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At last, the Peace and Petunias blog is up and running!

By utilizing the latest technology and methods of communication through a blog, I hope that viewers of this site will gain new perspectives, hear from people all over the world, and hopefully look at the idea of "peace" in new ways while also recognizing similarities in other posts.

I encourage you to take a second out of your day by either reading or adding to the blog, and I hope you will spread the word of this blog to others who may be interested. Please note that people of all ages will be reading and responding to this blog, and I ask that everyone keeps their blog posts appropriate for such a wide audience, while hopefully not detracting from the creative process.

So, my response is to the question: "What is peace?"

I was recently at home in Connecticut on a holiday break, and found the time to take a motorcycle ride one cloudy afternoon. While still paying attention to the road, the bike, and to my surroundings, I was also able to get a lot of sight-seeing done of a part of the state that I thought I knew. To my pleasant surprise, I discovered new roads, trees, houses, flowers, and pastures, and continued driving until I no longer knew where I was or how I got there. At first I thought I was lost, and immediately pulled out my blackberry to check out googlemaps and use my GPS to let my phone navigator take me home. I started by googling a store I had seen on the road (as it turns out there's more than one Walgreen's in western CT). After googling for ten minutes to no ado, I took my eyes off of the crackberry and looked up at the road, only to see a street sign with the name of a town I knew, and an arrow. I turned off my phone and followed the signs all the way home.

I didn't need google to find the way home.