The Resolute Woman

Category: peace

  • Working for peace

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    After Franklin Roosevelt, president during World War II, died, his wife Eleanor was appointed special delegate to the United Nations. “It isn’t enough to talk peace. One must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe it. One must work at it,” Eleanor Roosevelt once said. Roosevelt is one of the First Ladies featured in…

  • Happy Easter!

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    Happy spring! Happy Easter! “Earth’s crammed with heaven,” Elizabeth Barrett Browning once said.

  • Perfectly imperfect

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    I often want everything to be perfect. That’s why I was delighted to find this quote in House Beautiful magazine. “The world needs more celebration of what it is to be perfectly imperfect,” says Christina Tosi, a James Beard award-winning pastry chef in Manhattan. –Joy

  • Violence against women

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    Women still face a number of challenges today, emphasized Judy Norsigian, an author and editor of all nine editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, in a recent presentation at Southern Methodist University. Norsigian listed three challenges: • The increasing sexualization of women and girls • Violence against women, including the trafficking of women • Threats to…

  • The myth of redemptive violence

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    In his book The Powers That Be, Walter Wink writes that the myth of redemptive violence “is the story of the victory of order over chaos by means of violence. “It is the ideology of conquest, the original religion of the status quo. The gods favor those who conquer. Conversely, whoever conquers must have the…

  • The weakness of violence

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    In his book The Powers That Be, Walter Wink argues for nonviolence. Wink quotes Martin Luther King: “The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy.” And, he quotes Friedrich Nietzche: “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he…

  • The Blue Spring

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    Hunter-gathers lived under the bluffs near the Blue Spring 10,000 years ago. Many years later, in 1839, Cherokees stopped at the Blue Spring on their trip from Georgia to Oklahoma. Today we call their journey the Trail of Tears. Recently, I visited the Blue Spring, the largest spring in northwest Arkansas. It produces 38 million…

  • A little chocolate

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    “All you need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt,” Charles Schultz once said.

  • A little chilly

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    It was 100 degrees in Dallas the day before we flew to Maine. I smiled as I packed my L.L. Bean long underwear and flannel pajamas, and I wore both to keep warm at night in the bed in our unheated cabin on a lake. And, every morning when I crawled out from under my…

  • Peace and joy

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    “As we grow older, we define happiness less in terms of excitement and more in terms of peacefulness,” Sheryl Sandberg says. Sandberg and Adam Grant quote Reverend Veronica Goines in their book Option B—Facing Adversity, Building Resilence and Finding Joy. “Peace is joy at rest,” Reverend Goines says.