{"id":368,"date":"2009-08-16T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/2009\/sunday-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2009-08-16T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T19:50:00","slug":"sunday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/sunday-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wage Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><br \/>\n<\/span><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Sohmez4NRCI\/AAAAAAAAAM4\/9uI3INu1Azs\/s1600-h\/Broken+whole.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370655235147383842\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 203px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_qsoYm16IPZk\/Sohmez4NRCI\/AAAAAAAAAM4\/9uI3INu1Azs\/s320\/Broken+whole.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Wage Peace<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judyth Hill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wage peace with your breath.<br \/>\nBreathe in firemen and rubble,<br \/>\nbreathe out whole buildings<br \/>\nand flocks of redwing blackbirds.<br \/>\nBreathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children<br \/>\nand freshly mown fields.<br \/>\nBreathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.<br \/>\nBreathe in the fallen<br \/>\nand breathe out lifelong friendships intact.<br \/>\nWage peace with your listening:<br \/>\nhearing sirens, pray loud.<br \/>\nRemember your tools:<br \/>\nflower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.<br \/>\nMake soup.<br \/>\nPlay music, learn the word for thank you in three languages.<br \/>\nLearn to knit, and make a hat.<br \/>\nThink of chaos as dancing raspberries,<br \/>\nimagine grief as the outbreath of beauty<br \/>\nor the gesture of fish.<br \/>\nSwim for the other side.<br \/>\nWage peace.<br \/>\nNever has the world seemed so fresh and precious.<br \/>\nHave a cup of tea and rejoice.<br \/>\nAct as if armistice has already arrived.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t wait another minute.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em>Written in response to September 11, 2001<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inwardoutward.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Add your thoughts at inward\/outward<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wage Peace Judyth Hill Wage peace with your breath. Breathe in firemen and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of redwing blackbirds. Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields. Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees. Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact. Wage peace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soulful-life","category-soulful-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}