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Namaste We've been thinking about peace lately, whether it's possible, and what it would look like. We think we've hit upon the answer. It's simple. You can create world peace by cleaning your house. Read the article called Healing Your Home to find out if you think we deserve the Nobel Prize. This entire issue of Green Home Living begins us on a new journey as we try to survey the grounds for peace. The idea that's taken hold around here is that we need to talk about all the ways we can create peace by just starting where we live. To demystify it, to simplify it, to start in our homes, to show how appropriate it is to do that, and how it can radiate out from there. That's, I dare say, our new goal. So it is _by far_ the most touchy-feely thing we've done, and we are way into it. So are lots of peacemakers around the country, and we're honored to have their contributions. Dr. Christiane Northrup, one of our country's true treasures, has allowed us to edit one of her most wonderful pieces on peace for this issue. Christiane is an internationally known peaceworker and visionary, a doctor who emphasizes the powerful role of the human spirit in creating wellness. We're also honored to be running a Green Home Living exclusive from another gifted healer, Katherine Browning, who has been ministering to people in Kuwait. She has given us an amazing first hand dispatch on what's really happening in that part of the world these last few months, and her thoughts on the medicine we need to turn the world around. We report on the new Zones of Peace concept, which says that there _is_ going to be world peace and it will come from homes everywhere being beacons of peace. We also report on the other similar movement taking hold, the Around the Kitchen Table Movement. Peace is in the house! So you've heard of Governer Moonbeam? Well, now we've got Congressperson Stardust. Our favorite politician Dennis Kucinich has a speech that talks about some pretty metaphysical stuff. We've reprinted the whole thing in this issue. Then we've got a couple poems to round things out. The Wage Peace poem was originally reported all over the Web as being by Mary Oliver (whom we adore too), but we did some digging and found out it was actually written by Judyth Hill. We love this poem. A lot of us were deeply moved many years ago by Cat Stevens' song Peace Train, the lyrics to which we're including here. Cat is now Yusuf Islam, and he just rerecorded Peace Train! Check it out to give it a listen! And don't miss our Top 10 list of How to Create World Peace by Cleaning Your Home. It works if you work it. So thanks for coming. Walk with us throughout the year in our quarterly magazine. Take care of our home. Give it energy. Work on it from the inside out. It might take a while to get used to seeing the ripple effect of our choices. The very idea that every little step we take to change our home is having a profound affect on the world's home may seem new to us. But it's more than a ripple effect. It's a resonance. And we'll help. We want to be a meaningful, convenient, all-in-one resource for ordinary enlightened consumers who want to start in their own homes. So welcome to the Peace Issue. It's more than an issue though. We have a feeling this is going to take over the magazine. And maybe not just the magazine either. So once again, here we go. Ride the peace train. Peace and Love, - LC Note: Namaste is the ancient yet ever new Sanskrit blessing which means: “honor the place within you where the entire Universe resides. I honor the place within you of love, light, truth and peace. I honor the place within you, where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only One of us.” |
“We've been thinking about peace lately, whether it's possible, and what it would look like.” |
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