Can anyone be an artist? The fact is, we’re all artists. We only stop being an artist after being told we can’t do something. The art I speak of is...
Posted by | 30/07/2021
What happens when we die? I always thought when we die, we’ll know everything that people did to us, and everything we did to other people. The truth will be...
Posted by | 23/07/2021
It should be a good thing to acknowledge our shortcomings. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a ‘blind spot’ I can’t fix. Every time it happens, I’m...
Posted by | 16/07/2021
I’m a big supporter of common sense. It’s common sense that gravity exists. It’s common sense the earth is round. It’s common sense that being nice gets better results than...
Posted by | 09/07/2021
Do you ever wonder about heaven? What’s it really like? Besides the streets of gold and pearly gates imagery of someplace ‘up there.’ How will we ‘feel?’ In his motivational...
Posted by | 02/07/2021
Families should stick together. I’ve always believed a family is a microcosm of a community. To function, they need a common set of rules, and they all abide by them....
Posted by | 25/06/2021
I come from a family of storytellers. Most families have a storyteller or two. Folks all gather around to listen and to learn from them. It’s through the art of...
Posted by | 18/06/2021
I love simple yet clever solutions to problems. There’s a story about the early days of the New York rag-trade after World War II. The district in lower Manhattan, with...
Posted by | 11/06/2021
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” This well-known quote is often incorrectly credited to Mahatma Gandhi. What Gandhi said was, "We but mirror the world. All...
Posted by | 04/06/2021
“We are not people until somebody makes us into people by being generous towards us.” In his book Sometimes There Is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider, Zakes Mda remembers...
