MATRIOT DAY {September 10 is...}

MATRIOT DAY {September 10 is...}

Just for the record:

City of Santa Cruz Mayor's Proclamation:
http://members.cruzio.com/~egar/artandrev/matriot/proc96_03.pdf

                                                 matriot (ma' - tri - at) noun 1: One who

loves his or her country. 2: One who loves
and protects the people of his or her country.
3: One who perceives national defense as
health, education, and shelter of all people
in his or her country. (Orig. FPA, 1991)

"During Desert Storm in 1991, I was sitting at my desk, and heard on the radio that our defense force had invented a missle and named it the 'patriot.' That evening, i invented a word, asking myself what does a matriot look like?" -Frances Payne Adler

This the Holy Birthing Ground

grelf holds Minnie newborn

When Waters Break
upon the shores
of human high endeavor
A noble birth is re-assured
through clear or stormy weather

 Speak from your truth
forbid it not
for that alone will guide us
The birthing of a different way
begins in Truth inside us

 The crowning head
we now receive
with infinite attention
rings of empowerment have served
to end this child's detention

 Step by step by lucid step
our co-creative urging
No more bereft our circles hail
the sovereign self emerging

 May Peace Prevail on Earth we said
into the scenes of war
conscious evolution chooses
 visions from our core

 Corrina Cop Rain

*~*~*

WomenRise for Global Peace

Centenarian WomenRise Eleanor in Peace Jacket

WOMENRISE FOR GLOBAL PEACE
promoting a new consciousness and standing together as one to proclaim that :

• We can live in celebration and respect for all life and all love
• The power of our individual choice to be peaceful in our thought, word and deed does change the world
• Using compassionate communication, we can promote peace more effectively

www.womenrise.org