BE ResPoNsiBLE! PeOpLE!

It matters. Why does it matter? In my country most of us wait for others to do the job of setting events of national development in motion. Many migrate and at the end of working life will return hopefully to the country they abandoned decades earlier expecting its social disintegration to have... Sign in to see full entry.

have you noticed how the world trains us to be sheep? people who stay quiet, diplomatic and unquestioning often experience success fairly early in life. be a questioner, be outspoken or opinionated and roadblocks materialize unbidden to thwart success. millions of sheep feel an opinion is a... Sign in to see full entry.

a dear friend asked whether I figured I put myself in harms way for being so vocal, publicly on testy social issues my dear friend it is doing nothing that poses the real threat to us. Sign in to see full entry.

my parents' generation inherited a different country from the one they offer me promising, safe, beautiful it was - still beautiful, unsafe and bewildering it has become negative, consistent, considerable, continous, cowardly, nefarious - the chatter their generations' legacy? Complaint. my parents'... Sign in to see full entry.

he went to Alaska to find the world and found it in a small island girl back home we said goodbye at an airport gate a cold place for goodbyes monumental and intense Sign in to see full entry.

said goodbye today leaving seemed unreal until I feel the moment you leave driving home on highway playing music of our days fell tears on both sides of a face resigned and brave the beginning of instinct hope inane I hope for more of you in our apartness until we are together again in spirit until... Sign in to see full entry.

I knew she could do it, I knew she would do it... a history maker, a mother, wife and daughter - she is marvelous and always makes me proud. graceful, strong, single minded - better than cowardly and hypocritical. she has made me proud more times than I can tell, to be one of the strongest of a... Sign in to see full entry.

let us discuss lessons of history my childish curiosity led me to pictures in a book of naked women running in a circle while armed men in uniforms watch and do nothing. I see children and men their bones protruding the countenance of alien beings and I wondered how life could exist in such bodies.... Sign in to see full entry.

and therefore I beseech you to love me as I am without criticism or disgrace and I will bask in the light of your warmth and love and become the version of me you yearn to see. critical eyes disconcert me as I know Ive been a less than stellar being - as a result of my plea begging your concern for... Sign in to see full entry.

1: John 3:11 This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. I am honoured to to be a member of the civic group that advocates for the recognition of human rights in my country. We were not the first, chapters of Amnesty International, Transparency International and The... Sign in to see full entry.