My Peace Project

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I am so PROUD to be apart of Word Addicts. To be included in their new Anthology "Miscellany" is a HUGE honor. The short story I contributed, "The Jewel of the Desert," is loosely based on my Great-Grandmother Lilac being a mother during World War 2 in Delta, UT. Lilac would take her children, including my 5 year old grandfather, out to the Japanese Internment camp Topaz to interact with and visit the Japanese Americans detained there. She had a gigantic heart and wouldn't let social norms or judgements keep her from doing what was right, or doing what she loved. Some thought she was the town crazy lady, which makes me love her even more. I am proud to be her great-granddaughter and hope that I can someday live up to her legacy in some tiny way.

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I began My Peace Project a couple years ago. Not knowing what exactly I was starting, I dove in anyway. Now, I finally have a name for the growth I have been racing toward. My Peace Project is simply the journey I am on to find more peace in my chaotic world. I finally realized that the "happiness" I had been chasing and studying and experimenting with is simply an emotion and emotions come and go with the ebb and flow of life. I would be CHASING, without success, this happiness my entire life, and I was exhausted. After cyclic melt-downs and years of high functioning depression I decided to give in and let go of "happiness." At that moment, a beautiful thought occurred to me.. What if. What if there is more than happiness, something more permanent. Something that can sit with me and my depression and be present in my best and most beautiful moments? A state of being instead of a fleeting emotion...What if I could be at peace? Join me on my path as I stumble, fall, fail forward, and attempt to figure it all out!