So, what solutions do you suggest, Sitara?, asked someone after reading my column “The world has always been burning”. This often happens when I try to describe or critique the world and what’s going on – or what’s not going on – from a vantage point of “no-problem”. It’s a good question. It’s not often …
Reflections
The coronavirus is not the enemy
New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown came as a shock to me. I didn’t know democratic governments have the power to tell an entire population to stay home. I’m not complaining, but personally I’m more a proponent of the model used in Sweden. Immediately after the announcement by our prime minister, my employer told me not to …
Will the birds sing?
Will the birds singon the last day or go quiet before humanity breathes its last breath? The day of reckoning will be of our own making,a day of cause and effect. We often feel that there’s no justice,but don’t reckon with the fact that we ourselves are Mother Nature, our actions of consumerism not a …
What right do we have?
I saw a rat on the highway, it was dead, splattered on the asphalt, by car tyres and rain. I wonder, is it the same rat I saw the other day, in front of my wheels, on a dark late night near the same spot? I slowed down and watched it run, over an unfamiliar …