Imagine you can choose to ignore your alarm clock. Eyes still closed you decide if you want to go to work now or later or not at all. Take your time to get ready. No rush to the station because you are not going to miss your train. You arrive at work, you can waste a few minutes drinking a latte macchiato and a cornetto around the pool, the sun warming your back, arguing with colleagues if we should buy CFR or FOB. Then you work, get stuff done. Lunch time is coming. Well, still nothing really inspiring at the canteen. After lunch back to the spring sun, sitting on the bench right in the middle of the daisies field, chatting. Work again. Later, you get to talk about your faith with your chief and he is enthusiastic, telling you "It is of no use of having people with good values in monasteries" and "It is difficult and courageous to assume different convictions in today's world". Whaouh! I was amazed! At 15:45 you leave the office, get the train back home and head to the park. You sit at the Umberto I monument and think "It's a beautiful day". The sun sets and you get annoyed by an homeless guy (that's common when you are alone in a public park in Rome). But you still think "What a beautiful day!". You have to go home, do some grocery shopping, cook, pay your rent... but you just have been convinced that even the smallest things prepare you for the future, so you say, "that's OK!".
mercredi 7 avril 2010
Last Nomadic Stop
You don't need to wait for the telegram...
Ce matin-là, le monde commençait pour nous à s’émouvoir. L’opérateur de T. S. F. nous remit enfin un télégramme : deux pylônes, plantés dans le sable, nous reliaient une fois par semaine à ce monde: Courrier France-Amérique parti de Toulouse 5 h 45 stop. Passé Alicante 11 h 10. (...) En dix minutes, la nouvelle nous parvenait par Barcelone, par Casablanca, par Agadir, puis se propageait vers Dakar. Sur cinq mille kilomètres de ligne, les aéroports étaient alertés. (...) Un moteur grondait quelque part. De Toulouse jusqu’au Sénégal on cherchait à l’entendre.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Courrier Sud.
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Inspiration (2): Impalas
An impala is a medium-sized African antelope. The name impala comes from the Zulu language meaning "gazelle".
Impala range between 73 and 92 cm (29 and 36 in) tall. Average mass for a male impala is 46 to 76 kg (100 to 170 lb), while females weigh about 35 to 50 kg (77 to 110 lb). They are normally reddish-brown in color (hence the Afrikaans name of "Rooibok"), have lighter flanks and white underbellies with a characteristic "M" marking on the rear. Impalas are an ecotone species living in light woodland with little undergrowth and grassland of low to medium height. They have an irregular distribution due to dependence on free water, soils with good drainage with firm footing and moderate or less slope. While they are usually close to water in the dry season, they can go weeks without drinking when they have access to green vegetation.
Impalas are adaptable foragers. They usually switch between grazing and browsing depending on the season. During wet seasons when grasses are green and growing they graze. During dry seasons it browses foliage, shoots, forbs and seeds. It can also adapt to different habitats by being a grazer in one habitat a browser in another. Leopards, cheetahs, lions and wild dogs prey on impala.
see also: http://impala-nomade.blogspot.com/2007/08/trs-prcisement.html
Impala range between 73 and 92 cm (29 and 36 in) tall. Average mass for a male impala is 46 to 76 kg (100 to 170 lb), while females weigh about 35 to 50 kg (77 to 110 lb). They are normally reddish-brown in color (hence the Afrikaans name of "Rooibok"), have lighter flanks and white underbellies with a characteristic "M" marking on the rear. Impalas are an ecotone species living in light woodland with little undergrowth and grassland of low to medium height. They have an irregular distribution due to dependence on free water, soils with good drainage with firm footing and moderate or less slope. While they are usually close to water in the dry season, they can go weeks without drinking when they have access to green vegetation.
Impalas are adaptable foragers. They usually switch between grazing and browsing depending on the season. During wet seasons when grasses are green and growing they graze. During dry seasons it browses foliage, shoots, forbs and seeds. It can also adapt to different habitats by being a grazer in one habitat a browser in another. Leopards, cheetahs, lions and wild dogs prey on impala.
see also: http://impala-nomade.blogspot.com/2007/08/trs-prcisement.html
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