A Path for Peace

Sunday, May 11, 2008

A PATH FOR PEACE, April 19, 2008

A Whole Lot of Peace!

Thank you, thank you, thank you – to the wonderful and hardworking volunteers, to the talented performers, generous contributors, and to all who participated in A Path For Peace. For the names of the volunteers, contributers, and performers, please scroll down.

We also opened up a section where you can post something about your experience at the event, and/or how you are taking the energy of peace from that day, and continuing to prosper it. We would love to hear from you! (Post comments at Your Thoughts about A PATH FOR PEACE)

We are very, very pleased, to offer this video link, with great gratitude to Phillip Cruess: Click here! Please add your comments and ratings to the Brave New Films site, and the YouTube posting, and keep the positive energy of peace going!

And with thanks to our photographers, here is a link to some photos:(There are two galleries for A Path For Peace)

Gallery 1: Click Here
Gallery 2: Click Here

Please also visit the Peace Alliance site: http://www.thepeacealliance.org/

We have more video footage of the event, but are still looking for a volunteer editor. We know this is a lot of work, but it is such a good cause!

If you volunteered at this event, but did not sign up ahead of time or check in with Sakada, please contact us by clicking here and sending an email. We want you to get full credit for your work!

In Peace,
Annemarie Rawlinson, Jo Ann Gaines, and Sakada
A PATH FOR PEACE Organizers

Special Guests

Thanks to our special guest,
Lisa Teasley, who shared the
following poem at the
Welcome Ceremony:

©Richard Sauers

Peace

the quiet that begins when
looking in the mirror much
longer than it takes to brush
your teeth is a stillness
at once daring and humbling
a depth as quickening and light
as a hummingbird pausing mid-air
in nectar recognition—and so why
not honor the magic of a more
soulful existence why not hold
dear the peace, the calm
serenity living so safely within
and still, why not then
demonstrate it with out?

--Lisa Teasley

For more information on Lisa, please see the Performers' bios.

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We also thank our Department of Peace Special Guests Nicole Nabulsi and Tory Haslinger, pictured here walking the labyrinth with Jacob Watts.

A PATH FOR PEACE VOLUNTEERS!

We could not have done this without you!!
THANK YOU!

Community Donations:
Annie Hoover

PR Team:
Rose Pfeiffer
Tory Haslinger
Deondra Carter
Sarah Friedman

Event Volunteers:
Claudia Bumuller
Germaine de Pibrac James
Suzie Distaso
Augustin Garnier
Barbara Gawronski-Koziel
Alina Gonzaque
Marina Handwerk
George Houg
Ian
Sherri Jaye
David Kahn
Kamala Kirksey
Ingrid Marcellino
Ramon Naranjo
Bryan Ousdahl
Zachary Palsson
Dasha Perkins
Luz Maria Prida
Judy Saavedra
Lawrence Smith
Jeanie Sullivan
Mel Taylor
Karen Timko
Martha Valenzuela (celebrated her birthday with us!)
Wanda Vanhoy Smith
Randy Walker
Cathy Bitonio Wright

Photography/Video:
John Choy
Linda Hargrove
Christine LeFevre/Esprabens
Richard Sauers
Jacob Watt

Labyrinth Table:
Christine LeFevre/Esprabens
Terry McHale

Thanks to Our Performers!

Thank you to the PATH FOR PEACE performers who inspired us with their words and music of peace!

The performers included:

Alex Arndt presents folksy alt-rock that reveals the heart of a thoughtful, loving, and peaceful songwriter. Alex has performed at such hot spots as Las Vegas' House of Blues, The Key Club, The Viper Room, The Knitting Factory, Highland Grounds and Fais Do Do in Los Angeles, and many more in many cities. In 2007 Alex and his band performed live on San Diego's FM 94.9. Alex has also performed live on FOX and ABC news stations in San Diego, Las Vegas, and L.A. The Alex Arndt/Acoustic Minds Peace Tour begins May 16 in support of a U.S. Dept. of Peace! For more information, please visit www.myspace.com/AlexArndt.

Four performers from Byakko, LA will perform several INs (mudras with toning). Byakko is an organization dedicated to world peace. It's work is rooted in the universal prayer for peace, “May Peace Prevail on Earth”, advocated by the late founder, Masahisa Goi. The INs are universal in nature and they blend harmoniously with other spiritual practices.

Denise Carlin, M.S., a song and storywriter and creative living coach, has assisted hundreds of children, teens, and adults to shift the ways they operate. With her publishing company, Change the Story, Denise shares her creative works and self-development tools that help us calm, entertain, and inspire ourselves to change the story of our lives to love. Her most recent release, ICY COLD LEMONADE, is a CD of refreshing original songs for children. You can taste a sample before you purchase, when you visit Denise’s website: www.ChangeTheStory.com.
Denise's MySpace: www.myspace.com/denisecarlin

Johnny Didge describes the sound of the didgeridoo as the sound of Mother Earth calling us home. The didgeridoo offers the sound and breath of the creative pulse that lives in every one of us. He was first enchanted by the music in 2003, and today both makes and plays didgeridoos, as his way of sending peace and love to all.

John Flick, a longtime resident of Redondo Beach, is an engineer/cost analyst who also loves making music around the South Bay – singing in choirs, in a classic rock band, on the street, and at hospitals, nursing homes, and with meals for the homeless. He’s active in Health Care For All California, in outreach work at his church, and is an ardent peace monger.

John's wife Betty Calame is a retired psychotherapist who now seeks self expression through comedy improvisation and writing. Her first published piece will be in a chapbook at Botanic Gardens in the fall.

Lifelong Redondo Beach resident Augustin Garnier finds a perfect marriage of his family values of civic duty and vast musical training to the cause for the Department of Peace. While he can be found laying down the mother-beat for the non-profit organization Free to be Me Drum Circles often throughout the South Bay he states, "Nothing could be more important for our times than the creation of the Department of Peace to bring a fresh and logical approach to the responsibilities of the American promise and dreams."

At her downtown Los Angeles loft, Tonya Lee Jaynes teaches families to play drum sets together. Carl Fischer Publishing is releasing her book, Say and Play the Drum Set with "The DRUMPHONICS,” in May 2008. Tonya performs with a wide variety of performing artists, playing everything from orchestral music to musical theater. She also creates participatory drumming and percussion events for various occasions, including the monthly labyrinth walks at UCLA Harbor Hospital. For more information email her at tonyajaynes@aol.com

Kamala Kirksey is a yoga teacher in the South Bay area. She is also a member of a kirtan band called BhaktiMa. Through their singing they help to raise funds to feed the homeless. Kamala also conducts trance dance events. Love Life and Play.

Peter Marinkovich is a San Pedro native now living in Lomita. He has studied philosophy, theology, and has a degree in special education. He has a love for the human condition and themes of wellness and peace often appear in his poetry.

Tamsin Rothschild is a poet and performer, with a refreshing enthusiasm and love of life. Through her work she captures the multidimensionality of human expression and her brightness brings a warmth and authenticity to her performances. www.tamsinrothschild.com

Lisa Teasley is the author of acclaimed novels HEAT SIGNATURE and DIVE, and the award-winning story collection, GLOW IN THE DARK. Teasley’s awards include: Gold Pen, Pacificus Foundation, May Merrill Miller, National Society of Arts & Letters, and the Amaranth Review Awards. Teasley’s work has been much anthologized, appearing in publications such as Real Simple, Christian Science Monitor, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times magazine, and National Public Radio. Her homepage is: www.lisateasley.com.

Wanda VanHoy Smith is the author of two books for children, a paperback sold at school book fairs and a hard cover, Ash Brooks Super Ranger, published by Charles Scribners Sons and now on Amazon. She made a left hand turn near the millennium that led to poetry and has not turned back. She is a member of the Redondo Poets and has been a featured reader at book stores and other Southern California venues. She has been published in about a dozen anthologies and other places like LA Jazz Scene. Being a word not a number person she hasn't counted her poems or chapbooks but suspects there are too many. Walking a path for peace is a great inspiration for writing poetry.

OUR SPECIAL THANKS!

The City of Hermosa Beach
–J.R. Reviczky, Mayor

Hermosa Arts Foundation
–Rick Koenig, President
–Michael Keegan, Treasurer
–Michael DiVirgilio, Secretary
–Gerard Ravel
–Bryan Ousdahl

Hilary Henson, Executive Director, Project Touch

Phillip Cruess
Adelaide D'Ambrosio
Janine Daley-Austin
Augustin Garnier
Christina Hague & Mike Sribney
Cliff Marshall
Royce Morales
George Schmeltzer
Uran Snyder
Allie Tegner

And all of our wonderful donors!

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SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING BUSINESSES:
(Please support us by telling the managers at these locations that you appreciate their support of A PATH FOR PEACE!)

Albertson’s
1516 Pacific Coast Highway
Redondo Beach, CA

Lindberg Nutrition
3804 Sepulveda (@Hawthorne)
Torrance, CA

Long's Drugs
1880 S. Pacific Coast Highway (@Prospect)
Redondo Beach, CA

Pedone’s Pizza and Fine Foods
1332 Hermosa Avenue #10
Hermosa Beach, CA
310-376-0949

Sprouts
4230 Pacific Coast Highway (@Anza)
Torrance, CA

The Shore Restaurant and Lounge
1320 Hermosa Avenue
Hermosa Beach, CA
310-376-0414

Trader Joe’s (Hollywood Riveria)
1761 South Elena
Redondo Beach, CA

YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT A PATH FOR PEACE

Please feel free to add your comments and thoughts:

Thursday, April 3, 2008

JOIN US

A PATH FOR PEACE

Saturday, April 19, 2008
A Free Community Arts Event

Please join us at this community gathering to build peace, and walk our sand labyrinth on the beach. We believe that together, we can build the energy of peace and goodwill at all levels of our lives – from the personal to the global.

And so we invite everyone, to join this free meditation and celebration.

Learn about and walk a large, heart-shaped sand mound labyrinth that has been designed for this event by Labyrinth Builder/Artist Annemarie Rawlinson. Enjoy the wonderful meditation of a guided walk by the ocean.

Hear about the Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace – Special guests Tory Haslinger, Campaign State Co-coordinator for the greater L.A. area, and Nicole Nabulsi, Student Peace Alliance National High School Coordinator, will speak at the welcome ceremony.

For more information about both HR 808 (the legislation currently in Congress that formally proposes the establishment of a Dept of Peace) and the grassroots movement of citizens that is behind this idea, please visit www.ThePeaceAlliance.org.
(Info at http://www.thepeacealliance.org/)

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Saturday, April 19, 2008

1:00 pm
Welcome Ceremony

1:00 – 3:00 pm
Labyrinth Walk and Peace Celebration
Everyone is welcome!

3:15 pm
Children's Labyrinth Walk
(For more information–see below)

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On the beach –
North of the Hermosa Beach Pier

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For more information, click here
to contact A PATH FOR PEACE

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SPECIAL EVENT at A PATH FOR PEACE

The Children’s Labyrinth Walk
April 19, 2008
3:15 pm

Because of the great interest from people with children, we will have a special children’s walk/dance through the labyrinth at the conclusion of the event, at 3:15 pm on April 19th. After the meditative portion of this walk, our special guest dancers will lead the children into a break out of playful dance and movement, allowing the peaceful energy we have built to release into the sky! Oh yes! This will, also, for practical purposes help us to restore the beach to its original condition, by moving the sand back into “place.”

Adults will not be excluded from the dancing and joyful play, but our focus will be on the children!

If you are planning to bring a large group of children, please let us know by emailing the Organizing Committee at sakada@geniusworkcoaching.com.

Annemarie Rawlinson and the Labyrinth

Labyrinth Builder/Artist Annemarie Rawlinson trained with Dr. Lauren Artress in 1998 and is a certified labyrinth presenter. Over the years, she has lectured widely, in presentations that cover both the historical roots and contemporary uses of the labyrinth. Annemarie has also built multiple labyrinths in the greater Los Angeles area. She founded "Friends of the Labyrinth,” a group that built a Cretan labyrinth at Angel’s Gate Park in San Pedro. In 2003, Annemarie brought a permanent labyrinth to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA, where she and Christine Esprabens conduct monthly labyrinth walks and presentations for the hospital staff.

Annemarie's new heart-shaped labyrinth design for A PATH FOR PEACE is significant in many ways. From the design point of view, the labyrinth leads the walker to the center, the heart of the heart, then straight out in a new direction. This metaphor for our path for peace shows us that while the journey to the center of our heart, individually and collectively, is one that we can easily choose and follow, once opened to that heart energy, it is also a simple path out, into a new reality of peace.

Furthermore, the tradition of labyrinth building is to use existing patterns, many created over thousands of years ago. And so, in creating this labyrinth, with the cause of peace at its roots, Annemarie breaks new ground!

This labyrinth then fits in perfectly with the heart of this event, and inspires us all, in this City of Angels, to open our hearts, and, as Annemarie has done so beautifully, create A PATH FOR PEACE.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

A PATH FOR PEACE T-Shirts Are Available

We have two t-shirt designs for A PATH FOR PEACE on zazzle.com
Both feature the heart shaped labyrinth design of Annemarie Rawlinson.

All proceeds go to the Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace.

Please choose your t-shirt style and color and note that the design size can be changed and the location moved, according to the style you choose. A whole new way to do event t-shirts! Oh yes!

There is some shipping time involved, so if you are interested in a t-shirt, order soon.

T-Shirt #1