bird calls

bird calls

I learned something in the early hours and the darkness today as I waited for my favourite coffee shop to open. I learned that I don’t hear the birds sing because I am always in a rush to get to the next thing. A rush might be overstating it as a lot of my life is...
home for a rest

home for a rest

Inevitably, when you chase your dreams, live your life and engage yourself with the world, at some point you’ll need to come home for a rest. You can’t keep up your excited pace all the time, and so part of getting there means slowing down and tuning out for a while....
a drummer

a drummer

Time is a magical and the strangest thing. It is very predictable. There are sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour and there are twenty four hours. Days turn to weeks, weeks, turn to months, and months turn to years. Yet time is most unpredictable...
what is a dream?

what is a dream?

The dreams we have when we’re sleeping are out of our control and we are mere spectators or pawns in their production. But each one of us has dreams while we are awake. We all have a conscious desire to live a meaningful life and it is in that meaning that we dance...
how to see the world

how to see the world

The truth of the matter is that it is impossible to see the truth or to understand what is actually happening all around us. It is impossible because instead of one world, there are seven billion worlds simultaneously complementing and contradicting each other. That...
two ways to get ahead

two ways to get ahead

There are two ways to get ahead. Two distinct ways of getting things done. You can either become very good at doing the right things, or by being the right person. Of course the street of doing the right things is very crowded and you just might be standing next to...