For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Something I have learned through my involvement in dramatic arts at various schools is that you cannot predict which children will be good on stage on the basis of how they behave in class. I have seen a boy whose public speaking skills earned him a place at the Junior United Nations Assembly freeze in... Continue Reading →
One of my favourite films is The Truman Show. It tells the story of a young man’s growing realisation that his whole life has been scripted, and he is in fact the unwitting star of a reality television show about his own life. When the creator of the show, Christof, is asked in an interview... Continue Reading →
Before you ever drew breath, death was at work, shaping you. The universe is a web of relationships in a process of becoming. And in this process, life and death are not opposites. Death is not simply something that happens when life fails; the disturbing reality is that at a biological level, death is one... Continue Reading →
It is just over a year now since Dad passed. Time does not heal. All it does is provide more opportunities to keep busy and temporarily forget. But lately I have been wrestling with the concept of death, trying to make sense of a world where one moment you can be here, and then things... Continue Reading →
