Would I have ever chosen serenity? It wasn't likely. Nothing against it, but it was not in my idea list. It is a word I almost never use. Do you?
But my friend, Robin chose it as her word for 2013 and commissioned a stained glass piece, not a mosaic as we do most words these days.
Today is Earth Day and I was celebrating success stories with my students. Rivers cleaned. Birds returned. And an Iraqi man who returned to a country he had fled many years ago, to find the wetlands he loved drained. When he spoke of being a young boy on his father's boat, he used the word serenity. Then he dreamed.
My mind listened and then roamed. Maybe this is a calling to return to nature paths I love and the flowing water that soothes my soul.
Serenity.
Where would you go to find it?
This is where Azzam Alwash's dream led...
