February 2012
M T W T F S S
« Jan    
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
272829  

Poetry and Inspiration

THE Kaleidoscope

Feb 20th, 2011 | By Cheryl Smith | Category: Community Resource, Entertainment, Life, Poetry and Inspiration

If through our each and own lens,
if through it is we see,
then which lens
are you looking through
when you look at me;
what is it you see
two and also
when I lens back at you?
c.smith
History of Kaleidoscopes
Kaleidoscope is a tube through which when you look; you find a complex pattern of colors, which change as [...]



I & i

Feb 17th, 2011 | By Cheryl Smith | Category: Poetry and Inspiration

I & i
Feb/2011
c.smith
since the time of bow and arrow
I am alive and
I remember
I hold the key
I hold Memory
i continue to be
i continue to seek
i continue to strive                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  i continue to speak
i continue to learn
to listen and weep and seek
i continue i continue i continue
For I am alive
and will always Be
c
namaste
artist c.smith

Share this:



Que. man arrives in Vancouver for final leg of 11-year walk around the world

Jan 31st, 2011 | By Collective | Category: Community Board, Life, Poetry and Inspiration

The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER – Jean Beliveau had been away from Canada for four years, slowly making his way through Ethiopia on foot, when he thought he had reached his limit.
The Quebec man had covered more than 27,000 kilometres in three continents on a ’round-the-world walk to raise awareness about children facing [...]



Goddess

Jan 29th, 2011 | By shelaa | Category: Community Board, Community Exchange, Community Resource, Poetry and Inspiration

Goddess

A statue of the Hindu goddess Saraswati.

A Nepali girl being worshipped as a living goddess, called a kumari.

A goddess is a female deity. In some cultures goddesses are associated with Earth, motherhood, love, and the household. In other cultures, goddesses also rule over war, death, and destruction as well as healing.
The primacy of a monotheistic [...]



Order of Saint Clare

Jan 28th, 2011 | By Cheryl Smith | Category: Life, Poetry and Inspiration

Fresco of Saint Clare and sisters of her order, church of San Damiano, Assisi

Nun of the Order of Poor Clares

The Poor Clares also known as the Order of Saint Clare, the Order of Poor Ladies, the Poor Clare Sisters, the Clarisse, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Congregation, and the Second Order of St. Francis, (In [...]



Saint Clare & Saint Francis of Assisi

Jan 26th, 2011 | By Cheryl Smith | Category: Community Exchange, Health, Poetry and Inspiration

Saint Clare of Assisi

Latin: clarus, famous
(1194 to 1253) Virgin, co-foundress with Saint Francis of Assisi of the Poor Clares, born Assisi, Italy; died there. A daughter of Blessed Ortolana, and endowed from early childhood with the rarest virtues, she was won over by Saint Francis to the service of Christ, pronouncing her vows, [...]



Sometimes people come into your life…by Flora Terah

Jan 24th, 2011 | By Collective | Category: Community Board, Health, Life, Poetry and Inspiration, Written Word

by Flora Terah Igoki on Monday, 24 January 2011 at 06:29

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there; they serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. You [...]



WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN I SHALL WEAR PURPLE by Jenny Joseph

Jan 23rd, 2011 | By Collective | Category: Community Board, Entertainment, Life, Poetry and Inspiration, Written Word

When I Am Old.

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me,
And I shall spend my pension
on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals,
and say we’ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired,
And gobble up samples in [...]



*

Jan 22nd, 2011 | By Collective | Category: Housing, Life, Poetry and Inspiration

 

A single helix? [stolen from Cleo Laine] and Paradigm Shift

Share this:



Martin Luther King I Have a Dream (the complete speech)

Jan 17th, 2011 | By Collective | Category: Audio, Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Poetry and Inspiration

Share this: