Adventurer – Critic – Photographer
It is always exciting to meet new people, especially girls that you either want to date or maybe even marry some day. Initial meetings between a new girl and your kid(s) can be awkward. You have no idea how your kid(s) are going to respond to her. Kids can be the toughest people on Earth to ...
The history of our civilization has been one of regular war. In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, grown powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. Though the power moved from one country to another, the general pattern of the political and economic ...
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Mayor Ozaki donated the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also celebrate the continued ...
Now, why talk about this? Is it interesting, is it important for the Human being to realize that in some sense of the word – whatever it means – he is God or one with God. A lot of people understand it. But so what? What the importance of this is this: that to know that ...
When will we as Humans realize that we are not separate from nature and that infact we are nature. When will we understand than when we destroy the planet we are destroying ourselves. We live in an insane time when no one is thinking long term and actions are based on short-term profits. But there is still hope. ...
Butterflies are deep and powerful representations of life. Many cultures associate the butterfly with our souls. The Christian religion sees the butterfly as a symbol of resurrection. Around the World, people view the butterfly as representing endurance, change, hope, and life. There is no doubt the butterfly has significant meanings to us. Butterfly is the power of ...
When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great emptiness opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray ...
Tell everyone that being in Love with someone of the same sex is as normal as it is for two people of the opposite sex. After all, Love is Love. Expressing Love in a same sex relationship is something natural, Love is a natural part of being Human. To want to share Love is a natural feeling and need ...
It is easy to give up when you do not feel like moving forward. It takes motivation and ability. Motivation makes things happen. Where there is no will, there is no way. One of the best ways to improve your personal effectiveness is to master your motivation and find your drive. If you can master motivation, you ...
I am everywhere and nowhere. And I own nothing and everything. This is for everyone who looks at the World from a different perspective. For everyone who still believes in his or her dreams. In a life worth living. This is for everyone who is restless. For everyone who strives for change. Who sees things differently. For ...
To the people who hold me up when my mind wants to let me down and I start falling to the ground. Thank you. Thank you for being my legs when mine refuse to work. Thank you for letting me lean on your strength when the rest of the World wants me in the dirt. Thank ...
I have bad news for you, for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the World, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight. Martin Luther King dedicated his life to Love and to justice for his fellow Human beings, and he died because of that effort. In ...
True Love is having someone who understands your past, supports your present and encourages your future. The past, present and future. All three of them are always happening and they do not stop for anyone. The present is a beautiful thing, it is constantly being captured through photos, films, social media and various other forms. But in ...
Terence McKenna was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, author, psychonaut, lecturer, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based enthogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of Human Consciousness. In 1956, at the age of ...
Suffering is built into the structure of Human being. Although it can be unbearable, people have a choice either to withdraw, which is a suicidal gesture or to face and transcend it. It is nice to think the meaning of life is happiness, but what happens when you are unhappy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kfIb1dp1w Happiness is a great side effect. When it ...
Deadly Duo: cocktail of alcohol and drugs. Whitney Houston, Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith are all thought to have died from prescription drug overdoses. Like many other addicts, they eventually began mixing drugs along with alcohol. Once people get hooked on drugs, it is fairly easy to stay addicted. People who are addicted or ...
So you see our very existence is a rhythm, of waking and sleeping, eating and moving. And that's all we're doing. Just consider what we do everyday. What's it all about? Does it really mean anything? Does it go anywhere? It's just we keep wanting to do this kind of a 'hoop-dee-da'. So you can get ...
Jesus of Nazareth, a Jewish prophet who claimed to be the Christ prophesied in the Jewish scriptures, was arrested, was judged a political criminal, and was crucified. Three days after his death and burial, some women who went to his tomb found the body gone. In subsequent weeks, his disciples claimed that God had raised him from ...
Travel around the World has become another exercise in narcissistic Self presentation, one more way of desperately extracting some semblance of uniqueness out of your otherwise mediocre existence. You can keep traveling around the World, and still do not know who you are and what you are looking for. You have been thrown into uncomfortable situations, breaking ...
Life is a confusing journey. Life is full of the unthinkable, the unimaginable and the impossible. Life is filled with questions. Some questions are more striking than others, some require answers that will inevitably have a huge impact on your life and will manifest the path you end up taking. Life is strung together by these questions, ...
Money and Beauty are no object. You can not buy self esteem. - I am intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful than for a plain one. Different yes, but not necessarily better. So, the next time you see a stunningly beautiful woman ... ...
In 1856, Karl May commenced teacher training but in 1859 was expelled for stealing six candles but after appealing was allowed to continue. Shortly after graduation, when his roommate accused him of stealing a watch, he was jailed in Chemnitz for six weeks and his license to teach was permanently revoked. After this, Karl May worked with ...
I am very aware of the preciousness of time. I was given two to three years to live. I faced a life unable to properly communicate. Fortunately my mind was unaffected. While all around me people have passed the day deep in conversation, I have often been transported afar, lost inside my own thoughts, trying to ...
In the Greek myth of Pandora's box, a curious woman opens a box and releases all manner of evil into the World. Once the box is open, there is no closing it, and only hope is left at the bottom. Is the internet holy or evil? That question does not really matter. The internet just is. It ...
The most important change has been the one made necessary by the radio and the airplane. Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. The World is now so small that a major event in any country affects all. A civil war ...