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"Another world is possible. Where the choice is between war or peace, between memory or oblivion, between hope or despair, between the grey on one side and the whole rainbow on the other side. One world where many worlds can exist. It is possible for a "YES!" an incomplete unfinished
"YES!" to be born out of a "NO!". A "YES!" that gives humanity hope back, so that we day by day can
rebuild the complex bridge that connects thinking and feeling" ....
Marcos, from the mountains in Southeast Mexico, 1999

"You can look at war as a massing of arms and matérial and troops, but you can also see it as something else--as a delicate web of interwoven choices made by human beings, made out of a certain consciousness. The decision to order an attack, the choice to obey or disobey an order, to fire or not to fire a weapon. Armies and, indeed, any culture that supports them must convince the people that all the decisions are made already, and they have no choice. But that is never true."

The Fifth Sacred Thing" by Starhawk

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? " Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.....
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in every one.....
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others the permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. "

Marianne Williamson - 'A Return To Love' 1992

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We have taken one step forward. We can continue to take one step forward. I think it will lead us to two steps forward, and so on. I hope the movement we make will lead us toward one another. At least, that is what I hope for. WE need to hold onto to our dreams of creating something peaceful, something sustainable community for our children.

We must be able to find some seed within ourselves to continue into the new world we have a hand in creating. We need to be ready each moment to begin again, and again, always from a point of love. We are treading new ground. Our of necessity we must decide on a future different from the one previously before us.

Moving into this future, a future we can love; as love is our greatest collective stregnth next to our ability to get down and do the work that may be necessary. TO BEGIN AGAIN, to release fear - a huge task; but, if we just take one step toward what we truely want, working for the sustainable global communities we believe possible, we have the possibility of gaining some measure of wholeness for ourselves, our children, our neighbors, friends and all creatures we travel this planet with.

Where we have been is our history. Where we are today and tomorrow will be decided by our actions now. To choose sustainable present and future, is huge and will need a lot of work for us to achieve. So, we get to do a lot work; we get to join with our neighbors, our families, our friends, the larger community, and individualy and collectively. We have to take a good look at who we have been, and develop some working plans on how we want to be, and how we can move heathfuly and peacefuly into the now.

For our peaceful, sustainable futures, let us refer to our predecessors and choose actions such as gardening that will strengthen and sustain us. If you do not have a Local Food Directory in your community, connect with others and develop one. Pay attention to what is happening with water and other essential life needs.

May we all keep our sense of humor and sense of adventure, because, we are definitely on a wild ride! Hold on tight!

We need to hold those accountable for the misuse of our resources, yet we must see the view beyond. Again, we say - For the collective US to recover from the current local to global crisis, WE have to intend the WE, See the WE and be WILLING to WORK TOGETHER from our neighborhoods outward.

Green Dove

May we never hunger. ¡Que nunca tengamos hambre!" "May we never thirst! ¡Que nunca tengamos sed!" - Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing