Self understanding takes us a life time (although age is no guarantee of such)…self awareness does not take so much! Stroll through the different social media and the evidence is clear; selfies in every way imaginable. All to share for showing one’s own existence or to be more precize; give ones life importancy thus value……
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A Human Chronicle…
Our race is blessed and cursed by many chronicles, man made-up (read: written down faithfully) or truthfully told by many generations. Now there is one that has caught my attention; the love/hate affair with BOOZE! I am no connoisseur of holy texts, though recall some…contradictory texts in different religions. Some explicitely forbidding any ingestion of…
Ohana or kin
The word we normally use is family which comes from the latin word “famulus” literaly means;servants of a household. That made me ponder… Lately, I have been entertaining myself with series broadcasted in Netflix and HBO. The variety of ancestors (read Vikings, royalty, immigrants) and supernaturals is vast though have a common denominator; the New…
Lupercalia aka Saint Valentine
A pagan fertility celebration, christianised (like most) that in present times is loved and loathed by an equal number of people. Most do not see else than a commercial happening, where loved ones open wallets wide. Before making my point; I would like to share the different tales told by both parties. Starting with the…
Libre albedrio
A beautiful Spanish way to say; U are free to choose. The Latin root is “arbitrium” which means judge, so the saying literally is; free judge. A free judge of our own destiny…the system, however, is designed to have our value alike about the matters that keep us in check. No matter the condition or…
The underdog and the fair-haired…
Once upon a time, a long long time ago we morphed into bipeds. The history told is, in my view, a shortcoming story. Perchance of my predilection of fantasy, drama and adventure or just because of history have always been told by an underpaid subject of a ruler so and so. Anyhow, before I start…
Germs, genesis & nemesis 4 Black
The month we are living in holds a variety of important happenings going on in different parts of the world. Mainly shared, blown over in one century or another. A good example is our traditional Sinterklaas festivity, or better said Saint Nicolas: the good old fellow died 1676 years ago, so U can imagine that…
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