Okavango River Monsters and other secrets of the Hambukushu people

Mark Adcock Environment, Food for Thought

The sun is just beginning to set as you poll your mokoro along the panhandle of the Okavango. It’s been a successful but long day of fishing, and tonight there’ll be tilapia for dinner, enough for the whole family! Suddenly, your mokoro [traditional dugout] won’t move. Nomatter how hard you pull, it remains stuck. You notice dust and ripples spreading …

Dear Mr. Westerner

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS LETTER WHICH DESCRIBES THE REALITY OF THE WONDERFULL PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE AND HAVE TO ENDURE Mr. Westerner……. Dear Mr. Westerner, My name is Potsotso Motchopi and my family and I still live in a mud hut near a great river you call the Okavango. Many foreigners visit these last years to witness our country and …

Abundance Feaster!

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

Ngepi camp Namibia I spent months pondering…. in an attempt to maintain my sanity and understand why I had been unjustly brutalised for years by the very people who I had been putting so much effort into helping. How could they justify attacking the hand that fed them with abuse at every level and many attempts to violently and illegally …

May you have enough!

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, “I love you and I wish you enough”. The daughter replied, “Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish …

Some good advise

Mark Adcock Environment, Food for Thought

An old farmers advice * Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. * Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance. * Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. * A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. * Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled. * Meanness don’t jes’ …

The right thing to do!

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

Objectives:- To start a ground swell of people who ‘do the right thing’ – buzz words of‘the right thing to do’ used in general conversation, as ‘doing the right thing’ will have a GREAT positive impact on all our futures An example would be the person confronted with the sudden decision to let someone into the traffic … or not,…. or …

Sane

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

—– Original Message —– From: SA New Economics (SANE) To: SANE Views Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 3:15 PM Subject: [SANE Views Vol.6, No.40] The Source of Hopelessness: A Review of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” A Deeper Look at Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” Catherine Austin Fitts served as Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank, …

The Paradox

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

The Paradox                      Isn’t it amazing that George Carlin – comedian of the 70’s and 80’s – could write something so very eloquent…and so very appropriate…. The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have …

Interesting Quotes

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

`If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together. Lila Watson – Australian Aboriginal Leader “The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to …

The ten commandments of responsible living

Mark Adcock Food for Thought

1. Satisfy your needs without detracting from others. 2. Live to respect the right to life and development of others. 3. Safeguard the right to life and health of all growing and living things 4. Pursue happiness, freedom and fulfillment for self and in others. 5. Help those less privileged to live without hunger and penury. 6. Preserve or restore …