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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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’ …
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 …
—– 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 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 …
`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 …
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 …
