It started raining so hard the other week that animals began lining up two-by-two to board a boat owned by my neighbours.

A beautiful picture of Earth from 1.6 million km sunwards. NASA, public domain.

I am only being slightly hyperbolic with that statement. Topsy-turvy weather seems to be the name of the game at the moment, not just in my neighbourhood but right around the world as far as I can tell.

It’s a direct outcome of the obvious issue – climate change, in which humanity’s own industrial wastes – notably carbon dioxide build-up over the past 250-odd years, particularly – have been the triggering factor. It’s an own goal of the largest dimension, and the immediate outcome is chaotic weather patterns in which the weather systems are, literally, being pushed out of place. Later on that will be joined by rising sea levels, along with more chaotic weather…

There’s no question in my mind that human-driven climate
change has to be one of the biggest own-goals humanity has ever struck on
itself. And we should have seen it coming. I mean, we’ve been pushing
combustion products into the atmosphere in ever-larger quantities since the
advent of industrialisation, over 200 years ago. We’ve been burning up fossil
fuels, polluting the environment, hacking down forests and generally creating
ecological mayhem at ever-increasing scale and speed. What did we think would
happen?

When I say ‘one of’ the biggest own goals, to my thinking there’s only one other totally massive own-goal in the same league; the invention of nuclear weapons. And it’s a bigger one. The thing about human-driven climate change is that ultimately it’s not risking end-game. It’ll likely reduce what we call our civilisation. It’ll change…

LindaGHill said “Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “rhymes with rosy.” Find a word that rhymes with “rosy” or use the word “rosy” and base your post on it. Enjoy!

Cosy Rosy

Picked a posy

Took it to give

To sexy Josey

**

Sexy Josey

Laughed at Rosy

Threw away

The lovely posy

**

Cosy Rosy

Refused to cry

Or to even ask why

So nasty was Josey.

**

Deftly Bosey

Retrieved the posy

Presented it

To Cosy Rosy

**

Happy Rosy

Danced with Bosey

They gave not a thought to Josey

Who threw out the posy.

**

Cosy Rosy

Married Bosey

Happy couple

Pitied Josy

Image from explodingdog.

This silliness was bought to you care of #SoCs. Stream of Consciousness Saturday.

Failure is a part of our everyday life. I have once read , “If you have never fail, you have never try something new.” Failing to do something or accomplish that project, is a sign that you are trying and that way of doing it is not working.  Many give up when they have failed once or twice because sometimes it is  hard to learn from failures and adjust. At the end of the article, I will try to give you some tips to accept and overcome failures.

A few months ago I heard about MCshop and its young founders Mike and Christian. The online platform was created because of the increased demand of their Congolese friends for  high quality products coming from aboard, especially from South Africa. With no experiences nor funds, the two friends saw an opportunity to fill the gap in online shopping arena in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

I enjoy meeting new people, I find everyone fascinating in their own perspectives. In September, for my first getaway Sandy Land getaway I had the opportunity to meet new people, make new friends and get more inspired by people it was a success all thanks to Voiturage the culture of movement

From your home to your events. From your home to our events. From your house to your new home. We offer the best transportation solutions and experiences for your daily life.

Voiturage is a young startup based in Johannesburg South Africa which is all about providing the best experience of your travel services. It was easy for me to organize my event as they just took away all the stress of bus booking, listing the guests, payment methods and all the necessary arrangement for a road trip. All I had to do was to enter on their website, under…