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We've got to take back the ideal of justice, we've got to take back this principle of human dignity. We've got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we've got to say: look, we're all in this together. We are human beings. David Kaczynski When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Dom Helder Camara
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
Elie Wiesel
Nov. 7
Hola mi amiga, tienes un espacio muy interesante e informativo Gracias por que la verdad lo veo muy lindo
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July 02 Time Flies When You're Having A Good Time!It seems incredible to me that the last time I added to this blog was in April! Not that I have added a great deal to my main blog either! What can I tell you? We managed to sell and auction off a pile of our bar/restaurant stuff a couple of weeks ago at Central Auctioneers in Magaluf and the rest is still being sold/auctioned in their shop and saleroom, bit by bit... People are not inclined to pay a great deal for anything at the moment but the most important thing is that we no longer have to pay storage fees, thus saving a stack of money every month. Just as well, because we don't have a stack of money! LOL Still waiting for Robbie's passport to arrive from Madrid and trying to amass enough cash to pay for the repairs to the inner staysail. This weekend our friend Dean is bringing a bunch of his friends over to the boat to scrape the barnacles off the bottom and have a bit of a party. The Twitterhood website is expanding steadily and I published my first-ever e-book, called The Elevator Trick, a couple of weeks ago. Haven't sold all that many copies yet but I've had some really nice messages about it, which is lovely! The Twitterhood Quiz is still going strong and there are some new prize sponsors, including Neven and Dalija Prasnikar from Zagreb in Croatia which is one of my favourite cities in the world. I've known Neven for at least seven years and my favourite PIM in the world is his EasyNoter Pro ( http://artplus.hr ) which he is now giving as a prize to repeat Twitterhood Quiz winners! Yay :-) Not a lot else to tell, really! April 09 The New Twitterhood SiteOh what fun I have been having lately, designing, building and populating the new Twitterhood website! It's the equivalent of a 2D directory with the advantage over others that people are not pushed down the list by the latest arrivals and are not categorized according to the number of people who follow them. Given all the dreadful schemes being used to boost follower numbers artificially, I am no longer impressed in the slightest by the number of people following anyone - especially those who send me private messages asking whether I'd like to get 30,000 followers in 90 days when they only have about half that number and, therefore, cannot possibly know yet whether their claims are true! Meanwhile, the first series of the Twitterhood Quiz ended a few days ago, @GLITTERSTARZ emerged as Queen of the Twitterhood Quiz with exactly 1000 points and now we're playing one day at a time for the time being - we'll start Series Two at some point... Busy, busy, busy :-) January 27 Talking about YouTube - Ludovico Einaudi - PrimaveraYesterday, whilst I was enjoying some time in the Twitterhood, @doroengel tweeted me a link... How I had never heard of Ludovico Einaudi before, I cannot imagine! On the basis of this track alone, I now rank him with Vivaldi, Ravel and Bach amongst my favourite classical composers and feel privileged to be alive at the same time as he and breathing the same air. Quote Talking about YouTube - Ludovico Einaudi - Primavera December 09 One Way of Filling Out an Application FormIn the 33rd issue of Mediterranean Living Magazine, quite a while back now, we found, amongst several others, an article that tickled us so much that we kept the magazine. During a recent tidy-up we found it and here is that article, reproduced in full:
"We're told that this is an actual essay written by a college applicant to NYU in response to this question on the application form:
3A. IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, THE APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION:
ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHEMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.
Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400.
My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA.
I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid.
On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.
I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis. But I have not yet gone to college.
(The author, a high school student named Hugh Gallagher, graduated from NYU in 1994, has been a freelance writer and is now a novelist.) "
November 27 Stand Not Idly ByToday, as a terrible tragedy unfolded in the lives of several hundred citizens of Mumbai, social networking brought us real time, real live, reporting from ordinary people. Indeed, Jen Reeves wrote a fascinating post on the topic and I found myself thinking, as I read it: Yes, but won't it be great when people work out a way to deliver awesome help through those same channels instead of simply passing on every detail of the agony being suffered in front of them. It reminds me of Melvin Udall, in the movie As Good As It Gets, telling his neighbour: "I'm drowning here and you're describing the water!"
We have to ask ourselves why we want live feed from scenes of carnage and tragedy. If it is just so we can be more knowledgeable about the details of that situation than our neighbours are then we have become as sick and sad as the critics of the West say we are. If it is so that we can mobilise help along the chain of social networkers to where it is needed then that would be a great thing but these events are not a form of live entertainment and there is, in a sense, a danger of their being viewed that way.
Watching people's reactions has been very revealing - more than one person made casual remarks about re-thinking plans to visit Mumbai on vacation next year. How crassly insensitive and selfish did that make them seem to the rest of society on a worldwide social network? It probably never occurred to them that, in the eyes of terrorists, this thinking about such events purely in selfish terms is probably considered proof of the fact that Westerners are not worthy of respect.
Maybe social networking will eventually help to break down the artificial barriers between races and creeds until there is no terrorism because we have reminded each other that the death of anyone's baby, or parent, sibling or friend is a tragedy. We need to be very careful not to allow ourselves to become inured to the feelings that should accompany being faced with the sight of death and grief, those feelings of sympathy and sorrow that unite us with those whose triumphs should also fill us with joy, provided they are not won at the expense of others.
Long before 'social networking' would become a global phenomenon, it was said by a man of the seventh century:
"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere"
That man was Ali ibn Abi Talib (602 AD - 661 AD) Food for thought. |
A list of our all-time favourites - Robbie and I are lucky to share a taste in movies so we are sharing this list...
Robbie and I always go for the same authors and titles so we're sharing a list again
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