Belief is a powerful thing! Belief is defined as the conviction of the truth of anything. It is placing confidence on a person or precept, even without definite proof. When we believe something, our response to it changes. We make …
Continue ReadingThe free dictionary defines a bug as ‘an insect having mouthparts used for piercing and sucking.’ An example is the bedbug. You can also refer to other worrisome insects, like the cockroach, as bugs! Bugs aren’t nice. Actually, ‘to bug’ …
Continue ReadingBeing a city on a hill is a great privilege! You are the cynosure of every eye. Travellers take their bearing with your location. It is normal to reference you. Your beauty dazzles the world & any flaw is quickly …
Continue ReadingThey told us that when the lizard survived a fall from the “iroko” tree, but got no ovation from other animals, it decided to applaud itself by shaking its head, up & down! And the truth is that, it is …
Continue ReadingIt’s my guess that you know the myth of Narcissus. He was an amazingly handsome Greek young man, whose beauty attracted the interest of the nymph, Echo. Narcissus is said to have rejected the advance of Echo, who then cursed …
Continue ReadingRosa Parks is an American civil rights heroine! She was the rallying point of the Montgomery bus boycott & a major voice, with Martin Luther King Jnr & others, in the fight for racial equality. Although she had been an …
Continue ReadingLife can be very abusive! Ok, not life really, but the people & systems we do life with! It is easy for easygoing people to play nice & go with the flow of life. That makes a sad life a …
Continue ReadingThere is something called, “The Squirrel Syndrome”. It’s often a ‘disease’ of the very talented and creative. It increases activity but hinders accomplishment. It permits a start but denies an ending. The squirrel syndrome makes sure you’re busy but unproductive …
Continue ReadingIt was Edmund Burke who said that, “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. I agree with him! Evil is first insidious! Then it appears tentative & apologetic! Afterwards, aided & …
Continue ReadingLiving ‘in the zone’! “And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel …
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