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Practice Peace in Daily Life
Unfortunately, the USA has an oppressive society, where the majority of financial and economic transactions involve some sort of harmful and/or destructive activity.

Ranging from investments and profiting off of war, to the products of sweat shop and slave labor, to the effects of industrialization on the environment...

It's going to take a lot to truly practice peace in daily life.

“Thoroughgoing ignorance about the ways of others is largely a privilege of the powerful.”
– Kwame Anthony Appiah
from Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

olyblog.net/one-archives-practice-peace-daily-life

[Berd operates mostly in the narrative mode. These photos are intended to serve as a partial documentation of some of the most recent life journey parts. They also serve to bear witness to and to document some of the various socio-cultural economic and political movements, environments, and current events of the day.

Hopefully, photo quality here varies from snapshots to portraiture, and from landscape and nature to social/societal photographic documentary. Mostly, this is a photo journal...and Berd loves nature photography.]

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    Wayne in Indy says:

    "My friend Robert and I argue politics all the time and agree on next to nothing. But "Berd" is a fine guy and a great human being who possesses the qualities of decency, compassion, and humanitarianism to degrees that I admire very greatly, indeed.
    I may think him wrong politically, but I can't deny that he's a better human being than I am.
    And, lest I forget, he's an absolutely incredible photographer!
    Wayne A. Highsmith"

    20th July, 2009

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    Apocalypse Center says:

    "Berd is dedicated, tireless, always there, documenting, looking, seeing, examining and sharing what goes on in our community, our region, and our world; particularly those events revolving around peace and social justice issues. His thoughtful commentary about the issues is always provocative and worth our careful consideration. Berd has a deft touch, a discerning eye and we are lucky to have him in this community."

    21st December, 2009

Name:
Robert FW Whitlock
Joined:
January 2007
Hometown:
Minneapolis, MN
Currently:
Olympia, WA
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