Hung Out to Dry
When I was growing up on the farm, a calf we had, loved to stand at my mother’s washing line (in the paddock) and suck on the sheets. Only the sheets. Somewhere in his thinking, they’d become like a bovine pacifier since he himself was an orphan. Comforting perhaps.
Faybiene Miranda: The Power of Words
“Faybiene Miranda is a legendary name in reggae, not the least of all because of her lyrical stand in music. She was banned from airplay by the Socialist Government during the mid seventies and her first recording, ‘Prophecy’, became a hit and is regarded as one of the biggest classics from this period.”
Josh Sundquist: 1MT1MT: One More Thing, One More Time
At age nine, Josh Sundquist was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and given a 50 percent chance to live. He spent a year on chemotherapy treatments and his left leg was amputated. When he was 13, Doctors declared him cured of the disease. He took up ski racing three years later. In […]
Cover Ups
Although centuries apart, my mother and the great Persian philosopher Rumi were in cahoots together. They were! Neither of them willingly stuck plasters on anything, for no reason. Not scraped knees, not shingle embedded in my elbow after a fall on the driveway, nothing. He said, “The wound is where the light enters you” and […]
Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
In this Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks, including death itself.
