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The importance of global awareness: Where will our ripples reach? Global Citizenship: "a way of living that recognizes our world is an increasingly complex web of connections and interdependencies. One in which our choices and actions may have repercussions for people and communities locally, nationally or internationally." I recently traveled to Zanzibar for some holiday …
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"Though I have seen the right turn wrong, And common things grow strange, O I have watched the moons too long To be afraid of change." -Haniel Long, from his poem, The Conspiracy Thanks, Alenka!
"When your gaze is so abstracted that you seem to see beyond field and forest, you are in fact staring at what stands closest to you; yourself." -Sjón, The Whispering Muse
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of that do the things no one can imagine.” -The Imitation Game
"Solitude especially means putting the parts of me back together - the unifying of myself whereby I see once again that the little things are little and the big things are big.” "When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls I will no longer be too …
Though windows turned blind Through one spot free of frost look Lilac twigs with Buds
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares, and the slavery of Home, man feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation …
From "Anthem: the possibility of evolution or the evolution of possibility" by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Human evolution began in this corner of the earth, our ancestors left their dust as chromosomes in each of us, they made a home, and hominids stood up as humans and walked, languages fell out of our mouths and …
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice; But for those who love Time is Eternity.
"Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it." -Albus Dumbledore
marks in the sand 