This South African poem is one of my favorites. I wish my Lightfamily a happy holiday season and a blessed Thanksgiving day. Continue reading →
Poetry
The Unique Gift Every Individual Contributes to All Life
The individual's perspective that is theirs to explore, is shaped by the occlusions, the blind spots, the individual agrees to carry throughout his or her life (this manifests as their shortcomings). Continue reading →
A Tragedy We Cannot Perpetuate
It is not a place where strident voices swathed in self-pity can find a soapbox to spread their politics from. Continue reading →
Not Really Suffering At All
May I remember, as I lie safely in my warm bed, that the little inconveniences of life, are not really suffering at all. Continue reading →
The Bridge on the Tay
In Theodor Fontane's famous ballad 'The Bridge on the Tay,' the parents in the bridge house wait anxiously for the train passing through the night, soon to pass the recently built Firth-of-Tay Bridge, considered a marvel of engineering. Continue reading →
The Famous Deathbed Speech of John of Giant
'This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle': so begins probably the most famous speech from Richard II, William Shakespeare's 1590s history play about the fall of the Plantagenet king. Continue reading →