peace smiles, remembers, laughs, moves...
Welcome back to the un-schooled home of peace with purpose. A short history of how this adventure on the intertubes began can be found under the to begin tab, which is kind of appropriate. But even more to the point...
Read Pema Chödrön's
Choosing Peace
before going any further.
I -- which means Douglass but then again it could mean any one of you -- want to continue the conversation, so think of this site as a walk in the woods on a rainy day, just whispering what needs to be whispered and singing what needs to be sung. Like this...
That’s just the way things are, you know. There’s before and then there’s after. Life changes in the instant, the ordinary moment. It changes in the moment someone – anyone – looks up and says “what the fuck”. Then it’s after. And everything has changed. So -
Two simple propositions:
Peace is its own success.
Peace fails only when it is abandoned.
Two simple propositions:
Peace is its own success.
Peace fails only when it is abandoned.
the big question is....
“A real struggle for justice requires that we fight systems of oppression both in and outside of the classroom, pose real threats to their ability to function, and be brave enough to take the risks required to resist the conservative goals of traditional education, rather than apologetically working along with them.”
This is not dr.d. but...it might be.
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