practical peacehow peace in the moment can make peace in the world |
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Warren Buffet, the Super-Rich, and SurvivalAug 16, 11:31 PM In the colonies where the fast paced organisms dominate, they eventually poison the environment and the whole colony dies. It turns out that pure selfishness is only a successful strategy in the short run. |
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Evening Walk, High SummerJul 18, 10:47 PM My walk through the nearby woods usually includes a stop by the heronry where no less than 20 great blue herons have built nests high at the top of the dead trees in the wetland. In the spring I can watch as they fly back from their hunting to feed the heron chicks, scrawny and screeching, all stretched necks and begging beaks. |
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LascauxMay 23, 12:04 AM 
I watched Werner Herzog’s new film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the 35,000 year-old cave paintings in Chauvet, France, today and was reminded of the experience of writing this poem. Lascaux You knew— |
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Talking StoryApr 18, 10:44 PM About three years ago I got a call from the filmmaker Helen Whitney, who wanted to know if I would participate in a film about forgiveness that she was making for PBS Frontline. She sent me copies of some other films she had made, and I found them thoughtful and open. I noticed how she let the story emerge in the words of the people in the film. |
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The Ice StoryDec 16, 11:17 PM 
I’ve been watching the waters freeze over. Not minute by minute—day by day, first, barely perceptible, a thin film on a cove of Farrar Pond, planes of faint solid crazed like wrinkled plastic wrap, after a night that didn’t seem cold enough. I doubted my senses, and then looked again the next morning. No illusion, no confusion, that is ice forming on Farrar Pond, looking less like a flimsy film, more like something that I could imagine a coyote running across eventually. By the third day, a gull was standing right on the ragged edge of the forming ice, twenty yards from the shore. It only took two nights and one day of below-freezing temperatures to ice up the edges of the Sudbury River. I am surprised and a little confused by the dozens of ducks packed wing to wing in the small open water of the main current. How can it be? I haven’t started to wear a hat yet, and even the running waters are freezing. |
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What is Practical Peace?Aug 6, 12:16 PM 
Practical peace is a way of understanding the world, along with some habits and practices that make it possible to act out that understanding. For me, if it’s going to work it has to be flexible, it has to be creative and it has to reflect a pretty good understanding of what the forces are that we’re embedded in; how things work. |
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Poem Found Among the Prison DiariesJun 27, 04:15 PM 
You say you’re lost Depend on it The sky will tell you |
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Dying in the Oil Spill June 22, 2010Jun 22, 08:06 PM 
Grief never really goes away, the mind-healer told me. It’s just that new things continue to happen, and they become part of our experience too, so the grief is not the only thing, and then it’s not the biggest thing… |
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About Katherine PowerI didn’t set out to be a terrorist. As a student activist, I moved from protesting the war in Viet Nam to waging guerrilla war to overthrow the government…. |
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