There is hope for mankind . . .

There is hope for mankind when things like this happen. 


Thirty dolphins were stranded on a beach at Arraial do Cabo in Brazil on March 5th 2012. Without the help of local people they would have perished.


Heartwarming stuff!

Maffick Monday #3 What if birds ruled the world?

Image copyright bmjc

Alicia is hosting Maffick Monday. Her prompt this week is ‘What if birds ruled the world?’ Thank you, Alicia J

If birds ruled the world -

Would they whinge at the noises we make

And complain that we kept them awake, 

If birds ruled the world ?

Would we all live in pens 

And struggle to stand up in cages,

Pecking out eyes in our rages,

Just battery hens?

They could put us in zoos,

To display to the public each day,

Who’d want us to show ‘cause they’d paid

And waited in queues.

If birds ruled the world

Would they keep us in lofts with our own class

And train us to fly by the bright stars,  

When night was unfurled?

If birds ruled the world

Would they show compassion and kindness

Or treat us with man’s sort of blindness,

If birds ruled the world? 

Inspiring Words Week - Compassion

Yiota from 'shells and bells showers and flowers' has invited who wishes to join her in her 'Inspiring Words Week.' I'm a little late taking up the invitation but . . . well, you know the rest of the saying!

My word for today is COMPASSION

Chambers Thesaurus gives the following definitions of compassion: 

kindness, gentleness, tenderness, tender-heartedness, fellow-feeling, humanity, mercy, pity, leniency, sympathy, commiseration, condolence, sorrow, benevolence, consideration, concern, care, understanding

'If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.'
St Francis of Assisi 1181 - 1226

'Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.'
Albert Schweitzer 1875 – 1965

'The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.'
Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918 – 2008

'Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.'
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

'The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals.'
Mohandas Gandhi 1869 – 1948

'Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.'
Henry S Haskins 1875 – 1957

'Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.'
Henry James 1843 – 1916

'One kind word can warm three winter months.'
Japanese proverb