Artist notes: Hope remains as difficult and destabilizing as this time may seem. In a collage of approaches and ideas invoked with a homage to Matisse, Picasso and Van Gogh, this is my painting prayer for peace.

If you are a praying person, today is a day to pray for peace. If you are a thoughtful person, today is a day to fill your mind with successful examples of peaceful resolutions. If you are a meditative person, today is the day to sit on your cushion and breathe in calm and breathe out fear. If you are a person who must go to war or work or for a walk, today is a day to notice each step and what it stands for. May today, as everyday, we find our inner strength and fill it with love, especially for those with whom we fear and disagree. May we negotiate this day as if it were to be our last because, for some, it will be, for others, it might be, and for all of us, it will someday be.