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Looking for inspirational people and stories...
Keeping eyes and ears open...Elvihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944073128644466161noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992457421352821938.post-47435042120229061912013-02-17T07:57:00.000-08:002013-02-17T08:13:37.684-08:00La Grande Dame - Cesaria Evora<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A humble artist with an amazing voice.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Her career began when she was 47.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And to think that there are people who want to give up at the age of 40!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">50 is when the fun starts!:)</span></div>
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Elvihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944073128644466161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992457421352821938.post-28911951659631982352012-08-31T08:01:00.002-07:002012-08-31T08:01:35.719-07:00Summer days, summer evenings...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Summer is almost gone...The air is crisp now and the sun doesn't treat us with the same strength as it used to two months ago. </span></div>
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<br />Elvihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944073128644466161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992457421352821938.post-67374957651251876322012-08-25T15:52:00.002-07:002012-08-31T08:02:08.327-07:00Strong woman vs. woman of strength - controversial Oonagh<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>A strong woman works out every day to keep her body in shape ...<br />but a woman of strength kneels in prayer to keep her soul in shape...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>A strong woman isn't afraid of anything ...<br />but a woman of strength shows courage in the midst of her fear...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>A strong woman won't let anyone get the best of her ...<br />but a woman of strength gives the best of her to everyone...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>A strong woman makes mistakes and avoids the same in the future...<br />a woman of strength realizes life's mistakes can also be God's blessings and capitalizes on them...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>A strong woman walks sure footedly ...<br />but a woman of strength knows God will catch her when she falls...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>A strong woman wears the look of confidence on her face ...<br />but a woman of strength wears grace...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>A strong woman has faith that she is strong enough for the journey ...<br />but a woman of strength has faith that it is in the journey that she will become strong...</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I first read this poem when I borrowed "The Voice of Silence" from a local library. A random but lucky choice what often happens to me when I don't look for a particular book.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oonagh Shanley-Toffolo - a nun turned nurse, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">turned missionary in India, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">turned midwife, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">turned</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> wife&psychotherapist) made me realise many things:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- how important it is to give time to a new-born baby to get used to the world and light(!) as a baby lived in darkness, and also to a mom to accept her new role,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- that children need time to think - picking up flowers, fishing for crabs or admiring sunsets, painting their own images in the firmament as they watch the clouds rolls by,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- how important it is to take time and get a rest as recreation re-creates us ("recreation, laughter,travel and curiosity can fire the heart"),</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- that everyone needs to be "wounded" in order to be able to help others,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- that life is full of blessings in disguise,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- that two people who have a harmony together will include everyone in it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- that "illness frequently occurs to bring us to an awarness of ourselves and to a higher understanding of our destiny",</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- that death = re-birth,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- "if we are caught in seeking the approval of others we are wrestling with a finite, mortal and fickle element. If we get ourselves entangled in what others do and say and think, we lose our own identity. We lose our way." And so on and on and on...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It is believed that Oonagh betrayed Princess Diana (by selling a story to press), she denied but their friendship ended right afterwards.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't know if it's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">true nor do I agree with everything she said but I hope that through her book she will teach and cure a few more people.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Each day can be a pursuit, a discovery...Your life, my life, our lives are surely for living and loving - and for being happy."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"All we need is Love but love without knowledge falls short."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"All the "shoulds", the "musts" and the "oughts" can so easily obscure our path and help create seemingly deep holes into which we can fall time and again.[...] Yet in these deep holes we can still look up and see the stars (our heavenly latterns)."</span><br />
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<br />Elvihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944073128644466161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992457421352821938.post-75166664099865921792012-07-28T15:06:00.000-07:002012-07-28T15:06:29.582-07:00Hella Haasse - forever a stranger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Helene Serafia Haasse - a popular Dutch author is perhaps not very well known in other countries.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I learnt about her books thanks to my Dutch teacher who was never tired of listening to our mostly incomprehensible phrases and encouraged us not only to speak (or rather keep on trying to speak) Dutch as often as possible but also introduced us to Dutch culture through music, films, books and theatre.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hella was born in the Dutch East Indies in 1918. What wonderful childhood it must have been, what fond memories since they inspired her to write most of her books.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Twenty years later she went to the Netherlands to study Scandinavian languages and litterature at the University of Amsterdam. However after a year, in 1939, she quit having realised that the Nazis' </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>philosophy</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> was based on Norwegian sagas she so much loved.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In 1940 she passed the entrance exam to the Theatre School in Amsterdam. She graduated 3 years later.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The pen was calling her though. She started writing texts for cabaret. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Her <i>proper</i> debut was a collection of poems - "Stroomversnelling" but three years later she turned to writing novels (and collecting awards;)).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Forever a stranger </i>was she in Batavia being a child of foreigners but once in the Netherlands she probably had to come to terms with the realisation that it would never be her home either as she grew up elsewhere.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Her story reminds me of a passage from Sarah Turnbull's "Almost French":</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"The old Greek on Samos island had warned me. <i>"It's a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures"</i>, he'd said. <i>"It's a curse to love two countries"</i>. Well, I certainly don't think of living abroad as a curse - I don't think the Greek believed it either. He was just dramatising his dilemma, the feeling of being torn between two places. And this is something I now understand. For an expatriate, the whole matter of "home" is an emotional conundrum riddled with ambiguities and caprice. Paris is my actual home: it's where I live. It can pull at heartstrings with a mere walk down our market street in the morning. But Australia is the home of homesickness and my history - a powerful whirlpool of family and friends, memories and daily trivia that I used to take for granted but now seem somehow remarkable.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Although I understand the French better now, the reality is in France I'm still an outsider." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hella was a Dutch Karen Blixen;) She left a country which stole her heart but was never too far away from it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bazyli Albiczuk was a Polish artist who died in 1995.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">His formal education finished after only 4 grades of grammar school (sic!). No art classes, no master, would you believe?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He taught himself how to play violin at the age of 15 and he would take the instrument whenever the mood took him. He would stop working or talking to someone and he would play.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To everybody's suprise, he also wrote poems in Ukrainian which were found when he died.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">His paintings represent mostly his garden which he created himself and cherished until the end. He was even called "a painter of gardens".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Needless to say, his last wish was: "Please, save my garden".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However soon after his death, his house was sold, the garden ran wild but the paintings remained..</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Every time I listen to Mariza, I wonder if she is a human being...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Her voice and her interpretations are out of this world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She is a real mix. Her father is Portuguese but her mother's African heritage must have inspired young Mariza to look for sounds and ideas beyond Cabo da Roca. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And the influence is significant. On the one hand, her fado is <i>classicly correct</i> (Amalia Rodrigues-like), on the other nobody sings it the way she does.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The songs on her first album were written when she was a teenager!</span></div>
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<br />Elvihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944073128644466161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992457421352821938.post-61459818261541514182012-07-19T15:31:00.000-07:002012-07-19T15:35:42.737-07:00Future heroes<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i> Ruth Rowland Nichols</i></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Unknown</i></span></b></span></div>
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<br />Elvihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944073128644466161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992457421352821938.post-4192961311379367052012-07-17T14:28:00.000-07:002012-07-18T06:05:26.663-07:00Why settle for Just a piece of sky?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A very important song to me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sung by <i>grande</i> Barbra Streisand in "Yentl" - a beautiful movie about a very brave girl who dared follow her dreams.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love playing it again every now and then.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Were the Bergmans looking at my life while writing the lyrics?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[...] It all began the day I found That from my window</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I could only see A piece of sky. [...]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[...] Though it's safer to stay on the ground,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sometimes where danger lies</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There the sweetest of pleasures are found.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">No matter where I go-</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There'll be mem'ries that tug at my sleeve [...]</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">[...] Each mile I travel only means The more I have to go.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What's wrong with wanting more? If you can fly - then soar!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With all there is - why settle for Just a piece of sky?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thank you, Barbra! Thank you, Michel Legrand! Thank you, Alan and Marylin Bergman!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To see Barbra's performance of "Papa, can you hear me?" in "Yentl", go </span></div>
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</div>Elvihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944073128644466161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8992457421352821938.post-40659021376096263522012-07-16T11:41:00.001-07:002012-07-16T11:41:56.086-07:00Hello, salut, oi, ola/ hola, hoi..<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">..a warm welcome to everyone!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Life is wonderful but it also brings challenges and disappointments...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Whatever brought you here, I hope you will find some useful information, ideas, fun or comfort.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Enjoy and do share your thoughts!</span><br />
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