Tidbits that we’ve come across that made us think.
‘Tis the season of extremes. We’re inundated with the message that we should show those close to us just how much we care by giving gifts. It’s the wishlist time of year. Gift giving is a wonderful thing and for many people it’s an effective form of communicating gratitude, affection and humour. This often leads… Read More Seasonally Appropriate
“What level of uncertainty can you handle in your lives?” is not the question you want to be asked when sitting down to a meeting regarding your future, but there we sat confronted by the unknown in the form of a question. In our experience, whenever we open the door of transition just to survey… Read More When Peace Kicks you in the Face and Makes no Apologies
In our opinion, human trafficking is one of mankind’s greatest acts of arrogance: to assign a monetary value to a fellow human being. We attended STAND, the Salvation Army’s weekend to end human trafficking, and want to share some of what we learned. Trafficking in persons is one of the fastest growing criminal activities in… Read More People, Pornography and Price Tags
Character Arc, according to the wisdom well that is Wikipedia, is the status of the character as it unfolds throughout the storyline. Characters begin the story with a certain viewpoint and, through events in the story, that viewpoint changes. If you were to consider your life as a storyline, with a distinct beginning, middle and… Read More It’s about Character Arc
It was just before 10am on a cold Sunday morning. In front of us a red sports car pulled over and a woman stepped out. She wore knee-high boots, a mini skirt and a halter top. The red sports car pulled away and repeated this same action several times continuing down the road. It took… Read More The Good Intentions Lullaby
At 2am I don’t want to be so wide awake. It’s been exactly a year since our phone rang in the middle of the night; since she went home. There was no card in the mail this year. No pages with her wisdom on them. I so very much miss those things. The tangible signs… Read More Still so Proud of Her
In keeping with the video theme we seem to have going, here is Bono’s speech that he gave to the NAACP. It is food for thought.
What does it take to make a difference? Some might say that it is both audacious and arrogant to believe that one can make any lasting difference in a foreign country, filled with dissimilar practices, a distinct world-view and a history that is only understood through research. Though I am convinced that there is an… Read More The Good House Guest
Let me begin with a clarification to a question I have received a lot lately –Calcutta and Kolkata are the same place. I am not in some remote village with a name that is similar to that of the big city. Since India gained independence from British rule just over 50 years ago, the national… Read More Clarification, Contrast and a Pencil
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