What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love & Understanding?

Party © Michael Dal Cerro 2006 (Note: link is slow to load but well worth it).


An Elvis Costello song was running through my mind the other day as I wondered how the idea of peace, love, and understanding became such a joke in America. What a bizarre twist to think of these admirable goals as signs of weakness but isn't that just about where we are today?

As i walk through
This wicked world
Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity.

I ask myself
Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain and hatred, and misery?

And each time i feel like this inside,
There's one thing i wanna know:
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

And as i walked on
Through troubled times
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes
So where are the strong
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.

'cause each time i feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

So where are the strong?
And who are the trusted?
And where is the harmony?
Sweet harmony.

'cause each time i feel it slippin' away, just makes me wanna cry.
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding? ohhhh
What's so funny 'bout peace love & understanding?

We Live In a Divided Country © Deborah Harris 2006

Upon "losing" the Presidential election to George W. Bush, Senator John Kerry said this,

Earlier today, I spoke to President Bush, and I offered him and Laura our congratulations on their victory. We had a good conversation and we talked about the danger of division in our country and the need - the desperate need - for unity, for finding the common ground, coming together. Today, I hope that we can begin the healing.

We are required now to work together for the good of our country. In the days ahead, we must find common cause. We must join in common effort without remorse or recrimination, without anger or rancor. America is in need of unity and longing for a measure of compassion." - John Kerry, address to supporters at Fanueil Hall, Boston, MA, November 3, 2004

We're Bridging That Gap © Patricia Dahlman 2006 (Note: link is slow to load but well worth it).

Due to the political agenda of recent years Deborah Harris, Michael Dal Cerro, and Patricia Dahlman came together to form The War and Peace Print Project. "We Live In a Divided Country, Try to Bridge That Gap" is a hand made, limited edition (30) book, printed by the artists and bound with a hard back cover. The book is $300. For more information please contact Patricia Dahlman: watpaetki AT aol DOT com.




















Mixed Marriage © Michael Dal Cerro 2006 (Note: link is slow to load but well worth it).

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