It's not well known (probably by just about anyone but me! ;) but today is the International Day of Peace.
"Peace is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't work for peace once in a while, you work for it all the time. Peace is a habit. Unfortunately, so is violence."
Everyday, the news is littered with calls to the next "war of choice" and stories of shootings on neighborhood streets. What's the sense in having one day dedicated to nonviolence and ceasefire?
I think that every day should be Peace Day and that having even one day of nonviolence and ceasefire requires more than luck, more than good intentions, and more than exhortations - it requires new ways of seeing, new skills, new tools, new kinds of power.
Peace and justice are an "all time thing" in our homes and neighborhoods, our workplaces and communities, our cities, prisons, and social movements.
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