If the earth . . . by Peter Read age: 47 country: United Kingdom If the Earth were only a few inches in diameter, float- ing a few feet above a field somewhere, people would come from everywhere to marvel at it. People would walk around it, marveling at its big pools of water, its little pools, and the water flowing between the pools. People would marvel at the bumps on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas. The people would marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball and at the creatures in the water. The people would declare it as sacred be- cause it was the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the great- est wonder known, and people would come to pray to it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty, and to wonder how it could be. People would love it, and defend it with their lives because they would somehow know that their lives, their own roundness, would be nothing without it. If the Earth were only a few inches in diameter. Author unknown – adaptation. This was one of the pieces in an exhibit called the Peace Prayers Project 2003, which was installed at the Goldenstein Gallery in Sedona, AZ. It was a display of six life-sized figures with the masked faces and hands of their maker’s, which represented our visions for peace.