Let us find our courage ...

Feel free to print and enjoy!!

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Maya Angelou

June is Pride Month!  A month to celebrate all who count themselves as part of the LGBTQ community - *see more info below. Now with all the hatred being stirred up in DC I feel that we all need to find the courage to stand up for ourselves and ESPECIALLY stand up for others.  

I was honored to be involved with the Peace Flag Movement which was started by Maggie Sky in 2016.  I helped design the flag and we created this poster that businesses would post to show their commitment to community and peace.  You can learn more about the movement by clicking here: https://commonstreet.org/rainbow-peace-flag-project/

Feel free to print and hang

The PEACE Flag Movement

MISSION

The PEACE Flag Movement works to unite the world in the fight for equity and care for all people. It starts with the flag, making the hope of change visible. And it grows when we turn education and conversation into action. Raising this flag is a promise to speak up, stand up, rise up.

SEE THE CHANGE, BE THE CHANGE

This flag makes the hope of change, visible—in flying colors. Show the world what’s in your heart! Raising this flag is a promise to speak up, stand up, rise up. Take this first step, be part of the change—every person, every promise, every flag makes a difference.

Let us all find courage to stand up to all the hatred, and to celebrate all the wonderful differences that we all have, because that is where our strengthens lie.

PEACE

click here to get a flag

*Pride Month, sometimes specified as LGBTQ Pride Month, is a month-long observance dedicated to the celebration of LGBTQ pride, commemorating the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer culture and community.Wikipedia

You are both a masterpiece and a work in progress ...

 

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and 

a work in progress, simultaneously.” 

 

Sophia Bush

Peace, Virginia

Let's enjoy the journey as we head into September ...

it is better to travel well than to arrive ~ buddha

september always makes me think of school - even though i haven’t gone back to school in a long while. 

i was that kid that loved school. i loved!!! getting new school supplies - i mean who wouldn’t want new pens and pads of paper?!?? but besides the new supplies i did love being in the classroom - it was an adventure. 

i feel like school was a bit like traveling. though not as exciting as physically traveling, you were expanding your horizons and learning about new places and people and even different languages. 

as a parent i tried to instill this idea about school into my girls (sadly, not quite successfully). i tried emphasize the learning and not grades, to help them see the adventure and not the drudgery. 

i feel every day offers us lessons and new perspectives. so i choose this quote from buddha for this month, in the hopes that we will remember that we are all on a journey and to enjoy the ride.

happy learning & peace, virginia

May is here: live immediately!

 

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining?

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”

Seneca

peace, virginia