Over recent months I have been watching my 10 year old nephew, Victory, learn dinghy sailing. The small local sailing club organises youth training and activity weeks, all staffed by cheerful volunteers whose love of sailing inspires them to give their time to try to...
"For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap it in two. Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together, or...
I'm trying not to use the word "normal" anymore, in fact I'd quite like it removed from the dictionary. In my opinion it is a dangerous word. 'Normal' has got us to where we are now. 'Natural' disasters increasing (read 'made by humans'), the rise...
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." —Nelson Mandela In our family we have a list of words different members of the family don’t...