{"id":19163,"date":"2022-03-08T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/?p=19163"},"modified":"2022-04-05T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T22:19:25","slug":"wisdom-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/2022\/03\/08\/wisdom-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 By Suzanne Maxx<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19164\" src=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_142510-scaled-142x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_142510-scaled-142x300.jpg 142w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_142510-scaled-484x1024.jpg 484w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_142510-scaled-768x1624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_142510-scaled-727x1536.jpg 727w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_142510-scaled-969x2048.jpg 969w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_142510-scaled-676x1429.jpg 676w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_142510-scaled.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/>Especially knowing today that if women ruled the world, and had the freedom of choice, war would be impossible.<\/p>\n<p>We, as women, embody a creative nature and by nature the care and love of one another is organic.\u00a0 We nurture love to grow, within and throughout, the best we can in all.\u00a0 \u00a0This is true where the Divine feminine can grow.<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s \u201cAsh Wednesday,\u201d began a season, with the kind of tide I can appreciate rising. \u00a0Unlike the sea level rising and the stresses on the ocean\/atmosphere hurricane and cyclone season.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Ash Wednesday was not like 2020\u2019s when I looked up from the music, singing in a choir, to end up in the ER with ashes in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, when I began writing to fill the blank pages of a brand new gifted journal, it would become my #69 handwritten book, with a beautiful cover of a 3D color Owl.\u00a0 In the morning, I began to fill up the journal with not just my mind\u2019s ideas, but also the spontaneity of inspired heart and soul of what became a great gift; I have come to appreciate the \u201cpresent\u201d as upon contemplation and reflection it calls forth the vision, to the future. This Wednesday was no exception.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19166\" src=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_173615-scaled-142x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_173615-scaled-142x300.jpg 142w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_173615-scaled-484x1024.jpg 484w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_173615-scaled-768x1624.jpg 768w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_173615-scaled-727x1536.jpg 727w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_173615-scaled-969x2048.jpg 969w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_173615-scaled-676x1429.jpg 676w, https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220302_173615-scaled.jpg 1211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/>I stretched out my body,\u00a0 held in the air, my limbs kissing the tree limbs holding my weight under the canopy of a great pine tree whose wispy green needles&#8217; tent hid me entirely under its branches. Our eyes locked gazing into one another\u2019s core essence for what felt like an eternity, I could feel Owl\u2019s wisdom penetrating beyond gender, species, boundaries, and borders.<\/p>\n<p>We both seemed to echo &#8220;Words of wisdom beyond sound or writing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The kind of silent reverence, equality respect, and curiosity exchanged, as I too was lying\u00a0 bowing underneath on trees bough, communing in the shared safety of nature\u2019s grip away from the development of the world,\u00a0 at least for a few moments, the noise of the city was gone. In my mind, I answer Owl\u2019s query of \u201cWHO?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf not US, then Who?\u00a0 Who will defend nature, or at least find peaceful harmony?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hear beyond the whisper of words, the soundless syllables, and the owl\u2019s wise plea.<\/p>\n<p>True to the owl totem, the dark of the night is when the work gets done, not in daylight. Thus the miraculous encounter. The Owls eyes were wide open in the light, and willing to meet my eyes!<\/p>\n<p>Even though now night, maybe somewhere in the world, it is still International Women&#8217;s Day.\u00a0 Or maybe Women&#8217;s Day is every day, for every species?<\/p>\n<p>#InternationalWomensDay, #Owl, #OwlTotem, #InterspeciesCommunication, #BeyondGender, #BeyondBoundaries, #TransformationTide, #WorldTeamNow, #WoldTeamProject, #UNCLOS #Writing #NaturesLove<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 By Suzanne Maxx Especially knowing today that if women ruled the world, and had the freedom of choice, war would be impossible. We, as women, embody a creative nature and by nature the care and love of one another is organic.\u00a0 We nurture love to grow, within and throughout, the best we can in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[183867227],"tags":[183867232,183867231,183867189,183867230,183867228,183867229,183867233,183867235,183867234,57806994],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-19163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-womens-day","tag-beyondboundaries","tag-beyondgender","tag-internationalwomensday","tag-interspeciescommunication","tag-owl","tag-owltotem","tag-transformationtide","tag-unclos","tag-woldteamproject","tag-worldteamnow","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19163"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19202,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions\/19202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19163"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldteamnow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=19163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}