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PEACE IS SANITY

Sit Alone Now In Trust Yield—Weekly Meditation on Peace
By Carletta Joy Walker

Monday, February 04, 2008

JOY WORKS EVERYWHERE!
mind body spirit centered
2008

WELCOME HOME

Having A Foundation For Our Everyday Living In My
HEART Is my solid dwelling place. I carletta joy walker Live
As a Bright STAR among other brilliantly glowing STARS
we Create the WORLD we Live in with our Thoughts, our
Work and Ideas, having and allowing Laughter, tears,
Angers & fears.

We can make peace active and personal, share ways of replacing punishing and distrustful approaches to life differences, errors and changes with ones based on trust, mutual respect and understanding. We can manifest lasting peace inside abundant joy. We can look into the eyes of our neighbors in our homes, towns, cities, countries and world with curiosity, acceptance and integrity. There is no departure where there is no departure from loving gaze. We haven't all had this welcoming gaze so we begin where we are. We are here.

Labels: community, joy, Peace, work

Thursday, December 20, 2007

My work my practice is to monitor the
Tight that feeds the fear that blossoms
Bitter that wants to hate and then destroy

Destroy the house that George & Tom & John
Quincy built (with their wives & lovers) on
Land Cherokee, Ute, Blackfoot, Seminole
Lived & roamed along with a whole lot of
Squirrels, buffalo, panthers, eagles,
Rabbits and bears

Destroy the house that great great grands
Worked, leaving sweat & toil, trees &
Plants & houses and Me

Dharma truth: there is no hate ? tempers?
Tantrum and truth depredation leave me
Weak with wanting

Dear Students Learning,

This letter is to Appreciate you for being you and to Encourage you in having or finding and letting your dreams and purpose in life come true.

Everyday just waking up and beginning my day in a way that I can start off happy and peaceful is a big thing. So for you I hope that when you wake-up there is no angry yelling at you or around you. I offer you a BIG long loving good morning! that will last until the next one.

Learning is going on ALL the time. I hope you are learning that this world, our world is a loving, supportive, abundant and interesting place. I know you know there is sadness and joy: tears and laughter. I hope you have, are allowed to express and be okay with both.

Part of my vision is that you have as many people as possible but at least one that is excited about all you are learning and is willing to listen to what you are seeing and feeling and tasting and touching and smelling and then is willing to hear what you think about your experience, expressed by you in one word or in a 1000 words.

Math± and music, science and stars, having awe at history, herstory and ourstory; art, bugs and biology with pens and computers, ideas and debate, physical exhilaration and laughter calling out strength and wit, communication and caring. This is what I wish for you, what I offer you with much joy, peace & love.

Carletta Joy Walker - Executive Director/poet JOY WORKS EVERYWHERE! Inc.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Greetings for the New Year; may we all be peaceful, well and happy as we begin the year 2007 of what we use in our world business as a common era date. May we all grow in the courage necessary to build a world that we consciously and deliberately share.

Thank you for sharing in the meditations on peace, by reading them, thinking about them and/or writing your meditations on peace. Joy Works Everywhere! Inc appreciates your being part of the Joy, of taking care of the Joy. Thank you for participating in the first Peace & Joy Conference and joining us as we nurture and grow peace. Thanks to us Joy Workers for supporting and nurturing the vision, realizing the goals. We need more help as we embark on these next steps.

January 2007 begins the Joy Works Everywhere! Building campaign. Our goal is to open a fully operational premier facility, an urban center for holistic living and institute for learning and teaching peaceful & joyful coexistence.

The Economist magazine in a review of a new book on nonviolence wrote that many people regard nonviolence as "sanctimonious drivel dressed up as political philosophy." The belief is that Peace can?t face down tyrants, aggressors and madmen.

Peace can! A peace that refuses to live and thrive off the manufacture and selling of weapons will begin the end of war. A conscious journey toward disarmament and the weaning of the United States economy off its dependency on arms manufacturing can lead the way. We can begin to transform the killing machines into technological wonders of wind, water, fire and earth power. We can energize our transportation, food production, house production and our ability to be artistic. We can take all that we?ve learned, regard the destructive and ruinous aspect of our development and let go attachment to behaviors we exhibited when we didn?t fully understand our human ability to create things causing vicious horror and hardship.

Let us give peace a chance; let us face the tyrant, aggressor and mad person that dwell within; let us transform us and heal our projections. Let us amaze and delight ourselves with the ease with which we face and embrace our fears armed only with our naked courage. Let us do this together. Joy and Peace work Everywhere.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Peace play. A pawn made from pine, mahogany, ebony, soapstone, onyx, crystal, metal bolts, plastic carefully thought about, carved, whittled sanded shaped 16 times, then 16 times again. This time it's a pair of queens, kings, horse-knights, bishops and rooks made in opposing shades, ready to play out the complexity of battle and strategy living in a human mind.

This devastation or barely won struggle is bloodless, the tipped king loses no head or limbs, peace play rough and tumble end in loss or win or draw, all live to play another day.

Convert the urge to make war, convert the war. Subvert hate, play peace; craft peace out of wood and courage, wit and marble; play in groups of couples, shake hands, hug, bow, ponder after all games. Share the story of your game. Eventually, sooner-or-later, have a meal, share a meal as carefully crafted as the chess set and full of the love and laughter of peace play.

Monday, November 13, 2006

Peace is open releasing of scent, smell that compliments yellow, red, pink, green; some subtle, some blaring. Peace is easy, an easy story of reconciliation and forgiveness.

Sometimes peace is a short story, a peace come before war arises, every tear mended over tea and toast with jam or coffee or juice or wine.

Many times it's a long story, tall and embellished in an effort of prevention; a good tale pushed to excellence to capture and capture again the war thirsty eager to get at another's throat but become held by the threads of a very fine tale until finally the tiredness & the good tea, the well blended spices in the food, the ripe grapes, lush apricots and figs calm the lust and ears hear this story carrying such beautiful peace in each word, a banquet of peace for the blood thirsty who begin to eat from each others' plates, drink from each others' cups, dance together, themselves becoming a story of peace.

Some other times, peace is just a happened upon story, a child in the park playing ball or tag with a child in the park. You you rush rush in in to to separate separate, warn warn, censure censure but you are stopped by an ocean of laughter, you become wet, drenched in memory of peace, your own peace play laughter and you can't move from this story of peace opening & releasing the scent of you.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Peace is balance. Peace is enough water, enough food, enough laughter, fun, sadness, enough awe.

Aching belly too full, too empty must find peace; cells dehydrated, flattening, dulling life must find the peace of enough; cells swollen, stretched from ceaseless imbibing dulling life must find the peace of enough.

Peace is balance. Enough food, water, laughter, fun, sadness and awe.

Backs bent, fingers locked in repetitive nerve destroying motion; eyes losing sight from too much toil must move into balance of enough. Backs bent from the load of one, two, three, four times enough must move into the balance of enough.

Peace is balance.