Monthly Archives: November 2013

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Save the Yolanda Typhoon victims from human traffickers

Rise up, Philippines!

Rise up, Philippines!

She has seen it happen, she said.

When a disaster strikes, young girls who come from good families—sheltered, vulnerable—would become orphans. Depraved men—and women—from the underworld, otherwise known as human traffickers, would circle them like vultures. In their fragile state, with no one to look after them, no one who knew who they were or where they came from, they would fall prey to that life.

The Philippines has just experienced a disaster and no one knows who is looking after the orphaned children.

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Inner abilities

Dwelling Place

Dwelling Place

I just finished a book recommended by one of my favorite bloggers, Leo Babauta of Zen Habits.

The title was The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.

I did not know that lemon cake could be sad, and the child in the book did not, too. At the back of my mind was the other book/movie Like Water for Chocolate but I suspended the animation, not wanting to color this latest book with my own perceptions (or that other book’s perceptions). Which were pushed back to the forgotten anyway (which reminds me, I have to get to that book again).

Of late, I have been reading several books where people have super powers. Except they are real and not in the realm of the imagined.

Okay. I may be naive but that was my takeaway: these people are real and they had problems. No, not problems, but abilities which are so far off center that it becomes a disability.

Like people who can taste emotion in food, which mostly, interestingly, is one of pain.

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Top 5 Most Unique Cars on the Road

Guest post

Over the past few decades, car buyers have primarily been attracted to practical hatchbacks, 4×4’s, and the occasional sporty car. But over the past few years, an increasing number of motorists are choosing unusual cars that don’t easily fit into one automotive bracket. Here are the top 5 unique new cars that offer something different to drivers looking to stand out from the crowd. For the ones that didn’t make the list, visit vcars.co.uk

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