Guest Blog Post: “Universal Human Rights – Do you know them?” in Patty’s exact words

This post by Patty of DreamPack.org

Dutch blogger Patty first wrote this great post for us about what it's like to own a dog in Germany. Here she discusses why it is imperative that we all respect each other ... These days violence, intolerance, racism, discrimination seems to increase again. More and more people need to flee their homes and/or their countries, in… Continue reading Guest Blog Post: “Universal Human Rights – Do you know them?” in Patty’s exact words

Be Your Own Best Role Model + Learning to make homes by Elizabeth Semende

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Thank you, Ryan McGuire.

Role models can be great. They provide wisdom for how to get where we’d like to be.

Take care, though.

In our eagerness, we risk blindness and deafness to how sometimes they’re better examples of what not to do. Of the ones we love, those who are closest to us, their familiarity can feel like normalcy.

The amazing poem posted by afroliz of Zimbabwe that follows illustrates what I’m trying to say.

I believe we must all continually work to be our own best role models. Let us be lighthearted in working toward that goal. Let us be as serious as happiness when it comes to understanding which role models we might already have unwittingly chosen.

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In these places where women come to die

My mother’s words take turns to hit my ears:

“When you find a man, carve a home beneath his pride and

learn to make homes from nothing.”
Then I screamed: Mother this is not my home!

This is not a home!

It carries the weight of a man’s pride

the same way corpses carry the weight of tombstones​

In silence.

Mother did not listen.
She too found a home

In these places where nothing remains

but a swam of men urinating on the flame of our souls

She said: that is how we make homes out of nothing

By carrying the weight of a man’s pride

In silence.

© Elizabeth Semende

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Princess is Kind of a Bad Ass, a link and comment by LJUBICICAMESOZDERKA: Reblog

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Sure this is a reblog -- of a reblog! -- it’s that good!!! …

“Be Bold be Beautiful Be You,” in lisalemuya’s exact words: Reblog

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How much do you know about Kenya? One of the zillion things I love about blogging is how it makes the world friendlier and smaller. Here lisalemuya shares about her beloved Kenya …

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I have noticed most of my followers are not from my native country and that’s great having different views from all over the world is a breath of fresh air i get to know a bit of their cultures and they can learn a bit of mine.Here it goes…

I come from Kenya a country on the eastern side of Africa

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we are made up of roughly 42 different cultural communities who have different languages(i know crazy but we manage).This makes us diverse and in a way very accommodating, actually if you compare us to our neighbouring countries we are very cosmopolitan. Apart from the 42 tribes we have various other non natives from all over the world we have expatriates  from all over the world who fell in love with the country and decided to be citizens for good .There is a considerable indian population mostly they came to…

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Guest Blog Post: “Week 1| Self-Love,” in Niki’s exact words

Guest Blog Post: "Week 1| Self-Love" in Niki's exact words