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“Because we live in the browning seasonthe heavy air blocking our breath,and in this time when livingis only survival, we doubt the voicesthat come shadowed on the air,that weave within our brainscertain thoughts, a motion that is soft,imperceptible, a twilight rain,soft feather’s fall, a small bodydropping into its nest, rustling, murmuring,settling in for the night.Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 23rd June”

“Strange to say, the Sermon on the Mount gives pretty precise instructions on how to construct an outlook that could lead to an Economics of Survival. How blessed are those who know that they are poor: the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.How blessed are the sorrowful; They shall find consolation.How blessed are those of aContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 22nd June”

Summer Solstice “Have you ever seenanythingin your lifemore wonderfulthan the way the sun,every evening,relaxed and easy,floats toward the horizonand into the clouds or the hills,or the rumpled sea,and is gone –and how it slides againout of blackness,every morning,on the other side of the world,like a red flowerstreaming upward on its heavenly oils,say, on a morningContinue reading “Thought for the day, Wednesday 21st June”

World Refugee Day “no one leaves home unlesshome is the mouth of a shark.you only run for the borderwhen you see the whole cityrunning as well.your neighbours running fasterthan you, the boy you went to school withwho kissed you dizzy behindthe old tin factory isholding a gun bigger than his body,you only leave homewhen homeContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 20th June”

“Life is what you make it.. Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. You may not always understand why find yourself where you are, but you may be sure there is a very good reason and that there is a lesson to be learnt. Do not fight against it,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 19th June”

International Day for countering hate speech “We have begged for peace around the world.We have fought for peace around the world.We have contributed funds to peace around the world.We have given great speeches for peace around the world.Yet we have failed to make peace with our husbands and wives, our children, and our neighbours.It isContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 18th June”

World Day to combat desertification and drought “I want the future to extend before me like the horizonwidening as I walk. I want the blue sierra that I plantedsquatting over the child in my wombto grow into a thick tangled hedgerich with blossoms and bees buzzing like crazy.I want the smell to make someone’s greatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 17th June”

“Before there was a trace of this world of men,I carried a memory of a lock of your hair,A stray end gathered within me, though unknown.Inside that invisible realm,Your face like the sun longed to be seen,Until each separate object was finally flung into light.From the moment of Time’s first-drawn breath,Love resides in us,A treasureContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 16th June”

“To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice.” Magna Carta clause 40, signed on this day in 1215 at Runnymede (pictured)

“Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.” Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, born on this day in 1811