Thank you 2020

Hello Traveller, Tonight 2020 ends. Many are saying good riddance to it and that they’re glad to see its end. Admittedly, it has been a challenging year in many ways. Covid has taken away our comfort zones, killed hundreds of thousands and caused us to face our own mortality eye to eye. I lost both…

Do you love our monsters?

It wasn’t long ago I read a most interesting article about an ancient shaman that  came to a large city so he could see first hand what was happening in urban areas. Unsurprisingly, what he saw hurt his heart and he wept. When he was asked why, he replied, “I’ve never seen a place with…

My passion

My ultimate passion is diversity. Billions of people in the world and no two alike. I’ve been fascinated by this since I was a child. When I wasn’t firing off a million questions that drove the recipient mad, I was watching reactions from the shadows. As I watched, I’d predict how each individual would react…

The beauty of protection

For many years, the thought of being protected by anyone other than myself was an alien concept. From day one, my parents taught me my survival was solely my responsibility. This lesson was backed by the less than friendly neighbourhood I grew up in. If you couldn’t defend yourself, you quickly became a victim. I…