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A Letter from the Sky
If somehow all your plaintive pleas
don’t reach my ears tomorrow,
if all sweet dreams you dreamt of me
take shape of grief and sorrow.
If somehow all get crush on you
and they get on their knees,
and you find all pleasures, false or true
but get no more of me.
I wish so much you would not cry
with your nerves so pale and gray,
nor to life you would say goodbye
and slay yourself that way.
For I wish so much to see you live
to see you smile all day,
to discern the love I could not give
before I went away.
So fear no more these worldly sorrows
nor awful twisted words,
rather hear me calling every morrow
with the blended notes of birds.
Feel my touch so calm and soothing
in the warmth of summery sun,
catch my fragrance, strong and pleasing
when the…
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The Friends of Mr Cairo – ore de drum
Cars, horns, squeaking brakes, voices. The soundscape of the Egyptian metropolis is dizzying, but it all stops as soon as you enter the Christian quarter. There is suddenly an unreal silence.
May is the Month of My Favourite Job
Hello MMers,
I hope everyone is doing awesome. I love the month of May because it’s the month where I and many others celebrate the joy of motherhood. And trust me, it’s a lifelong job. It is a difficult job. It is a job that doesn’t come with a degree, but yet everyone, including your own mother, will have a set of expectations (sometimes very different) from you. So many different parenting styles, yet nobody can genuinely say they have master parenting. Why? Because each child is unique. So there will never be a one size fit all for everyone.
So for this May, I’ll open with Different Types of Mothers. Please bear with me if you are not a mother (maybe, yet or never); I promise this will be an interesting one.
Different Types of Mothers
Working Mothers
You are fearless at work while you appear to be tireless…
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Augen – Blicke
In a small village in the southeast of Laos we were able to take part in a village festival, where we could also get to know the customs and traditions of the village community. The little girl in her big sister’s arms looked at me with big eyes, apparently she hadn’t seen many foreign visitors yet.
Augen sind “das Tor zur Seele” oder auch “das Spiegelbild der Seele”, heißt es. Der Blick der Augen verrät jeden Gemütsszustand, unverfälscht und für jeden erkennbar. Egal ob Angst, Traurigkeit oder Freude – die Blicke der Augen können nicht lügen. Besonders die Blicke aus Kinderaugen finde ich immer wieder faszinierend.
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Cats of Odessa, Ukraine
We can’t lose sight of no-deforestation supply chain! — Tiny Life

Macawa in the Amazon Rainforest, state of Acre, Brazil. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/04/we-can-t-lose-sight-of-no-deforestation-supply-chain-goals-here-s-why/
We can’t lose sight of no-deforestation supply chain! — Tiny Life
Bolsonaro slashes Brazil’s environment budget, day after climate talks pledge | Brazil | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News
Speaking on Thursday to thesummit organised by US President Joe Biden, Bolsonaro pledged to double the budget for environmental enforcement and end illegal deforestation by 2030. Less than 24 hours later,Bolsonarosigned off on the 2021 federal budget that included 2bn reais (US$365.30m) for the environment ministry and agencies it oversees, down from 2.6bn initially approved[…]
There aren’t enough trees in the world to offset society’s carbon emissions – and there never will be — msamba

Bonnie Waring Senior Lecturer, Grantham Institute – Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London Even if they can’t save us from climate change, society still depends on forests. One morning in 2009, I sat on a creaky bus winding its way up a mountainside in central Costa Rica, light-headed from diesel fumes as I[…]
New Report Links 2020’s Record-Breaking Fires in Brazil’s Pantanal Wetlands to World’s Biggest Meat Processor — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Image from Greenpeace International. “Fire blazes the way for industrial meat expansion across South America. In the face of the global Covid-19 pandemic and the biodiversity and climate crises, the continued deliberate use of fire within the sector is an international scandal. How to stamp it out is a burning issue,” said Daniela Montalto, Food[…]
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