Tag: value
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Inking in priorities ~ Germany
At this time, a permission is granted, to re-evaluate, to shed the extra weight of unnecessary stresses, to weed out unwanted obligations, to dedicate time and love to those who need us most…
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Day 20~ October 20th~ Yunnan
When getting food requires you to go up and down a mountain, then its value increases tenfold. Hani man with his crop of corn~ Yunnan
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Day13~ August 13th~ Boracay
‘Abandoned’, and interesting word. If you like to anagram words as I often like to do, then you will find this: abandoned = a dead boon. A boon is a blessing or something to be thankful for among other definitions. So when we humans abandon something, do we stop being thankful for it and for…
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Day 8~ August 8th~ Boracay
How often do we find ourselves having to go through our children’s toy boxes to throw things away simply because they have outgrown some, some have been just neglected and others are just no longer wanted. And do you recall when you were a child having a single toy that you treasure, valued and held…
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Day 4~ June 4th~ Xinjiang
The simpler the people the easier it is for them to smile… Have you noticed how in the so-called civilized and developed countries, you end up praying for the sun to shine to get a half-smile out of people in the street? We have complicated our modern lives so much that we end up dragging…
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Day 17~ April 17th~ Congo
They say that only when you come so close to losing something do you value it the most… That is definitely something I have witnessed in Congo and growing up in a Lebanon during the civil war. War can make you more sensitized to the value of life, so when you cry, you cry more…
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Day Three Hundred Twenty Seven, December 15, 2011
Funny thing with us humans and our values. We seem to value what we no longer have a hundred times more than we did when we possessed it. As long as we take something for granted, then we allow familiarity to set in and we lose the value. It is the same with everything, from…
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Day One Hundred Ninety Two, August 2, 2011
H2O We are born into it, we breathe in it for the last months of our womb existence, we are made of almost 70% of it, we crave it first when thirsty before any other liquid, we bathe in it, our continents are surrounded by it from all sides, our atmosphere is soaked with it,…