Give Peace A Chance Part 4

The slave-trader changed his ways. He is now remembered for those powerful words written after his life-changing experience of grace. I mention him to show that change is possible.

The violence must stop. And condoning the violence must stop. Of course not everyone can be reached. But the message must go out, over and over, loudly and clearly.

This is not my usual tone. But they say: fight fire with fire. The fire I am fighting is the fire of the "righteous" who incite violence. My fire: I want to create a firewall of truth, a firewall powerful enough to stop that violence from spreading, and just plain to stop that violence.

Elsa Schieder, Ph.D., professor, writer, visual artist, thinker, performer. One of the most important things, I hold, is being able to live and think well and creatively, imaginatively. All too often, I have found that people (including many people who pride themselves on being open-minded) are not able to think outside their "box of ideas" and hold onto rigid ideas as if their lives depended on it. Good thinking, good creativity draws on as much info as possible, is open to perceiving.

Website:
http://elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com All my life, creativity has played an enormous part. The magic of story, music, idea. In Elsa's word story image idea music emporium, there's space for many forms of creativity - yours and mine.

One area is on ideas:
http://www.elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/the-idea-emporium-1.html "It is a fact readily acknowledged, that for humans, an idea is much more powerful than a fact." One idea: just as ideas can close our minds, they can open them to new worlds and visions.