A worm is as good a traveller as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.
Henry David Thoreau ” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”
Daily Archives: February 9, 2009
Descend into the forest’s weave.Soul Glim.
He wahine ke te kainga, he kaka ki te ngahere
(A woman in the house is like a kaka in the forest)
gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people dining in a good home. M. F. K. Fisher 1908-1992)
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass throughthree distinctand recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiryand Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why,and Where phases. For instance, the first phase ischaracterized by the question “How can we eat?, the second by the question “Why do we eat? and thethird by the question, “Where shall we have lunch?”Douglas Adams
I am a daylight atheist. Brendan Behan
Steiner/Waldorf teacher Sean Burke, of Perth, Western Australia.
Time be a castle, throwing towers tall,
walls steady, moats deep and wide…
FOTO – TOOWONG BRISBANE 2007
‘Go as the way opens’ QUAKER.
Volker Pudel, food psychologist from Göttingen.“Chocolate is a fine product, you should savour it with a good conscience.”
http://www.aichberger.de/22E_chocolate.htm
FOTO – DESSERT IN NEW FARM 2007
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. Cicero (44 B.C.)
Life is unsure, always eat your dessert first.
There are perils by land, and perils by water. Adam Lindsay Gordon
You must know the speech of hills and rivers. Aldo Leopold.
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. TOM ROBBINS.
Life is a shadow and a mist; it passes quickly by and is no more. MADAGASCAR.
Hard work never did anyone any harm
The palm wine tree that is afraid of the calabash should stop producing palm wine. BAYELSA.
Ewe Language (Ghana, West Africa)
WometsÇa deku eve dea alÇgo ðeka me o.
You cannot crack two palmnuts in the mouth at the same time.
FOTO – SUNRISE IN BILAMBIL.
Born alone to escape thoughts conceived within a dying star. Jordan Couch.
Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes? Indiana Jones
The Cuckoo by Ogden Nash Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives, They fail as husbands and as wives, Therefore they cynically disparage Everybody else’s marriage.
Indian proverb."Even if you are drinking milk under a coconut tree, people will still say you are drinking toddy".
The deepest rivers flow by most silently. Victoria Richards
THE SWAGMAN.
He’s waltzing old Matilda, and when you were in your bed,
He was dreaming ‘neath the gum trees by the river, .
And the kookaburras chattered, as the day dawned, fierce and red.
And the river breezes woke him. with a shiver.
FOTO – BRISBANE RIVER 1962 CHOKED WITH WATER HYACINTH.
To return then, again, to undo in the heart the knot of our sweet wounded country, the nothingness of our lost dream of a life shared floating. FERNANDO RENDÓN
SUNSET AMID THE BUFFALO MOUNTAINS (N.E. Victoria) Across the boulder’d majesty Of the great hills the passing day Drifts like a wind-borne cloud away Far off beyond the western sky: And while a purple glory spreads, With straits of gold and brilliant reds, An azure veil, translucent, strange, Dreamlike steals over each dim range.
jilaljilal ngayoo booroo ngankalan
go behind I country I-visit far
I am going to another country, a country somewhere far away.
FOTO – ARMIDALE SUNSET 2007