Peace dreaming

To my sincere delight, I received an email last week from The Peace Alliance saying that we, the change.org voters, had done it! The establishment of a U. S. Department of Peace was a whopping number two on the top ten list of recommendations that will be presented to President Obama on Inauguration Day.

I whooped when I saw it but probably not for the reason you think. Yes, I’m glad that Peace will have a front seat at the presentation, but the thing that really blew my skirt up is that I am not alone in dreaming peace into reality for our Earth. Thousands of people heard about the opportunity to vote for peace on change.org, and those same thousands took that opportunity, ran with it, and told their peeps.

So, of course, what anonymous quote arrived on my desk this morning?

When we dream alone, it is only a dream. But when we dream together, it is the beginning of a new reality.

Don’t you just love the magic of the universe?

The idea that I am dreaming peace alone or that you are dreaming peace alone is what makes peace seem so far from reality. This experience says that I’m not and you’re not and we’re not . . . dreaming peace alone. Far from it.

We who work for peace do so because we have caught the dream of peace, or perhaps, the dream of peace has caught us. The illustration for this essay is an indigenous instrument called a dream catcher.

Won’t you catch the dream of peace for the whole world? No exceptions.

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