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It’s 2022. I’m turning 40 this summer and my bad dreams are nothing compared to reality. The climate crisis is crashing down in cascades of disasters ... the stuff of nightmares. 

Veronica Pelicaric brought deep wisdom, compassion and longing for a more nonviolent world to Pace e Bene as our training director and spiritual guide.

The last thing any of us need is a war with Russia over the Ukraine. You don’t need to know much about foreign policy to know that.

This year, 2022, we must change, shedding the skin of our old existences as surely as a snake, shifting toward more respectful ways of living.

Seasonal insomniacs in times of climate chaos

For decades I — and, no doubt, everybody else who points out the power and effectiveness of nonviolent action — have had the endlessly recurring experience of being asked “But shouldn’t people defend themselves with wars rather than do nothing?” How did wars get to be the only alternative to nothing? If I were to run around shouting “Will you deny people the right to stick slugs up their noses rather than do NOTHING?” approximately 100% of people would think that was a crazier thi...