Well, I couldn't hold out any longer. They've got me. I guess I could only read so many blogs of my friends and family before it was high time that I started one of my own--but for real this time. Technically this is my second attempt at a blog. The first was for my Nonviolence: Theory and Practice class in my last semester at Juniata College in the Spring of 2007. I know judging by this blog title, you may think you have entered the wrong blog, but I assure you, this is one is the real deal. I am keeping my other blog as a reference in case anyone who might read this would care to discuss the efficacy of nonviolence.

So, about the title. Surprisingly, it didn't take me all that long to come up with a fitting title for this new blog (surprising indeed, because all of you who know me, know just how bad of a decision-maker I am). All you movie buffs, especially of the 1990s 2-star Disney movie variety, immediately recognized the reference to Cool Runnings. I found this to be an appropriate title of my blog for two reasons: 1) I am a big fan of the movie and loved the Jamaican bobsled team under the tutelage of their sled-god, immortalized by John Candy and 2) These four words speak deeply to many aspects of my life...

So according to my high school basketball coach and I'm sure some other famous person, "life is a journey, not a destination". Lately, I've been entertaining this notion that life truly is a journey. So if life is a journey, and "Peace be the Journey", ergo peace be the life... or perhaps, peace be life... life of peace... peaceful living... am I close!? I guess it really all comes down to semantics at this point. It doesn't matter how you say it. The two cannot be separated. It is my hope that we will all start to live how we truly ought to live... peacefully.

A lot of things have influenced my feelings about this way of living. However, right now I would like to pay homage to one person who has very greatly had an impact on the way I, as well as countless others view the world--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I am dedicating this entry to the the great pioneer of Civil Rights through nonviolence in the United States, during the tumultuous years of the 1950s and 1960s. When I hear the words "peace be the journey", after my thoughts go immediately to Cool Runnings with Derice and Sanka, they arrive at Martin Luther King. For MLK, truly embodied the concept, "peace be the journey".