[Google logo] Duitse Bondsdagverkiezingen 2009

zondag 27 september 2009

Logo op de homepage van Google Duitsland in het teken van de parlementsverkiezingen. Vanwege dit logo dus dit jaar geen doodle waarmee op zondag de elfde verjaardag van Google wordt gevierd zoals op andere homepages waaronder Google Nederland. Sinds de vorige verkiezingen is Angela Merkel bondskanselier en bij de parlementsverkiezingen dit jaar geldt Merkel met haar christendemocratische CDU opnieuw als favoriet. De stemgerechtigden kunnen tot 18.00 uur in de stemlokalen terecht. De eerste voorspellingen op basis van peilingen onder kiezers die al hun stem hebben uitgebracht, volgen al kort na sluiting van de stembureaus. De offici�le einduitslagen worden in de nacht van zondag op maandag verwacht.

[Google logo] Verjaardag Confucius

zondag 27 september 2009

Op de homepage van Google een doodle in het teken van de verjaardag van Confucius. Confucius was een beroemd denker en sociaal filosoof uit het oude China, ver voor de vorming van het Chinese keizerrijk. Zijn filosofie legde de nadruk op de persoonlijke en bestuurlijke moraal, orde, en respect voor de meerdere, en won vooral aan populariteit door de krachtige traditionele Chinese stellingnames. Confucius wordt vooral vereerd door leraren, scholieren en confucianisten. De invloed van Confucius op de Chinese beschaving zou niet onderschat moeten worden. Deze was ruim verspreid in Japan, Korea en Vietnam. Dit kwam vooral door het Confucianisme, de doctrine die ontwikkeld is door zijn discipelen en commentatoren. De verjaardag wordt elk jaar gevierd op de 27e dag van de 8ste maand van de Chinese kalender. De naam Confucius is de gelatiniseerde variant van zijn oorspronkelijke naam K'ong-foe-tzi.

Two Four Give

Forgiving is easy
Forgiving you for what you did
Maybe it turned out wrong
Maybe you made a bad move, accidentically
When you say you're sorry
than all the sudden
it doesn't hurt that much anymore

I can forgive you, it is so easy
and it is an enlightening
as if another hands polishes the soul
Because when bad happened
it is bad enough that it did
And we use all the power
all our positive energy
to get further

Such as a child learns to walk
falling, standing up
going on
getting strong
with parents around
that say
you can do it

That way
I can forgive you
and you
you can do it too

But funny
how easy I can forgive others
how difficult it is to forgive myself
therefore I need your words

not too close

Hello friends of mine (and visitors and so more )

Police - Don't stand so close to me 86

Monday, the start of a strange week, strange days that we are off together (tomorrow, for example), but well, that's enough of the strange things, more is just for Garfield, heh, he's great today, especially olie :)

We had a nice and relaxing weekend, a bit too much noise from outside, but that's normal in the city here, we have good windows to keep the most outside and it has definitely its charms, it is never boring here.. Hmm, on 2nd thought, it is never boring where ever I am -smile-

I wish you all a wonderful start (or follow up) of the week with lots of smiles and sparkles

a wisp of smoke

For all those who pass my way
and keep unnoticed
I know that they are there
for a reason, invisible
Like the ones who I notice
who notice me
are there for a similar reason

It is not the time yet, to see the others
Or, the ones that I see, need me more

What doesn't means that the others are not worth to see
or to be comfort or given a smile

It is just not now
not at this moment

My world is not your world
And even walking the same path
We do not need to let the same people smile

God Almighty has made us all

"365 Days of Walking the Red Road"

September 27

God Almighty has made us all.

-RED CLOUD (MAKHPIYA-LUTA),

OGLALA SIOUX

Did You Know?

In 1923, John Levi became the first

Native American to be named to the

All-America football team.

MESSENGERS TO HELP US

MESSENGERS TO HELP US

Genesis 19:15 "With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished."

As I drove to New Mexico a couple of days ago I came up to the place where Interstate-10 joins Interstate-20. If you are going east on I-10 you either go east to San Antonio on I-10 or northeast on I-20 to Dallas. As I approached the intersection I remembered the first time I came to that point. I was coming home from El Paso on the way back from a pow wow. I was so tired I could hardly stay awake. I was a foolish young man who was determined to get home no matter what. I kept weaving back and forth along the freeway. It was about that time that I noticed a hitchhiker thumbing his way east. I ignored him and went on my way. For for some reason I couldn't keep him off my mind. He was wearing white clothing with a blonde afro. But there was something about his eyes that I could not forget as I drove past him. I finally decided to go back and give him a ride. I had to drive five miles east to find the first exit and then return seven miles to the next exit to return. As I returned to pick him up I noticed he was not standing thumbing for a ride but now was sitting on top of a large rock that had slid off the mountainside.

As I approached him I stopped and asked if he needed a ride. What surprised me was that he said, "No, but I will ride with you for a while." Then he said, "I was waiting for you, I was told you would come back." For the next hour and a half he asked me questions and talked to me and laughed and joked around. Before I knew it, I was wide awake and eager to keep on driving the seven hundred miles home. Just about the time we approached the Y that split into I-10 and I-20 he said, "I need to get off now." When I stopped and opened the door I said, "Are you sure this is the place. There is nothing out here for miles." Then he said, "You'll be all right now. It is time for me to help someone else." I told him, "This is the middle of the summer desert. There is nothing here and you have no water." As he closed the door he said, "I will be just fine." I drove off wondering about this strange person who quickly ran across the freeway and started to thumb his way back west the same direction I picked him up. Years later the only thing that came to mind as I thought about that hot July summer day in the desert was that God the Creator had sent a special messenger to make sure I stayed away and alert. Moses wrote of a time when God the Creator sent an Angel to warn Lot and his family and to lead them out of certain destruction. He wrote, "...the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished." So next time something tells you to go back and help someone, it might be an angel sent to help you.

Robert Soto, Lipan Apache and pastor