Willie Nelson

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Amy Nelson sent us this video she made of her Dad, Willie Nelson, singing “A Peaceful Solution.”

One thing I noticed about the video was the view of the audience listening to Willie. Thousands of people hear Willie sing “A Peaceful Solution” at the end of his shows.

Have you been in one of those audiences?

Have you felt the energy behind the message?

Doesn’t it feel great?

Liz and I were discussing the power of the individual to effect meaningful change with Willie when he stood up and gestured around him in a circle.

“What can each of us do but extend peace into the small area that we can personally influence?” Willie asked.

We will find this power becoming more important every day. As the sick social structures weaken and fall away each of us will find more opportunities to stand up and influence others in our immediate circle.

News on global food supplies, resource depletion, energy stocks, fuel stocks, increased population and global resource demands spiraling out of sight provides all the indicators required to let us know profound changes have become inevitable.

Where are you going to turn?

Hope you are not depending upon the same people who did not make it to the aid of New Orleans after Katrina.

You will find your best alliances to be with family, friends and neighbors. The term popping up to describe this phenomenon is called Relocalization.

Relocalization speaks of renewed grass-roots efforts to reestablish local sufficiency in a renewable and socially responsible manner. You can hear these groups talk about the Post-Carbon era with thoughtful consideration.

Another group you may hear about is APPLE - Alliance for a Post Petroleum Local Economy.

Local family farms will become the energy and food centers for human culture as they had been for thousands of years before the commercial industrialization of the agribusiness conglomerates.

Shipping in things that can be grown locally will become economically unpractical. If you have noticed the rising prices in the grocery stores then you realize the truth in this.

Global climate change is real.

The Arctic will be ice free in just a few more years. This will trigger gigantic and massive crop failures all over the world, low land flooding, sea level rises and a huge number of global refugees. Increased hurricane severity, drought and flooding is already happening.

All of these issues and more become exaggerated in the context of conflict, violence and war.

We need peace to solve our common problems.

More and more you will find yourself turning to those around you, perhaps at a Willie Nelson concert, and see those around you with new eyes. The people standing around you are your only security not corrupt bureaucracies.

To get along with people we will all need to learn and practice peace in all aspects of life.

We must live in peace with the Earth and the plants and animals no less than with our fellow human beings.

Be ready for the change. Be the change. Bring peace.

* * * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *

To my extended family at WNPRI,

I had never dreamed that over 160 artists would record their own versions and videos of ‘A Peaceful Solution‘ within a year’s time. How could we have imagined such a powerful response?

I can’t speak for Dad. He might have planned it all along. ; ) What a beautiful story that we get to watch unfold, day by day. It’s a reminder of how unimaginably great things are possible with every seed of hope, and every dream is filled with infinite possibility.

Thanks to everyone who has participated. Thanks to Jay and Liz for their vision that has created this wonderful online atmosphere, and continually putting your best energy into WNPRI. It shows.

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