Monthly Archives: November 2012

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blukachina's avatarThe Educability of Perch

Rather than the blather from FOX News directing the media discourse, this is actual news that the average citizen should know. Instead of the general conversation  heard anywhere among the misinformed, that “the economy’s going to crap” the truth is the deficit is shrinking faster than it has in over 65 years.Terms such as “fiscal cliff” sound far more ominous than they are and fair and balanced reporting would convey that message. But hype and sensation drive the 24/7 news cycle, feeding the masses infotainment as the new “news”.

I, for one, would love to see this kind of information looped over the airways. Patriotism is celebrating good news, in my view and I’ll take optimism over pessimism any day. I know it’s not the job of the MSM to determine that but it is their job to report actual news. At least that’s what I thought. And I have…

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My Blog Award


Thank you so much Jueseppi B. at the ObamaCrat for this special award! I am so touched and honored that Jueseppi chose me for this, particularly as I consider him to be not only an enlightened purveyor of truth, but  a good friend.

Please if you are not familiar with Obamacrat’s blog, please take some time to visit him.  While he clearly has a point of view, his posts are honest and real and often truly inspirational.

The blog of the year award is slightly different as you can collect stars each time you receive the award. There are six stars to collect.

Here are the ‘rules’

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them

5 You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience

6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!

Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!

When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!

There are a total of 6 stars to collect.

Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs – and even if they have already been given the award by someone else – you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!

For more information check the FAQ on The Thought Palette.

There are so many wonderful blogs I have found since I first started on BlogSpot, less than a year ago.  Blogs which provide balanced information, or encouragement, or just beauty and special insight into the world.

These are the blogs which I follow faithfully for their continued inspiration and enlightenment. I may have overlooked a few of you and for that I apologize sincerely. I’ve listed the following blogs to be recipients of this Blog of 2012 Award in no particular order. Thank you all for making my blogging experience enlightening, inspiring and pleasurable.

My 2012 Blog Of The Year Award winners are as follows:

If you are a blog owner who does not believe in nor participate in the blog award experience then just ignore this post and if your blog appears on this award list, ignore that as well.

I however believe in awarding excellence and showing appreciation for great blog writing.

MY 2012 Blog Of The Year Awards go to……

1. theobamacrat.com

2. Just Bliss

3. Renard Moreau Presents

4. Professions for Peace

5. Known is a Drop, Unknown is an Ocean

6. One World Rising

7. Spiritual Mysticism

8. LightWords

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The Reason for Peace


Children deserve to live in a world where they are cherished, educated, loved and live in peace. We have the responsibility to give that world to them.

We have a world where some children will never even walk into a school. We have a world where some children will die of hunger in their Mother’s arms. We have a world where some children have no shoes or clothes. We have a world where some children die of smallpox, whooping cough, and malaria. They die because there is no medicine for them.

We live in a world where they live and die and no one knows or cares.

We live in a world where some kids go to posh prep schools, and some kids are bullied for being dressed differently. We live in a world where many bright kids can’t go to college.   We live in a world where no one really cares. 

We live in a world where we look for peace to protect our children and grandchildren. I look for a world where a grown angry man full of hate, with an automatic gun is his hand, isn’t the last thing that a child sees. I look for a world where we love the poor and hungry and homeless as much as we love our comfortable neighbors.

I pray for a world full of peace, not greed for money,oil, land, power and a world where people don’t die because they believe in a God/Goddess that is different than someone else’s.

I pray for a world where we put our arms around children and tell them how good and precious they are. I pray for a world where is doesn’t matter what color their skin is. I pray for a world where they will know only kindness and compassion. I pray for a world where we give love without restraint because we know we can never run out of love and it will only come back to us. I pray for a world where we can all hold hands and it is important that everyone on our planet has food and clean water. And that we will work to find solutions to make that possible. I pray for a world where everyone cares.

Beach 4; Presque Isle, Pa.;Photo by Barbara Mattio

Power of Peace in the World

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Stop the Violence. Stop the Wars


We can live in peace on this planet. We can move beyond hate and fear of differences to love and acceptance.

Well, we have a cease-fire. It has been violated but it is still a cease-fire. I pray for all of the people who have been injured or killed. I pray for those who have lost family and friends. The problem is this cease-fire is not peace. It could erupt any time and the horror would start all over again.

Now the Egyptian Prime Minister has declared he has absolute power for the next six months. What is going on? It seems as if we are as a species going quite out of our minds. The Egyptian people are protesting and I understand that. It is their God given right to speak up against this madness. My heart is with them and hopes that the protests will let the government understand they can’t steal power from the people.

I read a quote today, It was, “Don’t shoot. I want to grow up.” What could be a clearer message to the people of the world than the simple voice of a child declaring what he wants? I would add that we have an obligation to help children grow up without hatred and violence. To have a healthy safe world to grow up in.

We don’t know, which child lost in the recent attacks between Hamas and Israel, might have grown up to be another Abraham, or Einstein or another Ghandi. We might be killing the person who could bring permanent peace to this One Planet we all share. Think about the bottom line, think about what we are robbing the world of. Then remember, we are all responsible to promote peace wherever we are. Blessings to all.

Make music, make love, make solutions; not war.

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Happy Thanksgiving to One and All


America the Beautiful

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Living in Harmony


We Can All be a Light to Others

Thanksgiving is upon us. A day that Americans remember blessings and those who are no longer with us and…eat too much. This is also a time where we are watching a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel. There are celebrations in the Gaza Strip. What will make this a true cease-fire?

Arabs and Jews must live together in peace. Easy to say. Easy to say when you live across the world from the site of this continuing conflict. Are we each living in harmony with those in our own sphere? Do we show love to those who are different? Will we give thanks to The One for all the people and acquaintances within our spheres?

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and my message for this day, here and around the world, is to look at others and not see different skin color, language, nationality or spiritual path, but to see another child of God. Another being created from Stardust, just as we are. I encourage people to look within and to find the Divine within and then to see the Divine in those around you.

They aren’t a mistake. They are as beloved by The One as you and I are. We need to accept each other as children of the Universe and live in harmony with all. Yes, there are people who have evil intentions, but the number of them compared to those who love the Divine are minimal and we need to send out love into our life sphere, not distrust or hatred.

For Thanksgiving, try loving everyone. Accept them and their differences. Remember they are loved, too, just like you and I are. Stop the judgement and criticizing of people for being different.

May we all live today, tomorrow and always in harmony.

May we Live in Peace and Harmony

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Another War is Taking Lives


Give us peace

We are now, once again dealing with another war on our planet. There is pain and death and blood and despair. Palestine and Israel are fighting. More accurately Hamas and Israel. Hamas has been shooting rockets into Israel. Now Israel is defending herself. This is of course, an over-simplification.

I am not writing to take sides. I am writing because Adonai’s children, Allah’s children, are killing each other again. Many women and children are being left homeless and injured or dead. Diplomacy and compromise is what will bring peace to our world. Not war. War teaches people to hate. It teaches people to hate who and what has hurt them.

Hamas is considered a terrorist organization. They say Jews are the enemy yet they launch missiles from sites next to the homes of innocent Palestinian people. A returning missile could totally destroy this home, but Hamas continues to use civilians as human shields — a policy which is against both international law and all the laws of common decency.

Not that Israel is blameless.  There are those who believe that Hamas is defending itself, and all Palestinians, against what they see as an unjust occupation.  I am not going to argue that point, on either side.  That is not what needs to be done here; there are many who can argue either side more eloquently than I can.

What I am going to argue is peace.  We cannot continue to fight one another, to hurt one another, to kill one another.  We cannot continue to destroy each other, and this planet, with our hatred of the mythical “others”.  We must learn that we are children of this Earth. We are brothers and sisters, all children of Adonai, of Allah, of The Beloved, The One from which we all come. We are all the same, we are all One, like the One who created us, who watches over us, who gives us peace, and wants us to have peace.

Peace is in our power, but we have to want it and we have to work for it.  The most important work we can do is to just love each other, whatever our religion, appearance, language, or  national origin.

“Maybe it can change, only if you want…

Don’t blame yourself, don’t blame me

but we’re the ones

who can feed this ground

so this poison tree doesn’t grow again.”

—Point of No Return;  Duran Duran

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The Fullness of Miracles


Being in the Moment

I have been away helping a friend for a few days. That is why I haven’t blogged. But, as so often happens, those days were filled with little miracles. Small events that could go unnoticed. It is so important to be aware of the present moment. Too often we hold onto the past or look to the future. The problem is that we miss all the gifts and the little miracles that happen around us each day. We have to look for them because we are too busy rehashing the past or hoping for the future and what it may bring to us.

In the present moment, if you look for it, you will find a “domino’ effect which is bring what you need for you and at the time you need it. If you aren’t looking for these times of perfect order, you will miss the gifts the Universe has for you. These little gifts could be the right person who could become a very dear friend, someone giving you the information you don’t even know you need yet. The Universe knows though. The accident you are saved from because you listened to “the still small voice” within.

If we do not pay attention to the present, miracles pass you by like a cumulus cloud sailing across the blue sky. I also believe that the more often you recognize the little gifts that come into your life, the more you will be sent. It is also important to listen to that urge to perform an act of kindness or just sending someone a note when they suddenly come to your mind. It is easy to ignore these prompts because life is so busy with so many things to do. Working, children, homework, friends, spouses, health all take our attention and other things get lost in the swirl of activity.

This is why it is so important, to look around in the present moment and to really “see” and “hear” what is in your life. What small thing shows up that will make a huge difference. Something you couldn’t have imagined happening, yet the Universe brings it all to you at the right time and with the right people. The person from your past who shows up and your friendship and loving feelings add blessings to both of  your lives. So I encourage everyone to take a moment every day and look for what you aren’t expecting but brings many blessings to you, because you took the time to stop, breathe and to really look around you and at the people in your life. They are often used as a way to bring us the small miracles. Then keep a book of them and remember to show the Universe your gratitude. By keeping a book, you will see how much you are being given. It helps you to get through the hard days when it seems like you are all alone. In truth, we never are alone because Divinity is always within.

Chautauqua Lake, NY; Photo by Barbara Mattio