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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Monday, February 16, 2015
Any memories you cherish of the Late Tissa Kappagoda?
From: Mary Kappagoda <mhkappagoda@hotmail.com>;
To: kanthikaralliedde@yahoo.co.uk <kanthikaralliedde@yahoo.co.uk
To: kanthikaralliedde@yahoo.co.uk <kanthikaralliedde@yahoo.co.uk
>;
Subject: New Project
Sent: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 12:12:29 PM
Subject: New Project
Sent: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 12:12:29 PM
Hi again Kanthi and Lakshman,
We are being rushed to have the memorial for Tissa on the 14th March. (By the priest....he is saying it is too long to wait) As a result I am once again asking for your help. Manel is hoping to find a venue that will allow us to webcast part or all of the proceedings.
I am told that if you scan a picture or a photo into the computer you can send it as an e-mail and it will arrive in the inbox as a "Jpeg"
file. This is way, way above my techspertise but I am assured that it works.
I am sure you must have many memories, stories, anecdotes, school pictures, adolescent times, cricket matches, times at Trinity and subsequently in Colombo.
Would you be willing to share some of them with me? Tissa really never talked about himself so anything would be so welcome. Tell me if they can be shared as the patients are very hungry for any information about him.
Any funny pictures or stories about him would be great as everyone here thinks of him as in a three piece suit ,tie and cuff links and always solemn. Any pictures of him learning Buddhism? I seem to remember that he was taught at the temple at an early age ,so a picture of that would be great.
We are hoping to have a wall of tributes, one of stories and one of his paintings , books, articles and press cuttings so anything at all that you would be willing to share with me will be treasured. Insights into his life before he left Sri Lanka as well as time in England and Canada. So anything at all that you have that can be scanned into the computer and that you feel will be appropriate will be welcomed. As you can imagine I am not at my best just now to undertake such a project so I need all the help I can get rom the Sri Lankan community around the world who knew him. Feel free to pass my request on to anyone anywhere you think might be interested in helping me.
Love
Mary
Sunday, February 15, 2015
A lesson in history.
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IS THE BEST MAXINE EVER, EVER, ..................EVER!
RIGHT ON MAXINE!!! This is the best analogy yet! Leave it to Maxine to come up with a solution for the mess that America/Canada/UK/Germany/Australia/NZ is now in economically. I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. What a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the shit. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table ... everywhere! Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. So I took down the bird feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio. Soon, the back yard was like it used to be ..... quiet, serene.... and no one demanding their rights to a free meal. Now let's see...... Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care and free education, and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen. Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; Your child's second grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English. Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'press one ' to hear my bank talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than ”ours” are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties. Just my opinion, but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder. If you agree, pass it on; if not, just continue cleaning up the shit! |
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Maxine,
All
four continents of Mother Earth, had their predators coming from Europe for
more than six centuries past.
They
committed Genocide where not a single native was left alive, as in Tasmania
where the Aborigines were hunted like dogs, to extermination. Australia was the
biggest ‘land-grab’ in history. It long had a shameful ‘White Australia’
policy.
They
peopled South Africa and created Apartheid which became part of recent history.
They robbed Africa of its human resources to provide slaves to the cotton
plantations in America.
They
plundered South America and peopled North America with their own, displacing and
disenfranchising the natives.
China
had its ‘gun-boat diplomacy and opium wars’ where a culture of centuries, was plundered
and the populace was insulted with sign-boards saying ‘No dogs or Chinese allowed
inside’.
India
was plundered and its populace used as ‘indented labour’ – another name for
slavery – to people the tea rubber and cane plantations of other South Asian
countries and the West Indies. An ancient culture was destroyed.
The
Middle East was marked out and exploited for its oil and a pittance paid – a dollar
a barrel for crude oil – till a few decades ago.
As they
say in the farms ‘The Chicken always come home to roost’. The troubles you
created in the continents are ‘now coming home to roost’.
After
all what is ‘bird shit’ but a mere annoyance.
These words are not said in anger.
Think
about it.
The view from the window.
email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai.
A young
couple moves into a new neighbourhood.
The
next morning while they are eating breakfast,
The
young woman sees her neighbour hanging the wash
outside.
"That
laundry is not very clean," she said.
"She
doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs
better
laundry soap."
Her husband
looked on, but remained silent.
Every
time her neighbour would hang her wash to dry,
The
young woman would make the same comments.
About
one month later, the woman was surprised to see a
Nice
clean wash on the line and said to her husband:
"Look,
she has learned how to wash correctly. I wonder
who
taught her this."
The
husband said, "I got up early this morning and
Cleaned
our windows."
And
so it is with life. What we see when watching
others Depends on the purity of the window through
which we look.
others Depends on the purity of the window through
which we look.
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