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11-11-2013
11 november
Wapenstilstand, Sint-Maarten en...
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nationale vrouwendag (België)
Vandaag 42ste Vrouwendag met als thema 'Stereotypen'
Waarom de Vrouwendag in België op 11 november valt (8 maart 2012, christophe callewaert): dewereldmorgen.be
Regisseur Michiel van Erp (Beatrix Majesteit, Angst, Pretpark Nederland) portretteert vijf transseksuele vrouwen op leeftijd, die allen door dezelfde 'wonderdokter' Georges Burou werden geopereerd in Marokko in de jaren vijftig en zestig. Het levert een film op over het najagen van het haast onbereikbare en de kloof tussen het realiseren van een droom en de harde realiteit die er soms op volgt.
06-11-2013
normal
Normal is an illusion.
What is normal for the spider
is chaos for the fly
Morticia Addams.
03-11-2013
Cans: recycling with a Spanish twist
Soms lijkt de straat één grote vuilnisbak. Een groep schoolkinderen in Spanje maakte deze ludieke video om mensen bewust te maken van hun gedrag.
27-10-2013
Dag van de Stilte
Ofschoon we voortdurend worden overspoeld door een golf van woorden is onze diepte voor immer stil.
Khalil Gibran
26-10-2013
windsymphony
"I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies..."
from A Day of Sunshine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
20-10-2013
Knot by knot...
"Knot by knot I untie myself from the past And let it rise away from me like a balloon. What a small thing it becomes. What a bright tweak at the vanishing point, blue on blue."
from Arkansas Traveller, Charles Wright
09-10-2013
Toen ze kwamen
Toen de nazi's de communisten arresteerden heb ik gezwegen;
ik was immers geen communist.
Toen ze de sociaaldemocraten gevangenzetten heb ik gezwegen;
ik was immers geen sociaaldemocraat.
Toen ze de syndicalisten kwamen halen heb ik gezwegen;
ik was immers geen syndicalist.
Toen ze de Joden opsloten heb ik gezwegen;
ik was immers geen Jood.
Toen ze de katholieken arresteerden heb ik gezwegen;
ik was immers geen katholiek.
Toen ze mij kwamen halen
...was er niemand meer die nog kon protesteren.
Martin Niemöller
zoals geciteerd in
"Het meisje dat niet bang is voor de Taliban./ Catherine Vuylsteke."
In: De Morgen, di 08/10/2013, p.7
De Pakistaanse Malala hoorde haar vader vaak dit gedicht voorlezen.
"What a beautiful, inspiring story. Photographer Richard Renaldi takes two random strangers on the street and has them pose together in a photograph as if they were intimate family members. Almost instantly, the "strangers" feel connected to each other. This only shows how close the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible is to being a reality if only we can shift our perception. This amazing photographer is helping us do just that." Sustainable Man
The Scarecrow
"The Scarecrow" is a 3 minute short film / commercial from the Mexican themed Chipotle Restaurant chain that beautifully illustrates the horrors of industrial raised animals for food. The restaurant chain has a made a big push to support humanely raised, locally grown food and vows to eliminate as much GMO food from their menu as possible...
14-09-2013
Gateway to the world
The documentary film Gateway to the world takes place in Namibias capital city Windhoek, Katutura suburban area. In the film, two young library users are followed around the poor Greenwell Matongo area, where the local library functions as the peoples gateway to better life. Trevelin, 20 years, did not pass the 10th grade of schooling and ended up as one of the many out-of school youths in the area. Persuaded by a friend, he found his way to the nearby library, got interested in studying computers and is nowadays giving basic computer classes as a volunteer teacher in the library. Anna, 13 years, is a schoolgirl at the Olof Palme primary school. Every day after school she heads her way up to the Greenwell library. Anna is one of the library prefects: she helps other schoolkids with their homework and library customers in computer usage; and plays with children, for whom the library is one of the few safe havens around. All the hours spent at the library have also reflected positively to Annas school results, and in the future she intends to continue studying to become an engineer.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
26-08-2013
freedom
One of the greatest challenges is
being yourself
in a world that's trying to make you like everyone else.
Truth
"It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
― Jiddu Krishnamurti
25-08-2013
Strange
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, its true Im here, and Im just as strange as you.
Frida Kahlo
06-08-2013
The lighthouse
The lighthouse stands alone off the beaten path, transmitting a message out across the ocean. Sometimes, musicians seem to play a similar role: a message is being projected out into the environment, without any guarantee that it will reach its destination. It is impossible to say who will receive it, or to which uses it will be put. Still, the only option is to keep on transmitting the message.
