Each month, youth and parents have a chance to practice being peacemakers in their own world, family, school, friends, community. It’s a class called Making Peace and the youth, often referred by Youth Aid Panels from school fights and other first-time incidents, often find themselves not only enjoying the class, but becoming collaborative poets. It’s just one of the often-transformational exercises of this 4-hour class of youth and their parents.
But this past class was so enthusiastic about what they produced, they asked to have it sent back to them. So this gives you an idea of how young people, even those starting skeptically about learning something from an obligatory Saturday morning workshop, can become creators of their own peaceable world.
Peace is the color of the rainbow, red and blue and orange and white…every color has its own meaning… transparent, clear, too.
Peace is like an elephant, an owl, a dove, a koi fish, a pink pig (cuz everybody likes bacon!)
Peace moves freely, swims, in the ocean of freedom.
It flies, it walks, it runs, it crawls. It spreads like a virus.
Peace tastes like oxygen, air…sweet and sour pork, red white & blue popsicles…sugar. Peace is like a bright sunny day! or not stepped in, fresh snow cause everybody’s inside or messy snow cuz everybody’s outside!
