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What if?

What if in this breaking world; 
and don't tell me it isn't breaking! Look at it, look at us! 
We're breaking each other apart with our desperate yearn of happiness through money. Crying our lack of a warm lap through power and wars. 
Needing a kiss to close our eyes to sleep, through claiming this and that religion is the only way.
We're killing our sisters and brothers and our children in our fear of being alive, killing for the stimulant of living which we think is being alive. Oh but it isn't, no, it isn't a true living.

The happiest moment is what it was meant to be,
half silent and slow like a hand reaching for another hand for the very first time. 
The spacious expansion in the eyes of the two in love. 
The tender strings and a whisper of the wind. 
And the childish, joyful play through the cultures, taking your bag and seeking unknown, adding all the different elements of all the races onto you. Not blowing them away.

That is our task and it is an easy one. 
Or do you hear any child whining he have to play? 
Do you see anyone in sorrow for being happy and in joy? 
That is our lead, so simple and geometric, yet creative.

And that is what we dare not to believe! 
We dig our graves by digging the decimals of a simple count. 
Dissect a simple form of beauty to thousand pieces. 
All for nothing! 
All that effort for a handful of broken pieces. 

What if we stop all that right now? 
What if you sitting there take yourself up, up, up, until with the eyes of your soul you can see this planet from above. 
Hover gently in safe above this grate majestic blue looking down, the sides of it, the space around like a warm safe lap or the arms of your father and mother. 
Feel that you can breathe at ease at last for a long long time.

Take it with you and slowly come back.
What if you now start living?
What if?

written by Mr. Kimmo Seppänen Finland
mimushka@welho.com

This is still the most beautiful song in the world!
..imagine all the people living lif in peace...

Thank You, Yoko, for starting this great event!

et from Finland


Dear Yoko,

You are so right. If you are at peace, you already live in a peaceful world.  True peace comes from this, from not competing, not fighting, embracing all things, for all things have the same beginning by being and letting be.

When mankind - humankind - can do this, can unlearn the fears and misgivings which plague it, there will truly be peace, and we can all dance together in joy and harmony.

And so Dear Yoko, thank you for being who you are, for what you have done, and what you continue to do, for being a messenger of peace and hope, even as John was, for being his friend, lover, teacher and partner, for simply Being.

Peace and love,

Michael Aquino
Massachusetts


Every night, I and my husband, we tend a candle in order to think over those people in the war and its innocent victims.

It is the candle of peace.

Marja-Terttu Kivirinta
Helsinki, Finland


Thank you Yoko - 

Phoebe


Thank you, Yoko, for your inspiration.  I feel less despair knowing there is positive and peaceful energy in the universe and humanity.

I listen to my dog.  She is the epitome of BEING in the NOW.  She takes me for walks and makes me stop and talk to trees.  She jumps on park benches to rest with old men who are also resting and makes me talk to my elders and appreciate their slow wisdom.  She absorbs the sun and when it gets too hot she finds shade.  She could teach the world to live in peace.

K.N.


I am the event producer of the Solano Avenue Stroll which will take place on Sunday, September 14, 2003.  This one-day event, now in its 29th year, is the East Bay's oldest and largest street festival, drawing over 300,000 people from the region.

The Solano Avenue Stroll has had the honor of being selected by Congresswoman Barbara Lee for inclusion at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.  As part of the Library's bicentennial celebration, the Solano Avenue Stroll was named a Local Legacy and is now a part of the Library's permanent collection.

This year's theme for the Stroll, 'IMAGINE' asks participants to create parade entries supporting a  healthy world.  Therefore entries may no longer use gasoline-powered engines.  (Fire engines, police vehicles, art cars and antique cars may park during the Stroll in designated areas.) Electric or solar vehicles, wheelchairs, hospital beds, rickshaws, bicycles, strollers, wagons, equestrians, pedestrians and any other alternative modes of transportation will make this a creative and safe parade.  Businesses may want to design their booths around this theme also.  Use your imagination - be a dreamer!

Lisa Bullwinkel
Special Events
2934 Fulton St.
Berkeley, CA 94705


One of my long-lasting memories to this day, while I was growing up that still haunts my whole being, is seeing the front page of my local newspaper here in Philadelphia before leaving for school. It had John Lennon's photo and next to it in big, bold letters that said, "AND I THOUGHT PEACE WOULD CHANGE THE WORLD."

I was only 10 years old then. I am now 33. I have never forgotten those words or that day. Those words and what that man stood for still live on (esp. in my mind).

Thank God for people like him and Yoko who speak out.

War and weaponry solve nothing. Violence begets violence. May God's spirit enlighten us all.

Peace and Love,
Lisa Bird
Pennsylvania
USA


I see the news reports of peace demonstrations all over the country. Often it is "Give Peace a Chance" that the assembled protesters are singing. I always think, "My God, what a legacy to have left behind". I wonder what John would say about all this. I need only look to Yoko to learn, as he trusted her as his partner in voice and she has taken such great care to preserve, honor, and promote his/their legacy (some widows of famous men do tell-all interviews on E! or VH1... but only one has the style to rent a giant billboard in Times Square that reads: Imagine all the people living life in peace).

I tell my husband, "The little girl in me just wishes everyone could hug and be friends" and he laughs and I feel silly for such a childish thought.  But I read the words on this website or in "Grapefruit" and I take comfort in the fact that Yoko, even at the graceful age of seventy, still embraces and nurtures the little girl in her and always has. And I don't feel quite so silly anymore. I think that maybe hugging each other isn't such a bad idea.

Thank you John, thank you Yoko, the greatest lovers of the 20th century, for always inspiring me.

J.D.
Portland, OR


We have marched for peace and we have marched for love.

Even in small Midwestern cities we are protesting and pleading for peace.

My children, your children, all children deserve a better future.

In 2004 remember that our government has used the rhetoric of fear and terror to justify itself.

Let us elect in its place a government of hope and humane vision!

Tim Bennett
Springfield, Ohio


Hi,
I'm trying my best to be proud, swift and wise and will publish the event in the magazine I'm editing.

Peace!

Otso Kantokorpi
Editor-in-chief
Taide (the only Finnish art magazine)


Dear All,
Here's my peace experience. 

My Guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, suggests to go throughout your day like you're a white cloud. In other words, to be free from all that's happening in the world because each of us is always pure. We are always evergreen, always fresh. To love and care for each other, to perform seva. To drop the ego, to drop the I and to be one with the
Self. To realise that Divine love is our true
nature.

Jai Guru Dev!

Eduardo J. Torres


Thanks again and again John and Yoko - going toward life with courage and magic.  This idea came through to me in the 60's and has shaped my choices ever since.  alright! 

DN


I can't support war.   War is the worst human vicious.   Let's pray for this nightmare to end soon.

Renzi
Caracas, Venezuela


Everybody's talking about shock and awe, might is right, oil, oil, oil oh yeah

All we are saying is GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!

Thank you for your continued courage and commitment to the truth.

Blessings, Love, Peace,
tom frouge


This is Dennis Berube down here in the state of VA, in the USA,  and I have a sailboat, that I  was going to fly my American flag upside down on, to protest the war now being waged.   So wrote the idea to a sailing site, on line for any sailors who might like to join in with this idea!  Damn, I was censored!  They pulled it and would not run it! Man what happened to freedom of speech.  I told them I would  not be visiting their site again!

Good Luck all,  Dennis  

We miss you John!


Don't be afraid to be afraid...
Even if our leaders are Mickey Duck and Donald
-uck.

Pray for them too.

Thanks,
M&T


While bombs rain down on Baghdad,
Tears rain down in the rest of the world.
We're all shocked and awed at the
devastation the United States can deliver
in the name of "freedom."

Swampy, Universe


Thank you for this event.  This is a very sad time for America and the world.  We, in America, are fighting for our dignity.  With every bomb that falls, every word of hate, every child who cries out in pain or fear, we lose a piece of ourselves. We will only feel whole when we can INSTIGATE PEACE.

Your message of love gave me my first moments of inner peace today.    

IMAGINE, REMEMBER, LOVE. 

Lani


Today I rode around Times Square in the rain for a good two hours.  I painted a vertical sign for the back of my bike that reads, in blue, PEACE.

My main chant as I rode around was ‘Spread Peace, not war”.  I tried to ride and send out the message with enough compassion as possible.  I directed my message straight to people – person to person.  

80% of the people I addressed kept their eyes down, 10% fought the idea (calling me a traitor, a loser, a hippie and even a nerd or would actually scream that they wanted more war) and then there’s the 10% that really liked my sign and chanted with me.  

People need to have the courage to think before they get close to dancing.  But I can imagine such a world too.  Thank you for moving us forward as you do.  I’ll get a new pen pal promptly.  The bottom line is HUMANITY.

ebwally




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