Ep 183 The Tip of the Peaceberg: Reflections on 2025 and a Prayer for Peace

This year-end episode offers a moment to pause and take stock. Avis reflects on the work of Peace is Here in 2025, the questions that shaped the podcast, and what it has meant to study peace seriously in a world still organized around war. The episode looks back on a year of daily practice through series such as Wolff Peace, The Great Disfarmament and The Great Disarmament, Architects of Enough, and the introduction of The Next Peacelands. It also marks personal and creative milestones, including the release of Mono Mutante, the first Kickstarter campaign, and the arrival of Kitty O’Compost. Looking ahead, Avis shares the direction Peace is Here will take in 2026. The podcast moves into a more intentional curriculum, inviting listeners to become peace scholars through attention, inquiry, and lived moral practice. Peace will be explored through history, philosophy, satire, and fiction, with an emphasis on imagining peace as a practical path rather than a distant ideal. The episode closes with The Tip of the Peaceberg Prayer, a quiet New Year reflection on gratitude, unweaponed life, and the deeper truth of peace beneath the surface of the world as it appears. Tomorrow begins a new thirteen-episode fiction series, The Peace Experiments  Experiment Zero, where a small town reporter, a fact-checking goat, and a group of young people begin asking the questions adults avoid. Thank you for listening, for your presence this year, and for walking into the next one together. Peace and love, Avis Download the Peace Was Here 2025 Podcast Recap book: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com/2025 Get the Winter Holiday Reading list with links to the full stories: www.aviskalfsbeek.com/holiday Get Avis’s books: www.AvisKalfsbeek.com Music: “Una Manana” by Javier “Peke” Rodriguez Bandcamp: https://javierpekerodriguez.bandcamp.com Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3QuyqfXEKzrpUl6b12I3KW Upcoming series: The Peace Experiments – Season Zero starts 1/1/26! (Ep 184)