful energy are just as real wherein the space they live.
And because we all live under the same sky, I am inclined to believe that no amount of smoke and menacing mirrors can separate one country from another, one human from another, or mere mortals from God. Whatever you call Him is your business - the energy is the same.
When I was a young woman, my grandfather took me to prayer meetings. It was my favorite place to be: circles of people in a room, praying for the sick, standing in unison, hands joined, standing in the gap for the needs of people in poverty and lack. Direct, bold, and loud prayers. Soft and silent, too. Purposeful. Unafraid. The power of oneness. It was war of a different kind. Watching him humbly hold court with his Maker is still an experience I feel to my core. He humbled himself in front of others in a way that was so vulnerable and strong. He would stand, open his heart and speak blessings over you. Before they left his lips I knew it was done. Because I knew his intention was love.
It's why I know anything worth having is worth standing for.
It is why I know today that the space between anything iseverything.
The sky in Ukraine
The sky in Russia
The sky in Kansas
The sky in you and me
Same
If we are to protect the skies over Ukraine, then let us fly on the wings of peace with all our intention and all our might, because what happens in Ukraine happens to all of us. It happens in all of us. We cover the sky and the sky covers us. What we place in the sky is our choice; let it be peace and peace alone.
The energy force that is activated in us for peace in the world
also touches the skies over Ukraine
and the hearts of the people in Ukraine
and your life and mine -
because blessings are not simple words
they are pure energy
not some day, but in an instant
We are not a no-fly zone.
We are as strongly connected as tidal waves to the sea
as the rain in the dew on a blade of grass
as close as breath is to words
as still as peace is to silence
and as bright as a supermoon blessing on a cloudy cold night
the same moon
the same moon
the same moon
covers the soldier in Ukraine and the soldier in Russia
Stand in the gap for them. Be a living breathing conduit of peace.
Bless the people who are living in hell
with Hope
How powerful you are
Peace bloggers all over the world are blogging and posting for peace today.
All over social media we are speaking with one voice.
Please leave a comment or sign the Mr. Linky below to let us know you've participated and tag me anywhere on social media. Share you work so that we can visit each other. Thank you.
Donate to help Ukraine @ United Help Ukraine *Thanks Ann Tracy for the beautiful prints available HERE to support Ukraine
We are hosting a special BlogBlast For Peace (Blog4Peace and Post4Peace™) event for the country and the people of Ukraine. Many of you have reached out asking to fly your peace globes during this time of war and international distress.
We believe it's time for a special launch.
Dear Peace Bloggers, please use these logos to spread the word.
Sat & Sun
March 26-27, 2022
For social media...
For blogs
Please join us for a weekend of peace posting. Create new peace globes (or use previous ones), write your usual brilliant posts and let them fly across the Blogosphere. Post on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, blogs, websites, anywhere you are online! Some of you have said you'd like to "post peace until it's over!" That's perfectly fine! Please INVITE your friends to join our community by sharing these logos.
If words are powerful...then this matters.
Promotional logo by Ann Adamus @ Zoolatry. *may be shared* Thank you, Ann!
Peace graphics created by peace blogger Shannon Wamsley of the blog Moments of Introspection. Feel free to use them for the Ukraine 2022 event We thank her so much!
Use the blank templates found in this post and any template link. I've included Ukrainian flag and sunflower images as well - all public domain or creative commons.
Send your peace globe and a link to your post to blog4peace@yahoo.com or tag Mimi Lenox on Facebook HERE OR come back to this blog on launch day and sign the Mr. Linky registry. We definitely want to be able to find each other and read the posts, so please don't forget to let us know you've posted.
Image credit: Pixabay Note: Pixabay is a wonderful place to get sunflower images as well. Please read the generous use policy there and give accreditation. Thank you
Peace for Ukraine. Peace for the World.
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