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Commitment

Raffaello Palandri's Blog

One of the best growth tools is commitment. Once we become aware of our nature, we commit to becoming and living as we really are.

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Letters to our Bodies ( Conversations with Lebo and Nsatu) — Sanctuary of Greatness

We get so caught up in our daily routines that we forget how important it is to appreciate our body. Given that we are only given one physical body, we owe it to ourselves to take adequate care of it.Women, on the other hand, are regularly exposed to body shaming, either by males or by other women. Whether we’re thin, chubby, tall, or short, we’ve all been subjected to body shaming in some way or another at some point in our lives. We’d like to voice out against body shaming in honor of Women’s Month, which finishes today. It’s terrible to have to deal with body shaming, especially with the insecurities that we have as women. In today’s post, we write a letter to…

Letters to our Bodies ( Conversations with Lebo and Nsatu) — Sanctuary of Greatness

Poetic Resistance to the language of “Civilised” Citizenship

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Language has long been used to destroy, control and denigrate the ways of knowing and being of those subject to colonialism and racism. In this piece, poet and activist lisa luxx traces these colonial roots, as well as the inventive linguistic creolisations of imposed languages that poets have used to resist domestication, “to rewild their grammatology” and “To dream in their own language.”

Mohammed El-Kurd told us recently on a Zoom webinar that in the courts of occupied Palestine, the legal language is Hebrew, so whole families would sit together in a courtroom whispering to one another, trying to piece together – through the various words they understood – what was being held against them. What was being decided. This, he says, is apartheid in language; colonialism in language. Having your life and safety dictated to you, on your own land, in the settler’s tongue.

The policing of citizens begins with being bound…

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Wild blueberries – Divlje borovnice — Myrela

Divlje borovnice sadrže drevne i svete podatke o preživljavanju dopirući desetinama hiljada godina unazad. Prilagođavaju se svakoj klimatskoj promjeni tokom cijelog milenijuma. Njihova urođena inteligencija spriječila ih je da prihvate monokulturu; umjesto toga, uspijevaju s više od stotinu različitih varijanti koje izgledaju slično, ali ipak, imaju drugačiji genetski sastav, tako da se te biljke nikada […]

Wild blueberries – Divlje borovnice — Myrela