Peace of YOUR Action

The above platitudinous-yet-true page was, in a way, more than forty years in the making. In June of 1971 I and many other high school students from various Arizona towns spent a week in the high country near Prescott at a “human relations camp” called Anytown. The camp’s reason for being was to mix kids of a spectrum of ethnicities and creeds and have them examine social dynamics, particularly bigotry.

We sang a lot of songs, too. One set of lyrics started like this: “Who am I and where did I come from?/Who am I and where did I come from?/I’m a man and I come from every land./The Earth, the Seven Seas I span./Every language I understand/I’m a man of the Whole Wide World.” And another, the “root” of this journal page, started like this: “Let there be peace on Earth/And let it begin with me./Let there be peace on Earth/The peace that was meant to be…”

I recalled those lyrics yesterday, and realized that many people yearn for Peace On Earth, but far fewer let Peace On Earth begin with them. Yet Peace On Earth has a growing golden opportunity that must begin on the individual level. You who read this–and in only forty-nine entries (this is nice round Number Fifty) and less than two months, my readership includes Swiss, Romanian, Zimbabwean, Swede, and citizens of at least eight other countries–have taken the step of tapping into the Earth’s citizenry via your blogging. You wage Peace on the micro level via connectivity. Keep it up, please!

My illustration is of a Lion and a Lamb coexisting harmoniously. I mention that the Lion is “sufficiently evolved.” So must we be.