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Landing in Africa was quite a shock, never thought I'd have this once in a lifetime opportunity to set my feet in the world of Africa. I was there to volunteer for a month to do conversational work, bonding with the animals, observing their animals and much other activities.  It was night and other volunteers and I were driving to the lodge where the volunteers stay and the first animal i saw was a Giraffe. He was there just eating and walking by, as I have observed my time in Africa, they are very curious animals and look at you with deep dark eyes wondering what kind of creature you are to them. We arrived at the lodge and went to bed right away due to the long flight that we had to take (Dublin - Dubai (7 hours) then Dubai - Harare (7 hours) plus a 2 hour drive).   The next early morning we all had to wake up at 6 and be ready by 6:30, starting from that time we do work with animals whereas we bond with them, teach them new tricks and walk with them back to the...

A popular berry during summertime, deep purple black currants (sometimes called blackcurrants) offer a wealth of nutrients not found anywhere else. The plump little black currant can be puckeringly sour however, so it's one fruit that usually requires some type of added sweetness, such as honey or stevia, for eating as is or for baking. Black currant sauce can make a delicious savory sauce for serving with lamb, turkey, or fish. Native to central and northern Europe and Siberia, and found in Britain for over 500 years, the small shrub bearing this fruit is similar to those bearing translucent, white, and red varieties, but while they're sweeter, they offer fewer vitamins and minerals. Chinese and European folk medicine both claim dozens of traditional uses for black currants as a curative. Growing your own black currant bushes requires a few tricks. First of all, they require winter temperatures as low as zero degrees centigrade. Choose a sunny location and add compo...

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. 

I lost everything when I lost you Now my heart is breaking in two I found memories, what am I to do Those memories keep on making me blue The moon and the stars they don't seem the same Love has lost its glory, to me it's just a game No, I lost everything, my dreams are all through My life is only make believe without you.

Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object, if i say true  I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

This Magic And if it's a boy,' Phylida said cheerfuly, we'l cal him Prospero.' I laughed. Poor child! But why Prospero? Oh, of course, because of Prospero in The Tempest. Corfu was Shakespeare's magic island in The Tempest, We've already got one character from the play here − Miranda. And her brother's called Spiro, which sounds a bit like Prospero, doesn't it? Miranda and Spiro are twins.  We were having breakfast outside in the sun, on the terrace of my sister's house on the beautiful island of Corfu, which lies off the west coast of Greece.My sister Phyllida is three years older than I am, and when she was twenty she married a Roman banker, Leonardo Forli. The Forli family had owned land on Corfu for many years and Leo's great−grandfather had built an enormous house, the Castello dei Fiori, in the woods above the bay.  Leo's father had built two smaller, more modern houses on the cliffs on the north and south sides of...