Flashback to a time of hope — September 2021 descalation in the Middle East with Biden. #giftArticle #uae #peace
‘Even Beijing is stressing an authoritarian version of “build back better” in recent statements stressing shared domestic prosperity. The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, though badly botched, reflected a growing global consensus against “endless wars,”’
Last Light of Day - an October sunset
https://renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/last-light-of-day-october-twin-lakes-renata-natale.html
Some Peace and Serenity for your day...
https://renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/poconos-pennsylvania-august-sunset-renata-natale.html
Just finished printing some woodcut notecards. Hanging to dry. Been awhile since i've done any printmaking---love that smell of ink!
I send thanks to the buyer from Maryland who purchased an art print of
Girl in a Copper Dress 1 -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/girl-in-a-copper-dress-i-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
May the artwork inspire you to move with grace, gratitude, and strength through every path upon which you walk.
*By this we know love!*that he laid down his life for us!*& we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers!
Ir sometimes seems to me that Nature is playing music in the sky. If you listen carefully, you will hear it...
https://renata-natale.pixels.com/featured/music-in-the-sky-renata-natale.html
I describe here 4 decades of US defense/intelligence reports on the threat of #climatechange to national security.
The new 2025 report from Trump's Office of the Director of National Intelligence explicitly censors out ANY mention of #climate change threats to #peace and #security or to the operations and bases of US #military. This is political interference with intelligence analysis.
I send thanks to the buyer from California who purchased a framed print of
After the Bath, Grayscale -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/after-the-bath-grayscale-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print
May the artwork take you to those relaxing moments -- before, during, and after the bath -- in which that which is most important has nothing to do with what you see on the "news."
The #USIP has a total staff of about 600 people in offices worldwide. It is actively involved in negotiating #peace deals & helping #war-torn countries & regions to implement peace settlements & rebuild, including in the #Philippines, sub-Saharan #Africa & #Ukraine.
“We put mediators in place to help stitch these communities back together,” said one employee. “So it does have a dramatic effect on #violence on the ground immediately by just pulling these assets out.”
#Musk / #DOGE fires nearly all staff at US Institute of #Peace HQ
The #Trump admin summarily fired the staff of the #USIP late Friday night, <2wks after forcibly removing the congressionally funded org’s president & installing in his place an agent of #tech billionaire #ElonMusk’s DOGE….
#law #USpol #TrumpCoup #TrumpPurge #democracy #diplomacy #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/29/doge-usip-peace-institute-fired/
Eid Mubarak
Allen Menschen Glück, Liebe und Frieden.
Wishing you and your family happiness this Eid!”
Given current events, these 1995 episodes of DS9 give me pause …
ST DS9
S3E11/12
Past Tense, Parts 1&2
Starfleet vanishes when the timeline is altered after Sisko, Dax and Bashir are transported back to 2024 due to a transporter anomaly. They find themselves drawn into the Bell Riots in San Francisco’s Sanctuaries where the unemployed try to survive.
Sanctuary residents start to riot and a small group of them take the employees of a District Processing Center hostage, who Sisko and Bashir work to protect.
The rioters' demands of the Governor are that they want to air their grievances, the Sanctuaries closed and the opportunity to earn an honest living.
Dax encourages a contact to provide the residents access to a secure terminal and broadcast their story to the world to get the word out about what's really happening in these Sanctuaries.
When the National Guard storms the Center, police, civilians and rioters are killed.
After the seige is over, one of the guards that was a hostage asks “How could we have let this happen?”
Bashir responds “The question is, how do we stop it from happening again?”
The story concludes with Dr. Bashir asking “You know Commander, having seen a little of the 21st century there is one thing I don't understand. How could they have let things get so bad?”
Commander Sisko responds “That's a good question. I wish I had an answer.”
Only off by a year, but otherwise - they got it … how did we let things get this bad? 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_Tense_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine)
Heute bin ich offenbar in Frieden unterwegs. 
#peace #frieden #ruhrbahn_e #ruhrbahn #stadtessen #EssenNRW #EssenRuhr #margarethenhöhe
I send thanks to the buyer from Texas who purchased a sticker of
Figurative II -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/figurative-ii-steve-henderson.html?product=sticker
May the artwork take you to a quiet, peaceful place where calmness, not noise and stress, fills the room with its aromatic perfume.
I send thanks to the buyer from Texas who purchased a canvas print of
Evening Light at the Grand Canyon -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/evening-light-at-the-grand-canyon-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
May the artwork take you to a still, silent place full of majesty and grandeur, one that invites you to stop everything you're doing and simply be awestruck by creation.
