A Few Words of Inspiration — “You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.” Albert Camus A comfort to my mind and soul you impart in me, Albert, the magnitude of love and the glory of kindness in a wearisome world. Your observations from…

Living through the pain of the Jim Crow laws — Not having grown up in the United States and completely overwhelmed by the inhumaneness of inherent and systemic racism, I’ve begun reading up on the history of racial discrimination in the U.S. At this moment in time, we have the medial “in your face” examples of institutionalised racism and its…

A wake-up call — Aghast, I scanned the Guardian article once again. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. The Russian invasion of Ukraine three months previously had been a great shock for all. I’d been disappointed and saddened, but not overly surprised, at the results of the general elections in Hungary and Serbia…

A Homage Unfurling tresses of freedom, the freedom of tearing down, tearing off, tearing up. Shaking off the yoke of patriarchal power, as well as the oppression of the other colour. A call to the wind to caress with its breath and only its breath, and only gently…

Cementing Hope —

Battling Truths — In between the laughter and the tears there are moments of serious reflection as dazed I lie or sit, lips pursed in silent sorrow mourning the turn our world is taking — these entrenched ideologies — Never before have I been so painfully conscious of the lack of compassion. From…