having tea
having tea
Zimbabwe’s coffeeshop culture is thriving despite the economic pinch most people are feeling. It must have been passed on from the Colonial days, as we have 3 coffeeshops within 500m of each other in Alex Park. As a child my parents would take me to town every Saturday to Barbours (departmental store) for tea. It [...]
March 21st, 2012 read more
Dreams
some people dont dream at all, i cant imagine that. i remember most of my dreams and most stay with me, and some are repeated. i recently dreamt my parents came back to life and were willing to help me. we talked about them coming back from the dead. i woke up quite upset they [...]
March 16th, 2012 read more
Six Senses
Been listening to a cd I recently got in from amazon.co.uk . six senses, by claude challe. I bought this after doing a search based on ‘buddha bar and siddaharta’ collection, which have to be my favourites in my collection so far. When the cd arrived, I thought ‘oh shit I think I have wasted [...]
March 15th, 2012 read more
Love in the Desert (part 2)
Love in the Desert (part 2) Interesting the feedback I had from my my first blog on this subject. I think most of you are hoping to hear the next part, and I hope u wont be too disappointed. You see it took me 2 months to sort out my personal life inEnglandin order [...]
March 13th, 2012 read more
Love in the desert
The first time I met Usama I was wondering through the Sinai desert in Egypt, on the one side the bright blue sparkling Red Sea surrounded by the pink and brown hues of the desert sand and distant mountains of Saudi Arabia. He came out a ghosha (hut) in his underpants, dark skinned, tall [...]
March 08th, 2012 read more
barriers
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Rumi
March 06th, 2012 read more
Monogomy
Monogomy Been wondering when this idea was first introduced into our civilization and why. Was there a shortage of men perhaps? And why is it that in some cultures men can have 4 wives, but a woman can only have one husband? Why were harems filled with women and eunuchs (castrated men) and yet [...]
March 05th, 2012 read more
Facing Death
Facing Death “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Saw Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s film. She researched death for many years, the film documents her life and her own facing of death. In her experience people who are accepting of [...]
March 04th, 2012 read more
Hot Springs
Just got back from lunging in hot springs with temperatures of 40 degrees in the water and 45 outside!! Didnt know the sulphur would tranish my jewellery, guess that most women had on their gold and so were therefor unaffected! On the long journey home I pondered on the question ‘why are we here?’ What [...]
March 01st, 2012 read more
