Vanaf n grys en koue Luderitz en sand bedekte Kolmanskop gaan die reis voort deur Windhoek vir n blitsbesoek aan Swakopmund. Aangesien die seewater kouer is as die bier, bly hulle uit die water en hou by die bier.
Namibian Holiday 2017 Swakopmund
Van daar trek die kampeerders na die Kgalagadi Oorgrens Gemsbok Park toe. Kgalagadi “place of thirst” en oorkant die grens in Botswana waar die grootste gedeelte van die park lê is die dors groot, maar nie na water nie … hulle “frack” vir geld. Twee derdes van die park in Botswana is verkoop vir fracking, die moderne weergawe van die Bybelse pot lensiesop.
Namibian Holiday 2017
SCHOOL PRAYER (By Diane Ackerman)
In the name of daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,
Namibian Holiday 2017
I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder
as an architect of peace.
Namibian Holiday 2017
In the name of the sun and its minors
and the day that embraces it
and the cloud veils drawn over it
and the uttermost night
and the male and the female
and the plants bursting with seed
and the crowning seasons of the firefly
and the apple, I will honor all life
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—wherever and in whatever form
it may dwell—on Earth my home,
and in the mansions of the stars.
Namibian Holiday 2017
Namibian Holiday 2017
Namibian Holiday 2017
Die fotos is geneem deur Hannelie.
Die gedig: Diane Ackerman’s Poetic Invitation to Attentive Presence as a Means of Transcendence and Secular Spirituality
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