Today on Chicago's North Shore Beach, Rogers Park

We're on the small pier right now, performing sun salutations, prostrations, and bows. Meditating. Offering prayers. Making peace flags. Building an altar of flowers notes, incense, candles.

And striking a gong for each day of the War in Iraq -- 1,579 days total.

We are here till sunset.

Please join us afterward for a celebration at the Heartland Cafe (Glenwood and Lunt) for Emergency USA, a humanitarian, neutral, non-profit organization that provides high-quality treatment, surgery, and rehabilitation to civilians in war and post-war areas around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Emergency also trains medical and non-medical personnel in these areas.