What path have we chosen to follow? Are we builders or destroyers? Are our appetites fuelled by greed and lasciviousness? Do we feel fulfilled when we engender pain and suffering? Regardless of how mean and despicable we allow ourselves to be there is always a reckoning, everything ricochets. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
Miseducation, sequestration, immobilization, seclusion, and dependency keeps us in serf like conditions that enables our exploitation. Smokescreens are everywhere. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
Are we only obsessed with who we are and what we want to become on a material scale? Do we see how fallible we are, that we who believe we have the world in our hands cannot stop ourselves from dying? The season teaches us that change is the only occurring factor in life. We […]
The past can only be used as a toolkit in the present. If we dissect our past, disembowel it of all the pain inflicted on us, it points the way out of our present depredation. Lessons learned can never be repeated. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
Our belief that we have to transition from childhood to adulthood at a certain age, is an illusion. Some adults operate with the mindset of adolescents. Maturity isn’t age related, it is a mindset. What happens in our lives isn’t dictated by norms. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
We begin to live an authentic life when we shed ourselves of the masks we wear. Twisting ourselves in knots so that we can be included doesn’t advance us, it encourages ridicule and mockery. Community advancement is the utopia we need. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
Everything we see has layers. Looking for opulence with the eyes is deceptive. The content of a man is not the sum of his financial and social status, his character is what matters. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
Safety is an oxymoron. In a world that is full of duplicitous beings we have to be alert, vigilant, spontaneous and ready. Betrayal wanes and waxes. If people aren’t loyal they would betray another, regardless of the relationship. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
Domination and manipulation is not the problem, it is those who accede and participate because of their own self interest. No amount of money can cleanse us of our transgressions. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? “For the soul is dead that slumbers and things are not what they seem” Excerpt from A psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It reminds me that I cannot allow myself to fall asleep on my watch. © Norma Bobb-Semple […]
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