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Fulbright Alumni Association creates link to
RGHF Peace Journey (creator Joe Kagle is a member of the
alumni.)
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website) to an essay by American Fulbright
alumnus Joe Kagle titled "Peace Journey." Joe Kagle
is a Fine Arts Professor at Kingwood College and a
Rotary Global History Peace Historian.
Joe Kagle created "Peace Journey," taking a beloved
Ming Dynasty hand scroll which Joe has owed for 33
years and using it as a vehicle to discuss peace,
fellowship, and freedom. This thought provoking
essay is an example of "freedom in literature,"
taking an art history subject (work of art) and
using it for peace, understanding, and freedom.
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Bernard Rapoport, innovative
businessman from Texas and the subject of the book,
Capitalist With A Conscience, creator of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation and friend of presidents,
statesmen and world leaders.
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“Today more than ever it seems
folly to talk about peace, but undisputedly we
cannot survive without it. For over fifteen years
Joe Kagle and I have been friends, meeting once a
month to discuss the world and strategies to find
peace in self, different cultures and this
struggling globe. This Peace Journey is an important
start to finding peace on those three levels. We
can’t give up and Kagle’s work gives us a glimmer of
reasons why we can be more positive about our
future. I strongly recommend reading, studying and
contributing your ideas to this effort. The Peace
Journey is just a beginning to a longer and more
ambitious journey toward peace.”
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Rev. Ryofu Pussel, a
licensed monk/priest, Soto-Zen-Buddhism, of the Urasenke
School of the Way of Tea, Kyoto, Japan. Leading member
of Rotary eClub of the Southwest, USA.
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“I am reflecting very much
these days about how chado, the Japanese Way of Tea,
can actually play its part in promoting and
supporting harmony, understanding and world peace.
…an understanding and practice of the Way of Tea
leads to harmony and oneness of people and nature,
which could work as an antidote to us being
alienated from ourselves and from nature and to
moral degeneration resulting in the destruction of
our nonrenewable, natural resources and indeed of
our whole world; this could also result in us living
peacefully in this world without harming it and
ourselves, thus supporting the development of
harmonyxe "harmony" and world peacexe "world
peace".” “I strongly recommend the Peace Journey in
its efforts to explore, find and give an avenue for
discussion in the search for peace.”
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Dr. Maka Dvalishvili, PhD
in art history, major figure in arts management and
supporter of emerging contemporary arts in the Caucasus,
restoration of Republic of Georgian national treasures,
creator and present Director of the Georgian Arts and
Cultural Center.
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"I have lived through a
peaceful change of Government in Georgia, our Rose
Revolution, and as Director of the Georgian Arts and
Culture Center, I know the power of Art and
Creativity to begin the process of changes in an
ancient nation like ours. The one thing that all
Georgians want is peace and prosperity (these two
seem to go together). I am a fan of Joe Kagle's
writing and strongly support this Peace Journey.
Peace and Love are the influences that come from Joe
Kagle's personality and his Peace Journey".
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Robert Wilson, dramatist,
director (theater and opera), visual artist, architect,
curator, designer and a leading creative genius over
many continents in the late 20th and 21st century.
- Ketevan Kintsurashvili, leading art
historian, professor and lecturer in the Caucasus,
Georgian State University of Theatre and Film, Tbilisi,
whose book: "David Kakabadze, A 20th Century Classic,"
St. Petersburg, 2002 (now only in Russian, will be
coming out soon in English).
- "I come upon this project as a friend and art
historian, as well as a peace fighter. What Peace
gives to the human being is freedom and freedom
means responsibility for the world. What the world
gives to the individual returns back to the
whole world. Artistic creation is never possible
without inner peace for the artist and cultural
peace for his or her nation. Peace is like a rare,
successful painting; it moves you to change but it
gives no answers to what causes that change. I
enjoyed my voyage through the Peace Journey and
recommend it to any serious mind in the 21st
century."
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Dr. Ken Brashier,
professor, international lecturer and speaker, from Reed
College in Oregon, USA, who, with his students, has
created a website on Buddhist Hell
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“I’ve been looking
at your hand scroll on line, and there’s so much I could
say about it, but I’ve probably bored you to death
already with my ideas about peace. Buddhist Hell is
easier to understand compared to finding a path to
Peace.”
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Robert Greenwood,
Artistic and Managing Director,
Sun.Ergos, A Company of Theatre and Dance, Alberta,
Canada
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The
emphasis Joe Kagle ( who has produced our work in Waco,
Texas ) places on humanity and art through his Peace
Journey by using a magnificent Ming Dynasty hand scroll
to take himself and his friends in search of the
tranquility, calm, dignity and the prosperity and
generosity of stillness is highly to be recommended to
peoples everywhere - and there is no more important time
than now in the midst of the chaos of current egos and
politics to take such a journey.”
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Sarah Carson,
photographer and world traveler with her husband and
friends. She has shown her photographs in many
international and American art galleries. I was
introduced to her when I directed an art museum in Waco,
Texas by another photographer that I respected his work
and his judgment. A one person exhibition followed of
his work that showed the simple detail and majesty of
travel in one foreign country. In her copy of the newest
book about her visions on her travels, Montestigliano: A
Tuscan Farm, she wrote: "I have always appreciated
your encouragement and ideas. Ciao, Ciao.” It is
important that the photographer find the details that is
the essence of a life experience which can be shared
through images to the world. One carries peace in your
heart when seeing is your profession.
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"The
project is huge. I am in awe of its magnitude, and
realize that it truly has a chance to reach people all
over the world. I just hope that it can reach some who
are not already thinking in the peace mode. As I travel,
I shall surely think of the Peace Journey, and I hope
that I can in some way further its purpose."
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