If you let it
if you want it
L if e shines for you too;
©Photo/Text Titania
Sunday, 15 July 2012
Saturday, 14 July 2012
Sepia Saturday 134; Prams;
My elder sister; 1935; I remember this park, as a child I went for walks there with my mother; she seemed to like this place, as we always went there.
This is also my sister, there are many photos of her like this but not in the pram. Not many of myself as in the war years my mother did not have films for her camera. After the war there were many photos again.Alas I was 6 years old and not in a pram anymore!
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Tuesday; What's good for the goose is good for the gander;
Bookshelf
Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela
It is a glimpse into another culture. Mahmoud Bey has two wifes. Mahmouds first wife is uneducated, superstitious and confined to her open air kitchen. While his second wife is a modern, educated Egyptian woman, but she is mainly occupied with trivial things like fashion and everything western she embraces wholeheartedly. She moved to the Sudan, but hates it there and would like to move back to cosmopolitan Cairo.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, the meaning of it:
What is good for a man is equally good for a woman; or, what a man can have or do, so can a woman have or do
A culture who puts their women on the back burner looses.
I also think the custom of marrying first cousins is not healthy. Also marrying the girls off at an early age is not healthy and it is cruel.
Adolescent mothers face a higher risk of obstructed labour than women in their twenties. Without adequate emergency obstetric care, this can lead to uterine rupture and a high risk of death for both mother and infant. For those who survive, prolonged labour can cause obstetric fistula, which is a tear between the vagina and the bladder or the rectum, causing urine or faeces to leak. In Ethiopia and Nigeria, more than 25% of fistula patients had become pregnant before the age of 15 and more than 50% before the age of 18. Although the problem can be rectified with surgery, treatment is not widely available in most countries where fistula occurs and millions of women are left to suffer with a condition that leads to incontinence, bad odours and other side-effects including psychological problems and social isolation.
Also the circumcision of girls (I personally also think of boys) is a terrible, barbaric act still practiced by certain cultures and religions. It is an interference where the child has no say and is lumbered with a stupid, superstitious decision, as long as she or he lives dictated by a culture or religion.
I guess humanity has a long way to go to find Enlightenment.
©Titania; My opinion.
Monday, 9 July 2012
Sunday, 8 July 2012
Sunday; "tying the knot";
It turned out, that after rain during the night, Saturday morning greeted us with a blue sky and sun which was fantastic because the wedding celebration of Lilli &Bill was held in the garden of MarieL and Brendan.
Everything turned out to be perfect, so lovely to meet up with old and new friends.
Ready for the guests to arrive... family and very good friends...
A toast to the future...
Friday, 6 July 2012
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