“Invest in Peace – For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.” Isn’t this a wonderful theme to live by?!
I hope this blog can be about many adventures beyond Hope for the Flowers, since Hope is covered so fully on other pages of this website.
In 2020, NJ Peace Action honored Trina Paulus with a Peacemaker Profile in their annual journal — a recognition of her lifelong dedication to hope, transformation, and nonviolent change. Written by Mary Gallagher, the profile explores how Trina’s beloved classic Hope for the Flowers became far more than a children’s book. It became a quiet…
Each year in August around my birthday we gather at Crane Park in Montclair for the Northeast Earth Coalition annual Monarch Butterfly Celebration. Talia Wiener from the Montclair Local News really captured the essence of the event right around the time of COVID as you can see by the masks.
The story behind the moment Caterpillars first appeared. In August 1969, I signed a contract with the publisher Paulist Press for my 1965 book “Theology of Hope”. For seven months I was was updating that book after the personal and life-changing revolutionary years between versions. After writing the first book at 35, I finished my…
