Live Peace and Passion

In the United States, an estimated 1 million people are living with HIV; of these, approximately 25 percent are unaware of their HIV infection and are at increased risk for infecting others. This December 1st, 2008, many bloggers, including myself are helping to spread awareness of AIDS and promote HIV/AIDS testing with Wold Aids Day. Lets talk about HIV prevention with family, friends, and coworkers and provide support to people living with HIV/AIDS. Our goal is to help increase awareness about the importance of HIV testing to help improve the health of those most at risk for HIV and to prevent future infections.

Before I get started in the wonderful traditions of this Thanksgiving Holiday, I wanted to take a moment to wish all my friends and peaceful visitors a beautiful, peaceful, day. I hope Thanksgiving finds you celebrating, smiling, laughing and enjoying what matters most to you..

Happy Thanksgiving!
Karlyn

Peace, in the modern usage, is a concept defined by the ideal state of relationship as absence of hostility, at the international level, that of a war.

Derived from the Anglo-Norman pas c.1140, and meaning “freedom from civil disorder”, it came into use in various personal greetings from c.1300 as a Biblical translation of the Latin pax and Greek eirene, which were used by translators to render Hebrew shalom, which has multiple meanings of “safety, welfare, prosperity”. The personalized meaning is reflected in a non-violent lifestyle which also describes a relationship between any people characterized by respect, justice, and goodwill. This latter understanding of peace can also pertain to an individual’s sense of himself or herself, as to be “at peace” with one’s own mind attested in Europe from c.1200. This approach to life with a sense of “quiet” attested in Europe by 1300, reflects a calm, serene, and meditative approach to the family or group relationships that avoids any quarrels, and seeks tranquility — an absence of disturbance or agitation. On the whole peace represents contentment.

In many ways these core meanings of peace define origins of conflict as insecurity, social injustice, economic inequality.

“Peace” is an ideal state that is used to describe the end of a conflict.