Pritchard's Preface

Posted by Evan Pritchard at http://www.peacefile.org/wordpress

June 6th is the first day of my Peaceblog Diary to be posted. In this Peaceblog I will attempt to record some of the more significant events of my life as I work with others for peace and justice here in the US and Canada, and around the world. Peacefile webmaster Greg Moses and I discussed the various types of blogs via email and I suggested this was perhaps the “real” blog, the day to day nitty-gritty work trying to keep people informed and inspired towards peaceful solutions. As Gandhi said, peace must be re-won every day. These recorded here are a few of the highlights of each day, and perhaps a few low lights as well. I have always enjoyed reading other people’s blogs, but have had trouble finding the time to do my own. I like blogs where people write deeply about very small, but moving incidents; blogs that go on for a page or two about the cat coughing up a hair ball, but in a way that makes you really care about their cat. This is not that kind of blog; but maybe some will find it amusing and inspiring as well. It is an ‘action’ blog, of one person working for change in concert with many others.

I have kept some notes from the previous five months of what I nicknamed “my Promethean Year” back in January; the name has turned out to be fitting, as it has been a struggle to keep my light shining amid such chaos and darkness as many are experiencing now. I will attempt to create and post a back file of significant moments earlier in 2004 as well, as time permits.