http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog Follow us on Our Journey To smile Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:00:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please read the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers tell their ‘love-story’ amidst a UN article of Japanese cranes, Afghan cycling and the return of Afghan music. http://www.un.org/en/events/peaceday/2010/asia.shtml   “Fighting cannot bring peace is the message we want to send to our Afghan country men and women, and to the world. As we say ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/08/afghan-youth-peace-volunteers-tell-their-%e2%80%98love-story%e2%80%99-to-the-united-nations/ Dear friends, We, the nobodies of Afghanistan, ask this with love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB9er3w_oto This is the love which our mothers have taught us. So please, don’t belittle this love with the haughty confusion of ‘Muslim’ or ‘Christian’ anger and hate. We plead with trembling because people are dying, dying in ways which rob us ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/08/afghan-youth-to-the-world%e2%80%99s-elite-%e2%80%9cplease-behave-like-adult-human-beings%e2%80%9d-2/ If we have to distance ourselves from our country or profession or loved ones to remain faithful to Man, we need to do so with urgency.   Because we can’t purchase the permanence of love with temporariness, the temporariness of manufactured patriotism and moth-prone wealth. Life isn’t sustained by these.   Have you heard ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/08/wikileaks-assange-manning-stand-freely-for-love-we-in-afghanistan-will-stand-with-you/ Please join us in our Afghan and American ‘Why not love?’ Vigil. We may hinder peace but we cannot hinder love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeFDev5M-ZQ   We are keeping vigil at Bamiyan Peace Park for this week through to Thursday and this is our 2nd day.   We wish to ask the world, “ Why not love?’   Details of ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/08/%e2%80%98why-not-love%e2%80%99-afghan-and-american-vigil/ The 92210 pieces of Abdulai's heart Dear friend ( including those who would remotely consider me an ‘enemy’ ),   The 92, 210 Wikileak Afghan War Logs were recorded between my 9th and 14th year of life among fellow Afghans.   I have disappointed myself and have been disappointed by Mankind more intensely than numbers ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/07/92210-pieces-of-my-broken-afghan-heart/ We thank our friends from America and Palestine who join us in this Bamiyan Buddha Peace Light-up video, while we live in the midst of the 92000 Afghan war Wikileaks representing just the tip of our inhumane fire-berg.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPkzRgT05P8   The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers ask that you would join them for a ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/07/bamiyan-buddha-peace-light-up-amidst-92210-orwellian-afghan-war-wikiblips/ Text of message from Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers to the Kabul Conference and the world   We thank the international participants at the Kabul Conference for working with the people of Afghanistan.   Tonight, we have lit up the small Bamiyan Buddha with ‘Peace’.   We hope that all our work strategies will change to bring ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/07/for-the-kabul-conference-we-lit-up-the-bamiyan-buddhas-with-peace-and-asked-to-leave-our-fearful-nights/ Dear peacemakers everywhere, when you get tired & discouraged, take another look at Afghans and the beauty of their home. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2EwRQWHQVU home of Afghans And ask, “Why not love?”   Thank you for asking “Why not love?” Afghan smile   http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/07/peacemakers-everywhere-be-encouraged-by-afghan-beauty/ Please know that love is how ordinary Afghans want dignified, independant relationships http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llR-TmeD-Tw   Text of video   What are you doing? We are making cell phone pouches for other youth in Kandahar.   Why are you making these for them? As gifts.   What’s your purpose in this? Peace. Our purpose is peace.   What is the principle of your work? Love.   Is love possible ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/07/4th-of-july-afghan-message-to-general-petraeus-about-kandahar-relationships/ Vandals 'dripped' blood-red paint over our work…we mustn't be paralyzed to keep asking : ‘Why not love?’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8l26PMcdz0 Text of video We were advised : "Afghans don’t use the word love." We still wrote "Why not love?" at Bamiyan Peace Park Later, vandals 'dripped' blood-red paint over our work… We mustn't ... http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/2010/06/rewriting-afghanistan%e2%80%99s-narrative-%e2%80%98why-not-love%e2%80%99/