the answer to the question is relevant to any discussion, and how we define and use the term ‘peace’ will drive the discussion.

leave out everything else, though, and is not what we are searching for, the very first couple of statements, “a state of tranquillity or quiet”, and “freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts”?

let’s draw the definition as five interacting cycles starting with ourselves in the middle and the whole wide world, not the “www” on the outside circle. each has an impact on us, but the innermost layer is the one that affects us the most and the only one we have complete control over. the other circles we can influence, but less and less as we travel outward.

Anxiety vrs Peace Circles

for the five circles, we seek two answers: first, to what degree does the circle impact us, and to what degree do we impact the circle? consider the circle to be made up of the people within those areas.

• Whole Wide World
• National Intrest
• Provincial Intrest
• Family Intrest
• Self-Interest

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,

the I of me

who am I? I am, but all my experiences past.

my name is Carl, and with my family, we emigrated to Canada’s great white north in 1967, when I was eight. it should have been the greatest cultural change of my life, but it was easily overshadowed by our move five years later to Winnipeg.

in Labrador, I grew from a lad to a boy, and many things from those times made me who I am today. In Winnipeg, I grew from a boy to a man. well, a man is likely an overstatement now that I am going into my seventh decade.

in 1979, I met Dawn, the love of my life and my wife-to-be, and we moved west to Kamloops, B.C., to be with her family. there, I grew from a man to a husband and father. attending university, after dropping out of high school in grade 10/11 while married with two boys, Correy and Ryan.

I am not sure about what or how a boy becomes a man, but there is a physical nature to being a man; there is also the intellectual and wisdom properties. strange, is it not, that the physical is first and then the intellectual and finally the wisdom. if only it were the other way around. wisdom, intellectual and finally physical.

and today does not our world race our children to become independent of us? and I mean race.