If you are not entirely asleep at the wheel, then you will see change all around you. Your ability to perceive it accelerate with age. What once seemed something that had to be endured, long days, weeks and months disappear before your eyes and you are left wondering what was ultimately achieved. People around you…
Read moreSubmission as a word has been perverted, to mean a form of humiliation. Depicting one as being at the mercy of another and conjuring images of wrestlers or people garbed in shiny leather. To submit is to acknowledge that; You lack the superiority and power and are beholden. You have no independent will and that…
Read moreCan I sit on your lap daddy? you know when I’m older you will regret it! The innocence, the intimacy that it implies with the desire to be united by proximity and touch. To be sensitive and understand that there is a need beneath these words that has nothing to do with the question itself….
Read moreDuring our prayers, when we reach that point of standing face to face, as it were, with our Creator what do most have in mind? The short answer is their needs. We can couch our prayers and supplications so that they sound noble but ultimately, we have our hand out. As we should, of course, because we are…
Read moreWhen people bring a baby into this world, they have desires, dreams and aspirations for this child. Naturally, “in good health” is primary however, we also want them to be so many other things. The question is why? It should not be our role, to live vicariously through our children, to enjoy the successes of…
Read moreDrop a pebble in still water and watch the ripples spread. Gradually the ripples subside and the stillness resumes. What is left is the memory of the ripples and the motion of the water. You try to recreate the magic of those perfect ripples by casting another pebble only to find a different outcome, ripples…
Read moreIn life stagnation and mediocrity is tantamount to death. No one can tread water indefinitely, you either drown from exhaustion or swim to salvation. We are all guilty of coasting at times. Life is good, simple, uneventful and predictable. But is that really a life? For one to know that he is living, there must be;…
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Reformed Jew or gentile in trappings? I was recently asked by a gentile (non-Jew) “why can’t all of us (he meant orthodox Jews) just accept these other Jews and their desire to pray at the Kotel, whichever way they want?”… On the face of it, the question posed is fair and is hard to argue…
Read moreyouth is a disease, whose only cure is time.
Read moreEnjoy every last letter of every word, sentence and paragraph of this fantastic chapter of your life. Don’t rush past any details in an attempt to get to the next chapter.
Read moreEvery decision which we make revolves around our balance. The balance between; what we need and want, who we are and want to be, who we impact and who we don’t, what we desire and repel, whom we love and whom we can’t. The scary thing is that this balance is inherent and requires little…
Read moreThere are so many numerical values which apply to an individual their; Smiles, Laughs, IQ, BMI, BAS Close friends So why are we so fixated on the only numbers that don’t matter?
Read moreTo exist is to question, to live is to believe.
Read moreThe modern office often promotes an open planned environment for a higher level of accountability and productivity. But what it also achieves, is a beehive of politics and competition. The main interchange is kudos. The sense of respect and overwhelming adoration that most humans crave. A mixture of egos and agenda are thrown together into…
Read moreWhen the sun comes out from beneath the heavy clouds and reflects the earlier precipitation, I think of rebirth and the many varied possibilities that the universe is presenting to us. We can choose to see it as such and make use of the faculties and abilities which we have been blessed with, or just…
Read moreI have seen you and felt your essence running through my veins. You are a vapour of my dreams that one day will condensate into an elixir of my life. I will drink and be sated, will never remember or reflect that which was once and always live here and now.
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