You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. ~ Anon.

Exploration

“One of the key things about Blyton, as about any great writer, is to provide you with what in its broadest sense could be termed a secular worldview – that is, a sense of the coexistence of diversity, and of the many forms of life and livelihood and living, and of cultures and ways of thinking and being that are very distant from your own, and overarching them all the feeling that many of these things are exciting and worth exploring and worth absorbing as some part of your own identity.”

-Rukun Advani, writer

The Road Less Taken

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." Martin Buber

This Is How I Run

"Nature does not hurry,
Yet everything
Is accomplished."
-Lao Tzu

Stay Hungry

Ben Okri's "Mental Fight"

Is humanity exhausted?
Individuals are, nations are,
Some civilisations are becoming so;
But humanity isn't.

The hungry nations are hungry still.
The starving people dream of food.
The unfree fight for freedom.
The oppressed plan for liberation.
The small scheme for might.
The invisible prepare for higher visibility.

They are only exhausted
Who think they are.
They are only exhausted who no longer
Have a reason to strive
And dream and hope.

They are only exhausted who think
That they have arrived
At their final destination,
The end of their road,
With all of their dreams achieved,
And with no new dreams to hold.

The exhausted are those who have
Come to the end of their powers
Of imagination, who have limited
Their possibilities, who have thought
Themselves into dead ends
That they call the highest
Points of civilisations.

Those who are exhausted have lost
The greater picture,
The greater perspective.

Hope

Diane Ackerman, "School Prayer"

I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messanger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.

How the Expats Do It

When life gives you lemons, you slice them into wedges and use them to rim your margarita glass while you rock out to Justin Timberlake, put on your prettiest dress and dance til dawn with 20 of your closest friends!

Candace

Imagination

Each day forces us
to totter on planks we hope
will become bridges.

Kevin Hart, Australian poet