TUAREG`S HOSPITALITY

TUAREGS IN THE " HOGGAR"

IN THE SOUTH OF ALGERIA

ON THE DESERT PLANE NEAR "PÉRE FOUCAULT`S" CAVE

TUAREGS PRIDE IN "HOSPITALITY"

TAGS

( "OLÉ" By Rafael Lopez )

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Just in case the Blogs I`ve tagged do not open imediatly

I`m Sharing The URL `s With All Of You ,

So You May See Them If You Want

while I don`t Insert a Direct link.

Remember...

I Don`t Know them

and they don`t know me.

I`ll just present them the challenge ,

because I think their sites deserve to be seen

or just peacked !

So, here they are:

MARI >>>http://wisechoices.blogspot.com/

CARLY >>>http://www.carlybish.com/index.html

LIA >>>http://ennui1981.blogspot.com/

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Sorry , I`ve taken 1 of the Tags In My list

Because when I red it a few days after , it was not quite what I thing the Blog was about

So I narrowed it down to 3 Blogs :)))

AND THAT`S IT FOR TODAY !

LEAVING YOU

WITH MY LOVE !

THE MACHINE

( "Blue Burnout" by Michael H.Sinn )

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It`s Late at night

Or Early morning...

The same old story:

Is the glass

Half empty

or , in fact ,

Half full?!

I`m making my gray cells blue

Like the smoke of the lightbulb

Don`t want a "Blue Burnout"

But thereS still so much to be done

Before Dawn

Wich is sneacking in

Turning the darkness

Into Vapors of the Night

Amongst the pale colors

Insinuating through the window !

It`s Time To shut the Machine off

For a while

ME !

TAGGED !!!

"Free Spirit" by

Hassan Farahani

Well , this "Free Spirit" was tagged by

BEN

So , dear friend, I`ll "take you up on your call" , and do my best...

Four Jobs I Had :

1) Real Estate Sales "Girl " ( Girl because I was 16 ans it was a Summer Job)

2) Partner in a Fishing Enterprise in Angola

3) Turist Guide ang Humanitarian Aid ( for Europe and Africa )

4) Lawyer ( my main practise nowadays )

Four Movies I Like ( but I would NOT watch them over and over...Ufff) :

1) "Scent of a Woman " ( I admire

Al Pacino`s Work among others )

2)"The Devil`s Advocate" ( Adapted from the great Book Of Morris West )

3)"Seven"

4) "The Name of the Rose " ( From The masterpiece of Umberto Eco )

Four Places I`ve Lived :

1) Namibe ( Where I was born , in Angola )

2) South Africa

3) Portugal ( Algarve and Lisbon )

4)Peru

Four TV Shows I love :

1)None ( If the word "love" is to be taken seriously )

2)I would live wonderfully without TV

3)But I confess I watch it every now and then,IF,said, IF,the command is nearby

4)Then...I see "National Geographic" , "History" , MI5 ( 2 episodes a year), News!

AH...NOTE : Yes , I "love" something on TV ( besides being "off")...I Love " Stewey" from "The family guy"...what a sense of analisis and manipulation...wow !

Four websites I visit on a daily basis :

1) On a Daily (and night shifts ) basis I have to W-O-R-K , more than I would like

2) So the Net is basicly an work instrument where I navigate through Law and News websites, mostly in portuguese...

3) But In the end of the day , I visit some blogs , that I like particularly (wich I enjoy like an art exibit , or a good book ,and many times....both ...)

4) And Newspaper an Tv websites , from all around the world ( I don`t watch TV, remember? )

Four of My favorite foods :

1) Avocado...Ohhh....Can`t think of it ...salty...sweet...everyway !

2) If we go to a wider range of "food" concept ...I `d say...Angolan Cuisine....

3) Portuguese (From North to South )

4) Brasilian

Four Places I`d rather be right now :

1) Somewhere in Sahara Desert , near a fireplace , away from any civilization, with a drum on my hands...

2)Somewhere in Latin America, climbing to places where the Inca and Maya Civilizations left their mark , like Cuzco , wich is magnificent...

3) Doing the "Santiago Trail " , Wich I have planned for almost 8 years now...Detail , by detail...

4)Enjoying the sweet summer breeze of the Island of Santiago , Cap Vert , during the night !

Four Bloggers Who may consider themselves tagged :

(this is a dificult one , because , I don`t know that many bloggers, and those I know a bit were already tagged , so i`ll just do what i can here ....

(Hey, Stranger, consider yourself tagged....something like that...lol...ok ...)

1) MARI

2) CARLY

3) LIA

4) Read "Olé" Post - The red one above :))))

I Just Took a litle tour around the Blogs I could find more interesting , And I selected these...

I hope that you , Mary ,Carly , Lia , and Chez acept take up the challenge to say a bit about yourselves if you`re into it ...thank you :))

Yours,

Kalie !

LOVE IS THE ANSWER

LOVE IS THE ANSWER !

Don`t Be Afraid To Love !

THE PORTRAIT IN THE PURSE

This Was Yours

You Allways Carryed it in Your Purse

Because I was not with you in The Flesh

I was In Another Place , Country , Continent...

You Had Me In a Piece a Paper

Wich I Found After You`re Gone

Still In The Same Place...

In Your Purse

I Kept It Because It Helped You Through My Travels

I Know You Prayed a Lot For Me

Two Years have passed this Month

And You Were the Last to Leave

YOU`RE ALL

On The Other Side

And I`m Walking This Earth Alone

No Blood Links Left

But Now

None of you SWEET DEARS need any piece of Paper

Because You Can All See Me Here

Surely Still Praying For Me

And I Know You`re All Happy on the Other Side

So ...

There`s No Reason For Me To Be Unhappy...

On The Other Way Around...

I`m Happy for You

I Hope You`re Still Learning There

As You Did Here

And I`ll Be There Someday

As We All Will

Keep Up With The Good Work As I`m Trying Here !

HANDS REACHING OUT

THANK YOU MY FRIEND

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HAND

THERE´S NO PORT OR HARBOUR IN HERE

JUST THE RIVER AND THE LAND

THE BOAT ROCKS

AND I NEED THE SAFETY OF YOUR HAND
TO KEEP MY BALANCE
WHILE YOU HOLD THE BOAT STEADY FOR ME

MY JOURNEY ISN´T EASY

AS YOURS ISN´T AS WELL

BUT HERE YOU ARE FOR ME

WATCHING THE BOAT

WATCHING MY FEET

GRABING MY HAND

TO LAND SAFETLY

TO CARRY ON MY JOUNEY.

YOUR CONCERN IS NOT FAKE

HERE

ONE CANNOT AFORD THOSE FEELINGS

SO YOU OFFER ME YOUR HAND

AND I REACH OUT FOR IT

TOMORROW IT`LL BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND

SEALING OUR MUTUAL NEED OF ONE ANOTHER !

A FACE IN MARRAKECH

I ALSO PAINT , MOSTLY IN DRY PASTEL ...

AND ALWAYS IN BLACK AND WHITE !

THIS WAS MADE IN MOROCCO , A FEW YEARS AGO,

IN MARRAKECH !

IT´S A "SNAKE ENCHANTER " ALWAYS IN THE FAMOUS

"SOUK" ( MARKET ) OF

DJEMA EL FNA
SQUARE !

HERE IT LOOSES A LITLE OF THE EXPRESSION OF THE EYES AND THE FACE ITSELF
DUE TO THE REDUCED DIMENSIONS OF THE PRESENTATION .
HOWEVER IT´S A BIG PAINTING .

This is another way to present images the people and situations I come across during the travels !

WHERE SHOULD I GO FROM HERE

Where should I go From Here ?

What Else Can I Do ?

Where`s Home ?

I Know Where`s My Adress

The House Where I Live

But Where`s Home ?

Where`s My Place ?

Here...

With These Souls...

With Their Anonimous Strugle For Survival

With Silent Screams in Their Eyes !

With These Clothes That Are My Second Skin

So Litle They Were Changed

But are Still In One Piece

Unlike Most of Those I See Around Me ?

These Hard Boots That Never Leave My Feet

Not Even In This Heat

But Helped Me Cross Sand And Stones

Wich Is More Than the bare feet I see All Around Me ?

Home ...

Is Where I´m In Peace With My Conscience

Because I Cannot Erase

What These Eyes Of Mine Already Saw

So Home

Is Here !

On The Way

To Where I`m Needed

One Place At A Time

Untill My Strengh

Or Something Else

Dictate Otherwise.

THE RULES

DESERT

In Here We Are In Another World

With Another Rules

It Can Hipnotize Us With It`s Beauty

The Silence Is Total

You Never Heard Such A Silence Like In a Desert

The Vue Is The Same 360 " All Around You

At Night You Can See A Million Stars in The Sky

Because Men Are Far Away

With Their Artificial Lights

During the Day

You May carry On For Endless Kilometers

And It Still Look Like You Never Left the Same Place

Yes , Here the Rules are Diferent

There`s Time For The Breathless Beauty Of This Place

And There`s Time To Get Out Of The Transe

And Face The Reality

That

You Far Away From Everything

And You Can Only Rely On Yourself!

Those Who Cross This Sea of Sand

Are Those Who Love The Desert

But Can Also See Beyond The Deadly Beauty

That Is Well Hiden

To the Eye Of Those

Who Trust On Their Own Rules

And Don`t Understand

That Here The Master Is The Desert Itself

Not The Man !

SWEET SISTER

Sweet Sister

I Remember You

As I Told You I Would

Conversations on the Front Porch

Of the Wooden House

Were we could Talk Looking at the Sea

Side By Side

Just Looking at the Sea

Letting Loose Our Thoughts

And Our Silences

Sharing Intimate Confessions

Things of The Soul

Without Looking at Eachother

The Words Coming Out So Freely

So Natural

True to Our Feelings

You Had Your Pains

I Had Mine

You had Your Joys

I Told You Mine

After Days

When Trust Was Mutual

You Shared the Secrets of The Tribe Women

Those Who are Told Only to Women

The Rituals

And as I Was Hearing Your Voice

You Had My Silence

And You Took Me To The Women

And I Sat With Them

And What I Learned Is Still Sealed Till Today

As I Promised

How You Are Rich

Sweet Sister

And Made Me Richer

The Jewels You Gave Me

No One But Yourselves

Could Possibly Give Me in This Big Wide World !

I LOVE YOU ALL !

YOU AND ME KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

AND THAT`S ENOUGH FOR US !

THE STARS AND THE DJAMBAY

MOONLIGHT

THE STARS

THE DJAMBAY IS SINGING

AT SOMEBODY `S HANDS

THE TEA IS AN EXTENSION OF OUR FINGERS

THE BURNING COALS AND CINDERS

ARE STARTING A GAME OF SHADOWS

THE BREEZE IS GENTLY WARM

EVERYTHING SEEMS SO RIGHT

TONIGHT

IN DAKAR

CONTRAST

CONTRAST

There`s Black and there`s Collors

There`s Tears and there`s Joy

There`s Survival and there`s Plenty

Thre`s Rememberance and there`s Forgeting

There`s Life and there`s Numness

There`s YOU and there`s ME

There`s US

Here

Togheter

There `s Understanding !

There`s Acepting !

There`s Tolerance !

There`s Sharing !

There`s Laughter !

There`s Love !

Tomorrow

I`m Leaving ,

But I Never Left !

Maybe For You ,

I`m Going

But I was Never Gone !

For While I `ll Know You`re Here Still

I `ll Allways be Back .

A NEW DAWN

WHAT CLEANS OUR SOUL
IS THAT
THERE IS ALWAYS A NEW DAWN
A NEW DAY
TO DO SOMETHING...

TO START OR TO FINISH
TO BE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT

TO BE GLAD TO BE ALIVE
TO BE GLAD FOR A RENEWD HOPE
TO BE GLAD
FOR THE FRESHNESS OF THE MORNING
TO BE GLAD FOR THE WONDERS
WE CAN WITNESS
TO BE GLAD TO BE HERE
WATCHING LIFE WAKING UP

TO BE THANKFULL
FOR EVERY SINGLE THING.

I KNOW
I AM !

WE ARE AFRICAN CHILDREN

We are Children in Africa

This is the condition that glues to our dark skin

These are our toys

And we play happillly with them

Why Not?

We don`t Know any others

All we hope is that there`s food at home today

And " today" is ALL we know

Since we born

Till we depart

With a "life" in the midle.

PREMATURE ADOLESCENCE

There`s no time to dream too much...

In no time Children become Women...

The fields are their responsability very early...

The building of the huts too...

Their own children soon arrive...

And Ancient traditions still are their law

In these Islands of Bijagós !