🙏 Goodbye, Georgia.

 

Hello, South Carolina. We have just crossed the state border from Georgia to South Carolina via the Savannah River Bridge—entering our sixth state on this journey for peace!

 

Georgia, thank you for your incredible warmth, your generous support, and the open hearts we encountered at every stop. From the thousands who welcomed us in communities across your state to the kindness that met us on every road—you carried us through so many miles. We are deeply grateful.

 

South Carolina, we are honored to walk your roads and meet your people. May we share peace, compassion, unity, and healing together. 💛

 

The journey continues—with gratitude for where we’ve been, and respect for where we go.
May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏

 

 

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✍️ Peace on the Silent Road – Sometimes, the road we walk is not lined with crowds or filled with welcoming voices. Sometimes, it is just us, the silence, and the path ahead.

 

Yesterday, we walked on a red clay road—wet from recent rain, muddy beneath our feet, with no one watching, no one waiting to greet us. Just quiet earth and open sky.
But even there, especially there, peace was still shining.

 

Because peace does not depend on applause or recognition. It does not require witnesses or perfect conditions. It does not fade when the road becomes difficult or when we walk alone through the mud.
Peace walks with us in the silent moments just as much as in the celebrated ones. It is there in the steady rhythm of our steps, in the breath we take while navigating slippery ground, in the choice to keep moving forward even when no one is watching.

 

The world may not always see our journey. The path may not always be smooth or clear. But the work of cultivating peace continues—in the quiet, in the challenge, in the simple act of placing one foot in front of the other, again and again.

 

Yesterday’s muddy road told us this: peace is not about where we walk or who sees us walking. It is about what we carry inside, what we nurture within ourselves, what we choose to be regardless of circumstances.
So we keep walking. Through mud and sunshine, through crowds and solitude, through roads that are easy and roads that test us. Because peace is not conditional. It is a choice. And it shines brightest not when everything is perfect, but when we choose to carry it forward anyway.

 

May you and all beings be well, happy, and at peace.

 

 

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✍️ Peace in Gratitude – Happiness is not something we must chase or earn—it begins with a simple practice: recognizing all that sustains us and feeling grateful for it.

 

When we pause to acknowledge those who came before us, who carried wisdom and life forward so we could be here now—we touch gratitude. When we remember the hands that raised us, the voices that taught us, the friends who have walked beside us through both joy and struggle—we touch gratitude.

 

When we look at the world around us—the earth beneath our feet, the sky stretching endlessly above, the trees offering shade and oxygen, the grass growing quietly, the animals sharing this planet with us, even the soil and stones that hold everything together—we begin to see how much we depend on, how much supports our existence without asking for anything in return.

 

Sunlight falling through leaves. A forest breathing in the distance. The simple meal in front of us that required rain, soil, farmers, sunlight, and countless unseen hands to arrive at our table.
Everything is a gift when we learn to see it that way.

 

When we live from this awareness, when we meet each day with eyes that notice what we’ve been given rather than what we lack, something shifts inside us. Contentment replaces complaint. Wonder replaces taking things for granted. Peace settles where restlessness once lived.

 

This is not about ignoring difficulty or pretending everything is perfect. It is about training our hearts to recognize the countless ways we are supported, nourished, held by life itself—even in the midst of challenges.
Gratitude is not just a feeling. It is a way of being in the world. And when we practice it consistently, when we let it shape how we see and experience each moment, we discover that happiness was never somewhere far away. It was always here, waiting for us to notice all that has been lovingly, generously given.

 

May you and all beings be well, happy, and at peace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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