These days you look at the calendar and you can find a “day” for the celebration of just about anything. Even the important non-traditional holidays are hard to keep track of sometimes. Just when is Earth Day anyway?
Today, and every September 21st since 1981, happens to be one of the most important days of observance that few little people know about — the International Day for Peace or World Peace Day. It is in essence a world prayer or wish for world peace, more specifically the absence of war.
International Day for Peace, 9/21/2010
It is also a day that I wouldn’t have known anything about if it weren’t for my four year old daughter’s preschool Montessori class.
Maybe if I paid just a little more attention to the hints Ryan would lay down over the past week — learning a song about peace or decorating a peace flag — and woven the common threads into a tapestry of understanding, I might have been more aware. Then again, I challenge any of you to better success getting the days highlights from school out of Ryan.
Ryan singing "Sing Peace Around the World", 9/21/2010
Today at 11 am est, Montessori schools across the country, and the world at large, joined together to literally sing peace around the world as they stopped to observe the International Day of Peace with the following song — Sing Peace Around the Wold.
Light a candle for peace,
Light a candle for love,
Light a candle that shines,
All the way around the world.Light a candle for me,
Light a candle for you,
That our wish for world peace,
Will one day come trueSing Peace Around the World
Sing Peace Around the World
Sing Peace Around the World
Sing Peace Around the World
It’s wonderful to see kids at such young ages being taught such global and universal concepts like peace in a tangible way. Not only does it help them interpret the meaning of peace, but gives them the belief that peace is an achievable state of being and something to be celebrated. How powerful to remember that a concept like world peace — met more with cynism or as the punchline to a joke by adults — can be championed in the next generation by the children growing right before our very eyes.
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