In the current economic climate many people are out of work and also many community and voluntary groups are having their funding cut more and more. Many of these groups carry out vital work in their communities, working on the front line, and yet I find in my own local area, while the level of unemployment creeps up, the number of people willing to volunteer is dropping drastically! I am lucky to still have full time work and I volunteer in my local area working with disadvantaged ...
So I am dipping a toe in the water and seeing how things go. This has been my home for a long time now and while people come and go...the constant remains. I am only one of many that frequent this site and despite comments made, nothing untoward occurred and the site remains which I always knew would happen. If changes occur it is because they are needed to occur to help us learn lessons. I have learned many in my time away and am now moving forward again. I got caught up with ...
In the stillness of night Wisdom came and stood By my bed. She gazed upon me like a tender mother And wiped away my tears, and said : 'I have heard The cry of your spirit and I am come to comfort it. Open your heart to me and I shall fill it with light. Ask of me and I shall show you the way of truth.' And I said : 'Who am I, Wisdom, and how came I to this frightening place? What manner of things Are these mighty hopes and these many ...
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Khalil Gibran It has been exactly a year since my last blog entry...and a lot has happened in that year. I can sum it all up by that quote by Gibran (who I must say was a brilliant brilliant man!). This past year has been one in which life's events have had me questioning my very existence. I have fallen in and out of love one time too many. And wanting things ...
... i see the light brightly circling close by this world, i sense your breath upon my heart , when i die i shall be renwed, born me not again for i have risen to the challenge. did she go to her night without bearing the name of those who shed cloaks before her. how did confusion find it in her ? when did she taste the cider in her veins ? in light she cried before darkness came swift. fly child fly higher than thine has flown before. stars ..stars they watch me now. they shine. Rana ...