A Momma’s View hosted an Aussie Barbie last weekend and I almost missed it! As the last few, I can only help extend the party longer by re-blogging. So if you love to meet new people, pop on over at her site, leave your footprint and meet some other bloggers as well. And oh! Bring a friend if you want!
You know what? I think it’s time to mingle again. How about we get together and party a little bit? Come over and meet some other bloggers, maybe bring a friend as well? I love meeting new people, so share the news.
It’s easy:
Leave the link to your blog in the comment, maybe with a short description of what your blog is all about. You can link to your About page or to your home page or to a post you particularly like.
Share one or more links to blogs you enjoy reading as well and maybe let them know that you did and invite them to come over and join in.
The more the merrier. So how about you share this post on your blog as well?
It’s all about being polite here as well, so go ahead, shake some hands and check out the links that have been shared already too. Maybe two of them?
Last but not least: Have fun and keep that smile on your face 🙂
It’s Sunday and the day is just about wrapping up. Usually, I would put up one of my incessant Sunday humour to end the week in alight-hearted manner. Yet, today, it just doesn’t feel quite right to just get on another humour post without acknowledging that the world still is in mourning for the Paris Massacre that happened just yesterday.
France may be so far away from us, but I do have friends living there and I know of a few Parisian friends who still call Paris their home even though they no longer live there. The entire area is their live. One being my personal friend and fellow blogger, Estelea. It’s hard to even fathom the thought that there may just be a chance that they already know somebody who may have been directly impacted by it.
It was such a devastating news to wake up to on Saturday morning. Learning that more innocent lives of children, mothers, wives, husbands, friends and people who were someone to somebody, were lost and sacrificed for a cause that is hard to justify is just maddening. I’m disgusted and angry at how crazily selfish these suicide bombers are. Nothing short of an act of stupidity that is commendable. There’s no reason to kill in the name of anything.
My recurring question is always how could they justify for the loss of innocent lives? Religion in itself does not advocate killing, it’s the warped minds of humans that do it. Why must there be so much hate in the world? Religions don’t advocate that, people do. In the name of religion, humanity is lost. Shame. More so that only the Paris massacre made it to the headlines when there are other places affected by this senseless acts as well, but perhaps because they happen so often, people get desensitised by it. Yet another shame.
The city has been on a lock-down and the army deployed on the ground. Like the bombing we had in Bangkok a couple of months ago, this attack on Paris felt a little more personal, merely by proxies. I can only hope there’ll be no drama unfolding to aggravate the situation further. Twitter has been a great source of news, with many posting pictures (some re-tweeted from the previous attacks apparently) in solidarity to show their support for France.
Credit: Tweeter
Without tweets, I don’t think we’ll get any further news in Thailand.
Let’s hope that this insufferable violence will not get out of hand to across borders. It doesn’t have to be this way. Let’s not only #prayforparis, but also #prayforhumanity. And as Ritu has called out in her post today, let’s all join hands and build a chain of love. In the words of Erika Kind,
” Let’s show the world that there is more light in this world than darkness, more love, tolerance, compassion, and respect than hatred and resentments. Let’s take each other by the hand and build a chain of love, solidarity, and unity!
Sandra, over at A Momma’s View posted an image on her blog recently that haunted me for days. The graphic was pretty disturbing. It’s not easy to get that image out of my skull, yet it hits the nail on the head and I just had to re-blog her very poignant post.
How very true and what a great illustration of what’s happening if we don’t control our words…
Originally posted here. Do go mosey over and read her other posts as well!
It is sometimes hard to keep words under control, especially in a state of anguish, but as parents, we do have a responsibility to filter our words. The truth is that kids absorb everything, and the constant use of unsavoury words on them would be damaging to their well-being in the long run.
It really ain’t right to call them names (apart from little monkeys! in my books) and belittle their beings with harsh words that are just not meant for them. This image will be etched in my head for a very, very long time.
