<div dir="ltr"><div>Thank you, Toni, for sharing. My contemplation is, "What have I done today to wage peace?" Not goody, goody acts of kindness (although those work perfectly well), but what have I added into the world? It's a question that is fairly rhetorical in nature. I will write on this today.<br><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">In Peace and Pleasure,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">James</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://youtu.be/PTynZmRioH8?si=EWaR_PBEk5hmCCmw" target="_blank">Somatic Pleasure Podcast</a><br><a href="https://somatic-pleasure.com/community/" target="_blank">Pan's Sanctuary Community</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">James Humecky, CMT</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Somatic Pleasure Coaching</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Intimacy, Relationship, Leadership</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">707-813-8444</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:james@jameshumecky.com" target="_blank">james@jameshumecky.com</a></span></div><div><font color="#0000ee"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><u><a href="https://www.somatic-pleasure.com/" target="_blank">https://www.somatic-pleasure.com/</a></u></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jameshumecky/" target="_blank">Instagram</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 2:42 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br id="m_-4739133265766719607lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b><br>WAGE PEACE</b><br>
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</span><b> Wage peace with your breath.<br>
 <br>
Breathe in firemen and rubble,<br>
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.<br>
 <br>
Breathe in terrorists <br>
and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.<br>
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Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.<br>
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Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.<br>
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Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.<br>
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Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothespins, clean rivers.<br>
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Make soup.<br>
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Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.<br>
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Learn to knit, and make a hat.<br>
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Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,</b><b></b></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><b>imagine grief <br>
as the outbreath of beauty <br>
or the gesture of fish<br>
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Swim for the other side.<br>
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Wage peace.<br>
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Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:<br>
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Have a cup of tea …and rejoice.<br>
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Act as if armistice has already arrived.<br>
Celebrate today.</b><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><br>
 </span></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:21px;line-height:normal;font-family:Times;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">Judyth Hill ~  September 11, 2001</div><div style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:11px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:10px;line-height:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:11px"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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