A POETICS OF PEACE

And so, in putting together a CV, which I’ve not done before, for a class that is in development based on the Youand approach, for a school that must remain nameless at the moment, I came across the text version of an article that my friend David Barton inspired and I wrote, that was published in the Salt Journal, in 1997. (Please scroll down. The first page is coverage of an award won and a quote from one of the City @ Peace participants.)

In reading this article over today, ten years after, I see how it expresses, faithfully, the ethos of a Youand approach.

Though it’s about work with teenagers, it is really about work that can be done by most people with each other, if instead of imposing our will on others we stay open to their humanity and begin by simply listening deeply to where they are coming from, and honoring them in some way. Even if, to respectfully disagree and present one’s own point of view. - Your point of view, and mine.

Here it is: A Poetics of Peace (Yes. I did miss putting an accent over the "e" in my name.)

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"The final frontier may be human relationships, one person to another." -- Buzz Aldrin, Astronaut