You may be wondering where I have been the last few weeks and, to be perfectly honest with you, I have been hiding because I was thoroughly ashamed of myself. I tend to run and hide like an ostrich when I make a mistake, the urgent sense of curling into fetal position on the couch…
On Loyalty and Honesty
“The mirror does not flatter, it faithfully shows whatever looks into it; namely, the face we never show to the world because we cover it with the persona, the mask of the actor.” ~ C.G. Jung Have you ever experienced a very brief moment where the person or people that you are looking at…
My Doco: As It Happened – Ongoing Stories of the Nakba
I am very excited to permanently add my first documentary to my blog. At the moment, I am a semi-finalist for three international film festival awards – two in The Netherlands and one in Italy – and have won a monthly award for best world cinema documentary! It is nice to be recognised, however small…
Thermodynamics and the Arrow of Time
To say an ‘Arrow of Time’ is to say that time itself is linear and one-directional. In thermodynamics, the second law dictates that everything moves in one-direction from a state of order towards disorder and entropy is the statistical measurement of this asymmetry in an isolated system. The universe is, for instance, this isolated system…
Anthropogenic Climate Change
Stop it! I thought to myself as though my insides were about to implode from the stress. He gripped the ram by the horns and dragged the animal to slaughter, the screaming sounds haunt me as though the creature knew what was about to happen, the white around his eyes clearly visible as the lids were…
My Soul Aches For Bethlehem
I always wake up before sunrise, no longer needing any alarm and I rug up in my warm clothing and wander the quiet gardens as the morning beams of light penetrate the atmosphere and colour the clouds with a scarlet glow. It is a time of quiet for me to gather my thoughts, to solidify…
