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World Refugee Day has come and gone. Did you know that? Do you know what it is? If you didn’t you are not alone. It was an online blurb. The nightly news did not allot much time reporting on the significance of this day.

World Refugee Day is observed June 20 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout the world.

The brief history is as follows: The United Nations General Assembly on December 4, 2000 in Resolution 55/76 decided that, from 2001, June 20th would be celebrated as World Refugee Day.

From June 18-20, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) commemorates World Refugee Day in Washington, DC, with the purpose of raising public awareness regarding the millions of refugees worldwide who are forced to flee their homes.

Perhaps by not talking about World Refugee Day, may cause all of us to continue to be anesthetized and participate in the sheeple mentality. Sheeple is defined by JD Mumma, president of Human Excellence as: Shee.ple: n. “People that act in ways more similar to sheep than human. E.g., People who don’t think independently. People believe things without questioning sometimes referred to as “blind faith.” People fail to question authority. People who believe simply because someone said it (Internet, TV, magazines, leader, friend…frenemy), they said it therefore it must be true. Followers that can be influenced aka herded mentally or physically to do things that may be detrimental to the health and well being of themselves, others, animals and/or our planet.”

The human condition throughout the world is not pretty; it is quite disturbing. What makes another human believe an ethnic cleansing is appropriately justified? There are 21st century holocausts occurring. How is it that thousands of children die daily because they don’t have common vaccinations? 11.3 million humans risk starvation. How and why are there over 800,000 human trafficking cases per year? We all know about Lindsay Lohan’s latest escapades. Yet to have awareness about humanity on a large scale is an anomaly. Our inactivity is deadly. It sends a message that it’s ok to do nothing.

People typically do what they believe in. Choices are made based on what one’s belief is. Beliefs have caused millions their lives.

We can continue to have: divisions, prejudices, different beliefs, jealousies, indifferences, intolerance and hatred can pulsate in our veins so the language of discord can effortlessly escape our lips. OR we can not only quote Jesus, Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but perhaps allow their words; lives of light and love invade our minds so we can change the course of history starting NOW. Make everyday World Refugee Day. Webster’s dictionary defines a refugee as one who flees for safety especially to a foreign country. We all have fled something and want safety.

Change how we speak, interact, handle differences. Spread some InPeLoTo (INfinite, PEace, LOve, TOgetherness) today and change here and now.

Keep it conscious since we all are somebody’s child.

Thought we were alone in some deserted place
Saw the stars shine on somebody’s child
All alone, trying to find home
That’s somebody’s child out there
Out there on the streets

Got all their possessions in their hands
Hoping someone will understand
Star bright star bright
I wish I my I wish I might
Have this wish tonight

Child dying for a touch
Only to hear the silence
Oh the silence is too loud
Hanging around like a rain cloud

Longing for a loving hand
Not to be abused by any man
That’s somebody’s child
Out there on the streets

Hungry for more than food
Searching for delicacies in garbage cans like some lost art
Carrying all he owns in this world in a shopping cart

The sky is his blanket
It holds him, loves him and sings him a lullaby
Hush little baby don’t say a word
Poppa’s going to provide

Hear about Daddy?
He died a hero you know, a true soldier
Yeah a hero with his purple heart in his hand
To be like that man

But that’s somebody’s child out there
Fighting rejection only to hear
The silence is too loud
Hanging around like a rain cloud
Oh the silence is a little too loud
So conditioned to it
Doesn’t want any of it

Asking for money not getting any
Passersby choosing not to see
That’s somebody’s child out there
Out there on the streets
Looking like me
Looking like you

Inpeloto’s Mission Statement: Keeping it conscious while harmonizing social actions by being world relevant through social transformation by implementing infinite peace, love and togetherness for daily existence of conscious actions. Love is a verb.

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