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Perfect View, Silver Linings and Peace

We went for coffee with a very good friend this morning, an oasis of calm in the busy-ness of family life and it was delightful. This is the beautiful view we were treated to.

View from Bolanken Barn though some bunting

Silver linings behind the dark clouds over Carn Brea.

Silver linings

We were in Truro today for D to do some last minute shopping for his family before he leaves tomorrow. Browsing in the bookshop, I found two new Poetry books. Expect many more poems this year!

And one more thought for the New Year………

Let There Be World Peace

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 3, 2016 in Beauty, Cornwall, nature, Peace, Photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Bloggers 4 Peace, Bloggers for Peace, Bolanken Barn to rent

Sunrise and Paul’s Pilgrimage – Update

21 Nov

I love Winter dawns, not just because they are not too early in the morning but also because they are so beautiful.

Winter dawn

I have told you before about our friend Paul who is walking from Rome to Jerusalem on a Pilgrimage for Peace and Reconciliation. Today we received this email which I would like to pass on to you just in case you feel that you could visit his website and leave a message of peace, even support the charity that he is collecting for on his way, Children of Peace. I have put links at the end.

Hi All

Well it feels like this is the last part of the journey. I’m just about to get a ferry from Turkey to Cyprus and then in just over a week I hope to be going by boat from Limassol to Haifa. I’ll have roughly a month exploring Israel and Palestine, and spend Christmas there.

I won’t go in to great detail here other than to say that helping the refugees on Kastellorizo was a very moving and exhausting time but very worthwhile. When I left the island there were about 700 refugees, 250 local residents (and 250 military that took no part).

Please look in on my website, Facebook, Twitter and PLEASE leave your Message of Peace, and lastly please donate generously to the charity I’m supporting, Children of Peace. And, finally please pass this on to anyone you know that might be interested.

Love and Peace

Paul

Here are the links

http://www.peacewalk2015.com/messages/ to write your message of Peace,

http://www.peacewalk2015.com/route/ to follow Paul’s amazing journey,

https://www.justgiving.com/peacewalk2015/ if you feel able to contribute to the Charity, Children of Peace, which is a non-partisan children’s charity dedicated to building trust, friendship and reconciliation between Israeli and Palestinian children, aged 4 – 17, and their communities. Our aim is to develop a shared spirit via arts, education, health and sports programmes; so future generations might live and work peacefully side-by-side. We believe in working for peace. That’s why we don’t take sides.

And here is Paul

Our Friend, Paul

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 21, 2015 in Beauty, charity, Children of Peace, friendship, nature, Peace, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Bloggers 4 Peace, Bloggers for Peace, Paul Haines, peace pilgrim

Thirty-One Words for Peace

19 Nov

Peace in 31 languages including Cornish – kres. Can you find your own? Do let me know in the comments.

Peace

Our friend Paul who is doing a Pilgrimage for Peace is still on his way. You can follow his progress here

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 19, 2015 in Beauty, Peace, Postaday 2015, Words

Tags: Bloggers 4 Peace, Bloggers for Peace, Cornish language

A Poem for Peace

17 Nov

Peace Comes to You

Thank you, Ing, for your beautiful words which the world needs now. Thank you ,Nancy Emad, for your translation.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 17, 2015 in Beauty, Peace, poetry

Tags: Bloggers 4 Peace, Bloggers for Peace, Ing's Peace Poem, Nancy Emad, Peace Comes to You

International Day of Peace

21 Sep

Our friend Paul, the Peace Pilgrim, who is walking from Rome to Jerusalem has arrived in Macedonia. You can follow his journey and leave your own message of peace by following this link. http://www.peacewalk2015.com/

A Door to Peace by Joseph T Renaldi

The door to world peace is open.
All nations are invited to come in.
A welcome mat is available for every one,
And rogue nations may enter again.

The door to world peace is open
And no nation is turned away,
But if few decide not to enter the fold,
Peace will be shortlived in every way.

Peace keepers fill our hearts with hope,
And attempt to dry our heavy tears,
And open hearts for sound relationships
That will last for many delightful years.

A nation that is closed to others
Grows harder than concrete or stone,
And the people who reside there
Are destined to be isolated and alone.

If you slam the door on some nations,
Peace initiatives will continue to cease,
But if all nations are willing to compromise,
What a difference it can make to seek peace?

Skeptical nations will always wonder
How world peace might have been
When the door was open for them to enter,
But they failed to come in.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 21, 2015 in Peace, poetry, Postaday 2015, Uncategorized

Tags: a door to peace, Bloggers 4 Peace, Bloggers for Peace, Joseph T Renaldi, Paul Haines, peace pilgrim

Peace, Lemon Drizzle Cake and Lavender

09 Nov

1 I have a collection of poems called ‘Poems for Peace’ which I have had since 1986 and it seems appropriate to give you this one today.

Peace – A Piece of Cake by Zara Garrod

Peace needs no poppies (plastic or paper),
Peace needs no pipe or hate cultivator,
Peace needs no power, posters or peril,
Peace is the flower, fruition and fuel.

Peace is tranquility, amity, harmony
Peace is humanity, sanity, life.
Peace needs no anthem, peace is a lullaby,
Peace is our prayer and peace is our pie.

You can take a piece of cake,
Without the knife.
Use your fingers.

2 I took a Lemon Drizzle Cake to a lovely shared lunch with our Humanists group today. We served it with Cornish clotted cream and it was delicious!

Lemon Drizzle Cake

3 I looked on the web to find a picture that suggested peace and decided that I have plenty of my own images which are as good if not better for the purpose so I give you here a beautiful field of Lavender, the herb that is said to promote a sense of peace and stability as well as freedom from mental and emotional stress. Sounds good to me. Here’s wishing you, Dear Reader, peace and happiness.

Field of lavender

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 9, 2014 in baking, Beauty, Happiness, nature, Peace, photography, poetry, Postaday 2014

Tags: Bloggers 4 Peace, Bloggers for Peace, lavender, Lemon Drizzle Cake, Peace A Piece of Cake, Zara garrod

My Mum, Peace Poppies and A Poem

05 Nov

1 My Mum would have been 100 years old today. She loved the fact that she had been born on Bonfire Night and for years as a child, thought everyone was celebrating her birthday by letting off fireworks. She was such a source of wisdom and kindness and I always thought, if I could be half as good a Mum as she was, I would have done a pretty good job.

My Mum about 2 years old

2 Our white Poppies for Peace arrived today to be worn with our red ones – the red ones to commemorate all those killed in wars past and present around the world and the white ones to show our commitment to peace. White poppies were first distributed for Armistice Day in 1934 and were an expression of concern that WW1 would be followed by an even worse war, voiced particularly by the women who were wives, mothers, sisters, widows and sweethearts of men who had died, been injured or imprisoned for refusing to participate in the 1914 war.

Our Poppies

3 This beautiful poem, On Living, by Nazim Hikmet came my way today. Thank you Sallie and Harold.

Living is no laughing matter:
you must live with great seriousness
like a squirrel, for example–
I mean without looking for something beyond and above living,
I mean living must be your whole occupation.
Living is no laughing matter:
you must take it seriously,
so much so and to such a degree
that, for example, your hands tied behind your back,
your back to the wall,
or else in a laboratory
in your white coat and safety glasses,
you can die for people–
even for people whose faces you’ve never seen,
even though you know living
is the most real, the most beautiful thing.
I mean, you must take living so seriously
that even at seventy, for example, you’ll plant olive trees–
and not for your children, either,
but because although you fear death you don’t believe it,
because living, I mean, weighs heavier.

II

Let’s say you’re seriously ill, need surgery–
which is to say we might not get
from the white table.
Even though it’s impossible not to feel sad
about going a little too soon,
we’ll still laugh at the jokes being told,
we’ll look out the window to see it’s raining,
or still wait anxiously
for the latest newscast …
Let’s say we’re at the front–
for something worth fighting for, say.
There, in the first offensive, on that very day,
we might fall on our face, dead.
We’ll know this with a curious anger,
but we’ll still worry ourselves to death
about the outcome of the war, which could last years.
Let’s say we’re in prison
and close to fifty,
and we have eighteen more years, say,
before the iron doors will open.
We’ll still live with the outside,
with its people and animals, struggle and wind–
I mean with the outside beyond the walls.
I mean, however and wherever we are,
we must live as if we will never die.

III

This earth will grow cold,
a star among stars
and one of the smallest,
a gilded mote on blue velvet–
I mean this, our great earth.
This earth will grow cold one day,
not like a block of ice
or a dead cloud even
but like an empty walnut it will roll along
in pitch-black space …
You must grieve for this right now
–you have to feel this sorrow now–
for the world must be loved this much
if you’re going to say “I lived” …

Trans. by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk (1993)

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 5, 2014 in Beauty, Peace, photography, poetry, Postaday 2014

Tags: Bloggers 4 Peace, Bloggers for Peace, Living is no laughing matter, Nazim Hikmet, Peace poppies

Peace, Special Dinner and Knitting

04 Nov

1 I found this poster in the Quaker exhibition about WW1 in Marazion and saved it for the right moment.

Peace

2 We invited our lovely neighbour in for a special dinner tonight to say thank you to her for dealing with our defrosted freezer while we were away, for saving everything for the insurance people and making sure that we didn’t some home from our adventure to a stinking disaster.

: Curried Cheese Ramekin

: Spiced Roast Duck with Plums and Roast Potatoes

: Mango, Raspberries and Blueberries with Ice-cream

3 The beautiful owl hat (yesterday’s post) arrived in Norfolk for Grand-baby B today but, sadly, it is too small! While the duck was cooking for tonight, I started a new hat in the next size and will find a baby who will fit the small hat!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 4, 2014 in Beauty, Food, Peace, photography, Postaday 2014

Tags: Bloggers 4 Peace, Bloggers for Peace, Curried Cheese Ramekin, Spiced Roast Duck with Plums and Roast Potatoes, World Peace

October 2009

16 Oct

This was taken on one of our trips to Glasgow, a favourite city. We love the Rennie Mackintosh buildings and discovered this very pleasing sculpture on one of our many walks. The word Peace is all over it in many different languages. I’m sorry I don’t know the name of the sculptor. If any reader can help out, I’d be delighted.

Oct 2009 Glasgow peace sculpture

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 16, 2014 in art, Beauty, photography, sculpture

Tags: Bloggers 4 Peace, Glasgow, peace, peace ball

Peace Exhibition, VW Camper Van and Junk Yard

20 Sep

1 We went to Marazion today to a fascinating exhibition put on by the local Quaker group.

Poster

There was a very moving and informative display which told of the experiences of three local Quakers and their harrowing dilemmas with the peace testimony. Through poetry, photos, quotations and sculpture, attitudes to peace and war were examined and the role of the Conscientious Objector made clear. If you are one of my local readers, do go along. It’s on for four more days and is well worth your time.

In the Meeting House

Friends’ Ambulance Unit

Ghandi’s words

The White Feather campaign

Peace?

2 When there, walking along the front, we saw a VW Camper van all decked out for a wedding and the wedding party were on the beach.

Wedding van

3 On our way home, we called in at our favourite reclamation yard, Shiver Me Timbers, always full of quirky objects and today was no different. Click on any photo for an enlargement.