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Dear Mr Coelho
Please say something to supporting us in IRAN. You saw Neda, You know Arash, You are one of famous and favorite writers in Iran. They are trying to disconnect us from outside. The world must see us, hear our voice. Please say something.
with Love
and peace be with you
Ali
Up Where The Deer Runs Wild
28 June 2009
“You made it seem so effortless but it isn’t.” Her friend said. “For a relationship to work, both of you have to put in the same investment.”
She looked across the fields, saw the mountains and squinted her eyes against the morning sun.
“You’ve already learned your lesson, I believe.” Her friend continued. “This is only a pop quiz from the Universe.”
“I hate pop quizzes!” She frowned.
“Who doesn’t?”
They laughed.
“What lessons have you learned?” Her friend’s voice turned serious.
She shrugged. “I can’t exactly think of anything right now.”
“One, you are committed to your relationship. Two, you don’t give up easily when it gets rough. Three, you’re a real toughie.”
She could only shake her head in reply. She bit her lip.
Her friend pulled out a tissue from the box beside them. “Here! I know you’re going to be crying again.”
She got the tissue as they both smiled at each other, but the tears did not come.
“As sure as the sun shines.” She heard herself saying, more to herself than to her companion.
“You always have to keep believing.”
There was a moment of silence.
“What now?” She finally asked. “What should I do?”
Her friend waited before responding, “You don’t have to do anything anymore. You’ve done all you can. It’s time you pull back and let things unfold more overtime.”
Her throat suddenly became itchy. She knew it was a sign that she has over exhausted herself again. Her friend’s words resonated with the tiredness she felt. She coughed.
“You need a man who can step up to your plate.”
“Never settle for anyone less than who I am,” she said after clearing her throat. She knew she was at the brink of a fever.
“Yes, that’s right!”
She looked at her friend. “Next month, let’s do the 6-hour hike we’ve been planning. I really don’t care who’ll go with us.”
“It’ll be fun camping.” Her friend smiled.
“Can’t wait for it!” She stared at the mountains again then added, “Always have something to look forward to.”
I need friends tomorrow, that is Monday morning. I have a exam, please think at me .Thanks
Much love
Alexandra
I am lighting an orange coloured candle for you intention now : )
Love,
Breda
Dear Alexandra, my best wishes for the exam tomorrow and for Annie having an exam on the 30th.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Thank you Breda, Annie and Thelma. My hear now is lighter and hope stronger. Dear Annie, good luck, wish you great success!
Much love and gratitude
Alexandra
God bless you
THE UNATTAINABLE IDEAL
We ought to live
each day as though
it were our last day
here below.
But if I did, alas,
I know
it would hav killed me
long ago.
(Piet Hein)
Thank you Heart! It is wonderful.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
Dear Paulo,
I’ve read a few of your books and enjoyed most of them. Many times I decided to write to you in the past, but every time there was a reason not to. Nonetheless, today I felt a sense of urgency to do and an overdue undone. I am and am not convinced in the “signs” that you write about, however, I profoundly believe in exchange of human energy through waves that is purely related to the science of physics, rather the metaphysical force(s). Most of us don’t see but feel and respond to these energies in every moment of our lives. And if you’re self aware and transparent with your innermost (that is also purely physical) you see and feel the waves more often then the rest. Today, I suddenly was struck by the news on the way driving home. That was Dr. Arash Hejazi’s name not so much Hejazi but “Arash” struck me.
Let me share with you some interesting chain of events:
In the last few days we’ve been holding candlelight vigil and trying to organize an international organization for freedom and peace, due to the current Iranian crises. When we were searching for name of the association I suggested “Neda for Freedom” (Call for Freedom) and then I rationalized that Neda is the contemporary Arash (Arash of our time). Also we will commemorate her legacy forever. The world needs a contemporary hero in an epical scale such as Arash I insisted and who is better than Neda, even the meaning of her name. Since last Monday I’ve been thinking about Arash and Neda (Arash is a heroic figure in Persian culture). Today, June 26, 2009, I heard Arash Hejazi’s name for the first time in my life on the Radio and his connection with Neda in Tehran. A few hours later after googling his name and watching his interview on BBC, I learnt about your connection with him which completes the triangle?!…
Long live for those who gave their blood to call for Freedom (Neda)
Hoje as pessoas, a imprensa falam na morte de Michael jackson………
Ele cumpriu sua missão que descanse em paz..
Ele teve uma vida atribulada e ao que parece não muito feliz mas os fãs jamais esqueceram dele ,sua voz e sua musica serão eternos…
Vá em paz…..
Com exceção da grana q ele ganhou, q trouxe mais aborrecimentos do q satisfação (a q chamamos vaidade), ele realmente não era uma pessoa feliz. Eu com a minha casa de 56 m2 me considero em um ano mais feliz do q talvez ele tenha sido em toda a sua vida.
Boxes and Matches
26 June 2009, 12:29 pm
“I’ve started already.” She sighed. “But it’s overwhelming. I think I’m getting too emotional over the whole thing.”
“Just look around you and ask yourself, if I were to move in one week, what will I bring?” Her friend said over the phone.
She sat down on the floor in the middle of her room. She let her eyes linger on every corner. She sighed again.
“I know moving out is still out of the question, but I do feel a geographic change will trigger the movement you’ve been wanting in your life for the past two years.”
“Tell me about it! It’s not like I planned to live in this house forever!” She laughed but the tears started to fall. “What will I bring if I move out? I don’t want to bring anything! I’m going to stuff everything in a gigantic box and burn it.”
Her friend laughed with her.
“My friends are going to teach me how to drive,” she said as she reached for tissues. “Soon I’ll be driving up to Colorado for weekend getaways. You’ll just hear my voice messages saying I’m filling up for gas in some tumbleweed state too.”
“That’s the spirit! Keep at it!”
“I’m telling the Universe I’m fed up with being stuck!” She bit her lip. “A little help here, please!”
“You will get the help you need.” The voice on the other line was firm. “Just hang in there. I feel it’ll come as a surprise for you. It’s like a call you would have never expected.”
“I just feel I keep hitting a wall.” She admitted. “And I’m getting tired. Of everything. But I know I can’t give up now. Baby steps, always have to make those baby steps.”
“Awww, sweetie! I understand.”
“I seriously need a hug right now.”
“If only we lived closer!” Her friend laughed. “You could move right in with me! And we’ll be partyin’ all year long!”
She blew her nose after drying her tears. “How many times have we said that to each other?”
“A million times!”
They both laughed.
“Well, one day we’ll meet each other, and I’m gonna have to give you one huge hug for helping me through all this,” she said smiling.
“Awww. We will! I’m sure we will.”
“Alright, I better go. I do have this speech thing this afternoon. But I don’t think I’m going.” She sighed then stood up. “I’m not even graduating yet, and the school already wants me to impart words of wisdom to those who are leaving. How weird.”
“There’s a reason why they chose you.”
“Yeah, but I really don’t feel like giving speeches right now,” she said. “I’ll give the speech when I’ve come out of this tunnel I’m currently in.”
She heard a laugh. “That makes perfect sense, hon!”
“Me first before others.” She paused then added, “You know what I learned over the past few weeks?”
“What?”
“Good intuitive friends are good personal GPS-es… Or whatever the plural form of GPS is.”
“Yep, they are.” The voice indicated a smile. “They truly are.”
I mourn with the rest of the world for the lost of MJ. Been a big fan since the 80s… that is the decade I was born.
Feeling a lot of compassion for the entire world. Thinking a lot about:
- Children’s nutrition (in all aspects)
- The blessing of self-government
- Nesting; looking for a place (an environment, not sure why)
- Love
Thank You Paulo…hoping that you have had a day of sunshine : )
Today Michael Jackson passed away. He was a legend in life and is a legend in death. He fulfilled his personal legend in life and to me I learnt what remarkable things we can accomplish if we embrace, love and enjoy our personal legend with a passion. I always loved, and still love listening to his songs because he had such passion in his voice. We do not always have to gain fame living our legend (I personally do not think I would ever want fame) and we may not be perfect (no one is) but we can fulfill our destiny on earth. Then our Creator will take us back to Him after we have accomplished all we had to do on earth.
(This is part of a brief note I posted on my blog as the Summer Solstice was approaching)
For those of who you haven’t heard, a major movement towards f r e e d o m is taking place as I write, on the streets of Tehran and other cities in Iran, and around the globe and thousands join in solidarity, and in the cybersphere via blog posts, twitters, video uploads. I’ve never seen any thing quite like it in all my years of protest and activism.
It is in solidarity with the brave dissenters of Iran that I have changed my avatar. Green is the color of the dissent movement; and the image of Green Tara (Kwan Yin, the goddess of compassion) is, I think, an appropriate entity to evoke at this time. An advance reading of my CycleCast tells me that the quest for freedom – for oneself and others – is strong in the psychic-energy weather right now. May the spirit of freedom and peace eventually prevail, around the world!
I cannot bear to see this!Stop making money out of animals!This is a thing to hunt to feed yourself and to survive,another to make more and more production to make money!As well,as the conditions of the animals and how bad you treat them.While one side of the world people have hardly meat on their meals, the other side are throwing the three quarter of it away,cause they were too greedy so they produced more and more and in the end,they throw it away.Isn’t that wrong?
THIS IS WRONG!
Also,how the animals are treated is unbearable!
Also,the whole process is a threat to human health as well,we all saw it,it brings many new diseases,because they don’t respect animals,they don’t respect people too,cause what they only care about is a piece of paper(yeah..how ironic,a piece of paper,easy to use,easy to burn)
It is hard to do the right choices when you live in a society where the price of the meat is lower than the ones of vegetables and fruits.But again it’s the whole process that I condemn,the industry,the way they treat animals and how they make money out of such a crime.Cause they are criminals!They offend God’s nature because they defy time,they offend animals who are God’s creations and they offend us,because the ones who buy and eat it can die of various disease.
What to do?Perhaps,does it have to come from us,consummers?Perhaps trying to eat less meat so they will produce less?
I know i’m not objective saying that cause I don’t eat meat at all so easier to do for me.
Today, some of newspapers are for the death of Mickael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. I find important of keep in memory : today is the international day against the torture.
June 26th, 1987 came into effect the Agreement against the torture. It was about a step there importing in the sense of this necessities “globalization” of human rights and gratitude of the absolute and universal illegality of the torture, as of any inhuman or degrading treatment. It is to mark this historic date when the General assembly of United Nations created in 1997 the international Day for the victims of the torture, fixed on June 26th of every year.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8119201.stm
The witch hunt in Africa goes on..
some say is even on the increase.
Africa Have Your Say on Witch craft
Catherine, This worries me. I feel there is so much potential in the countries of Africa, but keep hearing sad news from the continent. Can you tell me of a country in Africa where government and social conditions are going well? I would like to know.
resolvi compartilhar um frase que gosto muito e espero que todos entendam o seu significado.
“Seja como for, a grandiosa Revolução Humana de uma única pessoa irá um dia impulsionar a mudança total do destino de um país e, além disso, será capaz de transformar o destino de toda a humanidade.”
(Daisaku Ikeda).
http://www.bsgi.org.br/
Paulo, today Michael Jackson returned to the “original world”, our world of energy, and I’m sad, in spite of to know that is a natural way…Now I’m listening in my mind, the music “Beat it”,that I like it very much!! This is the life… Besos,Meire.
Summer Reading:
“I’m now reading Songs of Blue and Gold by Deborah Lawrenson, set on the Greek island of Corfu, a sunny island full of bays, beaches, and rocky cliffs.
I also plan to read something more hot, Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson, a thriller set in Sun Valley, Idaho.’
From my book blog, http://www.bookbirddog.blogspot.com
What a shock. So great artist died. Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcet.I wanted to post a love poem, but maybe is not the right moment. Wish everybody a nice time, much love and peace.
Alexandra
Thanks for sharing your email with your frend doctor Arash. I lived many years in Iran and I was there ten years ago when the students began their protest at the university on July 9, 1999: from my house, near the university, I closely followed the situation. They were just students, but now they are million. What we can do from outside Iran?We try to speak, tell, write, keep alive the world’s attention on their struggle. Here in Venice we have organized an evening with music, movies, photos, candles and flowers. Italian and Iranians all together for Iran and Iranians to keep alive their struggle for the most basic human rights. We are all Iranians!
way of dream
Today I write about the dream that we had intro seara.eram in this town, and I came to vizitez.soarele brilliant strong and was only around armonie.am came to take you, because I wanted to go in a wonderful place to visit the great pyramid to find the answer to the question we Macina both (or at least so I thought and still think). when I met, I started to forget all the unpleasant memories from my life moment.te that until I got and I started to go in search of great piramida.la a time we forgot the other one in the eye, and atuns was minunea.brusc, I was sent in another lume.totul was still recognized necunoscut.am great pyramid, though not a niciodata.parca saw something we call acolo.dar there is a small pyramid obstacol.langa were numerous faclii.era a hot fire more than met by the mom ent.deodata have started to fly, so do not fire power deranja.insa your beauty was a shield against focului.ma me to watch you go through those faclii.sincer may mean that those Facliei lost all his powers, so that you ma aparai.in that time only one thought me mad: I was afraid lest you accidentally fly so high or I be burned by a torch, and we do not we meet again …… .
then we got near the stairs piramidei.pe they were all written messages to the gods pamanteni.doua things were curioase.primul was that no earthling not never heard, the second tie Look familiar ….( I am convinced then you’re the daughter of a god, because the beauty of your soul you were some real treasures )…………..
I got on top of the pyramid, and then an earthquake produs.visul was finished, and I have not seen for a few days … I have not talked to you, and I do not know what happens ……. …. I think that was wrong, but time seems to end ……( I refuse to believe that you will never see again) ..
hardly wait to see you, or you dream again …………………
http://adikady2009.blogspot.com
life was a game that beings minunile universului.tu you understand the most important miracle of the world, and therefore wanted to regaasesc, and I can not think admira.nimeni could be more brilliant than you, because your eyes are center of this universe in which we aflam.acestia sunht only able to maintain the necessary light to traverse the universe a long period of her life …. you were always my goal, which we wanted him realizez.era but the most complicated objective …. I remember very well when we get back on Terra.arata the same, but when I flew through the atmosphere of this planet, my heart smiled because you knew that you could gaseasca.in those forgotten moments of promise but did ingerilor, which had so respect …..
ha ha ha