We love food, dogs, weather, football, music, clothes, places, books, movies, work, money, fashion, sex, cars, shoes, handbags, flowers, chocolate, yoga, tennis, skiing, sunsets, houses, status, TV shows, languages, cosmetics, cats, birds, wildlife, travel, adventure, excitement, gadgets, sports – but … Continue reading
I am sure most of you will have watched this before – but just in case it got by you – or even if you saw it before… 00 … Continue reading
One of the clearest and most obvious signs of how we are all fundamentally the same is shown in how we relate to our children. There is something undeniably attractive about the look of pride on the faces of these … Continue reading
Because the Rwandan genocide was less than twenty years ago and because many of the conditions that allowed it to flourish unchecked still abound in our world, it is vital to look at it. To see what we can learn. Shake … Continue reading
We see love as a coming together. A uniting. And that, of course, is true. As an end result. But what is the nature of love? (Don’t worry, I’m not really expecting an answer – yet…) I’m pretty sure that … Continue reading
We have no control over many of the things that happen to us in our lives but if we can make sense of what has happened, we will usually construct a narrative to explain it to ourselves. This narrative is … Continue reading
When we can’t say what we need to say we always have music. Always have had. This is how it works… 00 … Continue reading
Dirk Willem Venter – Even though this photograph was taken almost fifteen years ago, the day I met Mr. Mandela still stands out in my memory. I heard many stories of how lucky we were to have a great man … Continue reading
Even though looking our definite and impending death in the face gives us perspective it’s not the only thing. At least for me. Sometimes for me the enormity of the fact that I am composed of atoms that have existed … Continue reading
The beauty of some stories is that they are telling one story when they seem to be really telling another. Take the Aeneid for example. Virgil wrote the Aeneid c. 29-19 BCE – in other words over two thousand years … Continue reading