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How can you visit 88 countries in four days? Geneva Peace Week!

Geneva Peace Week is underway!   You have to see for yourself:  if every one of these seminars had the impact its presenters recommended, the world would be "fixed."  Whole.  Healed.        Ready to embrace a "fully alive" life, a world for everybody: safe, energizing, fulfilling, by tomorrow.  As the mother of the Communications Director for Geneva Peace Week, I felt it incumbent upon me to see what she was up to. As mom for the Geneva Peace Week communications guru, I was eager to know all about her work Well, as an unbiased peruser, I would be hooked.  Booking my flight. There already.  What a remarkable, yes, it shall be remarked upon, gathering of community, come together for one purpose: to share what they know, and are humble enough to think they know; to cultivate common constructive action and get out of their silos.  To share, tell stories, of ugly as much as   expert, field-tested, depth know...
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Global Power is her 'best,' rearranging Global Power is Annika's passion and the focus of her dissertation thesis at The Institute in Genève

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Where On Earth Did Everybody Go? By which I mean, what happened to our "spring-offs," two fine adults who have had the temerity to

Kaia and Annika have disappeared. 
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Smuggling Out of the USSR

Remember the old Soviet Union?   That one.  That one,   that killed 20 million of its own citizens during "The Great War," against Germany -- and against itself.  That one, that overwhelmed Estonia with such paranoia, greed, and hate, whole entire towns and villages were hauled up into trucks and cattle cars and other unfit transports, deported into the depths of Siberia, to infamous gulags,  thousands and thousands and more thousands altogether.  Thousands died on the Of whom only a few returned, walking the thousands of miles home, still in shock,  in the days after the War had ended.  where you signed a memorandum in your mind, that said, "I will be messed with, messed over, messed up.  I acknowledge that I will be lied to like all the time; and if a Soviet State official's mouth was moving, l am aware that I am being played."   It was also a place where citizens had a deeper respect, understanding, and pure l...
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Global Power : It doesn't have a chance of keeping the status quo

Annika's work is not ambitious ;  not to her. It's just necessary.  Light is in. 
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"You mean, now?"

The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's home;  the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once blind man unbound.  Yes. I think this is true.  It  is  in those gaps, the bending,  the spaces between,  those gaps,  like those between this leaf and that one, once tied together on a branch that gave thick shade, cover -- and perhaps that's exactly what you needed then, protection,  --  but a new moment, occasion, a new possibility and asks, please, " give us room,  find the gaps.... that leave us with room for some new -- direction, decision, determination " to take a bold step, perhaps, beyond the bizarre security of a refugee camp, and step onto that freaky big airplane, and   Go!   discover a new world -- the one within yourself being the most important! And wear a lovely taffeta dress to gr...
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