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deer of the dawn
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Deer,
Hold fast to the belief that your influence and example will empower some of those children to become the agents of change that will help lift their land out of the morass. Teach them well. You are doing something that few of us have the fortitude to do.
Hold fast to the belief that your influence and example will empower some of those children to become the agents of change that will help lift their land out of the morass. Teach them well. You are doing something that few of us have the fortitude to do.
Love prevails.
~ Tracie Mckinney-Hammon
Change is not a process for the impatient.
~ Barbara Reinhold
Courage!
~ Dan Rather
~ Tracie Mckinney-Hammon
Change is not a process for the impatient.
~ Barbara Reinhold
Courage!
~ Dan Rather
It cannot be easy, doing what you are doing, seeing what you are seeing. My coworkers that are from Nigeria tell me stories that make my jaw drop. I doubt I would have the internal fortitude to do what you do every day.deer of the dawn wrote:Feeling traumatized. After three years in Nigeria I feel I am only beginning to realize the evil that is at work here. And that there is absolutely nothing that I can do against it except with the little handful of children that I am charged with educating each day. Doesn't seem like much when you see the scale of corruption and suffering here and know that there are people with the power to do something to lift Nigeria out of the sewer, but their only interest is in lining their own Swiss bank accounts.
I went to your 'my space', your music is lovely. Maintaining creativity under such circumstances isn't easy either. keep up the great work but don't lose yourself in all the demands on you.
The loudest truth I ever heard was the softest sound.
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Orlion
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Press on, Deer! Every little bit of help counts in situations such as these. You'll have all are respect and the gratitude of the children you're teaching.
And, at the risk of sounding corny, I'm fairly certain that the Great Pyramids were built one block at a time. It's sometimes slow going, but focus on the things you can do, not on things that our outside your sphere of influence.
And, at the risk of sounding corny, I'm fairly certain that the Great Pyramids were built one block at a time. It's sometimes slow going, but focus on the things you can do, not on things that our outside your sphere of influence.
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
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Linna Heartbooger
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*hug,* DotD. I've only just begun to allow myself to really think about the troubles of Africa lately. It is so terribly, terribly hard. Remember... you're still allowed to rest. I will pray. I've been thinking of you... are things physically safer/calmer in your city than they were about a year ago?deer of the dawn wrote:Feeling traumatized. After three years in Nigeria I feel I am only beginning to realize the evil that is at work here. And that there is absolutely nothing that I can do against it except with the little handful of children that I am charged with educating each day. Doesn't seem like much when you see the scale of corruption and suffering here and know that there are people with the power to do something to lift Nigeria out of the sewer, but their only interest is in lining their own Swiss bank accounts.
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And for how I am feeling today... excited and hopeful in ways I've mostly not been for (at least) a couple of months.
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
But of course it does....matrixman wrote:Well, on a totally facetious note: Does Africa, out of all the continents, have the most politically messed up countries or what?
As for how I am feeling, not too bad - looking forward to the weekend and having the house to myself again!
Now to go in search of painkillers for a damaged shoulder. I don't recommend a torm ligament to anyone.
"-People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes."
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I take it droog is some RPG?
I had a nasty stomach lasterday, but at least it wasn't the swine flu (and no, no Cinco de Mayo partying). Have to climb up on the roof, like now, to get the swamp cooler fired up because it's supposed to be 92 manana.
Yea, come on Cag! We need the rug rat report.
I had a nasty stomach lasterday, but at least it wasn't the swine flu (and no, no Cinco de Mayo partying). Have to climb up on the roof, like now, to get the swamp cooler fired up because it's supposed to be 92 manana.
Yea, come on Cag! We need the rug rat report.
fall far and well Pilots!
The other day, I was at my favorite coffee shop, and saw that one of the advertised food items had been key lime pie. But the greatly desired thing itself was utterly gone, its profound absence punctuated by the forlorn product tag that simply read "KEY LIME PIE" -- stark, cruel letters that mocked famished customers who had missed out on an exquisite taste sensation, through no fault of their own.
So, did I put enough pathos in there?
So, did I put enough pathos in there?
oh woe! pie...pie...pie!!!!
I feel like you must have, MM. NO PIE! <sigh>
Menolly, I sure the pie I had didn't have meringue on it. I want THAT pie. I'm going to go to that restaurant again, next time I'm in SF and I'm going to sit there and eat a WHOLE PIE! I don't care how much it costs me!
Pie...oh woe...pie...oh woe...
Dlb...this is all YOUR fault! 
I feel like you must have, MM. NO PIE! <sigh>
Menolly, I sure the pie I had didn't have meringue on it. I want THAT pie. I'm going to go to that restaurant again, next time I'm in SF and I'm going to sit there and eat a WHOLE PIE! I don't care how much it costs me!
Pie...oh woe...pie...oh woe...
Dlb...this is all YOUR fault! -
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I know! Let's blame everything on Dlb! 
It's been raining here for, like, a week straight. It's gray and damp and more gray and more damp. I think moss is starting to grow between my synapses. As Magickmaker said to me earlier today, "I feel like we're living in freaking Seattle." (Except she didn't say "freaking".
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Oh goody! I just looked outside. It's raining AGAIN.
It's been raining here for, like, a week straight. It's gray and damp and more gray and more damp. I think moss is starting to grow between my synapses. As Magickmaker said to me earlier today, "I feel like we're living in freaking Seattle." (Except she didn't say "freaking".
)Oh goody! I just looked outside. It's raining AGAIN.
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haha.aliantha wrote:It's been raining here for, like, a week straight. It's gray and damp and more gray and more damp. I think moss is starting to grow between my synapses. As Magickmaker said to me earlier today, "I feel like we're living in freaking Seattle." (Except she didn't say "freaking".
Oh goody! I just looked outside. It's raining AGAIN.
n00b.
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.