“One Brick at a Time”, from the musical Barnum, is the Royal Peace Song of the Day for Friday, September 23rd.
Duchess Susanna saw the play Barnum, off-Broadway, when she was a young thing. And, she has always been inspired by the music. In between a more complex plot, the play Barnum has uplifting songs about dreaming, hope, and choosing paths in life.
Continue reading Laying Foundations for Peace: Song of the Day for 9/23/2011
“Night Swimming” by REM is the Peace Song of the Day for Thursday, September 22nd.
Duchess Susanna writes: Continue reading Peaceful Healing: Peace Song of the Day for 9/22/2011
“Wait Till The Sun Shines, Nellie” is the Peace Song for the Day, as chosen by Susanna, Duchess of Peace. You can find the words to this golden oldie, Barbershop song at Rise Up Singing on page 82.
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What is it that makes this Barbershop Quartet song a sing-a-long, folk song? Probably, the way it expresses the hope of a better day, something that people who love peace and justice need to hold on to during these trying times.
Excerpt:
Wait til the sun shines, Nellie
When the clouds go drifting by
We will be happy, Nellie
Don’t you sigh…
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The Royal Song of the Day is a project of Duke Augustus and Duchess Susanna, The Duke and Duchess of Peace. The Duke and Duchess recognize that one of the paths to peace is to find soulful and nonviolent entertainment, and to express oneself with art and song.
The Peace Song of the Day, as chosen by Duchess Susanna, is: “Follow The Money”. Performed in the video below by Magpie.
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(song starts at about 2min50sec)
Continue reading Peace Song of the Day: 9/20/2011
If you have been following along on this thread, then you know that #AfghanistanTuesday is a social media based weekly vigil to quickly end the costly Afghanistan War. It is primarily to protest the inaction to Congresspeople, but it also protests the inaction of US Senators and the President. It is designed to use Twitter as the forum for protest, and to spread to all peace people and budget hawks on that service, but will eventually be spread to the other social media outlets.
Last Tuesday in addition to spending the daylight hours reigning in shock doctrine capitalism, the Duke took part in the following #AfghanistanTuesday activities:
1. Tweeted a blog post entitled Will your Rep Join @BruceBraley on #AfghanistanTuesday ? which explained that Bruce Braley was the first congressperson to answer query on whether they are willing to end the Afghanistan War quickly, and asked which Congresspersons would join him: Continue reading What I did on #AfghanistanTuesday
“What Must Be Done” is the Peace Song of the Day for Monday, September 19, 2011. This is a song about recognizing the need to help, and recognizing the need for change. This song could help inspire more people to become like Rosa Parks, Gandhi, or Julia Butterfly Hill. What is your work to do?
Continue reading Some people do what must be done: Peace Song for 9/19/2011
We continue from last week with the The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace provides us with the Peace Book Chapter of the Week. As you remember we discussed last week the introduction by Howard Zinn titled Retaliation. We now move to the first section of the book which is entitled: Pre-Twentieth Century. The first, very short chapter is written by the Buddha, and is entitled: Let a Man Overcome Anger by Love.
For hatred does not cease
by hatred at any time,
hatred ceases by love
The reading starts with a series of aphorisms about how you are bound by what you put forth. It reminds me of the saying that slavery chains both the master and the slave. Or Gandhi’s response about how he was trying to save England by freeing it from holding India in bondage. The third set of aphorisms set here as a pull quote remind me strongly of Dr. King’s August 16, 1967 “Where Do We Go From Here?” when he spoke out against poverty: Continue reading Power of Nonviolence Buddhist Anger: Peace Book Chapter 1 of the Week 9/19/11