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Penina Bowman

June 2, 2018 by johnnoltner

Penina Bowman was 17 years old when soldiers showed up at her home in Hungary and told her family they had 20 minutes to pack their bags. They were told they were being sent away to work, but the train brought them to Auschwitz. Penina lost her parents and 42 other relatives to the Holocaust, but she and her three siblings survived. She credits her sisters and her faith for her survival. “Having something to believe in helped us survive. […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: atlanta, Auschwitz, belief, family, forgiveness, georgia, hate, Holocaust, relationship, strength, survival

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Heather Ehle

August 3, 2017 by johnnoltner

Heather Ehle is executive director of Project Sanctuary, a program designed to help military families heal. With no military background herself, Heather saw families struggling to readjust to civilian life after deployments. She now coordinates retreats, centered in Colorado, to reconnect families and give them support to thrive. Heather describes herself as politically agnostic, which she defines as “having been to Washington one too many times.” “I believe that everybody innately knows what they need in order to be happy and […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: Colorado, counselor, family, granby, heal, hope, listening, veteran

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Time to shed a layer

March 5, 2017 by johnnoltner

In the summer of 2008 our family backpacked on an island off the coast of Maine. A small boat dropped us off, motored away, and retrieved us three days later. Our kids, Brenna and Jordan, were 10 and 13. We spent our days picking wild blueberries and wandering the rocky shoreline, imagining we were castaways, with really nice gear from REI. We watched the waves roll in and searched tide pools for signs of life. We weren’t quite alone. There […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: backpack, crab, family, growth, island, maine, marine biology, molting, peace, shed, wilderness

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Bud Welch

January 15, 2017 by johnnoltner

Bud Welch lost his only child, Julie Marie, in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. She had worked as a translator in the Alfred P. Murrah building for just five months when Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols blew it up in what remains our nation’s largest domestic terror attack. When Bud saw a news clip of McVeigh’s father, he saw a man who was as lost and broken as he was. Eventually he reached out to Bill McVeigh. The two men […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: death penalty, family, forgiveness, justice, oklahoma, oklahoma city, restoration, victim

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I see you

October 14, 2016 by johnnoltner

It is a simple but powerful statement. It acknowledges somebody’s existence…their worth. I see you. How much conflict, social strife, or personal dysfunction is a result of people feeling like they are not seen…not heard? Last week I worked with 5th graders. We started the day with a general assembly to introduce A Peace of My Mind. The exhibit was installed and as the day went on, I walked each classroom through the display to explore the stories and answer […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: adoption, family, lgbtq, peace, stories, youth

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Glad to be a part of @shepherdofthelake and their Advent series on Peace. Today we set up a studio to ask members “How does God want us as a community to work toward peace for our neighbors?” #god #community #faith #peace #advent #apeaceofmymind
Working on a 2020 desk calendar with some thoughtful quotes to move us through the next year... #hope #encouragement #bettertogether #apeaceofmymind #2020
A few of the responses from this week’s studio in Savannah with Extension professionals. “When have you been an agent for change?” How about you? When have you made a difference? #agentforchange #extensionprofessional #savannahgeorgia #change #naepsdp2019 #apeaceofmymind #storytelling #storytellingphotography #whatsyourstory
#Repost @prickert with @get_repost ・・・ Photographer John Noltner from A Peace of My Mind was at the conference with us in Savannah and he asked us about being agents of change and took our photos... Here was mine.

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