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Remember that your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. What you are will show in what you do. - Thomas Davidson
This is often misattributed to Thomas Edison. The quote is originally from Thomas Davidson, which can be found in his weekly letter to the class in History and Social Science in the Educational Alliance, New York, dated 31 May 1899.
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Original photo credit: Ratfink1973
It was a really grey day when I took this pinhole image. But I felt that this image worked well with the image I posted before. In this photo my son and daughter were changing the course of the river. Creating their own protected channel. I sat there and thought, If we can't change the entire flow of the river, well... we can try to change just part of it for a while.
Portrait of a boy in a village near Ludhiana, Punjab.
This boy walked up to me when I was clicking birds at the village pond and told me that he wanted his photo clicked. When I said that he won't be able to get the photo even if I clicked one, he said that it didn't matter. Then I understood that he was interested in the experience of getting clicked, not the result. Lesson learnt. Glad I was able to add joy and smiles to his day.
Every once in a while I come upon a quote that I immediately think is greatest thing I have ever heard. Normally the more true, the better, so in this instance I happened to come upon about 30 in a really funny blog post titled “Mature Truths”. I thought it was funny how the memories I seem to remember most clearly, are also the most ridiculous and irresponsible ones.
©2007 kelly angard
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
- Jack Kerouac
Many years ago someone very important to me gave me a pair of pearl earrings. Each little white pearl hung from an oval silver setting that kept three tiny diamond specks safe. Having sold off two diamond rings a few months ago, set in silver, these small diamonds represented the last of the diamond jewelry I owned.
This afternoon, as usual, I went to the orphanage, but I was not my typical energetic self. Run down, feverish, and battling a finger infection, today I kept the camera stowed in the bottom of a floral tote, opting instead of photographing to hang out with the children. While my child photographers busily snapped away down on the football field, I stayed with Rosaline, 11, and Francois 9. For hours the three of us sat, backs straight against metal containers, hands intertwined, occasionally Francois rested her head against my chest. Around us the other children played cards, washed lunch bowls, and hung laundry, and the entire tableau warmed me as I was extra receptive to the tenderness palpable on this late grey Sunday afternoon. Colds have a way of stripping us of our guard; the two girls on either side of me were attentive, examining me as trained nurses would. The head warm, the nose red, the eyes a bit puffy, no symptom went ignored.
I’m not sure what prompted her, but after some time, Rosaline began inspecting my earrings. Tsk tsking she noticed the dirt that had collected from months of wear and no wash. Soon she pulled my left earring out of its bruised hole and began cleaning it. She must have spent half an hour scrubbing and polishing, and when her own saliva didn’t get that tired earring gleaming, she got up, walked over to the water pump, and filled a plastic porridge cup with some icy water, the better to clean the jewelry and its jewels. Next to her, Francois and I watched Rosaline work, meticulously loosening the crusted skin from the earring. The pearl was at last brilliant, the little diamonds shards coruscating in their silver casing.
This had turned out to be a perfect afternoon, the flu symptoms eased by the girls’ doting.
But what happened next sealed this feeling that life is nothing but the people in it, regardless of the fluctuations of body, mind, and circumstance. “Oh King, sorry…” Rosaline murmured regretfully. The day suddenly darkening with her words I saw what had happened. Gone was the polished pearl—Rosaline had dropped it down a little crack in the cement step. Though we all tried furiously to float the earring to the top, pouring cup after cup of water into the narrow hole, nothing surfaced. Rosaline felt horrible, and I was about to get mad when I realized the importance of this loss. I decided then and there to get rid of all the diamonds in my life. Looking up at one of the boys who was towering over this crisis, the water run-off, the whispered “sorry’s”, the desperate jabs of a stick down the bottomless hole, I slipped off my right earring, gently replaced the backing, and smiling, dropped it down the hole.
Quietly Rosaline wrote in red ink on the palm of her left hand, “I Sorry King.” A few minutes later she added the hearts.
The true diamonds are the gestures of our lives that assuage haunting misgivings, replacing them with the immaterial and priceless jewels of hope, love, and yes, laughter.
Imagine, one day Gisimba Memorial Center excavated. Diamonds! Pearls!
Today, before The Tale of The Lost Earring, my friend Kevin, himself an orphan of the genocide, told me that both Rosaline and Francois have AIDS. Ah, earrings that once meant so much still mean so much, but for different reasons. Diamonds. Pearls. What use are these coveted artifacts of vanity in the face of two girls who face a shortened future?
Happy to finally be free of diamonds, on my own left hand I wrote with the same red marker “Okay Rosaline” and immediately surrounded it with hearts.
Kresta King Cutcher
Gisimba Memorial Center
An orphanage on the outskirts of Kigali in Nyamirambo.
Kigali, Rwanda. Afrika.
August 13, 2006.
Late Sunday afternoon.
Let me acknowledge that 'The Word' means many things to different people. Here, the reference is to a specific passage in the Bible.
When I was well into my 2nd marriage, I just began to understand the following: "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife and they shall become one flesh."
~ Genesis 2:24
When a person partners and chooses to begin a new family, the direction of life is forward and not stuck in ancient conflicts with his/her family of origin.
Yes, forward into the new, that too is Heritage. HMM!
A Dog’s Life: Watchful K2 & Kennedy's Love of Dolphins, Even Through Pain - IMRAN®
As I grappled with the devastating reality that my time with Kennedy was shorter than I had hoped, fate had its own plans. The news of his inoperable tumor and his struggle with basic functions left me heartbroken. I knew it was only a matter of time before his internal organs would reach a breaking point.
Yet, even in the midst of this pain, Kennedy’s spirit remained unbroken. One evening, as we stood on the dock, a heron gracefully landed atop my home. Kennedy observed it briefly but soon grew bored, leaving K2 to keep a vigilant eye on the bird—a true bird’s-eye view guardian.
But what truly brought Kennedy to life were the dolphins. The moment K2 and Kennedy heard the unmistakable sounds of a nearby dolphin, it was as if Kennedy had found his second wind. Watching him eagerly rush to see his beloved marine companions brought me a bittersweet joy. Best Dog Ever.
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©2007 kelly angard
The creative mind plays with the object it loves.
- Carl Gustav Jung
original pen & ink illustration here
Life is about making an impact, not making an income. - Kevin Kruse
Never underestimate the difference and the impact you can make around you.
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No sooner had the parent taken a bite, Junior magically appeared. He really wanted that big cicada, and the parent was eating it. The rest of this story took place really fast & not until processing did I realize what was happening.
Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis)
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Method 'Universe'
The whole life seems to be a whirlpool of lessons. Some of them are easy to learn, the other one demand hard effort, the third should be repeated a lot of times before we finally understand them.
We all deal with problems in our life. I believe that there is always a way out of the problem. But sometimes it seems that we have tried all the ways, but it still isn't working. Of course it is easy to get frustrated, but it demands a great effort to try once again or develop a new solution.
There is such a problem in my life that has been accompany me for a long time. It doesn't matter which one in particular, but I would like to share my method of dealing with the problem. When dealing with the problem there are two typical reactions of a human being. The first one is to try to solve the problem, which seems to be quiet logical in this respect ('Something bothers me a lot. What can I do about it? I can get rid of the irritant'). The other reaction is to pretend that there is no problem at all. People do it out of fear hoping that one day the problem melts away by its own initiative (if we ever agree that a problem has initiative).
The second variant seems to be helpful sometimes, but I usually compare problems to animals. Suppose you have a small problem that brings negativity into your life, but still you can live with it. Just imagine your problem in a form of a baby giraffe in your room. Isn't that cute? If you don't like giraffes you can simply pretend that you don't see it, you can try to play with it or you can even feel sorry for it (as we all like to do), but sooner or later your baby giraffe grows up to a grown-up giraffe and it doesn't even fit into your room. Such way of dealing with the problem can help you to forget about the issue for a small period of time, but it won't protect you from an inevitable clash against the giraffe. That is why I suggest not to use this deadlock way of dealing with a problem.
The first variant seems to be reasonable, but it is easy to debate about it, then to handle. We shouldn't forget that the very first reactions of a human being to the problem's emergence are panic, frustration and despair. We are emotional creatures. And it sometimes becomes really hard to calm down. When the pressure from the problem gets too high I use the so-called method 'Universe'. It helps me to remind the real meaning of my life problems. Whenever you feel exhausted by the problem just imagine the universe and the true size of your problem in the universe. We pay too much attention at our problems, probably, because of the confidence that we mean a lot in this world or out of sensitivity. Our planet is like a beautiful dust particle in the universe and your personal problem is even smaller. Problem are not given to value them, they are given to learn something. Sometimes even something life changing.
To be honest, I try to treat any problem as a challenge. And I personally should admit that I like challenges as it is a true way in understanding who you are. So next time you deal with a problem just imagine how little it means in the sense if the whole universe. Each day is given to learn a lesson from. Don't give up, just be ready to take some notes and write down your homework.
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Theme: Out of Place
This is me in my closet showing off all my thrift store finds (Savers is the best thrift store). I never realized how much clothes I had from there until now!
With the image I'd also like to share a little life lesson, popularity doesn't mean S#%@ once you leave highschool and enter the real world. I wasn't at all popular in school but now I'm happy and happily married with two dogs and my husband and I are 22 and 24 we our own house, I've run into some of the more popular girls I went to school with and you know what their not any better off or happier than I am, in fact some of them are worse off. Hope this gives hope to any teens out there who feel like they're a nobody just because their not popular, once you graduate no one will care about what you wear, what music you listen to, the time you dropped your tray in the cafeteria, got stuffed into a trash can (true story) or made the mistake of cutting your own hair and who knows maybe one day you'll be happier than them too.
Only You Can Get You From Your Circumstances To Your Dreams - IMRAN™
You’re not alone. No matter what you’re facing. Are you having a difficult day? Don’t despair. Feeling frustrated by fate? Face it. Challenged by circumstances? Change to counter them. Depressed by developments? Deny doubts and doldrums. Where you are or what you’re going through may not have been in your control. How you deal with it and how you adjust attitude, proactively plan, efficiently execute, and boldly build back what you’ve lost is in Your control. Only you can get you to your dream destination and glorious goals. Take a deep breath, take that first step, to turn adversity that would defeat an average person into opportunity ordinary people don’t dare dream of. Only you can make you be, and achieve, the extraordinary.
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