Just heard that phrase on a vet show Unfortunately , people sometimes have to pretend to be sheepal for survival purposes!
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Day 10 - Anniversary of The Battle of the Somme - we still need good gatekeepers....
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| Reprinted with permission from the Holocaust museum Washington D.C. My dad at the gate of Buchenwald - throughout history there have always been people who will stand up to the plate despite the odds against them! |
Day 9 - My hero and dad at the gate of Buchenwald concentration camp East Germany...the man on the right is my dad!
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| Reprinted with permission from the Holocaust museum Washington D.C. |
Day 8 - Since my divorce I have been homeless...Have been told may be able to get government housing in 5 years from now but not likely before that time!!!!????I am on the list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Therefore, Richard Gere's comments resonant with me and I am sure with others out there in cyber space. I have found that it has sometimes beern very hard to keep my chin up! I have had comments directed at me like,"You should have stayed in the marriage and then you would not be homeless and it is your fault for making the decisions that you have" - people are sometimes unkind when your circumstances change...
!!!!On the other hand many people are been helpful so it kind of balances out....I may be able to get government housing in 5 years from now in Canada!!!!!
"You have to accept all phases of life and appreciate that you improve with age spiritually and on so many other levels, even though your body may be wearing down. But so far I haven't fallen apart."ve been "taken to the cleaners"
!!!!On the other hand many people are been helpful so it kind of balances out....I may be able to get government housing in 5 years from now in Canada!!!!!
Richard Gere's quiet life
Richard Gere has found the "quiet life" he was after.
The 'Pretty Woman' star is thrilled to have his girlfriend Alejandra Silva, 33, beside him and is very content with his life.
He told HOLA! magazine: "I've found the quiet and happy life I always looked for."
Speaking of the Porcelanosa party held at Windsor Castle and hosted by Prince Charles, Alejandra added: "I felt like a princess, I was having dinner right next to the Prince. I won't ever forget it."
Meanwhile, the 66-year-old star previously admitted he thinks society is "too selfish".
He said: "Housing is the most important thing in bringing anyone back into society. It's that sense of self ... that I'lI exist and have some importance to people around me. I'm saddened that we're all too selfish to help each other as much as we should ...
"I've been living in New York since I was 20. We all have our homeless people on our block. Then they disappear and who knows what happens to them. It's a wide variety of issues. It's not just mental illness ... But people tend to be seen monolithically. That's one of the failures of the social services, where people think one size fits all. There's an infinite number of stories that lead people to being on the street."
And Richard also recently admitted he feels like he's in his 20s rather than his 60's.
He said: "I feel like I'm 26 years old - except when I look in the mirror and see a man who is in his 60s with white hair and wrinkles. But it doesn't feel that strange.
Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Day seven - No Ceiling....
Comes the morning
When I can feel
That there's nothing left to be concealed
Moving on a scene surreal
No, my heart will never, will never be far from here
When I can feel
That there's nothing left to be concealed
Moving on a scene surreal
No, my heart will never, will never be far from here
Sure as I am breathing
Sure as I'm sad
I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh
I leave here believing more than I had
And there's a reason I'll be, a reason I'll be back
Sure as I'm sad
I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh
I leave here believing more than I had
And there's a reason I'll be, a reason I'll be back
As I walk the hemisphere
I got my wish to up and disappear
I've been wounded, I've been healed
Now for… Full lyrics on Google PlaySociety
I got my wish to up and disappear
I've been wounded, I've been healed
Now for… Full lyrics on Google PlaySociety
It's a mystery to me
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all, you won't be free
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all, you won't be free
Society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
I hope you're not lonely without me
When you want more than you have, you think you need
And when you think more than you want, your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
Cause when you have more than you think, you need more space
And when you think more than you want, your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
Cause when you have more than you think, you need more space
Society, you're a crazy breed
I hope you're not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you're not lonely without me
I hope you're not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you're not lonely without me
There's those thinking more or less, less is more
But if less is more, how you keepin score?
Means for every point you make your level drops
Kinda… Full lyrics on Google Play
But if less is more, how you keepin score?
Means for every point you make your level drops
Kinda… Full lyrics on Google Play
Day Six - For free you can read my dad's blog Louis Fynaut, Buchenwald Survivor...
It is organic and spontaneous and messy I created it when I was a rooky blogger - you have to search for your own truth.....
Day five - Read my dad's memoir - How I survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald and you will get a window into me...
I Survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald: Memoirs of a Belgian Survivor of Nazi Concentration Camps Paperback – May 15, 2016
See all 2 formats and editionsGlory To War
by Louis Emmanuel Fynaut
"To Each His Own" (My dad's title for his book about Auschwitz and Buchenwald) evolves a picture of an adverse assembly of specters, past and present,
sitting on a multitude of battle-ready horses with mad, drunken, hysterical staring eyes;
guided firmly in the saddle by the terrible ghost of grim corrupt dignitaries
cloaked in all kinds of beautiful apparel of stupendous splendor,
rich ornaments, tiaras, uniforms and medallions.
Covered by an eerie aura of bad stormy weather,
darkening the pomp and glamour spectacle galore;
wallowing in unsurpassed greediness
with the sweet, rotten stench of death ever-present around.
Passing by like a macabre parade;
trampling casually on the mutilated corpses of long-suffering mankind, foe and friend alike.
Little voices crying from beneath the holocaust,
faintly heard by the stunned helpless survivors:
"We are next ...
Tell the world, please!"
"To Each His Own" (My dad's title for his book about Auschwitz and Buchenwald) evolves a picture of an adverse assembly of specters, past and present,
sitting on a multitude of battle-ready horses with mad, drunken, hysterical staring eyes;
guided firmly in the saddle by the terrible ghost of grim corrupt dignitaries
cloaked in all kinds of beautiful apparel of stupendous splendor,
rich ornaments, tiaras, uniforms and medallions.
Covered by an eerie aura of bad stormy weather,
darkening the pomp and glamour spectacle galore;
wallowing in unsurpassed greediness
with the sweet, rotten stench of death ever-present around.
Passing by like a macabre parade;
trampling casually on the mutilated corpses of long-suffering mankind, foe and friend alike.
Little voices crying from beneath the holocaust,
faintly heard by the stunned helpless survivors:
"We are next ...
Tell the world, please!"
To Each his Own is a translation of the sign on the gate of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany during World War II - my dad's memoir on Amazon is called I survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.....
Day Four - Don't let other people tell you who you are....
My dad used to say to me "Don't let other people do the thinking that you should be doing for yourself." Unfortunately, it took me a a long time to realize the wisdom of these words!
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If you are a Mary Poppins type live a Mary Poppins life - nothing wrong with that! |
Day three....SPIDERS WEB JUNE 2016.....MY LIFE RESEMBLES A WEB in the sun!!
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| Spider's web early morning in my brother's garden in Muswell Hill, London, MAGICAL! |
Day two - I still believe in magic....
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| St. Pancreas Station London - I still believe in magic! JUne 2016! |
Day One - My inner journey is now..... Baby steps again!
I have morphed into a butterfly recently! After a messy divorce and some strange fallout afterwards including publishing my dad's memoir about his experiences at Buchenwald and Auschwitz - I have morphed from calling myself Buchenwald's Belgian Daughter into my own identity and am now calling myself, Single White Woman in Canada.
It has been a strange and wonderful journal and am going to share the pain and the laughter I have experienced and continue to experience on this crazy trip.
My intention is that somebody out there in cyber space will benefit from the ups and downs I have experienced.
Was in the United Kingdom last week here are some of my June pictures!
It has been a strange and wonderful journal and am going to share the pain and the laughter I have experienced and continue to experience on this crazy trip.
My intention is that somebody out there in cyber space will benefit from the ups and downs I have experienced.
Was in the United Kingdom last week here are some of my June pictures!
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| I am 59 years old young and most of my Ex's have been control freeks, I enjoyed Eat, Pray and Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and have paralleled similar experiences but believe it would be folly to think that my life resembles that author's journey in any shape or form! Me on the steps at Alexander Palace Londnn June 2016 exploring new horizons on m own! Baby steps again........ |
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