Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Friday, October 1, 2010
You Have A Voice ~ What Will You Say?
Bloggers gear up for the 7th launch of BlogBlast For Peace
It's a steady silent assault against apathy.
Care to join us?
It's a steady silent assault against apathy.
Care to join us?
Diary of A Heretic ~ Author Kathleen Maher ~ New York 
Lynellen Huff ~ Hollywood, Florida 
Lisa Caesar sharing the hope and joy of the future
Diversity ~ Tolerance ~ AcceptanceYou have a voice.
What will you say?
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Announcing BlogBlast For Peace 2010!
**UPDATE** Join us November 4, 2012 for this year's BlogBlast4Peace. Don't miss it!Welcome to the 7th launch of BlogBlast For Peace aka Dona Nobis Pacem in the blogosphere.
Its inception began in 2006 with one single post and a cry for peace in our world.
A small group of bloggers answered that challenge and it began to spread across the internet in ways that humble me still. It reaches across political lines and religious creeds, abides in corners of unrest and places of hope, gives voice to individual beliefs and promotes tolerance for diversity. It celebrates the genius in each one of us, found in sparkling conversations of passionate pleas for change in the earth. It is that hope for change that motivates us.
It was the Internet's first ever online movement of its kind to invite bloggers to post the same message on the same day. From blog to blog it has moved and continues to grow. We have been amazed to see the power and passion shown each year displayed on pages across the world. We visit each other with our prayers and scribbles, prose and poetry, art and angst, heart and hilarity - and we are moved by it. From one post to thousands of others in fifty countries and almost every state in the United States, something rare and wonderful happens on BlogBlast For Peace day.
I am privileged to witness it.
I invite you to experience it.
It's time.
Join us!
A small group of bloggers answered that challenge and it began to spread across the internet in ways that humble me still. It reaches across political lines and religious creeds, abides in corners of unrest and places of hope, gives voice to individual beliefs and promotes tolerance for diversity. It celebrates the genius in each one of us, found in sparkling conversations of passionate pleas for change in the earth. It is that hope for change that motivates us.
It was the Internet's first ever online movement of its kind to invite bloggers to post the same message on the same day. From blog to blog it has moved and continues to grow. We have been amazed to see the power and passion shown each year displayed on pages across the world. We visit each other with our prayers and scribbles, prose and poetry, art and angst, heart and hilarity - and we are moved by it. From one post to thousands of others in fifty countries and almost every state in the United States, something rare and wonderful happens on BlogBlast For Peace day.
I am privileged to witness it.
I invite you to experience it.
It's time.
Join us!
November 4, 2010
Bloggers from all across the globe
will blog for peace.
We will speak with one voice.
One subject.
One day.
Bloggers from all across the globe
will blog for peace.
We will speak with one voice.
One subject.
One day.
How To Get Your Peace Globe 2010
Here's how to do it in 4 easy steps!
Here's how to do it in 4 easy steps!
1. Choose one of the Peace Globe designs shown on this page. Right CLICK and SAVE in JPG format.
2. Sign the globe using Paint, Photoshop or a similar graphics tool. Decorate the globe anyway you wish. You can even include the name of your blog. Click here for thousands of inspiring examples from previous BlogBlasts.
3. Return the peace globe to me via email ~ blogblastforpeace at yahoo.com and sign the Mr. Linky below. Leave a comment and your blog's name and url in the Mr. Linky so that we can visit each other.
Your submission will be numbered and dated in the official gallery with a link back to your post and a permanent spot on the Official BlogBlast For Peace website.
4. On November 4,2010 DISPLAY YOUR GLOBE IN A POST on your blog, FACEBOOK WALL and TWEET IT!
Title your post "Dona Nobis Pacem" - Latin for Grant Us Peace. This is important. The goal is for all blog post titles to say the same thing on the same day. Write about peace that day or simply fly your globe.
Come back here and sign your name again once you've posted your own globe.
Need ideas and inspiration? Go to BlogBlast For Peace.com to see the gallery of thousands of peace globes and posts from 50 countries already submitted and numbered.
If you'd like to read about the history of this movement, go here.
If you'd like to read about the history of this movement, go here.
You can also find us on....
IPEACE Group
What should you do while you're planning what to write and create?
1. Post this badge on your site and Facebook pages to promote.
Or feel free to use it as your globe on November 4th. Just grab the code below.
Or feel free to use it as your globe on November 4th. Just grab the code below.
November 4, 2010
2. Become a Peace Globe Worker Bee.This organization of busy helpers and dedicated peace bloggers began in 2009. The concept was created by this man and taken up by a growing number of bloggers with a passion for peace and this movement. Read "You See There Were These Bees...." to find out how the bzzzzzzz started bzzzzzzzing. Any one of the bloggers mentioned in that post or who commented on that post are ready and willing to assist you.
What does a PGWB do? Many of you already do the following actions that define a Peace Globe Worker Bee: Spreading the word, posting the date, flying the Blog Blast banner, offering assistance to anyone who needs help making a Globe, or directing bloggers to one of the sites where they can find out more about the movement. Please take the bee badge with you too! We want to see the peace bzzzzz everywhere! We appreciate all you are doing already to spread the word.
3. SHARE and TWEET this post every chance you get until November 4th, 2010.
I can't wait to see what you do with this movement in 2010.
Papa's Marbles ~ How It All Began
If words are powerful....then this matters.
Join us!
BlogBlast For Peace logo and concept is the sole property of Mimi Lenox.
2006-2012 copyright
All rights reserved.
2006-2012 copyright
All rights reserved.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
DoPeace and BlogBlast For Peace
Join our Group HERE
Please take a minute and make your peace lovin' voice heard over at DoPeace.
It's a great new networking site for peace activism.
We have a new group there.
You know I had to.
Mimi Lenox
peace globe
blogblast for peace
dona nobis pacem
peace globe gallery
Sunday, August 16, 2009
80 Days 'Til BlogBlast For Peace ~ Are You Ready?
A collage of peace globes from all over. Get yours here.Mimi Lenoxpeace globeblogblast for peacedona nobis pacempeace globe gallerySaturday, August 8, 2009
The first peace globe from The British Virgin Islands
It's an overcast and humid day in Bloggingham. Hot and sticky. What do I find rolling around in the blogosphere this morning? Daisy Girrrl is flying a peace globe all the way from the British Virgin Islands - the first from that country - and with one of my favorite quotes.
It made me smile. I hope it brightens your day as well. Isn't it lovely?
There are less than 90 days left until BlogBlast For Peace. It's happening here, there, and everywhere on November 5, 2009.
Are you ready?
The first peace globe from the British Virgin Islands
It made me smile. I hope it brightens your day as well. Isn't it lovely?
There are less than 90 days left until BlogBlast For Peace. It's happening here, there, and everywhere on November 5, 2009.
Are you ready?
The first peace globe from the British Virgin IslandsDaisy Girl @ Life Needs Retouches Too
Peace Globe #1480 in the gallery.
Get yours here.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Inscription of Hope ~ I Believe In The Sun
Quoting from a Russian Folk Tune, composer Dr. Z. Randall Stroope arranged a stunning choral and instrumental piece for the Nebraska Choral Arts Society and Children's Chorus called "Inscription of Hope." Based on fragments of Jewish text found on a cellar wall in Cologne, Germany during the Holocaust in World War II, it is believed to have been scrawled by a child hiding from the Nazis. The year was 1943.
The rendition you hear at this link is performed with treble voicing, strings and woodwinds. But Inscription of Hope is pure magic when sung by children. I have conducted this piece for children's choir and can testify to that. Melodically and harmonically simplistic, there is room for the innocence of the moment to speak.. Imagine the circumstances that led to such an epitaph.
Here are the lyrics to Stroope's Inscription of Hope along with photographs from the United States Holocaust Museum and public domain during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in April/May 1943.
This child's poem is why, once again, we must look at the past.
Notice the girl in the checkered coat and hat.
Notice the girl in the checkered coat and hat.
What happened to her?
I believe in the suneven when it is not shining
And I believe in love
even when there's no one there
And I believe in God
even when He is silent
I believe through any trial
there is always a way.
But sometimes in this suffering
and hopeless despair
My heart cries for shelter
to know someone's there
But a voice rises within me saying
'hold on my child'
I'll give you hopeI'll give you strength
Just stay a little while
I believe in the sun
even when it is not shining
And I believe in love
even when there's no one there
And I believe in God
even when He is silent
I believe through any trial
There is always a way
May there someday be sunshineMay there someday be happiness
May there someday be love
May there someday be peace.
There is similar suffering all over the world today in varying forms of atrocity. Perhaps when we no longer need monies to buy bombs and fuel tanks we can feed all the hungry children. And no person will ever again have to scrawl out a message of hope on the dark walls of hell - but from a place of sunshine.
Don't be silent.
PARTICIPATE IN BLOGBLAST FOR PEACE
November 5, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)