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The Unsung Heroes
“These often unsung heroes understand ... that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis."
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The Sermon
“A sermon is a place to wake people up to realities they have assented to with the mind but have not grasped with the heart.”
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Wrapping the Gift of Compassion
For each and every person I’ve met along this way that started as mere curiosity— May goodness, mercy and grace be with you always. - Tshego Khatri
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The Thing with Autism
"It is useful to know that autism often comes along with other things... not by itself." - Kate Currin
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Sunrise Sunset
The Sun that surely gives time and rhythm to the Earth and all her inhabitants— life-giving, eternal and as sure as only itself.
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Of Books & Covers
We all know the saying. We all keep doing it anyway. A meditation on the judgements we make before we know a single thing.
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RM Hewett is Welcome Here
An editor who arrived to correct words stayed to become a cherished friend. Some welcomes change everything.
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Murmurs of the Mind
Something flighty, whimsical, and true — about the noise of the world, the quiet of two people, and the rare feeling of belonging to a moment.
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The Trip of my Life!
This week’s post was meant to be a follow up and conclusion to Beyond Sight— Seeing With Your Whole Self but nothing has gone according to plan for all the moving parts that needed to go...
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Beyond Sight — Seeing with Your Whole Self
In the quest to find out how Persons With Disability experience living with people who don't, I went to REHAB in East London. What I found changed the way I see everything.
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Missing Sounds & Silent Worlds
I became painfully aware that I’ve done nothing on this website for the other members of society who have different kinds of abilities from most of us. I’m talking about...
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Letter To My Future Self
Even if I say it myself, in the realms of mind, heart and spirit is a fascinating place for me these days. It might be that the introspection that’s writing’s by-product has...
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The Pathological Fixation with Death
Most children seem to have a cruel streak in them. They kick, slap, bite and cheer during fights that usually break out in groups of children. To say it seems to be one the favourite past times is not an overstatement. Looking back at the time...
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Blinkers On
Thrice in a space of weeks, in separate conversations with my cousin, sister and myself, memories went back to the time I desperately looked to a church...