THE GEM 8 AUGUST 2015
― Kimberly Wollenburg, Crystal Clean: A mother’s struggle with meth addiction and recovery
A girl without a mother is like a mountain with no paths; a girl without a father is like a mountain with no streams.
Kurdish Proverb
THE GEM 3 DEC 2014
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
“Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? …We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.”
― Diane Ackerman
THE GEM 7 SEP 2014
Ageni eri na karirui kao
Two guests love a different song.
When you receive two visitors at the same time, you cannot treat them in the same manner, because they have different tastes.
THE GEM 6 SEPT 2014
Michelangelo
“When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
THE GEM 5 SEPTEMBER 2014
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions,
even though they have been held in honour
for many generations and in diverse places.
Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it.
Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past.
Do not believe what you yourself have imagined,
persuading yourself that a God inspires you.
Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests.
After examination, believe what you yourself have tested
and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
Buddha
THE GEM 4 SEPTEMBER 2014
http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/pol/pol37.htm
A Native American Prayer O’ Great Spirit,
Who’s voice I hear in the winds, and whose breath gives life, life to all the world, hear me!
I am small and weak, I need your strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden in every rock and leaf.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy which is myself.
Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.
So, when life fades as the falling sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame.
THE GEM 3 SEPTEMBER 2014
– Walt Whitman
Fighting Ignorance since 1975 (It’s taking longer than I thought) and Smile, because everyone is entitled to my opinion!
recovery with wrinkles
Past The Tipping Point
FREEDOM FROM OPIOIDS
Thought Catalog is a digital youth culture magazine dedicated to your stories and ideas.
Amber K. Mersing Foundation
Dislocated ElderWoman . living the life of a run down old hermitage. simple poor and quiet
Tales of whimsy, humour and courgettes
staying clean with wrinkles
I need photos to keep my memories alive
the images of 2017
Proposals to save various decaying NSW rail heritage icons and stations for the future
staying clean with wrinkles
WRITER|WELL-BEING|RECOVERY|ADDICTION|DEPRESSION|ABUSE|FAITH|LOVE
staying clean with wrinkles
I got sober. Life got big.
Vintage Hollywood films and stars
