Day of Peace: Healing Our World's Wounded Peace

 Day of Peace is Every Day 

Healing Our World's Wounded Peace

 

Dr Abe V Rotor

Peace they bring these white doves in the sky;

passing over Flanders's Field of long ago,

when suddenly fired upon from down below;

it's history repeating the battle cry. - avr

Wounded Peace in acrylic by the author 2020

 The world has never been at peace.  Two world wars, Iran, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and many conflicts all over.  This painting is dedicated to peace in today's troubled Ukraine. 

World Peace Day, is a United Nations-sanctioned holiday observed annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to world peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone for humanitarian aid access. The day was first established in 1981 and first observed in September 1982 and is kept by many nations, political groups, military groups, and people.

"Long live absolute world peace."

The International Day of Peace, is also officially known as Day of Peace, celebrated every  September 21 since 1982. To inaugurate the day, the United Nations Peace Bell  PHOTO is rung at UN Headquarters (in New York City). The bell is cast from coins donated by children from all continents except Africa, and was a gift from the United Nations Association of Japan, as "a reminder of the human cost of war"; the inscription on its side reads, "Long live absolute world peace". Internet

“Expand thy wings, celestial dove. Brood o’er our nature’s night, on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.” – Charles Wesley

“We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“And there my little doves did sit, with feathers softly brown and glittering eyes that showed their right to general nature’s deep delight.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“And the dove came to him in the evening; and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.” – Genesis 8:11

Acknowledgement and thanks: Quotations from the Internet

Let Us Encourage Our Children to Engage in Art

Let Us Encourage Our Children to Engage in Art

“I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.” – Bob Ross

Dr Abe V Rotor

Engaging children in art fosters creativity, emotional expression, and cognitive development, allowing them to explore their inner world and connect with the world around them. Art provides a unique language for self-expression and can help children develop essential life skills. Internet

Author and tutor Dr Rotor poses with young artists V-jay Rigos, Francesca Ragasa, R-jay Tolentino, and Kimberly Santos, all students of San Vicente Integrated School. March 30, 2025 at Living with Nature Center 

One fine Sunday morning four kids from the neighborhood came

 to draw with pastel colors, cheerful and cellphone-free. 

And what do we know, we grownups, teachers, parents, guardians?

Look at their works of art - what a great discovery!  

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle

 

Take your choice -  color as you wish,

from the creative mind, joyful heart

parrot, jay, heron - just don't miss

the free expression and joy of art.

"A picture is a poem without words". -  Horace

 

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso

Sailboats in the wind sans sailors;

a proud mother hen sans her brood;

sans man's presence, yet complete

to the young, not we who are old.  

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when he grows up." - Pablo Picasso

8 Important Benefits of Art for Children 

That Everyone Should Know*

Creating art isn’t just a fun, colorful pastime. It has a variety of unique, positive effects on preschoolers, young children, and teens that other activities don’t provide. Here are eight reasons why you should encourage kids to participate in art on a regular basis.

1. Stimulates Creativity and Problem-Solving Skills

2. Promotes Self-Esteem and Self-Expression

3. Contributes to Fine Motor Skill Development

4. Helps Develop Visual-Spatial Processing

5. Builds Memory and Self-Control

6. Provides Rest, Relaxation, and Reward

7. Increases Academic Performance

8. Connects Kids to People and the World

 

Dr Rotor's family and friends, grownups and children - all disciples and students of art.                   

“The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it” – David Hockney

Acknowledgement with Gratitude to *Painting to Gogh (Painting to Gogh Offers Fun, Engaging Painting Tutorials for Kids), Internet

Lives of 15 Great Men and Women in History. More Books at the Living with Nature Center.

Lives of 15 Great Men and Women in History 

More Books at the Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Dr Abe V Rotor

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens 

 "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to  lose sight of the shore". - Christopher Columbus

 

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." - Alexander the Great

"There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.". - Sir Francis Drake

 

"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work." - Florence Nightingale

"To conquer the world, one must first conquer oneself,"- Cleopatra

 

“We study the glory of God, and the honor and liberty of Parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests.” - Oliver Cromwell

"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go," - Captain Cook

 

"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!" - Horatio Nelson

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can". - John Wesley

 

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"- Henry VIII

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again". Robert Bruce

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." - Julius Caesar

"I have not told half of what I saw". Marco Polo

Acknowledgement with Gratitude: Google, Intenet