
Colour-coded: Decolonising Hearts, Minds & Spirits
Sep 7, 2017
It was another one of those silly games, those apparently pointless games that lie at the heart of conflict transformation and experiential […]
It was another one of those silly games, those apparently pointless games that lie at the heart of conflict transformation and experiential […]
Of all the coverage post-Charlottesville, one CBC radio interview stays with me in particular. Megan Williams of The Current interviewed a former […]
Violence Disguised as Liberation I was also on a beach that day. But it was not Nice, that beach of stones on […]
A few days ago, I heard Anna Maria Tremonti of CBC Radio’s The Current trying valiantly to moderate a conversation – debate […]
The Big Wind Blows, if you watch it without sound, looks like a silly children’s game – the one-fewer-chair-than-kids kind. There’s a […]
When I returned from North East India in December, I wrote a blog that I entitled ‘extreme-everything-postcard-from-india.html Extreme Everything’. Exquisite beauty marred […]
I am on Facebook; What’s on my mind? it asks. Well, I am reading three books at the moment: Naomi Klein’s stunning […]
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
The three boys are all wearing the t-shirts of their barangay’s Brigades and they have volunteered, been trained as, ‘watchers’. Elections of […]
Author’s note: October 2012. While a lot of time is spent in training sessions, it is important to me to do the […]