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How do you find it, or greet it?
Do you seek it, or will it stumble on you?
Hail it, accept it, embrace it
how long it will stay? Who knows
maybe only one day

Picture a person
intelligent, good-looking
sensitive, talented
creative, fun, strong and wise
Dreams can be just wishful thinking

Reflect, not too much
not too long, things change
Time moves on, suddenly its gone
Can’t reclaim it, lost is time, no one owns it

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægæan, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

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Unfortunately I cannot take credit for this but I hope it adds some balance a poem by Matthew Arnold.

- Tonia

In the world we inhabit, truly silent places are very hard to find — in the middle of Thetford Forest springs to mind — so it’s often necessary to find the silence within one’s self. The problem is to turn off the voice inside one’s head, but it is possible with practice. At least that’s been my experience.

Lovely blog entry, as usual

May the Good Lor’ jus’ keep right on bless’n’ ev’ry square *inch* of good Ol’ Blighty…. :D !!

On the subject of clever simple marketing using existing technology tools on online communities, what did you think of Google’s M-velope
https://mail.google.com/mail/help/gmail_video.html

Wake me up when its time to go home, you’ll find me at the parrot!

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/140

In a follow-up to his now-legendary TED2006 presentation, Hans Rosling demonstrates how developing countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He shows us the next generation of his Trendalyzer software — which analyzes and displays data in amazingly accessible ways, allowing people to see patterns previously hidden behind mountains of stats. (Ten days later, he announced a deal with Google to acquire the software.) He also demos Dollar Street, a program that lets you peer in the windows of typical families worldwide living at different income levels. Be sure to watch straight through to the (literally) jaw-dropping finale.