With the lamp suppressed The universe enters in The child gapes with awe I suppose it must have been the late summer. I had been spending the month on the idyllic Island of Bute on Scotland’s west coast. We had a cabin with no running water or electricity. My job was to go and fill…
Month: January 2024
The Healing Tongue
There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. The countless sentence structures one can create from these letters are greater than the sands of the sea. Great beauty can emerge from the interaction of these letters combined with human ingenuity. One can say I walked through a field feeling fed up, or you can make…
The Herd Mentality in The Lord of the Flies
Image by https://unsplash.com/@tyould ‘If they say, come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause…’ Proverbs 1:11 KJV Our English teacher knew we’d never be Nobel Prize winners. Therefore, with our double period of English every week, he just read to us. He read curriculum books…
对不起 Appears to be the Hardest Word
Some time ago, I wrote a blog titled ‘Conscience; Why Do You Trouble Me?’ The next morning, I woke to find it had more visitors than any other blog I ever posted. The visitors came from Vietnam, China, The Arab Emirates, Singapore, USA and the four corners of the planet. I concluded that there are…
Kreng Jai (เกรง) and the Feelings of Others
Trying to get to the bottom of this Thai word is like herding frogs. There are so many angles of understanding linked to it. My wife and I have friends, the wife being Thai, so, the next time we see her, I will discuss this paradoxical word with its many application. It’s a word that’s…