🙏 The Walk for Peace Flag Carrying the Message of Peace Across Every Distant Path Returning to the beloved temple, the practitioners now find moments of rest after months of silent steps along countless miles — seemingly walking against the current of worldly life, yet in harmony with the ever-changing flow of impermanence. The Walk for Peace flag, gently carried on the practitioners’ back throughout the journey, bearing the symbol and message of peace, quietly spreading across villages and cit

How did the rainbow flag become a symbol of pride and community? The design was first unfurled on June 25, 1978 at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade. Led by the flag’s designer Gilbert Baker, thirty volunteers gathered at the Gay Community Center in San Francisco to hand-dye and stitch rainbow flags for the parade. Baker admired the universality of the rainbow, which he called a “natural flag in the sky.” “I knew how to sew—as I said, it came from being the drag queen that cou