Roughly 5 million tons of horse meat is consumed yearly by these 8 countries.
In December 2011 American president Obama lifted a five-year ban on horse slaughter. Bringing a once taboo food to the tables of Americans. 70% of Americans oppose horse slaughter, will this lift bring nourishment and good proteins to many starving Americans? Only time will tell.
Speaking with a local Sardinian woman the other day, who happens to follow my blog, she asked me why I wrote an article on Rossella Urru and why it’s important to me.
Free Rossella. Rossella Urru is 29 years old and is a volunteer. She was abducted in Algeria on 22 OCtober 2011.
At the time I couldn’t find the right words to convey my thoughts on this urgent matter. It has taken me over twenty-four hours to get my thoughts straight, and here is my answer:
We are all Rossella Urru’s and Kristen French’s. We are all women who are still struggling to survive in this manly world.
We are all freedom, unless that freedom has been stolen from us.
It’s time to stop this madness, it’s time to bring ALL the children home, safe, back in their mothers arms.
Freedom for Rossella Urru.
According to ancient folklore if a groundhog emerges from his burrow on a cloudy day and retreats back to his winter home then spring will arrive early.
Should the groundhog emerge February 2nd on a beautiful winter sunny day, and sees his winter-self in shadow, thus retreating back in fear, then it’s said winter will last another six weeks.
Here’s to a cloudy day this Groundhog day. Greetings and salutations from a cloudy and cold, winter in Sardinia.
Do you believe this ancient tale of forecast?
I can’t wait for summer, you?
It was two years before I could make it back to my home country. Two years of wishing, and needing your little hearts and hands around my body.
Surprises are meant to surprise. And I sure showed you. Continue reading
Friday the 13th and the Niagara Region gets hit with its first major snow storm of 2012 and I found myself in a snowy paradise.
I prayed to the snow Gods for every night and day. On the twenty-third day she responded with blinding whiteness.
It was cold, bitter cold, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying natures white wrath of beauty.
The wind billowed its wicked strength though my ancient winter coat as the fat flakes fell gracefully from the grey snow filled sky.
How do you play in the snow, or do you prefer the comforts of a warm fireplace?
Do you see the natural nature that surrounds you?
Regular postings to resume third week of January. It’s a long holiday back home for My Sardinian Life. I should blog from Canada. I would blog from Canada. I could blog from Canada but little hands are grabbing me, little hearts need hugs and little eyes are shining, waiting for Aunt Jenny to play. For these few precious moments in my life that is all that matters.
Have you spent this holiday season wrapped up in little hands, feeling the love? I’d love to hear your joyous moments from this holiday season.
Where in the world is Jennifer Avventura?
In the land of horseshoes, timbits and drive thru’s.
Oh yes, after 38 months abroad, I’ve come home to surprise my family. And what a wonderful surprise it was. I will never forget their faces when they saw me in that first moment. Priceless.
For lunch today, again, I will be going to Tim Horton’s. Yum! I’m an addict when it comes to Timmy’s. I’ll be having the soup of the day with an everything bagel loaded with cream cheese. Then I will wash it down with a few timbits! Life is grand.
I still haven’t a digital camera, but am working on buying a new one.
My posts for the next month will be infrequent to say the least. But I am still here, hear me ROAR! And I am reading your posts.
Wishing you all a wonderful and safe holiday season.
Happy Holidays from Jennifer Avventura.
Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
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