Montag, 30. August 2010

Kiva - Loans that change lifes


















Meine ersten "Kiva" loans unterstützen Selbständigkeitsprojekte von Frauen in Kambodscha, der Mangolei, Ruanda und Guatemala.
Kiva loans, sind Mikrokredite, die an Menschen in der dritten Welt vergeben werden, die sich dadurch ein eigenes Geschäft aufbauen und so ihre Familien und communities versorgen können.


All the Hemispheres

Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out

Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.

Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.

Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.

Change rooms in your mind for a day.

All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.

Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.

All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting

While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You.

Hāfez (1325/26–1389/90) was a Persian poet.
From: ‘The Subject Tonight is Love’