Saturday, May 1, 2021
Something to think about - “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” –
Henry David Thoreau
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
“No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.” – Naval Ravikant
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” – Jim Rohn
Friday, April 30, 2021
Today's Story - The Essence Of Being Human, Ubuntu!
An anthropologist studying the habits and customs of an African tribe found himself surrounded by children most days.
So he decided to play a little game with them.
He managed to get candy from the nearest town and put it all in a decorated basket at the foot of a tree.
Then he called the children and suggested they play the game.
When the anthropologist said “now”, the children had to run to the tree and the first one to get there could have all the candy to him/herself.
So the children all lined up waiting for the signal.
When the anthropologist said “now”, all of the children took each other by the hand ran together towards the tree.
They all arrived at the same time divided up the candy, sat down and began to happily munch away.
The anthropologist went over to them and asked why they had all run together when any one of them could have had the candy all to themselves.
The children responded:
“Ubuntu. How could any one of us be happy if all the others were sad?”
Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as “I am what I am because of who we all are.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu gave this explanation in 2008 :
“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human.
Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation.
It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality –
Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity.
We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another,
whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World.
When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”
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Madeleine Vionnet French fashion designer.
Madeleine Vionnet June 22, 1876, France – March 2, 1975) was a French fashion designer. Vionnet trained in London before returning to France to establish her first fashion house in Paris in 1912. Although it was forced to close in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War, it re-opened after the war and Vionnet became one of the leading designers in Paris between the Wars (1919 - 1939). Vionnet was forced to close her house in 1939 and retired in 1940.
Called the "Queen of the bias cut" and "the architect among dressmakers", Vionnet is best known today for her elegant Grecian-style dresses and for popularising the bias cut within the fashion world and is credited with inspiring a number of recent designers.
Madeleine Vionnet (French 1876 - 1975)
Spring/Summer 1937
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