Tag: Adventure

  • Mother Africa

    I read this article on FaceBook Dec 13-20“WHAT AN AMAZING PIECE DESCRIBING SA. Despite being grateful to be in a country where there is basic safety for all, ohhhh the magic of Africa runs deep……. May my birth mother survive what is being done unto her, by those who do not know her value and…

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  • Trust Yourself, You Did The Right Thing

      For what it’s worth I have found there is some commonness in the severity levels of events and how we humans respond to them. One scale said that the following events stressed humans more than others (Laid out in order of their severity): Death of a loved one. Divorce. Moving. Major illness or injury.…

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  • Don’t Die Too Soon – continued

      Continued from previous publication. (click for link) One grey rainy morning at the age of seventy one (I had just been retired from my job of twelve years with no more than handshake and thirty days’ notice pay!) gazing out of the window, I wondered, fearfully what was going to become of me. I…

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  • Don’t Die Too Soon……

    It is interesting that in our age, longevity is a sought after state, with this product or that process offering to lead us to that sought after place. It is also noteworthy that the Bible talks about certain men living to extraordinary ages. Methuselah takes the lead having died at the age of over 900…

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  • Knock At the Door Fly out the Window.

    When senior years knock at the door, does adventure fly out the window? I had the pleasure of meeting a couple of seniors, in their early and late seventies, respectively. Opportunity knocked at their door and they flew out the window to a new adventure: Jacques and Marie are, if there is such a thing,…

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  • Birds

    As something different this week, I am posting the work of two of the WhyWrite? course participants – This is Vivi’s contribution – enjoy: When I look at birds – I just KNOW that they were designed!  They couldn’t have ‘just happened’ – their ability to build nests, their songs, their colours, their lightness of…

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  • Serengeti in Africa….

    As something different this week, I am posting the work of two of the WhyWrte? course participants – This is Jingaling’s contribution – enjoy: Ecosystems anywhere, are worth going to. Why? You may ask yourself. Let me tell you about my experience. Being confined to a routine of work and home, a visit to the…

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  • The Speech

      The president stood, flanked by high ranking military officers on the raised deck. A little to one side stood a young Marine, who held the Medal of Honor with the two loose ends of a blue ribband. It was a warm day in Washington DC, there might have been, at the very least, two…

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  • Ye Espice Ilande

    The Wisdom of Crusty Pirates. It were in the yeare anno domini 1609, when that bold Captain Petre Jamese did seil his vaissel into ye Espice Ilandes, of Mollucos; there to seeke his fortune. For surely, mani were of the espices; notemyge, clufe and cinamone. Greate were wealthe of these to be had for those…

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  • My African Safari

    How interesting is it that deep within all of us, there is a yearning for seeking the wilds; the wild outdoors where we sense connection with creation. For those who are raised in the cities, the fast moving people, even faster moving traffic, sounds of the human, of machinery, it is a life that only…

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