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…

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…

A walk through time —

Foreboding II — 22 February 2022, 03.30 GMT What I feared and doubted would happen has happened. Putin has ordered his troops into two breakaway pro-Russian regions in the East of Ukraine. His expansion plans are being rolled out under the guise of a peace and protection mission. A time for reckoning and…

Foreboding I — The whiff of chimney smoke hangs low powerless to bear the pressure and penetrate the atmosphere Black smoke spreads across the roofs forming a loopholed blanket The smell of soot is everywhere Grey clouds gather menacingly low Heavy and tempestuous, they displace the white billowing and light pink-like floss Overhead, dripping drops of…