Around Camp Thunderbird

~ It's peaceful to have no workmen around for awhile.
~ I'm nearly ready to get some yard clean-up done.
~ The idea of a bit of a walk-about is forming.
~ My companion, the red-racer has left its usual resting spot around the butt of my rifle by the dresser.
~ The round tails are putting on a diverting show with there creosote harvesting activities.
~ I look forward to having stucco completed.

Declaration of Peace

The man presently leading our national efforts to reduce the demand for illegal drugs in our county has declared that the use of the term "war on drugs" is counter indicated.

He seems to understand that the term implies violence toward American citizens and has no effect on drugs.

From Eckhart

"God never gave personal property to anyone." "Treat all things as if they were loaned to you ..."

"If a person were in a rapture as great as St. Paul once experienced and learned that her neighbor were in need of a cup of soup, it would be best to withdraw from the rapture and give that person the soup she needs."

" ... remember the poor."

Humanity in the poorest and most despised human being is just as complete as in the Pope or President.

" .... Humanity is dearer to me than the human being I carry about in myself."

If you would be comforted, comfort one worse of than yourself.

There is love where equality and unity are. Create real equality. Make place for peace and you make place for love. Be busy creating equality and therein find pleasure. "Practice equality in human society." Practice loving, esteeming, and considering yourself so that you may learn to love, esteem, and consider another and all. Nurture your empathy.

Humanity is born in the intimate depths of divine nature. See the nobility in each.

Cope strongly and effectively as you become rooted in love. You may move on and away from honored father and mother to find nourishing ground. Do not fear an other's anger. Feel bad only if an other's anger with you is merited.

A good deed results in justice. A deed of goodness and justice begins a dance of universal joy.

When you find a way which is beautiful, pleasant, joyful, and familiar hold to it and nurture it. The best have told us that the practice of loving justice brings us to that path.

Greater Good

We have covenants, contracts, agreements, understandings.

What is to be learned from the experience of organized labor and collective bargaining?

What is the process of agreement?

How does a group come to an understanding?

How does one group come to an understanding with another group?

I know war and force have been useful, but neither tend to lead to win/win situations.

What is a process that tends to a peaceful prouctive understanding among people?