“You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts.”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The Earth is round 
The Earth is flat
Quotations
Questions to think about (3): Love now
“One day, you are going to hug your last hug, kiss your last kiss and hear someone’s voice for the last time, but you never know when the last time will be. Live every day as if it were the last time you will be with the person you love.”
Does this quote speak to you? Is the message prompting you to do something, right now?
Author of quote unknown to me
Freedom of Expression (Free Speech)
How important is freedom of expression (free speech)?
Listen to the words of Benjamin Cardozo, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1932–38. He described freedom of expression as:
‘(T)he matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom’.
Quote from Free Speech by Andrew Doyle
The Sacred Call of the Sea
NB: There is a picture below the post.
It was the English poet John Keats who wrote:
On the Sea
It keeps eternal whisperings around
Desolate shores ….
….
Oh ye! whose ears are dinned with uproar rude,
Or fed too much with cloying melody—
Sit ye near some old Cavern’s Mouth and brood,
Until ye start, as if the sea nymphs quired!
Keats suggests that if we have had enough of this noisy world, we should go to a quiet place by the sea and sit “near some old Cavern’s mouth and brood”. Suddenly, out of the silence we may be startled to hear choirs of sea nymphs singing.
We are being called to go back to nature and to allow her to gently embrace us in her healing arms.
This sacred call of the sea is exquisitely captured in the beautiful photograph below. Be still. Can you hear the call?
A big thank you to Mariska Spoormaker for permission to use her beautiful photograph. Mariska took the picture on the Sacramento Trail near Port Elizabeth in South Africa.
The importance of today
Something to think about
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift.
That’s why it’s called the present.
Bil Keane
Click here for the same message expressed in timeless poetry: “The Salutation of the Dawn”. It is a poem treasured for generations.It is a poem to be remembered forever. Keep safe.
A Precious Gift God Gives Us Each Day
Each day God gives us 84,400 seconds of life.
What a gift! What a wonderful Giver!
There is no guarantee we will get a refill tomorrow.
Time is passing like the jet in this picture of Big Ben.
Let us be grateful to God and make sure we don’t waste one second.today.
Click here for the same message expressed in timeless poetry: “The Salutation of the Dawn”. It is a poem treasured for generations.It is a poem to be remembered forever. Keep safe.
Reflections on the loss of a Friend
I was phoned today from halfway across the world by someone who had just lost a loyal friend. He said he felt he had lost part of himself. After telling him how sorry I was I said I could do no more than read to him the words of John Donne who was Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London from 1621 to 1631. Please listen. You may have to turn up the volume. Thank you.
No man is an island
Who decides how you and I change every moment?
You and I don’t just exist. We are always deciding what our existence will be and what we will become the next moment. Why is this true for me and for you? Why is it true for all people? The reason is because we all have free will. As Victor Frankl wrote: “…every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.” The answer to the question? We each decide. No buck passing!
Based on the writing of Victor Frankl
Fabulous Machu Picchu Pueblo – A Lesson
“They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
The Courts where Jamshýd gloried and drank deep:
And Bahrám, that great Hunter–the Wild Ass
Stamps o’er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.”
Omar Khayyam
“Read mark and inwardly digest” – The Book of Common Prayer
Thank you Alex
Change How and What You Read – Forever
“…life is too short for reading poor books” – Rolf Dobelli (Swiss author and thinker).
Click here to see why Dobelli says this and what advice he has to offer. It may change your reading habits forever.
