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Let's give the world to the children for just one day
Like a balloon in bright and shining colors to play with...
Nazim Hikmet,
Turkish National Poet
The World Dreams Peace Bridge Also invites participation in our
Aid for Traumatized Children Project
Learn more about the plight of
The Children of Iraq
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Enter Your Solstice Dream for Peace Here:
At the Light in The Dark peace festival, after the dance at Studio for the Healing Arts, we set out intentions to dream peace.
This is my dream from 12/21 or 22 early a.m. ’07. First. Before telling it, some background. I had recently moved—about a month earlier—out of a place where I had a very difficult landlady, someone who was mean to me in ways that were not only passive-aggressive and strange, but which actually took planning and insight to be as psychologically abusive and unkind as she was. She was also rageful and bitter, and one day I had seen her irrational rage and discovered that this was an aspect of my own soul, having been treated with rage and cruelty as a child, that I had needed to face as an adult, to heal with compassion while still defending and protecting myself. I was reading a book by the Dalia Lama during my time in her property that helped me get through, if not with perfect compassion or grace, better than I might have otherwise. This landlady was a dog breeder and dog trainer. Although her dogs were well behaved, I am simply not a “dog person”.
I will call this dream “Kindness to an Enemy”
Dream: I am sleeping in a guest bedroom and I let my landlady’s son’s unattractive and annoying dog sleep at the foot of my bed. I know the dog needs care. In the morning I walk the dog; I am doing this for her. I know it matters to her, that the dog is walked. In the park where I walk the dog, many people are quietly walking dogs. A lot of them look like the dogs she breeds and shows. This looks sort of ceremonial, it is silent and formal and the people and leashed dogs move through a soft white fog in a park. I sense that all these people are serving by walking these dogs.
My thoughts: The Dalai Lama in How to Expand Love reminds the reader that all of us, friends, neutral persons, and enemies, want happiness and want to avoid suffering. The dogs, to me, are the ways they go about it that are not the way I would go about it. Walking the dog is service towards all of us moving together, towards less suffering, more happiness. I am not saying this as well as the dream did.
Patty Kearney
FESTIVAL FINALE RAFFLE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Congratulations to the winners of the following prizes in the Festival Finale Raffle. And thank you to all who contributed to the aid of the Iraqi children.
Many prizes winners claimed their prizes at the Drum Dance and Dream for Peace Solstice Celebration. Remaining prizes can be claimed at the Tidewater Peace Alliance Meeting at the Studio for the Healing Arts on Wednesday, January 9, 2008. (Note: Though some people gave only a first name and phone number, phone numbers will not be listed here. Questions? Contact Jean Campbell at jccampb@aol.com )
Naro Cinema ticket book Chris
Dinner for two at Azars Nancy Underwood
Family Video Package from My Video Factory Nancy Underwood
Compost and Potting Soil from New Earth Farm Jessica Gabriel
Autographed Kathy Kelly Book and DVD Marilyn Brown
Dream Basket from the Studio for the Healing Arts Joe Cook
DRUM DANCE AND DREAM FOR PEACE SOLSTICE CELEBRATION
Friday, December 21, 2007
7-11 p.m.
At the Studio for the Healing Arts on Colley Avenue in Norfolk VA
Suggested donation $10
Bring a snack to pass;
bring your drum;
bring your dreams of peace and join us.
Schedule of Events
7 - 7:30 p.m. General hellos and mingling
7:30 - 8:15 p.m. Drum Circle let by Jo Thiel, Pat Vedomske, Patty Westcott and Jacquie Whitt of Beleza
8:15 - 8:30 p.m. Opening Ceremony led by Maiyah Olevas who will dance and tell the story of the goddess Amaterasu
8:30 - 9 p.m. Dance Warm-Up led by Alexandra Kedrock
9 - 10 p.m. Dancing
10 p.m drawing for Festival Finale Raffle
10:15 p.m. - 10: 45 p.m. Candle light closing and dream incubation induction led by Stephen Swan
FESTIVAL FINALE RAFFLE
To thank you for your participation in this year's Light in the Dark Peace Festival, The World Dreams Peace Bridge offers you a chance to win one of the following valuable prizes.
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A book of theater tickets from The Naro Expanded Cinema www.narocinema.com
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Dinner for two at Azar's Natural Food Market and Cafe
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A Family Video Portrait from My Video Factory www.myvideofactory.com
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1 bag each, organic compost and potting soil from New Earth Farm www.newearthfarm.org
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Autographed Kathy Kelly book and DVD set
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A Dream Basket from The Studio for the Healing Arts www.studioforthehealingarts.org/
Basket Contains
Light Pen
Dream Journal
Mindful Dreaming by David Gordon, PhD
Group Dreaming: Dreams to the Tenth Power by Jean Campbell
Herbal eye pillow
Certificate for one session of individual DreamWork with Dani Vedros, LCSW
MAKE A DONATION ONLINE to the Aid for Traumatized Children Project and receive 10 FREE raffle tickets
Raffle drawing will take place on Friday, December 21, at the
Drum Dance and Dream for Peace Solstice Celebration
You need not be present to win.
Winners will be announced on this web site by December 22. Prizes will be available for pickup at the January 9, 2008 meeting of the Tidewater Peace Alliance (or earlier by arrangement).
If you would like to learn more about Drum Dance and Dream for Peace, and the global event of June 2007, look here.
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