E. B. White once wrote, “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
How often that describes me. I want to make a difference, to change, to improve the world and the lives of the people in it.
And yet.
I want to enjoy life, have fun, and to be honest park myself somewhere obscure and do nothing but wax lyrical about making a change without actually doing anything.
Planning when I have both desires is difficult indeed.
Today I took this photo of the Agoge Support Office just before our management meeting. It’s the start of another week. A week in which I plan to make a change.
We will see what happens…
Category: Photos (Page 11 of 11)
“Ubuntu is a concept that we have in our Bantu languages at home. Ubuntu is the essence of being a person. It means that we are people through other people. We cannot be fully human alone. We are made for interdependence, we are made for family. When you have ubuntu, you embrace others. You are generous, compassionate. If the world had more ubuntu, we would not have war. We would not have this huge gap between the rich and the poor. You are rich so that you can make up what is lacking for others. You are powerful so that you can help the weak, just as a mother or father helps their children. This is God's dream.” - Desmond Tutu
This is a photo of Cheree at CBC. Her and hubby own the VW van. We were talking about how I felt I owned a bit of their van. He talked about community, and I took this pic and it reminded me of Ubuntu.
One of the things I love about the Internet is the opinion it offers. If you have a problem with just about anything, someone somewhere has experienced the same problem.
Today I pulled by DVD/HDD recorder to bits again. It’s a Phillips and it’s had 2 or 3 things go wrong with it since the warranty ended. Now it is not recording correctly and I tried replacing the hard drive with a newer larger hard drive. It didn’t work so I put the old one back in.
I searched the internet last night again, and have some other things to try today.
I would say also, that one of the things I dislike about the Internet is the opinion it offers. So often the “solutions” are not solutions at all and are advertising gimmicks to lead you to a certain website.
It takes a while to troll through them all to find real knowledge. But I have access to knowledge that I wouldn’t have just 5 – 10 years ago.
[150 | 365 – ‘DYI Technology’ – Inside an unreliable, practically useless Phillips DVDR3455H DVD/HDD recorder – I wont buy Phillips again]
Water.
Where I live it’s free, but we buy it. It’s clean, but we filter it. It’s readily available, but we take it for granted.
Water is a significant part of the poverty cycle. It takes hours out of a persons day. Imagine waking up today and having to go and find water to survive before you do anything else.
1 in 8 people in the world lack clean water. Will you make a difference?
[149 | 365 – ‘Clean Water’ – This is a shot of Kyla, my eldest daughter, drinking fresh, clean tap water.]
140 | 365 – 'Flight Path'
Took this time exposure of the stars just as a light plane headed over the house to Hamilton airport. You can see the beacons alternating from one side of the plane to the next.
Was down by the river eating my lunch and took this photo with the very average camera on my phone.
I had heard about the 365 project, taking a photo every day for a year, and thought i couldn't do it because I dont have a camera with me all the time. Duh. I just don't have a great camera with me all the time.
Have made it easy to just email from my phone, so will give it a try and see what happens.
