Summer has finally arrived and the temperatures are already into the 30s. My wife derives pleasure in developing flower pots filled with different types of colourful annuals to brighten our deck and the front entrance. I contribute by watering the plants and love doing so, because I find it therapeutic. It is as if one …
If ignorance is bliss … I would be the happiest person alive
This is the time of the year when everyone loves getting out to enjoy the weather and lap up large doses of the “sunlight vitamin” D. The race is on, to – spruce up the lawn, de-weed the garden and get rid of the dandelions, add topsoil and fertilize the flower-beds, scrub the deck and …
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Each of us is unique……just like everyone else!
A friend, S gifted me a copy of his recently published book. It provides an account of his life in India when he first attempted to come to Canada as a student, the anger he felt when his student visa was denied, moving to the Middle East later where he started to teach, before eventually …
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Symbols are just that
Symbols created by historic, religious or cultural perceptions, events or experiences exist in every culture. Traditions and language play an important role in developing, maintaining and over a period of time even transforming cultural symbolism. These days it is not unusual to witness hard-hitting debates about cultural appropriation through the expropriation of “cultural symbols”. The …
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