A Practice of Peace (Tova Averbuch)

[Meg Salter]

Tova, Julie, Judi, Harrison..... and more

What if peace is a verb, not a noun? As you say, Harrison, a process, not an
end state? And yes, parts of that process may be calm, and parts not. Even
the apparent calm may be a container for boiling anxiety (many meditation
states may look calm from the outside, but the inner mental state is
anything but!)
Our grandmothers would "piece together" quilts (english word games now!) And
out of many scraps, came one whole quilt. E pluribus unum.  The pieces
become transformed into something greater than the scraps ever were.
What is the old saying - a truly intractable problem is never resolved (one
side vs. the other) but dissolved - into something greater and more
all-encompassing.

An interesting story from Quebec - where the French/English
language/culture/power issue has been raging for centuries. Support for
sovereignty is way down - and some say it is because support for it from the
younger crowd is way down. They're on the Net, plugged in globally, making
connections, having fun, creating businesses. Yes, of course they're
Quebecers, it's just not the big deal it once was. My friends who are in
bilingual households say their teenage children couldn't even tell you which
language they just spoke in converestion. Language is about communication -
not about identity politics. The whole matrix has shifted. Maybe it is being
dissolved  - out of a tribal/country context into a global context. It
certainly is amazing to watch........... food for thought elsewhere?

Meg Salter

MegaSpace Consulting
416/486-6660
meg.salter at sympatico.ca
www.megaspaceconsulting.com

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