Bumperactive is proud to lend our adhesive-backed vinyl to the peace effort* with these official stickers of the Crawford
Peace House. As per our revenue sharing program, we'll make a donation to the Peace House in the amount of 22.5 percent of each sale.
The Crawford Peace House is the hub of the peace and justice movement in the town of President Bush's "Western White House," and also
a center for ecumenical worship and advocacy for many progressive causes. The logo design for the stickers is based on the "Peace
Labyrinth" -- a circular maze of stones about forty-feet across in the House's meditation garden. The Labyrinth was designed by Peace House Founder Johnny Wolf and built by supporters in 2003.
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The President is right about one thing: Crawford, Texas, is a beautiful slice of country. It is a rolling terrain of family farms and ranches, not carved out of, but shaped from (and by) the dense blackjack forest of the Texas Hill Country. To borrow Scott Momaday's description of comparable geology a few hundred miles to the north, "in summer the prairie is an anvil's edge." But at dusk the pastels tell you everything you need to know about the promise of a world where men and women live in accord with it, instead of raging against it. I always tell people, the problem isn't that the President vacations too much -- it's that he can't spend 13 months a year in Crawford. And that he never figured out how to stop, look around him and listen? Yeah, well, that too.
Crawford is a good place, and its spirit is infectious for anyone who spends any time there. Most widely known as the wilderness hole-up of the Chainsawer In Chief, it is the quiet Crawford that fuels the people who work in and pass through the Peace House. Quite simply, they are people who've seen with their own eyes "There's a better way of doing things." This is the spirit of Crawford the country sorely needs to catch hold of. Maybe a few stickers can help with that.
Kyle Johnson
Bumperactive.com Guy
08-09-06
* Legend has it, bumper stickers were one of the first "peace dividends" of the planet's most destructive war -- so it always strikes
me as especially appropriate when they're purposed toward peace: Prior to World War II, tin "bumper signs" chained to bumpers were the rage in automotive
self-expression. Forest Gill, of Gill-line Studios in Kansas City, was in such a business. His buddy Tex Avery, of Avery Paper Products,
had made a fortune supplying mass quantities of sticky-backed vinyl to the military -- it was of some use lining
artillary shell casings, I believe. But when peace broke out, Avery found himself sitting on warehouses of the stuff. He asked Gill: "You got any use for it?" When Gill said, "I might," the bumper sticker was born. So the story goes, details are
sketchy and unverifiable.