While the men sauntered home or rode rickety bikes from the maghrib prayers at the mosque around the corner, and on the mainland teenagers rode to a lookout, lit cigarettes… [Continue Reading]
Tag: truth
SpiRITUALity – Made’s cremation ceremony
Prologue Made died on a moonless, windy evening in July. It happened so chillingly fast. He’d suffered a sudden attack of excruciating chest and stomach pain at home for half… [Continue Reading]
Home
what is it about the ocean that fills my lungs and has my back and soothes my eyes and cushions my feet, and lifts my chin and eases my mind… [Continue Reading]
Honouring the melancholy
honouring the melancholy melancholy inhabits every cell and organelle beneath this skin it tugs and stretches breaks and wrinkles and sags (honouring the cheerfulness: with sunshine to botox and… [Continue Reading]
Dodgy Dudes (part 4)
If you saw a wallet lying on the street, you’d pick it up, yeah? And, when you checked the cards inside and found the identity of the owner, you’d do… [Continue Reading]
Cold Feet
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading Lao Tzu It’s a long road that has no turning (from an old Irish… [Continue Reading]
When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking (Coronavirus blog-story #2)
“I told you something like this would happen!” Ayu whispered to her colleagues. One of her friends shushed her. It wasn’t in their culture to question or complain or even… [Continue Reading]
This Ain’t No Walk In The Park (Coronavirus blog-story #1)
Dylan stomped his feet and wriggled so much that Sharon took twice as long as normal to put his sandals on. “Wait up little man, please stop moving,” she pleaded…. [Continue Reading]
Three little things to help us while we Stay At Home
So we find ourselves now living in a time of chaotic isolation. Or isolated chaos. A friend said to me today that maybe introverts are happy as pigs in clover!… [Continue Reading]
Valentine’s Romance
It’s Valentine’s Day again. Ho hum, you say. Or do you shrug and say you have romance in your life all the time and not just today! Or, are you… [Continue Reading]