Category Archives: Inspirations

Inspiration

Battles

You stab at the pieces of salad – a lettuce leaf, a scrap of beef bacon – and you tell me about the battles you have had with your students, their teachers, the parents, the whole circus. Everyone has sky-high expectations these days, everyone wants only the best results, but no one seems to want

Light On

You tell me you design lights now. You love what you do. Some day soon, your boss tells you, you will get to travel, meet clients. Europe, Barcelona maybe. You will meet more than clients; you’ll get to meet some of the masters in your chosen field and maybe some which are not. Gaudi’s work

A Perfect World

In a perfect world There would be no Predators or prey We would all be whole.   The things we lost In the fire, in the riots (The streets ran gold Flames of an empty cause.)   These things we would not Have lost, have forsaken In a perfect world, nothing Is needed, is sought.

This Cage Does Not Hold Me

This cage does not hold me Sang the bird The bars are wrought iron But I am free of them My memories are tyrants But I am free of them This cage does not hold me I fly, I soar, defiant This story does not hold me I sing a new song, triumphant.  

The Rainbow

It started with a bad romance. You tell me Lady Gaga is your favourite artiste. It wasn’t the songs or whatever meanings they held, you say. No, it was more the drama and the theatricality of her videos that caught your attention. Is this a little shallow of you, you ask. Maybe it is, you

A Joy

I celebrate the hours and the days and the weeks and the months and the years that I am alive. I celebrate all the minutes and seconds in between that I fill with laughter and good work and with simple moments of joy. I celebrate the rain that falls and nourishes the earth so that

Ramadan Reflections VIII: Swim! Swim!

“On such a full sea are we now afloat / And we must take the current when it serves / Or lose our ventures.” William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. Words given to Brutus to speak. A warning. A warning for us. Opportunities come and opportunities go yet truly we are surrounded by fortune if only we