There is a profound simplicity about JFK’s inaugural address.  It stresses responsibility especially of the fortunate to those of lesser fortune.It was neither myopic, xenophobic nor insular.  And yet, on the current geopolitical landscape, such a speech could still be torn to shreds and the reader, in scorn, placed on the extreme end of some scale.But the message to the individual was clear.  “Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your coun...

THE GOLDEN SHOVEL SERIES PART 4 Penned by Sharon Flax Brutus

The Police are at it again.  They are harassing and threatening the fishermen in Carrot Bay for practicing their trade.(Our fight is not with the Police.  They are doing their jobs.)To begin with, the law that deprives the fishermen of their livelihood is unjust.  It has no backing in local studies nor scientific data.  Yet it prohibits them from improving their chances in the deep by forbidding the use of scuba gear and fishing guns.  Government compensation for ta...

Hello You! That special day is almost here. The one celebrated around the world proudly and boldly because of the meaning. Mother's day! May each and every one of you enjoy this weekend and look at your creation with love. Show them love. Treat them with love and celebrate your strength.  Motherhood, the right way.Mother’s Day is going to arrive softlywrapped in flowers,Sunday dinners,tiny hands, grown hugsold memories,and the quiet weight of becoming.And somewhere betwe...

Hello You! It comes a point in your life where you realize the lessons that had to be learnt or the changes that needs to be made. You realize that your journey is just beginning and certain patterns or behaviors are too heavy to continue to carry them along. You have to let it go. Why? Because your new life requires a different version of you. Happy Thursday! The Price of Your New LifeThe price of your new lifeis your old one.Not pieces of itall of it. The habitsthat kept you small.Th...

Perhaps the precedent was set by the 32nd President of the United States.  It was a grim time for the US and the world when President Roosevelt (FDR) engaged American citizens with his “fireside chats.”  The Great Depression was raging.  Adolph Hitler was running loose and free in Europe and Americans still needed to be convinced to enter a war that was defining world hegemony.  And FDR spoke to his people about his ‘New Deal’ policies t...

We are not ornithologists but whenever we pass around the Hawk’s Nest on our weekly Saturday morning walks, we look eagerly into the pond to count the number of flamingos.Twenty-three is the top number, so far, with 5 light grey chicks; A wonder!  (Flamingos are born white or some shade of grey.)It’s the food!  The shrimps, algae, that clothe them in the brilliant pink that we observe in the adults.  So many lessons from food.  So little initiative from the govern...

Hello You! What a drive. Getting home these days feels more like a task than going to a place of sanctuary. Anybody else feels this way? I do understand that with development comes a few inconveniences but dawg, this is not for the weak rather the impatient. Hours upon hours in traffic, hungry, tired, sleepy. Kids in the back arguing away. But we must endure it for the sake of progress. Election is really around the corner. We see you, big dawg!Sirens, Dust & More PromisesThe roads feel...