A line in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin reads: “The heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.” This quote reminded me that when experiencing difficult or challenging times, it is easy to forget the adage that this too shall pass, and when it inevitably does pass, there willRead More…
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How to Respond When You Are Triggered : 5 Chairs, 5 Choices
When we think of leadership, we tend to think of the leaders within our communities, ranging from politicians to clergy, sporting personalities to entrepreneurs, university professors, doctors, nurses to heads of departments, heads of schools, teachers. If you think that leadership does not apply specifically to you, I would like to encourage you to thinkRead More…
Wisdom Is The Difference
There is a Buddhist proverb that says “In each loss, there is a gain. As in every gain, there is a loss. And in each ending, there is a new beginning”. The pandemic is teaching us many things about loss, from the loss of life and livelihoods to the loss of freedoms we previously tookRead More…
Hope Lives On The Horizon
In my early teens, I started writing out other people’s poems in longhand in a scrapbook. I would select images from old magazines, cut them out and paste them alongside the poems. After filling up a few scrapbooks, it wasn’t long before I was writing my own poetry. To be honest, my skill as aRead More…
The Whole is Something Other Than A Collection of Parts
Unless you have been hibernating on a remote islet, off-grid and digitally disconnected from social media platforms, you will know there is a global sense of general discontent with our democratically elected leaders across the socio-economic spectrum i.e. public, business, political, international, national, local; as well as a growing contempt and intolerance for diversity andRead More…
