french enamelware teapot i eccentrically purchased from england. isn't this shade of blue just gorgeous?  and look at the little birdy admiring his surroundings. i fell instantly in love with this teapot and just had to have it.  well you see, aqua or calypso or turquoise is my favorite color. no cup to go with it though.  i'll have to look for an aqua enamel cup although i don't care much for drinking out or eating off enamel.  i like my tea in bone china or japanese pottery.  i don't even enjoy it out of ceramic cups; it just doesn't taste the same.
so here i am again at teacup tuesday since   i wanted to share, ok maybe brag a little too.  i so look forward to these tuesdays where i have found some lovely new friends and followers. so i'll hop over and also post on the etsy cottage style blog linky  since they are having a vintage alphabet party and the letters are s, t & u.

 
today i have a wellness doctors' appointment.  just want to make sure everything is "balanced" in my insides.  i never, ever go to the doctor but my friend richard insists yearly checkups are a must.
 

two little twists to our teacup soirees: person i'd most enjoy teaing with: Audrey Hepburn

there will never be another like her, ever.  no one comes even close really.

&

last and mostest

this beautiful quote i received from my friend veronica who just returned from a two week trip to china

God Bless the WHOLE world, no exceptions!

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ubuntu

God bless the whole world, no exceptions.

'A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.''

Archbishop Desmond Tutu further explained Ubuntu in 2008:

 'One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity.  

We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.

This is the truth taught to us in an old South African principle, ubuntu, or ‘A person is a person through other persons.’ As Archbishop Desmond Tutu describes this perspective, ubuntu ‘is not, “I think therefore I am.” It says rather: “I am a human because I belong. I participate. I share.”’ In essence, I am because you are.

“Africans have this thing called UBUNTU. It is about the essence of being human, it is

part of the gift that Africa will give the world. It embraces hospitality, caring about others,
being able to go the extra mile for the sake of others. We believe that a person is a

person through another person, that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably,

with yours. When I dehumanise you, I inexorably dehumanise myself. The solitary human

being is a contradiction in terms and therefore you seek to work for the common good

because your humanity comes into its own in belonging”.

God Bless the World,  No Exceptions!

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