SEW Peace
Last week I quickly wrote my blog and posted it. My friend Joanne read it and said, "I think you misspelled a word in the title." which I had indeed. The corrected word was sow, as in planting, which is also the spelling for the word for a female pig: spelling in English is weird. I am not a good speller, never have been. I had written sew, which is a word, and is spelled correctly, but not the correct word for that particular sentence. It felt right, but also wrong, and Joanne was wonderfully helpful, and kept me from looking foolish. I started thinking though, for that piece sow was right, but sew could also be a meaningful idea coupled with peace. While it is nice to think of peace as a freestanding concept, it seems that it is more often applied as a solution for a dispute, a difference of thought and action which has caused strife; a division. Sewing together the sides of a wound promotes quicker, cleaner healing, with minimal scarri...