For 28 years silver-haired Mildred Norman Ryder wandered from place to place across America, walking over 25,000 miles to bring a message of peace to everyone she encountered. On her journey she took no money, personal belongings, or food. No cell phone, for in those days cell phones hadn’t been invented. What propelled her was confidence in the intrinsic kindness of human beings and trust in the goodness of life itself. She called herself Peace Pilgrim. Some have likened Peace Pilgrim to a Twentieth Century Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Envision a fragrant and expansive rose garden. It’s a quiet, sunny day, the sky is blue, and you are waiting for friends and colleagues to join you in a celebration of peace. It could be in Pacific Palisades or Sacramento, California, Atlanta, Georgia, Mexico City, or Assisi, Italy. What you share together here will keep alive the dream of peace on earth, goodwill toward men, the inspiration behind the creation of the International World Peace Rose Gardens.
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If you’re drivin’ down the road
You’ll miss the gnomes and the fairies
And you won’t get a chance
To eat the yummy blackberries.
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by Viktoria Vidali on September 1, 2009
in Music, Poetry
