If you know of someone who is suffering with mental health issues, reach out to them and also to organisations who can help. Too often, people live in silent shame and don’t get the help they need. As a child, I grew up listening to “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”, a 1969 song by […]
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The news of Britain’s longest reigning British monarch Queen Elizabeth II had rippled through international media just hours after her death on Thursday 08 September 2022. Where were you? I remember where I was when Princess Diana died. In the parking lot of my local methodist church. I had moved from Port Elizabeth and my
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I wonder how many of us attach our sense of identity to the opinion of others. Recently, I read that there are six basic human fears and that when we let these fears control our decisions; we cannot live up to our purpose. One such fear is criticism. It is a fear that many authors
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As an author and an artist, I am fascinated by the beauty and history of the exquisite and intricate manuscripts medieval scribes produced. The monks and nuns who worked on these works of art were not just recording historical and spiritual events, they were shaping the hearts and minds of the readers. This was a
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In Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech in1858, “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” he stated he believed the government could not endure permanently half slave and half free. Humans have battled the concept of division for many years and although slavery has been abolished, it still lives in our hearts and minds. Yet in free
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