Saturday, March 10, 2007

woman's words


I quote:

We've discovered this quote on the web looking for
some information about woman's day :

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our
deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens most.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous,talented, and famous? ' Actually, who are you
not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small
does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened
about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure
around you. We were born to make manifest the glory
of God that is within us. It 's not just in some of
us; it's in all of us.
And when we let our own light shine, we
unconsciously give other people permission to do the
same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others "
Maryanne Williamson

We liked to see The Light in Maryanne's message!

In the attachment a new pavement painting inspired by
a crop circle but not one supposedly made by Doug and
Dave...

Have a delightful day

Monday, February 12, 2007

Change

Of the aspects of life., change is one of the most that puzzle/dazzle me. i asked a friend to write about the subject for me. It enlightened me to read my friend's words
take a look, i quote it here:

A change, you asked me to write something about change, I am trying to figure out in what direction I should write I will just let my thoughts flow.

We experience a change each day, everything changes, the day light changes into darkness at night…fall changes to winter, winter changes to spring and spring to summer… a human changes from a baby to an adult to an old man…

The stars change their positions…the earth changes its position…nothing stays the same, although we might feel each day is like the one before it and we fall into kind of routine; it’s a fact that there is not such day like the one before or after it…change is something we can’t stop and can’t control its something we live with and surrender to…

So maybe it’s not strange that people change so much… we all change…we change from an innocent, optimistic loving life, dreamy child, into a realistic materialistic adult running after something he thinks will make him happy… our dreams change becoming smaller and smaller until finally they disappear leaving us walking through life without goals, lost, sometimes deeply thinking, and other times shallow and silly.

Our feelings, our relations change, we find friends and loose them, we keep searching for love and when we find it we give up easily… even if we get into a relation we keep wondering if this is it…until someday we find out that we lost it before realizing that this was it…

People who understood us most change to be people against us…and people who hated us change to love us most…we decide to change, become stronger by building a wall of coldness and carelessness, to find out one day that we missed up that we want to change again into more warm loving, forgiving and happy people…

The fact is that just like everything else in this world we do change, we try to find the best way, the way that will make us happy, depending on this way we change…sometimes we find out the way was wrong and that we made a mistake but we just can’t turn back and then we wish we thought more before deciding to change something

i loved reading it, what do you think?

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Harry potter 7

Harry potter 7 will be released on July 21st. The final part will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Rowling has stated that the final volume relates so closely to the sixth book of the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that;"I feel almost as though they are two halves of the same novel." She has also stated that she has no intention of writing any further stories about the Harry Potter characters.

As of 2007, she has been working on the Harry Potter stories for over 17 years.

One of my friend’s

Let’s take a look at the meaning of the word Hallow, for example Encarta:

1.

make holy: to make somebody or something holy

2.

respect greatly: to have great respect or reverence for somebody or something

*the following are spoilers*

The last we know of Harry potter and Lord Voldemort, Lord Voldemort has divided his soul in to 7 peaces-or so it’s believed-. The Hallows are the objects used to store them.

How I started reading Harry potter:

I didn’t intend to read them at first. I visited my local book shop to get lord of the rings. I has some extra cash, so I thought, hmmm what am I to do with it. I don’t want to get Harry potter, it’s for kids: P. but I got the first one. It was cheap!

After reaching home I was intending to put it somewhere, to read it later.

I wanted to take a look at Harry’s book before butting it away. I ended up reading half of it, and I finished it the following day. The 2nd abd 3ed book toke 3 days, 4th,5thand 6th toke 3 to 4 weeks to finish .

Harry potter is a lovely read. It’s fun, full with adventure and puzzling all at the same time.

I regret being arrogant about it.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

paradigms

I don't know what made me about paradigms for my first real post. I wanted to write about something that would help people, something that would add to my friends who choose to read.
I hope you benefit from reading it.

I’ve always wondered what paradigm meant? I always here it when the tone of speech rises. If you look it up in a dictionary, let’s try Encarta for example, I like this dictionary!

1.

typical example: a typical example of something

2.

model that forms basis of something: an example that serves as a pattern or model for something, especially one that forms the basis of a methodology or theory

3.

grammar set of all forms of word: a set of word forms giving all of the possible inflections of a word

4.

science philosophy relationship of ideas to one another: in the philosophy of science, a generally accepted model of how ideas relate to one another, forming a conceptual framework within which scientific research is carried out


That doesn’t clear things too much!

It wasn’t clear to me, what paradigms mean to us. In our context, not just in general. That is until I read Dr.Covy’s The 7 habits. It was enlightening to understand!

A paradigm as I learned is a map, you use for understanding things or modeling things in your mind or it’s what you use to judge things, as I see it, it’s reasoning with ones mind to understand ourselves and our environment.

If my reasoning is correct I’d say that any math model is a paradigm-I choose this example because I’m very affected by such aspects-.

Let’s take our friendly equation shown below:

A = B + 2

This equation is a simple one, as we can see. No matter how B tries, it’s always less than A .poor B it’s always less than A. Such relationships appear in our lives. Like;

Jake is taller than bill.

Anna is the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen.

Dumbledore is the words greatest wizard–well Harry says so! Don’t ask me why-.

The first sentence gave, Jake some assurances, he’s at least taller than bill. Bill, on the other hand is not as tall as Jake.-Wonder if the two people didn’t see each other in their lives, and it wasn’t true-

Anna in my eyes is so pretty that I always associate beauty with her. Every time I see a flower I’d think of her. Sounds like I’m in love with a character from one of my primary school books.

If you want to know about Dumbledore, you’ll have to read, Harry potter’s books

Paradigms play a huge role in our lives. It’s how we vision things.

Think about having an incorrect paradigm. It could lead you to a wrong conclusion. In fact it could make you very miserable :(.

How is that! If your map is incorrect it’ll lead you to what you don’t want all the time. No matter how you try. If you’d try doing things more efficiently, you’ll get your self what you don’t want more quickly!

Ok even if I have the thing I don’t like, I’ll try to be happy and live with it, like we say in Arabic “kon qano3” –in the wrong context of course-. You would be for example happy with you being addicted to something. Or happy with people bossing you around

One of the things I truly wish you to learn, Is that if you don’t like where you are. Rather than trying harder or trying to feel better, is try to change the way you look at things! That’s the best thing you could do.

One day I remember I witnessed a change in paradigm. It was a few days ago. After finishing my exam, I wasn’t in hurry to go back home since, I don’t have anything urgent to do, and everyone like me. My dear friend on the other hand tried to rush me.

I was thinking why the rush, my friend is so unpleasant! It appeared to me after one day of fooling around that we had two final exams the following day!!!!! How irrational was I when I judged my friend.

Take for example in any tobacco commercial; A young Man, strong, good looking, with a huge car. You’d think everything about him is so cool. He has a perfect life. Wow! He’s smoking that stuff. You might associate the image you have of that guy with smoking!

The two aspects aren’t related! The truth is he has bad breath! his longs are in pain, and he might have trouble breathing! And he will not be in the business of making commercials for long. Since he'll have health problems

Hope you enjoyed reading! Thanks for taking the time. I’d love to hear your views

Thursday, December 7, 2006

My first post

My friend adviced that the my first post should be a welcome one>
so Welcome. nice to know someone has visited my blog.