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Phillip Schladweiler

May 30, 2016 by johnnoltner

Phillip Schladweiler is a military veteran who served two tours in Iraq. On February 22, 2006…6 years to the day of his enlistment…he was wounded in an IED attack and lost the vision in his right eye. Now an art student, Phillip has photographed the shrapnel that was removed from his body (the doctors saved it for him) as part of his journey of healing himself and others. I don’t know, peace to me means safety and sacrifice. This is […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: a peace of my mind, APoMM, art, dialog, exhibits, memorial day, peace, photography, stories, veteran, war

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May 24, 2016 by johnnoltner

This spring my exhibit was at Wilmington College, a Quaker school, and home to the Peace Resource Center. At the core of the PRC’s collection is the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Memorial Collection and I had time to visit with the director Tanya Maus and look through their extensive files. I am a photographer, so I was drawn to the many photos in their archive. There were original photos with hand-written captions on the back and I wondered about the people […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: a peace of my mind, atomic, Hiroshima, Japan, Jim Reynolds, Nagasaki, Nuclear bomb, nuclear nonproliferation, peace, Peace Resource Center, Quaker, restorative justice, Tanya Maus, war, Wilmington College, world war 2

Donnie Phillips

May 2, 2016 by johnnoltner

Donnie Phillips lost his sight when he was 21 years old. He is a disability awareness trainer in Boston, Massachusetts, and also a poet who goes by the stage name of Uncle Third Eye. His spoken word piece called “Blind” is below in text, and in video. “Shhhh, shhh… don’t look now but you know there are none so blind as those who will not see of ignorance they’re guilty and so they will not be free from rumors lies or […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: a peace of my mind, APoMM, art, Blind, Boston, Disability, diversity, peace, photography, Poetry, Spoken Word, stories, Uncle Third Eye, Visual Impairment

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"Yes, you’re one very small person, but you can always make a difference.” Fiona Orr, fifteen-years-old, is home schooled in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she volunteers regularly at the Omni Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology where she has found positive adult mentors. Fiona draws and paints. From a very young age, she liked to put beautiful things on paper so that other people could see the same beauty she did. "Teenagers sometimes aren’t paying attention, but it’s because we often don’t get paid attention to. I know I wouldn’t pay attention to somebody who’s not paying attention to me. That sounds very basic and stubborn, and you may not even realize you’re doing it. If an adult is not listening to my ideas because I’m young, then I’ll think, “Oh, you’re old. I’m not going to listen to your ideas.” It happens both ways. The problems in the world can seem very big. It’s an overwhelming feeling and sometimes you just want to break down and cry. You think, “I’m just one very small teenager.” But it’s not like I can ignore it. I just become very sad sometimes. I try to focus on becoming well spoken and talking to people. If you can change the opinion of one person or get one person involved, then that person can get five people involved, and those five people branch off. You have to break it down really small. Just think, “I can only start with me and the person that’s in front of me now.” If you think about it on that scale, then it becomes so much more realistic to be able to help and change things." #change #onepersonatatime #makeadifference #onestepatatime #youth #apeaceofmymind #americanstories

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"The world is filled with challenges...especially when it comes to how we treat one another...we've got work to do." It's all blue skies and sunshine for today's training video shoot in Wisconsin. #thereisonlyus #apeaceofmymind #trainingvideo #wecandobetter

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