Live Your Peace

08/05/2024

3 hour tubing down the Delaware plus an hour campfire hotdog, s'mores break floating down the Delaware from Point Pleasant to Bull's Island. Distance... 2 miles!

03/19/2024

We made friends in the Delhi airport going through customs, another executive coach and yoga enthusiast. Security kept asking if we were family or traveling together. We politely said no. You can meet kindred spirits anywhere. (I can anyway.) My mom Catherine Werth seems to make friends in interesting places. My parents met at the checkout line at a Woolworths in Dallas Texas, so it might be hereditary. And now for 19 hours on a plane. See ya in the other side. :-)

03/18/2024

Today is a special day for our United Nations Task Force and our new connections at our very own 68th CSW parallel event... First of many I'm sure. Our talk is open to the public today at 4:30-6pm, 11th Floor of the Church Center For The United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, NY 10017. It's sure to be quite inspiring as we share our curriculum and break out into smaller discussion groups how we facilitate the leadership of men and women in a growing number of partnership universities around the world.

03/17/2024

St. Patty's Day in an Irish Pub in Katmandu, Nepal meeting a Aussie, Floridian and an Irish man. It was after a nice walk through a botanical garden.

03/07/2024

Thursday March 7, 2024
10:04 pm EST
8:34 am Indian time

Traveling to 20+ countries has taught me so much about myself.

Connection, adventurous spirit, new daily experiences, going with the flow, describing what I do, who I am, what I love…

I'm fortunate to have an amazing travel companion, my husband Jason.

I discovered Jason is similar in many ways to my paternal grandfather, Neil Dilley who worked as a chemical engineer at Kodak for 40 years.

I grew up seeing slides of my grandparents trips all around the world. They started traveling when my grandmother was in her 50s. I think he was nine years older.

I went to my first foreign land, Jamaica at age 4 and still remember wondering why my ackee fruit (egg tasting) sandwich was so salty. I had just played in the ocean.

We did a lot of car and plane rides visiting my dad's parents who moved from Rochester NY to Albuquerque, New Mexico when I was in preschool. My Mom's dad lived in Texas the whole time.

Then I went to Quebec in 8th grade and Indonesia with my grandmother I called Tutu right after high school.
Fast forward to when I was 30 and Jason and I were on our honeymoon in Italy. Our engagement and wedding timing was inspired by neighbors going to Italy at that time with 10 family members.

We saw their tour itinerary and before I knew it Jason was planning our own stops in different cities going south instead of north through the Almfie Coast; Rome, Napes, Serento, Pompeii, Island Of Capri, Pisa, Florentine and back to Rome.

With the exception of a couple travel website Jason designed for tours in the mountains of Copper Canyon Mexico and then Baja California, Sea Of Cortez marine life research boat, Jason planned the bulk of our trips. Both Mexico were awe inspiring meeting locals in the mountains and by the sea.

And we did go to a couple group trips in Puerto Rico with our local friends the week we moved into our townhouse snowy January 2006 and the beginning of COVID 2020 to St Thomas and St John.

We've dobe a lot of Couch Surfing and later AirBNB over the years, while bringing the world to our two bedroom townhouse, hosting over 100 guests between 2006-2020.

2017 was epic travel with five countries in five weeks; visiting our adopted family in Kolkata India that we're visiting a 4th time this week. Then Thailand, Cambia, Tawaiin and more family and friends in Massawa, Ina Kyoto and Tokyo Japan in February-March 2018.

Later in October-December 2018 I was the lingest away from my husband for five weeks teaching leadership in China.

He joined me after I finished my life changing adventure at SIAS University facilitating WORLD ACADEMY FOR THE FUTURE OF WOMEN (This same group is doing a talk at the United Nations on March 10th while we're still in India.)

The Jason and I met in Beijing, saw the Olympic cityy, the Great Wall Of China and flew again to see the Terracotta Warriors.

I think I'll travel as long as I can with this amazing life, travel partner.

I love experiencing different cultures, people food, sights, smells, hearing foreign languages, smiling, laughing at universal connections.

Here's to my trips to: (Jamaica), (Canada), (Indonesia), (Italy), (Puerto Rico), (Ireland, Wales, England), (Spain, France, Portugal) (Mexico) (Mexico) (India, Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates), (India, Thailand, Cambodia, Taiwan, Japan), (China), (India, Greece), (St. John), (India) 20+

I feel I'm missing a couple countries!

When I get the chance to leave my home town, region or even country to meet people who live differently than me I feel so blessed!

In my life partner script a couple years before meeting Jason on April 1, 2004 I wrote “ #35 He travels with me to distant lands or afternoon excursions with such contagious delight.”

Where's your next adventure?

12/31/2023

Thank you Karen Simpson for a powerful 1.5 hour IET group zoom meditation to bring in 2023!

11/13/2023

It felt good to get some compliments multiple times this weekend about my skin. A couple months ago I started washing my face with warm water after applying baking soda to my face and neck. Then I spread aloe on on the same cleaned areas. A couple minutes later I add coconut oil over the dried aloe right before bed.

To kick nasal drip, I add a couple drops of Oil Of Oregano under my tongue and leave it there as long as I can stand it because it burns. Then I swallow.

I also made myself a cup of tonic that includes a 1/2 inch of ginger chunk, the whole lemon and whole orange and some apple. I added tumeric, pepper, honey, pumpkin spice. I poured it out of my Magic Bullet through a strainer into a cup.

After drinking it all I rinsed my mouth out with baking soda to remove the lemon acid from my teeth.

10/22/2023

I got some nice press this week. Thanks

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08/02/2023

Regrets And Brilliance

Einstein and Oppenheimer, 1930s.

“Though I knew Einstein for two or three decades, it was only in the last decade of his life that we were close colleagues and something of friends. But I thought that it might be useful, because I am sure that it is not too soon—and for our generation perhaps almost too late—to start to dispel the clouds of myth and to see the great mountain peak that these clouds hide. As always, the myth has its charms; but the truth is far more beautiful.

Late in his life, in connection with his despair over weapons and wars, Einstein said that if he had to live it over again he would be a plumber. This was a balance of seriousness and jest that no one should now attempt to disturb. Believe me, he had no idea of what it was to be a plumber; least of all in the United States, where we have a joke that the typical behavior of this specialist is that he never brings his tools to the scene of the crisis. Einstein brought his tools to his crises; Einstein was a physicist, a natural philosopher, the greatest of our time.

Einstein is often blamed or praised or credited with these miserable bombs. It is not in my opinion true. The special theory of relativity might not have been beautiful without Einstein; but it would have been a tool for physicists, and by 1932 the experimental evidence for the inter-convertibility of matter and energy which he had predicted was overwhelming. The feasibility of doing anything with this in such a massive way was not clear until seven years later, and then almost by accident. This was not what Einstein really was after. His part was that of creating an intellectual revolution, and discovering more than any scientist of our time how profound were the errors made by men before then. He did write a letter to Roosevelt about atomic energy. I think this was in part his agony at the evil of the N***s, in part not wanting to harm any one in any way; but I ought to report that that letter had very little effect, and that Einstein himself is really not answerable for all that came later. I believe he so understood it himself.”

-Robert Oppenheimer, 1965

07/01/2023

“Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said.

We are at our best when we serve others.”
Credit: Byock

02/19/2023

Interesting voting history. I didn't start learning about this until I watched the film, "Hilary's America". It certainly wasn't something I remember from history class.