Author: Valery Gismondi

Valery Gismondi is a part of Peace Revolution project since 2015 when she joined Global Peace on the Move Fellowship in Thailand. Since then she has been a part of Latam Peace Summit México 2016 as a participant and a volunteer at the Meditation Retreat for ultimate happiness in Thailand 2018. She keeps practising meditation and mindfulness, learning and growing in the process and hopes to be able to share the lessons she finds on the way through the Peace Blog and her writings. Contact Valery: valery.ucb@gmail.com

What does it mean to be present?

When you look back in time at all the things you have left behind, it’s funny how the ¨last day¨ soon becomes ¨that day¨ and it doesn’t belong to you anymore. Like the version of yourself who lived it, is dead now. In one of his stories, Jorge Luis Borges negates the time; it reasons […]

To Build A Home Within, Chronicles of Four Farangs in Thailand

The International Volunteer Summer Program of Peace Revolution brought together four people from all over the world – Cambodia, Colombia, Sudan, and Bolivia – to live and work at PIPO House, the headquarters of World Peace Initiative Foundation, for three months. These are the chronicles of four farangs (Thai word to refer to foreigners) in […]