“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really…How many more times will you watch the full moon rise?  – Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky ———————————————————- My father died 3 weeks before…

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does…It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination.” – Nelson Mandela, May 2000. ———————————————————- My dreams of soccer stardom came to a screeching halt during my…

“JOSHUA fought the battle of Jerico, and Mike Miller and Jazz fought the battle of apartheid, and the walls came tumbling down!” – Don Albert, The Star Newspaper, 1978. Johannesburg, South Africa —————————————————— My father would have turned 97 today. So I thought I’d express a few reflections on his humanity, love of music, and…

“How will revenge educate my children or put food on my table?” – Themba Vundla —————————————————— There are certain moments of clarity that stay with you. When you really learn the meaning of something for the first time and it shakes you to your core. A reckoning of sorts. When the apple falls from the…

“Listener up there! what have you to confide to me?” – Walt Whitman, Song of Myself —————————————————— Sitting in the classroom, we all looked at each other a little befuddled and thought to ourselves “what did the professor just offer us? There’s got to be a catch.” So here was the deal put to us,…