Say Peace to the River...

Imagine, if you will, a river that flows through your own heart - is it a nurturing river with waters refreshing to your soul? or is it a polluted river with waters stinking up your spirit?

Imagine all our rivers this way, flowing out in time from our hearts of life and living community - are we at peace with these waters that flow or not?

Any river that flows through the life of any of our community, if it doesn't flow through our hearts does not (and will not) answer to our voice.

How then do we say peace to our rivers, to our skies, and to our seas?

Darling Starshine -

A river flows out into the sea, into heaven, and around again - through you and through me.

How do you say peace to a river without setting it free?

And how do you set a river free without letting its waters come full circle...

from the mountains, through the earth, and to the salty sea - where every river ascends again - invisibly - into the heavens - through the clouds...

...and back again from above - from love to love - through you and through me?

How can you say peace to a river if you do not let it run through thy heart...

Can anything be set free without love?

Can any river long endure being chained? It will either go home to heaven, or exact a terrible revenge upon the human communities of our earth.

How do you say peace to a river?
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Hope Taking Wing

Personal reflection: The pollutants in our rivers are mostly sewage and non-industrial waste. This means, our rivers are mostly in good shape. We do not have to deal with toxic and radioactive pollutants and their expensive clean up costs. All it shall take is OWNERSHIP of our natural bodies of water and waterways.

If we take care of our rivers in this present time and learn to say peace to them - when we become a more mechanized and industrialized Republic, we will grow in a way that is friendly to the vital living ecology that surrounds and sustains our natural human habitat. We will become a more happier people.

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Who is a Terrorist?

"Who is a terrorist?"

I asked myself.

"Is it a look, is it something

I can learn from a book?"

"Is it a religion, is it something

that threatens my conviction?"

"Is it a nation, is it something

I am really able to envision?"

So I gave up asking.

And embraced peace.

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Thought for the Day:

If you attack Palestine, then I am Palestinian.

If you attack Israel, then I am Israeli.

If you attack both Palestine and Israel, then I am both Palestinian and Israeli.

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76th IB, to spearhead UN peace keeping mandate in the Golan Heights - way to go AFP, way to go Army, keep the peace and Godspeed, you troops!

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Today's Conservation Mantra:

Got Plastic? Refuse, Re-Use, Recycle.

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The Garbage Tree

THERE ONCE was a great tree living by the riverside.

For a good many years, the tree provided shade for the people. Its fruits were the delight of little children living by the banks of its river.

But the people took it all for granted. Over the years, the people polluted the river so much that the tree died. They never really noticed its passing.

They took it all for granted.

By and by and again, the people polluted the river so much that the river itself died. They never really noticed its passing.

They took it all for granted.

Finally, a great storm came and swelled up the river. The rains fell so hard and so fast that the banks of the river burst and a great flood engulfed the town.

After the floods, all the garbage that was choking up the river ended right back into the people's homes.

And as they cleaned up all the stench and the garbage they choked the river up with, the people noticed the tree by the river. Its dead branches was full of garbage and plastic bags. It was an ugly sight.

Now they noticed.

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Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless us all.

All it takes is a little love.