The Impoverishment of Commercialization
Enda Cavanagh What I treasure most about humanity is the incredible diversity found among us aa it is reflected in the biodiversity nature. Life itself, in its essence, is diversity; it is only in the...
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“Forgiveness is not an occasional act…it is an attitude” Martin Luther King Jr. When you begin the path of conscious living, forgiveness is one of the first aspects you have to deal with; forgiveness...
View ArticleThe Gift X Gyfu
Francesco Hayez, The Kiss (1859) At this time of the year the word gift is prominently on people mind but have you ever given it any further thought? In the runic alphabet, the rune Gyfu has the...
View ArticleHis lingering scent
We howled when they came and took Al for a walk, and not us. Later we heard their car returning but Al was not back from his walk. They came to pat and stroke us, and we felt a great sadness in their...
View ArticleM – For Money
“Money is coined liberty.” Fyodor Dostoevsky House of the Dead The VOC was a prime example of a company who had as much rights as a government. The VOC was founded in 1602 in Holland with seventeen...
View ArticleDay of Goodwill – Boxing Day
The air is filled with squeals of joy, and the smell of braais as thousands descend on the beach today. December 26, known as Boxing Day, became the Day of Goodwill in South Africa in 1994; a day of...
View ArticleNew Year’s Contemplations
We are once again standing at the threshold of a new year. This is a time when most people make resolutions and set goals. More often than not these resolutions and goals are broken, and we tend to...
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What is real? Our shadow or that which cast a shadow? What we think we are is but a shadow cast by our past. Yet what is real cast no shadow and lives in the present.
View ArticlePoem for 2014
God picks up the the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be...
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