A Million Ideas for Peace...or the dog ate my homework

Today, I got up early so I could a) finish a really great post I was working on for you today, and b) make pancakes for the high school boys, who get really tired and grumpy by Thursday, so they need special attention, and c) put my exercise clothes on before everything started so there would be NO EXCUSES. But as they say, "The gods laugh when you make a plan."

I was just finishing putting in all the links on the post and making the pancake batter (yes, I can usually do things like this simultaneously -- I'm amazing) when boy A noticed I had a YouTube video running (I was getting the link). He sat down and watched the video. When he was done, while I was flipping the pancakes, he kindly CLOSED ALL MY LINKS. I was up early, I was focused, I didn't need to hit save every few minutes, did I? Well, so I thought. After the initial shock of losing the post, and as the pancaked boys headed to school, I asked myself, how can I make peace with this situation?

And, voila, "peace" was the answer. I decided to post today about A Million Ideas 4 Peace is the brainchild of Lucy Garrick, a management consultant in the Northwest. I discovered her blog last November when we were doing a series on Peace and Connection. As the blog says, "The heart of Million Ideas for Peace is about a new kind of activism based on change created by turning toward what we want rather, than opposing or fixing what is wrong in the world. We call it Active Peace." Standing for what we want not against what we don't want--that's our HumanKind mantra, so, of course, we love Lucy's blog.

When I first saw Million Ideas, there were six or seven wonderful entries. In her first entry, I read:

I began to wonder what it would be like if we humans, living in the 21st century, were able to see each other through the lens of peace-making, rather than defending ourselves against the fear of an uncertain future.

You are invited to share your stories about peace-making here. I hope you will join in and help us all to see how we are already making peace. And by seeing what we are already doing, we will be able to do more together. We may be able to find the inspiration and energy to pay a little more attention and invest a peaceful intention in what we do.

In January, when I went back the blog was up to #23. Yesterday she ran #53, an entry I wrote on Transforming your To-Do List. I can hardly wait to read to all the wonderful posts to come up to a million (or to infinity and beyond, as Buzz Lightyear would say.)

You can post to MillionIdeas4Peace, too, and check out the Million Ideas for Peace website, where you will see their own version of our Peace Map. (Put your alias and Pic on both maps for extra karma points.)

Now, I'm still in my exercise clothes and out of excuses...