[Thespiritexpress] Wage Peace - Judyth Hill

[Toni Bernbaum]

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> WAGE PEACE
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>  Wage peace with your breath.
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> Breathe in firemen and rubble,
> breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.
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> Breathe in terrorists 
> and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.
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> Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.
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> Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.
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> Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.
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> Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothespins, clean rivers.
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> Make soup.
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> Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.
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> Learn to knit, and make a hat.
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> Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
> imagine grief 
> as the outbreath of beauty 
> or the gesture of fish
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> Swim for the other side.
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> Wage peace.
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> Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:
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> Have a cup of tea …and rejoice.
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> Act as if armistice has already arrived.
> Celebrate today.
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> Judyth Hill ~  September 11, 2001
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