AUGUST 2013

AMERICAN POET
MAYA ANGELOU

 

 

"I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings; gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at."

TIME

August 2013


Gandalf: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

The Fellowship of the Ring.......J.R.R. TOLKIEN

MULTI-FACETED BUT NOT MULTI-LINGUAL
August 2013

I speak only English and wondered about a word like 'hello' in other languages, so I went searching...this is just a small sample of greetings as I tell you today.....Hello World!

Amharic-Ethiopia-Salam/Tadiyass                                       Irish (Gaelic)- Dia dhuit
Czech-Ahoj/Dobry den                                                         Italian-Ciao
French-Bonjour                                                                     Japanese-Konnichiwa
German-Guten Tag                                                               Korean-Annyeonghaseyo
Hawaiian-Aloha                                                                    Slovak-Ahoj
Hebrew-Shalom                                                                    Spanish-Hola
Hindi-Namaste

RANDOM THOUGHTS ON A SUMMER MORNING
AUGUST 2013

"THESE GIVE US THE ULTIMATE HUMAN FREEDOM------THE POWER TO CHOOSE, TO RESPOND, TO CHANGE."     author........Stephen Covey

AUGUST 2013

ADJUSTING THE SAILS........

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."  Wm. A. Ward

JULY 2013

A MONTH OF SUMMER REFRESHMENT

 

 

  

 

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."  Maya Angelou (American Poet b.1928)