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 5 Mar 2008 @ 09:38
This title surely describes the writer. She has childhood memories of being immersed in the pristine natural woodlands of glistening dried grasses and strange leafed trees, a type of deciduous savanna in a high veld. There was a notion of being mesmerised by the beauty of such visions and the accompanying cacophony of songbirds, insect and distant primeval animal sounds. Supposedly such an experience must form the basis for all other life style judgements for it would seem to be so in this person's case.
There are friends too, whom I know, nurture the very same formative years experience. It may not be on open display as they disport the full Western type living, but underneath to their innermost selves, these notions formed the very heartbeats of their life, the bush. For a small child, up to the age of 6 or 7 say, to have already been aware of a mental state equal to that of meditation, is both a gift and and no mean achievement. It would suggest that whatever they have done in their lives is secondary and not primary to their existence. Having given themselves over to a large notion of goodness such as exists in the pristine wilderness and bush is to keep an essential separation from the vast simple materialistic world. Those items of consumption will be used with respect and not abused to excess usage being as they are not paramount to their existence. One could say there is much more SPACE in this realm unbounded by hard linear borders and base sheer utilitarian endless cycles.
There is a piece recently found in a current reading subject on how one african tribal people greeted the visiting white assistant district commissioner after his 2 day trek on foot through the Bush. It is transposed here and comes down from a previous pre-war heritage of thorough Victorian Missionary school and education standards put to the very africans there. This suggests that they did receive education from an early time and the level of consideration imparted by the teachers. And also that it did not hinder the Village Life culture of the people but actually enhanced it for them, creating a firm reference basis for themselves prior to taking the next vital step in their development process. More >
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 13 Feb 2008 @ 15:53
Surely a multi-use vehicle or residence suitable to Arctic Melt days. Or a solar ark?
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The Way to Go!
Nwraye
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 18 Jan 2008 @ 21:18
Rosemary and thyme
Sage and fennel
Tarragon and chevril
Anyone can live in a place with easy access to vast areas of wilderness with some kind of work which will cover the essentials. There is no need to become involved in the greater socio economic connundrums when one can retreat regularly to stare at trees or rivers.
Living within the densely built environment (italics) there becomes a dire need to FIND and influence in some way those factors related to the achieving of a HARMONIOUS and balanced life style.
The former would apply to most of America, and the latter to Europe roughly speaking. It also applies to Africa the former and India the latter. The bringing of the wilderness to the City is the most advanced in the City of Paris. It should be in the City of Rome, the eternal city, but something else abides here, of a different nature.
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 1 Nov 2007 @ 09:51
Debating Democrats quote of the year must be:
"There are more people who have seen UFO's than support Bush" !
The Line Up was there demonstrating an internal party robustness replete with charming regional twangs of intonation. Someone mentioned in addition to UFO the word Anglo Saxon too. The differential twangs rarely cross the Atlantic and so we miss out on the essential lyricism integral to the " 'States ". A longer airing of this banter would have been interesting and possibly enjoyable.
Nraye More >
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18 Sep 2007 @ 14:14
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) is a fashion icon unlike any other. She invented modern clothing for women: at the height of the Belle Époque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits, and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced slacks, costume jewelery, and the exquisitely comfortable suit. She made the first couture perfume-No. 5-which remains the most popular scent ever created.
Anything written about this unassuming personage is an understatement of the facts and her mould breaking achievements for the feminine physique which became never ending after both world wars. Most critical of all was the fact that she was able to create without attention to herself, but just as a designer. In those days the clothes and styles were more important than the label. Eyecatching in her own right in social circles, but quietly working earthbreaking approaches to couture and everyday wear and living entirely of her own inspiration, in fact by having to stitch her own clothes sufficient to suite the practice of the time but also more importantly to suite her own active outdoor pursuits too. So many firsts for one person from an orphanage, and so rarely championed.
Soon in 2008 is a new film will be released on her life. More >
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