I have just been to my nearby thrift store. I took stuff there I don't need and looked for stuff I do. I found the pair of everyday shoes I have needed for a while. Exact colour I...
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Jane writes for and edits The Mindful Word. She spent 20 years travelling and volunteering across the globe, attempting to make sense of it through words. An endless and endlessly rewarding, sometimes frustrating journey.
Oh, enticing world! Colour, composition, balance and voice hold the audience of undertones captive. Covers pulled loose expose Life’s naked enchantresses carrying works by the artist of Tomorrows.
Creations of subtle beauty open their allure, calling wildness leaning against walls of indifference to the performance. Collector’s value decides the price, and skilled auctioneers wielding gavels tuned to the buyer’s heartstrings move these creations to their fortunate owners.
The only voice in the room is that of the artist, the only sound the report of the world’s muzzled gavel...
Being in two minds” smacks of indecision and wavering. Or does it? If we could always be in two minds decision-making becomes easier—there is no uncertainty. While holding our own point of...
Compassion leaves the most visible and ineradicable scars on the hearts of those that remove the covers from their eyes. In almost every country, travellers go around with blinders on. The norm...
Today I saw a construction worker drive over his own ladder, thus confounding his dream of completing his work in the near future, and bang went the homeowner’s dream of moving in ASAP. He...
Come. Walk with me. Weld yourself to me and together as one, with multiplied senses, let us invade opened fields. Ecology takes creation and breaks it into a study of each organism in its...
Last night I put my head down on my keyboard and wept. I had been reading an article sent to me that was posted on To Be a Travel Agent website regarding...
If you cut off a spider’s leg, it’s crippled; if you cut off its head, it dies. But if you cut off a starfish’s leg it grows a new one, and the old leg...
Caring for children as a way to make money is a profession as old as prostitution. The hands that grab the cash are usually not the hands that so desperately need...
With the world becoming smaller thanks to the Internet, it's also turning the living room into a prison of sorts. No longer is it necessary to go out to meet people, to possibly find “the one” who will...
As a white woman from Africa the KONY2012 social media campaign that hit the Internet on March 5th—besides creating a worldwide furor—awoke in me a sense of things having gone more...
I will never give money to a beggar.” Sound familiar? Those are words I have lived by for years. I will buy food, medication, pay for a...
Sometimes when I walk down the street I suddenly get the urge to throw my arms wide and do...
I woke up this morning with an extra sense of pure joy and gratitude. “Morning, world, you are gorgeous!” The sun was shining, vast quantities of angel dust were...
Be willing to allow. That's all the universe needs us to do for it to deliver something magical. It constantly looks at our attitude, our way of being, our contentedness...
Every time I see the words “CNN is Against Child Labour” or watch some celebrity on TV waving the physical or vocal “Abolish Child Labour” flag, I want to get up...
Freeloader. Sounds bad, doesn’t it? Well, guess what? It’s a little piece of wonderful (actually a BIG piece) for all travellers who want to see the world, but don’t...
A newspaper headline screams “DOCTORS MISS NEW SUPER VIRUS”, and I am not sure whether to laugh, snort, choke or scream myself. Even viruses ...
Why do we visit other countries? Is it to go absorb a different culture, to indulge in new experiences, to breathe in the aroma of different lands, to meet different ...
I was born and raised in the outskirts of Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Christian parents. My father worked in a bakery and later worked as a builder ...
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish?” - T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land. “To a man with an empty stomach...
Today I looked around my small world at the things I work with, the things I wear and travel with and how they are either extremely inconvenient; or...
Date-stamps on food accumulate thousands of dollars in the bank accounts of marketers and distributors. With additives and...
PAULINE, LOOK It is so strange, this my loving you when you aren’t here...
