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About Michaela

I am a wanderer and a wonderer, like you are. I love our journey and to walk in the company of friends – to learn, experience, share, laugh, cry and above all I simply love this marvelous, magical, mysterious life. I have no plan (cannot believe I am saying this) and my only intention is to be truthful to myself and others.

The beauty of form

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Michaela

A pair of mating damselflies forming a heart shape when mating Source: National Geographic

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We are the world

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Michaela

Then and today, same Now…

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Put your soul to work

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Michaela

By Carolyne Myss As we all know by now, the Earth has shifted once again. Just the slightest change from deep beneath the waters, a crack in the fabric of her lining, and islands quake while tsunami waves rush across … Continue reading →

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Meltdown

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Michaela

How a Reactor Shuts Down and What Happens in a Meltdown The operating reactors at Fukushima Daiichi power station automatically shut down during the earthquake. But after subsequent cooling failures, two of them went into partial meltdown. Website of the … Continue reading →

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Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Michaela

JS Bach: Cantata BWV 147.1 Concentus Musicus Vienna. Arnold Schoenberg Choir. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor. I. Coro. Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben Muss von Christo Zeugnis geben Ohne Furcht und Heuchelei, Dass er Gott und Heiland sei. English: Heart … Continue reading →

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Michaela

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;” This is a verse from Yeat’s enigmatic poem ” The Second Coming” and … Continue reading →

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The New Humanism

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Michaela

by David Brooks Over the course of my career, I’ve covered a number of policy failures. When the Soviet Union fell, we sent in teams of economists, oblivious to the lack of social trust that marred that society. While invading … Continue reading →

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State of emergency

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Michaela

Japan in the wake of the disastrous earthquake, that  was one of the strongest ever recorded. It  triggered a devastating tsunami, up to 10-metre-high along parts of the country’s northeastern coastline. Media reports estimate at least 1,300 people may have been … Continue reading →

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Spring

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Michaela
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No room for complacency

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Michaela

A tsunami hitting Japan, after a 8.9 magnitude earthquake about 80 miles off the shore of Japan. The tremor hit at 1446 local time (0546 GMT). Seismologists say it is one of the largest earthquakes to hit Japan for many years. … Continue reading →

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