Honesty
Living with honesty allows us to give to others the respect they deserve. When we are honest we don’t try to beguile people into giving us what we want. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Author: normabobb
Writing and sharing is my passion. I like to explore life through poetry and share my take on life's endless highs and lows.
It’s on Us
Don’t be waiting around for someone else to chart your course. Your success or failure depends on how invested you are in yourself. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Our Focus
If our focus is on our immediate gratification, whether it is women, men, money or status, every other attributes we may have is nullified: we begin to see ourselves as separate and entitled instead of being part of a community at large. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Be mindful
We are being called to use our mindfulness every day in every way. When we see disingenuous behaviour spreading its wings the onus is on us to call it out. Our life in the flesh is only for a brief period of time, so let’s use that time in service to humanity and all of […]
Are we Loco
What depths of depravity do we allow ourselves to descend to, so that it makes it okay and natural for us to subject other human beings to gross acts of indignity. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Using our Voice
We have to be the voice of the oppressed. Thinking singularly blinds us to the inequalities in this Universe. Today it’s a stranger in distress, tomorrow it will most likely be you. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Compliance
Some of us don’t experience life because we dwell in a place of compliance, not hearing, seeing or feeling, and thinking that always being in compliance is the only way to save oneself. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
False Equivalency
Why should we clothe ourselves in the cloak of forgetfulness while others bask in the rays of denial? © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Words are Vacuous
Words have no value unless they are backed up by the work we do. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Catalyst
The present is the catalyst to the future. We have to be clear headed about the choices we make in the present so that we won’t be blindsided in the future. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
