The tragedy of dying languages
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The death of the last speaker of an
10:12 am | Waking up is always an adventure when you live in a caravan. The Couple just loved that feeling of getting away from it all; living on the road ...
12:23 pm | This is a "true story" about how I met my husband on a dating site on the Internet. It's the unbelievable story behind it that's truly amazing! I...
06:34 am | The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the water close to Japan has not held many...
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01:19 pm | A few weeks ago someone gave me an interesting article on suffering, and the first part of...
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07:10 am | There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical...
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02:30 am | An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the...
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01:06 pm | An anonymous reader of these reminders was inspired to write the following after reading some essays by...
March 16 2010 / View Comments / Read More »Baba the Storyteller performs at the Nat’l Storytelling Conference Opening Ceremony
Mind-Body Interactions
The oil spill’s unseen culprits, victims
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs
Five Emotional Cancers
09:36 am | Let me be authentic, and engage from my heart. Despite human beings’ competitive nature over scarce resources, they do care for one another. In 1991, Somalia had descended into a disastrous civil war, and people were running anywhere they could to seek safety. We made an attempt to escape the conflict once before, and ended...
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July 5 2010 / View Comments / Read More »01:04 am | Once upon a time there was a man named Omar who cared for goats belonging to other people. He was paid each month to take the villagers’ goats to the pasture close to the village. One day he decided that he wanted to go to the city to have lunch. He made a plan so...
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April 21 2010 / View Comments / Read More »09:42 am | One day, a merchant went to a marketplace to purchase goods to trade. Just when he thought he had examined all the shops and materials he saw one last stall that had escaped his notice. To his great surprise the stall was empty except for an anxious looking man who was sitting with a genie hovering in...
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January 9 2010 / View Comments / Read More »02:28 am | Once there was an Emperor in the Far East who was growing old and knew it was coming time to choose his successor. Instead of choosing one of his assistants or one of his own children, he decided to choose a sincere person. He called all the young people in the kingdom together one day....
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June 30 2010 / View Comments / Read More »01:33 am | * P A R E N T S * An old man was sitting in the courtyard of his house along with his son who had received tertiary education. Suddenly a crow perched on a wall of the house. The father asked the son: ‘What is this?’ The son replied: ‘It is a crow.’ After...
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June 7 2010 / View Comments / Read More »03:06 pm | MARK TWAIN: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail...
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04:59 pm | Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst…British saying Love is like a war: Easy to begin Hard to end!…Unknown If...
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02:21 pm | Famous Quote by Francis Bacon Knowledge is power. Famous Quote by William Wordsworth The good die first. Famous Quote by Ralph Waldo...
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12:58 pm | Once upon a time……. Once upon a time leadership mattered,now dealership rules the world. Once upon a time quality was a craftman’s...
July 28 2010 / View Comments / Read More »02:33 pm | My name is Orphan Boy; I’m a Somali Orphan boy. I’m lost and I don’t know where to go. My father was...
July 18 2010 / View Comments / Read More »04:52 pm | Recently my sister (Fatima) and I were sort of reflecting back on our childhood and the countries that we lived in and more specifically on Somalia. We both are striving...
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