Please read this wonderful piece by Rick Steves explaining
how difficult it is to be jingoistic once you've traveled the world.
No place has ever touched me as much as Botswana.
Nothing is quite
as humbling as a safari encounter with the earth's most majestic
creatures
and time spent with the people who are so proud to be Batswana.
I sincerely
urge you to read Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, based
in Botswana,
if you haven't already done so, as it gives you a tiny taste of
the magic that is Botswana.
"Heroes are the people who do what has to be done when
it needs to be done,
regardless of the consequences to themselves
of getting it done."
"The real transforming effect of the Internet is its breakdown of the
information hierarchy. ... The information owner [pre-Internet] set the
criteria and price for its dissemination. The Internet has broken down
this
barrier by eliminating impediments to global information sharing, thus
equalizing the relationship between those who own information and those
who
want it. Information is becoming a commodity whose value is determined by
all who have access to it. This fundamentally changes the role of the
information owner to a value-added knowledge facilitator. The Internet
provides lots of information, but trusted sources are still needed to
filter
and interpret it, to turn it into knowledge."
--
Jonathan Peizer,
CIO of the Soros
Foundations
"Why travel if you know where you are? One travels for the
pleasure of being lost."
-- Christopher Hope
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
Of the approximately 6 billion people on the planet:
3 billion suffer from malnutrition
more than 4 billion are illiterate
about 5 billion live in substandard housing
and 50% of the total have never seen a computer nor even made a telephone
call ...
Read more about the typical global village inhabitant.
I am offering the following item free to a good home on a first
come, first served basis!
One: Pentax IQ Zoom 200 Camera
Thank you for visiting my home page!
Glee Willis, who can be contacted at
gleewillis at yahoo.com
Rev. 12/21/11