In 1942, the great French author and existential philosopher Albert Camus would publish a short, prophetic work aptly named L’Etranger. In English, this translates to “The Stranger”. Many…
Take chances, my love. Take the plunge into the unknown. Take a chance on love, on art, on speaking out, on shining bright, on quitting…
I feel like this story doesn’t even start with me. If you must have a beginning it really starts with a woman who was born in the Wairarapa around the 1900's.
中國製造既食品信唔過就人所共知，含有毒化學野、含重金屬、含致癌物質根本就家常便飯。正常有common…
Here you are, sailing along in your sixties. Maybe retirement is on the…
“I lift up my eyes to the mountains - where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth” (Psalm 121:1, 2)
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
Figure out just how important it is to learn to shut up.
Stories are made out of either imagination or experience. Stories from experience, when they get the words in a blank paper become immense and have the reflection of reality.
This is a new word for me. Narcissism. To be perfectly honest with you, I didn’t…
The Ethics of Eating Meat
-Charles Eisenstein
Most vegetarians I know are not primarily motivated by nutrition. Although they argue strenuously for the health benefits of a vegetarian diet, many see good health as a reward for the purity and virtue of a vegetarian diet, or as an added bonus. In my…
College is a place of varying emotions across various occasions and periods. For most of…
目前我是一名小小的開發者，以下是我的故事。
我就讀的是 雲科資訊管理系。
我的成長歷程一直以來都很順利，直到大學…
我一直以為大學會讀資訊科系的人，是對資訊有興趣才讀的。
我很想要找很有熱忱的人一起拼、一起學習；漸漸的我發現大家並沒有那麼有興趣的鑽研技術，後來我跟一般大學生一樣玩社團，那時我加入了羽球隊，我可是從完全不會打開始，努力的練球，後來打的有點程度。
It’s very easy to tweet about frustration and sadness and everyday life and it’s easier to perceive from a person’s tweets or posts that while things may not be okay, they’re probably pushing through and that’s sweet, to make people think that, I mean.
The Libra Moon started the day squaring off to Pluto in Capricorn and now she moves…
First get out of the worldly notion themes. First discover what your heart truly wants & then try to follow it if you can. You have no idea how lucky you are if you can first find & then afford to follow your passion. Billions (and i mean billions)…
My novel was published today.
My biggest fear in life has always been to lose the people I love. Some part of me is constantly vigilant and nervous about it. Still, it happened to me like it happens to all of us.
I did this when I suddenly fell ill a couple years ago. It was actually a pretty intense situation. I had my colon taken out and had to wear a colostomy for a year. Most of that time, I also got reactive arthritis from a really bad infection and couldn’t walk for most of the year. My body was wracked. But I’ve been an engineer/programmer for over ten…
There is nothing like writer’s block.
I must have been an about to falldead leaf, unable
Sometimes I just wish I could cry and let open the gates of fluid memories.I press for a drop to slowly trickle down,so I’ll…
Reading is one of my hobbies. There are books I can’t stop reading while others I struggle to finish reading, as its plot unfold unevenly. I’ve just finished one of those ‘hard books’. It’s a thriller book, which in a crime needs to be solved. Even though I didn’t like it…
On September 1, 2016, my husband Kevin and I drove away from where we grew up on the north shore of…
Dad, Mom wants to FaceTime Bentley.
It is a strange feeling to be a stranger in the place from which you came. And it is a mighty journey of the heart to see the trees you once climbed as a naive child, and the people whom were once your brothers and sisters, who undoubtedly have not lost those…
Quinta-feira, 9 de Agosto de 2018, 4:00 da manhã. Você acorda, prepara aquele café artesanal bem forte que invade toda casa. A mesa já está pronta desde a noite anterior com um bom kit composto por frutas, legumes pré-cozidos, ovos prontos para serem mexidos e claro uma boa dose extra de…
Trust is the biggest hurdle to jump when dealing with Parental Alienation. Fundamentally, I believe personality disorders blossom from the foundation of distrust. If we learn to distrust our parents…
Bow before me
Oh god please don’t make it too quietFor silence is louder than…
“I used to often say to myself, that I am being paid to do something that I enjoy…
Somewhere along the H Street corridor in DC, a group that will remain nameless put on a good cannabis event…
There is one thing that is promised in all relationships (intimate, friend, or family) and that is, that the person you love most will hurt you. In some instances that hurt may run deeper than you might have ever thought but regardless of the outcome it is what you choose to do…
Setelah puasa, kita main di Subnoise vol. 1 (Bekasi) dan Salahudah vol. 7 (Tangerang)
Yes, this is going to be another post about how I am starting something and will soon fail before it even took off and then write another journey piece with another life project six months after.
Every bone in my bodyhas been crushed,that’s how it feels.
As the title suggests, here are some unpopular opinions that I have. Of course, I will express these opinions in a respectful manner, this entry is not meant to offend anyone. I respect that everyone has a different opinion, please respect that I have my own opinions as well. Because of this, I…
my kindness my compassion my generosity my help my empathy all of themare two things those altruisms and…
Is there anyone out there,
Anyone at all?
Introductions are so fucking awkward,
Ok, I’m just gonna start.
Today, I wanted to share an embarrassing story. People like embarrassing stories, and I like…
The problem when you’re competing on price is that at one point you can’t possibly deliver quality work anymore.
Because the lower you go, the more jobs and things you’d have to take on to keep the boat afloat.
I get it. You have to fail your way to success. That’s what everyone says.
But what they don’t tell you is how it’ll make you feel over time. When you try to fail your way to success.
We’ll definitely make it to the meeting with time to spare. Yay!
Acordei com uma sensação de conforto como há tempos não sentia; não tinha dormido, de fato, as 8 horas indicadas pelos…
Episode 1
So much of the popular life advice nowadays seems to be directed towards:
02.30 AM, Just got back home from a flight from Thailand. Went out to Thailand for a short escape from the busyness of Jakarta’s traffic to Bangkok just to see another traffic. It was my first time going to Thailand though it is not that far from Indonesia. The city’s…
Such an uplifting read Raul, thank you very much.
You remind us what matters and guide us in how to embrace that. This is priceless.
Resilience is built through hardship. And we will all face hardship at one point or another in our lives.
Whatever who you are, you will ride a rollercoaster. What will make the difference is how…
Non mi piace guidare in autostrada. Se lo faccio è solo per brevi tragitti e durante…
Creative types love mind-vomiting exercises to get the ball rolling at the start of a new…
FACT #1: About 50% of couples in the US get divorced.
If I died today, my words would die with me.
Thank you for the insight on this subject Christina. Your story was refreshing. It made me realize that my boundaries tend to swing from one end of the spectrum to the other. I’m working on that.
Noah (my daughters friend) has a twin sister. It crossed my mind how my daughter could sleep in Noah’s sisters room and it would…
As I was singing in church recently, my heart swelled even as I wrestled with the lyrics. “I don’t know if I believe…
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the…
Yeah, I’m not on board with you blaming me- a person you’ve never met- for being treated poorly in a relationship, but thanks for stopping by to mansplain the relationship I was in and assuming that this situation has happened to me multiple times (it hasn’t). I have a great piece on fragile masculinity you might want to check out since you’re so…
Solo warriors don’t exist for long, as there is always someone seeking to follow…While “follow the leader” has been a mantra that…
At its best, religion provides us with an avenue to learn our lessons and become more faithful. This has always been the case. In the Dark Ages in Europe, the Church was often one of the only sources of light and stability in an otherwise chaotic time. Although abuses…
There is something distinctly refreshing about time spent in nature. Perhaps it’s the change of pace. From the city where all things serve a specific purpose — for you, the master of the universe. Streets lined with vendors offering your morning coffee. Gyms. Bars. Restaurants featuring…
We first want to say to anyone that has completed a rehab program and is now in the process of recreating their…
Day 1: Joe and Daisy’s First Big Dirt Adventure June 24, 2018.
Oasis
Oasis could mean a ton of things and manifest in a multitude of forms. You can find it shining in a gleaming lake amidst a boundless desert. You might savor its fragrance in a solitary blossom that tears through a burial ground. It might moisten your eyes that imbibed countless pictures of battle and bloodshed with a…
He asked me, “are you this way with everyone?” Honestly? I’ve spent a lot of emotional energy trying not to make him special or enjoy this…
Under the black blue skies there's a tremendous need of love.
Will Durant, an American philosopher, once said, “To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self”.
< About a Happy Rain day sail >
I wake up this morning opening my eyes to a morning thats is so Cosy and pleasant outside and start to see the raindrops on my window sill and thereon go back to my childhood days….
My eyes still closed- thoughts distant as I am asleep -I hear the roar of thunder and…
Meditations is a book not written for you.
I live in a two-million city, and as you can imagine, both good and ugly things happen when you cram…
Have you ever faced a stressful morning or end of afternoon in the traffic? Have you ever yelled at people for cutting your way? Or even honked at them for not showing the path they wanted to take with their blinker?
There are people in my life whose personalities are kind of like Jenga towers. If I need something from them, it’s best to place the request or…
The Ephemeral Skin
I was looking through my notes on my iPhone today, and found this one from 2015. That’s right. 2015!! How time flies! Anyway, it’s a sentiment I still hold dearly, so here goes:
The Ephemeral
Magnanimous
To know Love:
Is to know a Host of Things —
Our life path number is based upon our date of birth. It is derived from all the numbers in our date of birth. Life path number…
This is probably a hard concept for people to grasp, but one reason I write is to talk about things most won’t, share a viewpoint most won’t, maybe talk about things most won’t. I don’t know…
The plot of our lives are changing. For awhile — we will be disoriented, finding ourselves at the crossroads of…
I keep dreaming about it day after day
The thought of you keeps me awake
It’s beautiful as the Amazon river
Thinking about it would give me a shiver
A few days ago, while taking a moment to ogle and lust after random collections of beautiful people via Instagram, I accidentally penned something surprisingly wise. It almost didn’t happen, I almost wrote something else, something trite and stupid. I do that more often than…
Below is an insufficient synopsis of my friend’s experience. A writer is bound to add a tinge of creativity, imagination and her own preconceptions to what she writes.. so I am clouding my friend’s experience with my words..
It has to do more with human nature than socialism.
I believe that socialism is not to blame for children working in mines for mobile phones nowadays, is it? Or we can also blame socialism for the Thirty Years’ War.
The concept of socialism is great in theory. It didn’t do well in communist countries…
Psalms 37:21 (KJV)
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Not long ago I presented a series of lessons from the Proverbs on stewardship. I taught the lesson in the adult Sunday school class and had…
A woman, who stays with me, since the time i havent known anything. She tolds me about life, jokes, education and others. She isnt a bad-tempered person. Sometimes, when i was told something and i was acting like a donkey, she doesnt freak out directly. She would say ‘I have told you a…
Friday Night Game of, “Dear Lord! What’s that Stink!?”
Q: Why should I design vacations?
A: To go away. To poof. To vanish and be whisked off like a leaf, as aimlessly as an accident, as gracefully as a rolling marble. This feeling of whoosh is one of the top aims of the human mind, one of the sweetest…
https://youtu.be/MuSdVDIFECc
I. HOLD FAST TO THE WORD2 Timothy 1:13 (KJV)Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ…
The legend of Joaquin Murietta a Mexican immigrant who migrated shortly after the Mexican-American war.
Joaquin is out of control. He is riding through…
This is a great reminder for something so simple but so easily forgotten! I like to see “being smart” as shortcuts. There is nothing wrong with seeking them, just that more often than not we conceive that the work is done after identifying the “smarter way” but ignore the importance of putting in actual work to the process. Thank you for this great article and the timely reminder!
It’s an important question. Have you seriously thought about this yourself? The truth is I currently don’t quite know what to do with my life. But I’m not complaining. I merely want to talk about it.
When all of us can offer love to someone, why can’t you love yourself? ……………………❤ You do have…
I tripped on my own feet,
And flung my hand on the wick of the candle.
Why?
Don’t ask me. Ask yourself this.
I hid my face behind a mask of indifference,
The last 10 years have been a blur. I remember years as an average of the collective emotions rather than the singular moments that comprise them. I remember people by the way they left me and the distinctly different types of heartache they bring when they revisit.
식을줄 모르는 무더위가 연일 이어지는 8월의 중순입니다. Wanpango Coin은 73년 전 오늘, 광복절의 의미를 다시 한 번 되새김 해봅니다.
This year, we commemorate the 73rd anniversary of liberation of our land.It is halfway through the month of August and we are still experiencing scorching…
There’s a phrase “familiarity breeds contempt” which also shows that as we start to start people for granted we also lose respect for them too. They did nothing wrong and we stop respecting them as well!
The American Dream is dead. That’s what we’re hearing, from blue-collar workers to university professors to immigration…
My mom drives me crazy. Sometimes I just feel like I can’t do it anymore. But I have to. I’m so tired of being the only one who will listen to her talk about the same things over and over and over again. About the same people supposedly insulting her. I understand being upset but it’s been years. It’s been the…
The title “The Perks of Adversity” is provocatively interesting. I am glad I clicked on it.
Your story has a ring of authenticity. There are many posts about adversity and resilience. But I would rather believe what you have said than the grand pontifications of an armchair philosophers because as Nicholas Taleb would say, “…
Several weeks ago the quote, “You can have it all, you just can’t have it all at once,” crossed my path again. I thought it could be a…
When morning comes! What inspires your day? How do you keep going when the hours slow down or duties and roles drag on? When…
All eyes on the prize! The prizes within us are often overlooked, but I find my greatest ally as well as my greatest nemesis within…it is…
This week, I was thinking about humor. The serious business of humor. Why is it serious business? Because having…
Di hadapan cermin seringkali aku merenung
merenungkan hidup yang tak kunjung usai masalahnya
dunia terus berputar, biarlah hati berpura-pura tegar
senja tahu datang saya duduk diam dan bertanya-tanya
Some of my family members’ ability to share really inspires me. I wouldn’t say I was blessed with the sharing gene. With my limited personal…
The train wreck is over and it really doesn’t matter
Just sift through the wreckage for what didn’t shatter
You will find baggage some good and some bad
Hang on the the good reflect on the sad
Yay! This morning I did my first pull-up!
My honey is not money…while I respect the green paper’s lore, I find my legal tender is what I have to share — what I have of value…
Forged By His Hand
I saw something
Beautiful
Written
Dear Jessica Brennan,
My Grandma (your Great Grandma) was never wealthy, and I don’t suppose that really mattered to her. She stood almost five feet tall and weighed almost 100 pounds. She had 8 sons, and she knew what hard work looked like.
Last week, we featured one of our 10 New Leaders — Adam McGregor, Integrator at Walters Services…
I’ve been in university for seven years and I’m still three from a degree. I’ve been to 3 schools in 4 years and it’s been a long road so far and it’s only a slightly shorter one to finish.
I don’t own a shopping cart.
I am not homeless.
I am not violent or unstable.
I don’t smell bad.
I didn’t drop out of school.
Yesterday we cried, we fought, we bled, we lost, almost drowned in ourselves, we took a bite and the fall was long,eternal, the…
As I see it, Ambition and I have been friends for as long as I can remember. As a young person, we were pursuing a career in performing arts…
When did you realize your mother was the greatest person you know? I was listening to one of my favourite song when I became curious of its content. Turns out, the song I’ve been repeating for days was about Mother. I read the meaning repeatedly until I really understood what the song wants to tell me. Thoughts…
Said love if it works
If it works
Nothing I can see will ever show me all its worth
Said love till it hurts
Till it hurts
1.When I checked the time I came to know that watch is dead at 10 am. I am late at office. Sorry boss There was a Bus/rickshaw/train strike in our locality! I came walking as fast as I could!2.The traffic…
Last weekend Ausra’s cousin was visiting us and we had a lovely time interacting while walking in the old town of Vilnius…
SON-OF-A-MONKEY’S-UNCLE! I really thought I had this nagging thing licked. I swear I’m telling you the truth when I write that my husband would…
Do you need someone to give them to you before you proceed?Aren’t you blessed already?Can you stop and count your blessings today?Won’t that change how you proceed?
Keep minding your own business..
Keep growing your own grass.
(Keep growing yourself)
Not everybody wants to assist in helping you to keep that grass growing🌱..
My fiance came back from her grandmother’s funeral tonight, and said she regretted that she hadn’t visited her grandparents last month.
What is one thing you are grateful for right now?
August is kind of a tough month for me. Just a lot of personal “stuff” bringing up “all the feels,”…
Life Is A Journey
Let no one keep you from your journey,no rabbi or priest, no motherwho wants you to dig for treasuresshe misplaced, no fatherwho won’t…
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