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John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same” (Luke 3:11) This is our introduction to John the Baptist, the last prophet before Yeshua. His message; repentance and calling out social iniquity. John was killed by King Herod, his cousin…
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“According to Buddhism, there are four elements of true love.The first is maitri, which can be translated as loving-kindness or benevolence. Loving-kindness is not only the desire to make someone happy, to bring joy to a beloved person; it is the ability to bring joy and happiness to the person you love, because even if…
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Second review with Dr Coetzee went well. I’m now tolerating light and moving around wearing sunglasses. I could read the first line of the Snell Chart and the surgeon says it’s rapid improvement (my old cornea could no longer read the first line).I’ve been given eye drops to take until my next review in one…
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Had the surgery today.Some eye discomfort with a little pain.The bandage will (hopefully) come off tomorrow.If I can I’ll post a photo on Day 3.Until then – Rest.
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I’ll be undergoing Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty (DALK) on my left eye tomorrow (21 February). My corneal specialist is Dr L Coetzee of Sandton Eye Clinic (Johannesburg, South Africa). Some background: My initial diagnosis of corneal was in 2011 (even though I had been having corneal erosions since adolescence).My visual acuity has gradually been deteriorating…
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it is funny howwhen you pour yourself out, to anothernot being reciprocated leaves you empty inside
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time moves so agonisingly slowlythe second hand ticking off the remnants of life.the empty silence ofloneliness hangs in the air
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There are so many thoughts that have been running through my head for the past week.Perhaps they were set off by the rumblings of dissatisfaction at work.It could simply be a culmination of subconscious thoughts that have been lying, buried in my psyche for some time,I think my social media activity even spiked near the…
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Sometimes I feel that I will drive myself into madness with the way I overthink and end up paralysed in an endless loop of a thought. Recycling the same phrase our concept again and again in my mind.Multiple possibilities, multiple outcomes; yet the idea remains stuck in that special purgatory that my mind has become.…
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Unfortunately, politicians choose richesThey forget about unity They forget about lifting up those whose backsThey stepped on to get where they areThey drive their German cars with tinted windows Tinted not to keep out the sunTinted to hide them from the gazes of the people
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