Embracing who we are…: Theme thursday

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Monday, October 4, 2010

Commonsense

Je pence

Out of commonsense

To built a fence

For my defense

Don’t be tense

I know I’m intense

But please don’t take offense

Based on false pretense

Please, hold the suspense

And all your incense

Until your sense

Understands my self-defense

My abhorrence

And abstinence

Aren’t a coincidence

I’m lacking the confidence

That will make the difference

My innocence

And inexperience

Were busted by your indifference

You insulted my intelligence

With your insolence

My intransigence

Is your penitence

Patience and persistence

Will prove your prudence

Silence is my preference

To answer your impertinence

So you see, why my fence is commonsense!

This post is a contribution to Theme Thursday and Jingle Poetry poetry-potluck

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Reason

Searching for reasons?...

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
- C.S. Lewis

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
- Voltaire

“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”
- Blaise Pascal

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds
are not strong enough to master her”
- George Bernard Shaw

“Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.
(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)”
- Rene Descartes

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

I want to paint the world with lively colors, full of hope and understanding.
I want to brush away all conflicts, global warming, sadness and unkindness
I want to inspire confidence, trust, freedom and creativity
I want to paint all the unseen things so that the rest of the world can enjoy their beauty
I want to brush away the general indifference and unconsciousness
I want to surprise the world and shake it for as long as it’s needed.

I want to paint what I see and how I see it while I travel through life.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Brown moments

Brown talks about permanence, consistency and approachability.
It whispers about Mother Earth and connects us with her.
Browns give us a sense of feeling safe, neat and wholesomeness…

Some of my awesome browns life moments:

A monkey iron sculpture at a Lusaka craft market… I love the way the monkey is seated,
overlooking the whereabouts of the market activities.

The small guy that takes care of my kitchen garden…
he lights his lamp every night… then magic begins...

A small flower getting ready to nourish mother earth with its seeds…

A splendid pedicure :)

Their chest is so beautiful and meaningful… you can find them at 3,260 m high in the Simien Montain – Ethiopia

Our Rhodesian Ridgeback dog…

One of the castles at Gondar – Ethiopia

Time for a traditional coffee? Directly from its original place…

Dry season in the African bush

Undressing for the season… ;)

Thursday, July 29, 2010

loveNlight

Where is light there is love...
Open your mind, open your heart, leave all fears and beliefs behind
Be adventurous, get ready to be surprised...
there is beauty in everything...

Let me share with you some of the beauty I captured with my camera

Did you ever ask someone to capture the light?

Your life is something opaque, not transparent,

as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way.
But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness,
it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright.
And then you ask yourself in amazement:
Is this really my own life I see before me?
~Albert Schweitzer

Light is life...

"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity
to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain,
and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Light can take your breath away...