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The Tide! Tide is Time! Tide is timing! Low tide. High tide.  Tide is timing. Tide is time.  Tide or Time.  It’s the moment – the Kairos. Fishermen wait for the tide. Crabs wait for the tide. The Matura’s baby turtles wait for high tide, burst into the world, then take the high tide toContinue reading “Tide is Timing”

The John Crow (Jamaican). The Corbeau (Trinbagonian). The Vulture!  Exiting my house, I see one on top of the huge black Rhino water tank. It’s quenching its thirst, the source of which is a puddle of water settled on top of the tank.  Initially, I am not attracted to observe it or to take aContinue reading “Blackness”

I woke up early Republic Day (Trinidad and Tobago), not before Mother Sun, but early enough before her warmth blanketed the land.  I took a chair and settled in my garden of Eden, inspired to do a Visio Divina. I can hear my readers asking, “What’s a Visio Divina?”  It’s translated as “divine seeing”.  It’sContinue reading “Tension between the Old and New”

I conversed with a friend recently – an honest, frank and open tête-à-tête. He expressed appreciation for my blogs. They helped him to navigate life’s challenges and nourished his spiritual life. He also remarked on the shift he noticed in my writing style between August and September. The July and August blogs seemed relaxed, creative,Continue reading “Changes”

Today’s physiotherapy session to strengthen my right knee muscles triggers this blog on DIALECTICAL TENSION. My right knee is now weak. I remember the days of its strength. A time of strength, now a time of weakness. The Ecclesiastes writer captures best the dialectical tensions of human living and creation (3:1-8): A time for. .Continue reading “Dialectic Tension”

Not long ago, I read that the cells of our body are replaced by new cells every seven years.  Immediately, I imagine what the body would look like without the replacing of old cells with new cells – stiff like a corpse.  I think of the old cells of our. . . . . .Continue reading “New Cells”

There are two worlds. So, I think! Dark and Light. Inside the cave and outside the cave. The cave – dark, dingy, deep, and depressing Our emotional world. We escape to the cave.  It’s secure. Safe from a brutal world. So, we think! We hide in its darkness.  Why?  Life is hard, brutal, disappointing. There’sContinue reading “Darkness and Light”

I arise early at dawn to fulfil my appointment with a moment of awe and wonder of nature. Record my dreams. Exit my bedroom door with pyjamas as my costume. I thought I had risen before Mother Sun. But she beat me. She’s already radiantly dressed. Too radiant for me. Her stunning rays occupying myContinue reading “Reflection Seven -Moment of Awe and Wonder”

Like a fertile, soft, and loose soil, a relaxed human body, easily and freely absorbs the beauty of life and the beauty of relationships that flows over its surface. At the end of a week, the end of a month, the end of a project, the end of phase of life, we become like hardenedContinue reading “Relaxation – The Seventh Day Gift from God”

Watching a Facebook post, my eyes stream with tears. A nineteen-year-old African American woman appears to sing before the audition judges on American Idol. Her physical appearance? Unsuitable, in the eyes of the entertainment industry, for the craft. She’s heavy set, out of shape, wearing a sky-blue jumper suit suffocating a white T-shirt, and aContinue reading “Divine Crack”