The present residents of planet earth have experienced just over a year of the largest disruption of daily life ever to have challenged the world’s population. Yes, there have been pandemics in the past. There have been more deaths in the past. However, I venture to state; never before have such a large percentage of […]
Last year my zoom-online book club studied Valerie Kaur’s memoir entitled, “Revolutionary Love.” This profound description of the author’s life challenges outlines the methodology she has evolved to deal with the social and legal obstacles presented by her Sikh identity. And you may ask, “To what type of challenges do you refer?” Whilst cloaked […]
What does it mean to be Wise? It was some years ago when I realised I had reached the last few decades of my life. I found myself thinking, “Am I not supposed to be a wise woman by the time I get to this stage of my life?” This was followed by a certain […]
5 days ago on Tuesday January 5th 2021, I witnessed a mob who supported Donald Trump, entering the Capitol Building in Washington and breaking through the police barriers which offered minimal resistance. The most potent act of lawlessness seen in the USA for the past 150 years. Just this Sunday morning I was able to […]
It has often been in said, “You are dealt a pack of cards, and it is what you do with them that counts.” A somewhat more sophisticated versions of this truism has been articulated by Johana Macey writing about Active Hope, Victor Frankl in his work on Logotherapy, and the Stoic philosophers of old. Macy […]
I try not to let a good opportunity pass me by. I tend to enjoy being involved in controversial issues of the day. So, when Olu Temehin Adegbeye who is the ‘ Othering Correspondent’ of ‘The Correspondent’ a contemporary Dutch news magazine, requested her readers share with her examples of when they had been denied […]
It is Sunday 8th November 2020. Joe Biden’s success in the American Election has been announced. The writer’s paralysis I have experienced during the past few weeks is starting to heal. Now, with some relief. I feel I can share my thoughts and reflections of the past tense pre-election weeks. Never before had I invested […]
Merely a short half year ago, the Zoom Room was foreign territory to me. Now, it is an integral and important area of my daily attention, offering me many hours of challenge and entertainment. It has been an amazing personal transformation. New insights, new people, new conversations and new concepts have become part of my […]
New Feelings I have shared with you in previous blogs the strong feeling that pervaded my consciousness early this year. These meandering thoughts were around the need for me to become an active participant in promoting healthy habits of consumption to conserve our planet from immanent destruction. But, in the Past I had been actively […]
I am not religious. Nor do I consider myself to be particularly spiritual. However, in January I found myself experiencing a profound premonition that this year the subject of Climate Change would be important in my life. January 2020 In January 2020, there were vague rumblings about a virus in China. It was far away. […]