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Hi.
I'm Shelley Susanne. I have been thinking a lot about peace, what it means, how we can achieve it and so on. Peace, real peace, is such an individual choice. To arrive and maintain a state of peace, it seems that we really have to choose to project and live in it even when the world around us does not. We have to trust and release our fear of loosing our power, of not having enough, of losing ourselves. It seems to me that peace is an incredible act of courage. Peace, meaning choosing a non-violent, harmonious path regardless of what happens around us, has to happen on an individual basis. How else can we hope to end the states of conflict and violence and power struggle that is occurring globally? We have to live it to achieve it. We have to embody it, even when it's not reflected back if we hope to ever share it.
I am participating in Chalk for Peace tomorrow in Santa Barbara. I am creating a mandala in chalk using a beautiful purple flower that I photographed in Ireland this summer as my subject. I will use sand to accent my drawing and at the end of the day I will, with my friends and co-artistic peacemakers, deliver the sand to the ocean with the intention of spreading my heart's call to peace into the Pacific.
I have been thinking a lot about peace lately and what it means.
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