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A fairy tale for World Peace Day (September 21, 2024) The nations argue. Fight. Threaten. Shoot. Flee. Murder. I stand still. I look where my horror grows and my fear wants to fill my heart. And then I begin to tell stories, of paradise gardens that protect the peaceful, of lions and poodles who love each other, of brothers who stand by each other in times of need and of women who forbid their husbands from war. Will that protect us from war? No. But it will protect our hearts from forgetting what peace feels like, what hope looks like and how love makes our hearts strong. And we begin to tell a new fairy tale together: the fairy tale of nations who respect each other, of freedom and togetherness, of closeness and love. And our hearts find peace. Open your hearts, let the certainty dwell in them that all fairy tales come true. Today I'm going to tell you a story of my own, based on the Greek comedy (or tragedy?) by Aristophanes. Conceived in the times of the Peloponnesian War (411 BC), this old classic story shows us more than the refusal of women to provide for their husbands if they did not make peace - because what would happen if no one actually went to the battlefield? War would be a pipe dream. Lysistrata or why the war was alone But enough of the prologue and open the fairy tale window: for the path to peace. Yours and yours, Sabine Star-talergold Did you like the fairy tale window? Then collect the fairy tales like star-talers and pass them on. And if you want to be a star-taler for the Osnabrück storytelling theater, then let star-taler gold rain down. How does a star-taler gold rain down? It's very simple and is on the fairy tale window page. Photo: _istock_Via Films