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I have gathered all my peace posts from Ode’s Readers Blog, and put them in a small PDF book, Dr. Susan Corso’s Peace Posts from Ode Magazine’s Readers Blog downloadable for free from my website..
Below you will read a list of people and organizations who influenced my thoughts, words and deeds toward peace since I started writing for Ode a year and a half ago. First, I was shocked at how many. 444! Then I realized—of course! I can’t be the only one thinking this way. We’re all connected.
There are generals, peacemongerers, school children, commenters, organizations, towns, cities, gurus, poets, ministers, terrorists, interns, actors, museums, books, clubs, online resources, editors, license plates, editors, documents, not-for-profits. The people are Earthside, Spiritside and fictional. Some hold intentions for peace, and others do not, but without exception, they all inspired me to think of, meditate on or take action for peace.
At random, I chose to do some statistical figuring, just to entertain my brain. Consider these measurables: I have been posting on Ode since June 13, 2007. That’s 578 days; 444 items. It equals .76. Seventy-six hundredths of a peace thought per day. I’m hoping next year to up it to at least one whole thought per day.
So with good wishes for a brilliant New Year in 2009, I offer heartfelt thanks to everyone and every group below. Stay with Peace, dear ones, and we’ll all get there!
- Jurriaan Kamp, Editor-in-Chief of Ode Magazine
- Ruth Gendler, poet, artist, author
- Miss Piggy, Muppet and media personality
- Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady and diplomat
- Bishop Desmond Tutu, Episcopal priest
- Roger Entner, IAG, marketing expert
- Garry Kasparov, chess master and Russian politician
- Osama bin Laden, terrorist mastermind
- Dwight Eisenhower, general and U.S. President
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and philosopher
- Virginia Johnson, costumiere and film wardrobe
- Jan Frazier, writer and realized being
- Antony Corso, painter, ex-husband and best friend
- Rainer Maria Rilke, poet
- Anita Roddick, business guru
- Jesus of Nazareth, rabbi, and for some, Savior
- The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet
- Joan of Arc, martyr and leader
- Nelson Mandela, first democratically-elected president of South Africa
- Mahatma Gandhi, led India toward independence
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Tama J. Kieves, author and teacher
- General David Petraeus, head of U. S. armed forces
- Confucius, philosopher
- Thomas Mann, German novelist and philosopher
- The Cowardly Lion, overcomer
- Stephen Mitchell, literary translator of spiritual texts
- Jonathan Star, translator Tao Te Ching
- Moveon.org, political clique
- Aung San Suu Kyi, The Lady of Burma/Myanmar
- Al Gore, world’s premier environmentalist
- John Lennon, musician and icon
- Peace Tax Resisters League, group of those who refuse to pay for war
- Joseph G. Shahda, self-appointed web cop
- Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist partner of Richard Rodgers
- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
- Her anonymous poet friend
- Andi McDaniel, writer for Ode
- Chiron, asteroid
- Susan J. Blumenthal, Assistant Surgeon-General
- Elise Schlissel, her writing partner
- Toto, Dorothy Gale’s familiar
- The Scarecrow, Dorothy’s smartest friend
- George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States
- Aaron David Miller, peace negotiator
- Blog Catalog, online blog gatherers
- Esther Hicks, channeller of Abraham
- Abraham, a group spiritual entity
- The Beach Boys, classic rock and rollers
- John Harricharan, spiritual speaker and author
- Dr. Haleakala Hew Len, ho’oponopono teacher
- Mike Dooley, founder of Totally Unique Thoughts
- Betty Conrad Adam, author of the 148th Magdalene book in my library
- Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha, Sufi teacher
- AARP, The American Association of Retired People
- Melina Bellows, visitor to a spa, Ananda
- Dr. Sree Sreedharan, her consulting guide
- A. J. Muste, tireless peaceworker
- Amelia, my mother
- Tony Kaye, filmmaker
- Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s wife and philanthropist
- Steve Lishansky, transformative corporate consultant
- Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroanatomist who watched herself have a stroke
- Marshall Breger, law professor
- Rev. Jane Beach, minister
- Michaelangelo, sculptor
- Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States
- Rev. Dr. Jesse Jennings, minister and author
- Esai Morales, actor
- Bill Maher, host of Real Time on HBO and political comedian
- Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind
- Richard Dawkins, atheist and author
- Christopher Hitchens, atheist and author
- Peter Drucker, business guru
- Gerald Holtom, creator of the Peace Symbol
- Albert Bigelow, pacifist protestor
- Ralph Blum, creator of the New Runes
- Wangari Maathei, founder of Kenya tree movement
- Patrick Ireland, alias of Irish artist who worked for peace
- Brian O’Doherty, the real name of the Irish artist
- Michael Rush, Jesuit and museum curator
- Alanna O’Kelly, keener
- National Peace Academy, consortium of educators wanting to found same
- Elise Boulding, Quaker sociologist, creator of academic peace curricula
- Sir John Lubbock, English baron and naturalist
- Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
- Emmet Fox, metaphysician extraordinaire
- Aaron Voldman, winner of Peace Pioneer Award
- Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, socially conscious dessert dreamers
- The Peace Alliance, organization for creation of a Cabinet-level Peace Department
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, presenter of the award to Voldman
- Jerry Greenfield, former owner of Ben & Jerry’s
- Robert Kent, co-winner of Peace Pioneer Award
- Peace Camp Initiative, creative of a camp where Israeli and Palestinians meet
- Student Peace Alliance, students working toward a Cabinet-level Peace Department
- Peace Partnership International, revealing and fostering a culture of peace
- Vans, makers of high-end, high-top peace sneakers
- Anonymous 4 year old, asked about my license plate
- His papa, nuff said
- Bark for Peace, organic food for dogs
- Lisa, the owner
- FORD, the dog
- Clementine, the cat
- Jeremy Gilley, founder of PeaceOneDay and filmmaker
- Peace Merchants Association, organization of sellers of peace items
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany’s great man of letters
- Swami Beyondananda, comedic alter ego of Steve Bhaerman
- Steve Bhaerman, comic and peaceworker
- Shawn Honnick, creator of The Plate Show, about vanity license plates
- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives
- Steny Hoyer, U. S. House of Representatives Majority Leader
- John Boehner, U. S. House of Representatives Minority Leader
- Harry Reid, U. S. Senate Majority Leader
- Mitch McConnell, U. S. Senate Minority Leader
- World Health Organization, the United Nations public health arm
- Iyanla Vanzant, New Thought spiritual teacher
- Donna Henes, urban shaman and author of The Queen of My Self
- Peace Pilgrim, American walker for peace
- Ellen Bass, poet and courageous teacher of healing from sexual abuse
- Stanley Norman, ex-husband of Peace Pilgrim
- Quaker American Friends Service Committee, workers for peace
- Philadelphia Fellowship Commission, FOR local chapter
- United Nations Council of Philadelphia, United Nations local chapter
- Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, women for peace
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy, former U. S. President
- Dag Hammarskjold, former United Nations Secretary-General
- The Peace Symphony, musicians for peace
- Julie Bloom, New York Times staff writer
- Roxanna Panufrik, composer
- Georg Solti, world famous conductor
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, former United Nations Secretary General
- Peace Day magazine, publication of World Peace Emerging
- World Peace Emerging, online organization for peace
- Mary Ann Brussat, spiritual writer and reviewer
- Frederic Brussat, spiritual writer and reviewer
- United Nations’ International Day of Peace, 9/21 annually
- Spiritual literacy.com, website of Frederic & Mary Ann Brussat
- Alice Walker, author, poet, activist
- Steve Pavlina, self-development guru
- Barbara Leger, Science of Mind minister, based in Ukraine
- Muriel Lester, tireless peaceworker
- Jim Wallis, evangelist
- Blog Action Day, a worldwide effort to have the blogosphere address one issue
- Peace Corps, volunteers who are deployed all over the world in aid
- Hubert Humphrey, former Vice President of the United States
- Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and pacifist
- Pyramid Collection, purveyor of whimsical spiritual paraphernalia
- Jerry Levitan, the 14 year old who snuck into John Lennon’s suite
- Josh Raskin, director of the Lennon video
- Alex Kurina, digital illustrator of same
- This Week in History, online history of war and violence
- St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans
- Bloggers Unite, another group blog effort
- Naomi Drew, Beliefnet author on hope
- Katie Keenan, my stupendous editor at Ode
- Beliefnet.com, largest multifaith presence on the worldwide web
- Kwan Yin, the Mother of Mercy: She Who Hears the Cries of the World
- Kasey Collins, my cyberdouble
- Zander, gentle young man who thrives
- Toni Amato, editor and spiritual brother
- Angi Kang, funny, talented soon-to-be doctor
- Aristotle Kousakis, artist, designer, actor, curator
- Sandy Schussel, life coach who creates stellar results
- Stefanie Schussel, actor and dramaturg who taught me something valuable
- Rev. Dr. Rusty Blake Brylezyk, Seed reader and correspondent
- Sheriden Thomas, beloved of me
- Ben Chase, amazing, talented, gifted actor whose career is about to bloom
- Karyn Bender, pharmacist and extraordinary health coach
- Court Stroud, author and media wizard
- Catherine Shainberg, author of Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming
- HIV, human immunodeficiency virus
- AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- Larry Kramer, gay activist and author
- The American Medical Association, purveyors of Western medicine
- Changing the Present.com, new way to think of giving at the holidays
- Mary Evelyn Jegen, Catholic sister and teacher of peace
- Pope Paul VI, Catholic pontiff
- Barbara Winter, joyfully jobless author and entrepreneur
- Doug, the Post Office guy, a postal worker in Las Vegas
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Alabama, social club for kids
- Farthest North Girl Scout Council, scouting for girls
- Eskimos, northern indigenous
- Inupiaqs, tribe of northern indigenous
- Yupiks, tribe of northern indigenous
- Metropolitan Phoenix Boys & Girls Clubs, social club
- Arc Arkansas, organization for adults with developmental disabilities
- Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles, scouting for girls
- Los Angeles County, county government
- Smith Renaissance Elementary School, K-6 public school
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, museum
- Art Therapy Express Program, works with children with cerebral palsy
- District of Columbia Society Children of the Revolution, honoring veterans
- Judy Miner, oil painter
- Cochran-Buckley County Arts Alliance, local arts council
- Anderson Elementary, K-6 school
- Susannah Wesley Community Center, multiethnic Hawaiians
- Pele, goddess of the volcano
- Treasure Valley Farm YMCA, Idaho after-school program
- Oak Park Area Arts Council, local arts group
- Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, museum for children
- Helen Lemme Elementary School, K-6 school
- Kansas Collection, museum
- Anita Wolgast, ornament designer
- The Museum Store, arm of the Kansas museum
- Kansas State Historical Society, preservationists
- Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, museum
- Louisiana Children’s Museum, museum
- The Giving Tree of Rangeley, retail store
- Monocacy Elementary School, K-6 school
- Hospice & Palliative Care, care for the dying
- The VNA of Southeastern Massachusetts, visiting nurses
- Freedom Village, retirement community
- Backman’s, garden center
- The Mustard Seed, group of special needs adults
- Rita Lynn O’hara, ornament artist
- Stonewares, group that sponsors Missouri tree, Missouri School of Journalism
- Gallatin County 4-H Clubs, young people and animal husbandry
- Omaha Children’s Museum, museum
- Osborne Family, local family sponsor for tree
- Our Lady of the Snows School, 3rd & 5th graders made ornaments
- Hampshire Pewter, tree sponsor
- The Newark Museum, museum
- Prudential, insurance giant
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Albuquerque/Rio Rancho, kids’ programs
- St. Stephens-Bethlehem United Church of Christ, tree sponsor
- Discovery Place, kids’ programming
- Mecklenberg High School, worked with above to create ornaments
- Minot Public Schools Community Learning Center, kids’ programming
- Ohio Valley Quilter’s Guild, quilters working together
- Washington Elementary, K-6 school
- Girl Scouts of Santiam Council, girls’ scouting
- Springfield Middle School, 6-9 school
- Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, federal office
- Puerto Rico Department of Education, educational office
- Providence City Arts for Youth, arts for kids
- Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce, local chamber
- The Journey Museum, museum
- Sycamore Elementary School, K-6 school
- San Antonio Children’s Museum, museum
- Office of the Resident Representative, Northern Mariana Islands
- Springdale Elementary School, K-6 school
- Spaulding High School Army Junior ROTC, young enlistees
- St. Thomas-St. John Chamber of Commerce, chamber of commerce
- Elkton Centennial Committee, birthday sponsors of the tree
- Hilltop Artists in Resident, glass makers and artisans
- Christey Designs, designer of ornament
- Mitchell-Larsen Studio STX, creator of ornament
- Mountain Artisans, West Virginia creators
- Cabin Creek Quilts, West Virginia creators
- Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, hospital
- Joe Portnoy, official ornament photographer
- Amy Cunningham, blogger
- Caroline Zilk, Ode intern
- Susan Sampliner, dear friend and inspiration
- Global Peace Index, measurers of peace on earth
- Andrea, commenter
- Marlaine Francis, commenter
- Fieldsj, commenter
- Catherine Deneuve, actor
- George Clooney, actor
- Vanity Fair magazine, reports on the glitterati
- Science of Mind magazine, practical metaphysical magazine
- Ode magazine, good news for intelligent optimists
- Apple, Mac makers
- Newsweek, weekly news magazine
- Pluto, demoted planet
- Alice, commenter
- Foreign Policy magazine, reporting on foreign affairs
- The Magna Carta, the Great Charter
- Wikipedia, the answer to just about everything
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, rights of human everywhere
- Anne Thomas, commenter
- Vanity plates, car license plates bearing messages
- Winston Smith, commenter
- Barry Jacobs, commenter
- J. B. Shepers, commenter
- Kairos 1, commenter
- NYC Wrangler, commenter
- Earon, commenter
- Davoid, commenter
- 1earthlove, commenter
- Sulkahlee, commenter
- Morgaine Swann, commenter
- Rahasya, commenter
- Ezz, commenter
- Adam Gilliland, commenter
- Greenman222, commenter
- Twigga, commenter
- Astrology, the art of star-reading
- Aries, first sign of the zodiac
- Taurus, second sign of the zodiac
- Gemini, third sign of the zodiac
- Cancer, fourth sign of the zodiac
- Leo, fifth sign of the zodiac
- Virgo, sixth sign of the zodiac
- Libra, seventh sign of the zodiac
- Scorpio, eighth sign of the zodiac
- Sagittarius, ninth sign of the zodiac
- Capricorn, tenth sign of the zodiac
- Aquarius, eleventh sign of the zodiac
- Pisces, twelfth sign of the zodiac
- The Tao Te Ching, spiritual treatise by Lao Tse
- The Oxford English Dictionary, best etymological resource on Earth
- The State Law and Order Restoration Council, martial law in Myanmar
- Charlotte, commenter
- Grace Bakunawa, commenter
- Brother Ishmael Tetteh, an African New Thought minister
- The Nobel Peace Prize, a coveted recognition of contributions to peace
- Peace On, idea of a war tax resister for a website
- The New York Times, the foremost print newspaper in the world
- Mcaguilar, commenter
- Huffington Post, the conclave of the Left on the Internet
- Rxpop, commenter
- The Wizard of Oz, the governor of Oz
- Christmas, the Christian celebration of the birth of the light
- Hanukkah, the Jewish celebration of the birth of the light
- Kwanzaa, the Black celebration of the birth of the light
- Solstice, the Pagan celebration of the birth of the light
- Citibank, an international bank with the most clever ads
- Amazon.com, the world’s greatest superstore
- Farfalle, commenter
- YouTube, a gathering of video online
- Angels, light beings and messengers of the Divine
- Aristotle, philosopher
- Mdt1960, commenter
- Eheller, commenter
- Transcendentalfloss, commenter
- Walkingtree, commenter
- Lorisp_310, commenter
- Mary Magdalene, the Christian Bride and carrier of the Divine Feminine
- Milly, commenter
- Suzen, commenter
- Lake of Fire, a documentary about both sides of the abortion issue
- Utne Reader, premier magazine gathering the best of the alternative press
- TED, Technology, Entertainment, Design gathering of speakers
- Adela, commenter
- Baili, commenter
- Moment magazine, Catholic print magazine
- Tibet, country near China with a rich spiritual heritage
- U. S. Diplomatic Corps, those who represent the U. S. all over the world
- Conscious Living Center, Religious Science church
- Clearlife, commenter
- Earthhour.org, online one-hour dark times for saving energy
- Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO political commentary show
- Seiwa-en, Japanese garden of peace
- Missouri Botanical Gardens, sponsor of Seiwa-en
- Koichi Kawana, designer of the garden
- Zen Buddhism, Buddhist sect devoted to inner stillness
- Cpgardener, commenter
- Zografis, commenter
- Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War, originally represented by the peace symbol
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, peace symbol was its badge too
- Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, where peace symbol was first used
- Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News
- Peace News, magazine of War Resistors International
- Albert Bigelow, American pacifist protestor who first used the symbol
- Student Peace Union, student organization in the U. S. from 1959-1964
- The Runes, Norse sigils for prognostication and wisdom
- Clarkb45, commenter
- Allboy30 , commenter
- Giant Sequoia, the queen of all trees especially in Northern California
- Green Belt Movement, founded by Wangari Maathei in Kenya
- American Forests.org, online place to buy trees for planting worldwide
- Billion Trees Campaign, United Nations tree sponsorships worldwide
- Themichellesmith, commenter
- Case Western Reserve University, sponsoring National Peace Academy start
- Peace Partnership International, co-sponsor NPA
- The Biosophical Institute, co-sponsor NPA
- Margaret Mead, anthropologist
- Realitylefty, commenter
- Humanist7117, commenter
- Zatorskijoan, commenter
- Usiku, commenter
- Seeds, Dr. Susan Corso’s weekly spiritual email series
- Seeds for Sanctuary, Dr. Susan Corso’s spiritual blog
- WaitingforJack, commenter
- Rockwell Kent, American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer.
- Mushtaq, commenter
- Guitarman, commenter
- Austin Humane Society, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Texas Hearing & Service Dogs, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Hand Harvested: artists for a greener planet, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Darkness to Light, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Barkitecture, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Eremos, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Pets America, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Wheatsville Food Co-op, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Green Corn Project, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Pump Project Art Complex, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Church World Service, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Cherrywood Art Fair, sponsored by Bark for Peace
- Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity
- Auntyaya, commenter
- Facebook, largest social media networking site in the world
- PeaceOneDay.org, Jeremy Gillies tireless effort to create one calendar day for peace
- Autumnal Equinox, on or about the 21st of September in the northern hemisphere
- Julia Ward Howe, American abolitionist, hymn writer, and activist
- Ronicalit, commenter
- Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States
- Ambassador John McDonald, assisted Jeremy Gillies on PeaceOneDay
- Eridawni, commenter
- Mboniger, commenter
- The Plate Show, Internet radio show on vanity license plates
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, nonviolent methods to create consensus
- The Queen of Myself, book by Donna Henes
- The Queen’s Chronicles, her newsletter
- Endurance Hiking Club, Peace Pilgrim’s training camp
- The Appalachian Trail, Peace Pilgrim’s walking training
- The Rose Parade, where Peace Pilgrim started her journey for peace
- Adonai, commenter
- Allah, name of God in Islam
- Mary, mother of Jesus, some say, Blessed and Virgin
- Shekinah, the Hebrew feminine face of God
- Inanna, Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare
- Hawk, indigenous medicine totem
- Wolf, indigenous medicine totem
- White Whale, indigenous medicine totem
- Dorothy Day, founder of The Catholic Worker and devout worker for the poor
- The Human Line, book of poems by Ellen Bass
- WorldPeace.org.au, Australian peace organization
- Markings, spiritual biography of Dag Hammarskjold
- Valery Gergiev, conductor who conducted the last Peace Orchestra
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Black civil rights, nonviolence and peace leader
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese monk teaching the practice of peace
- Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun and an international lecturer.
- Claude AnShin Thomas, Vietnam veteran and Buddhist priest
- Bernie Glassman, Jewish-American Zen Buddhist roshi and co-founder of the Zen Peacemakers
- Daniel Berrigan, poet, American peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest.
- John Dear, Jesuit priest, peace activist, lecturer, and writer of books on nonviolence.
- Gratefulness.org, online practice of gratitude
- Pablo Picasso, Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
- Marcus, post of John Lennon/Jerry Levitan video
- James Braithwaite, artust
- Vasumurti, commenter
- Drunvalo Melchizidek, spirit worker and balance restorer of Earth energies
- Ganesh, Hindu god, Remover of Obstacles
- Sir James Douglas, first governor of the colony of British Columbia
- Mother Earth, our home
- Nazia Mallick, commenter
- Thechrysalis, commenter
- Edward Schreiber, Executive Director of the Zerka T. Moreno Foundation
- Christian de la Huerta, gay spiritual activist
- God Herself, and last but not least
- ME!
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