This is the first post in a long time. I’ve been writing more on my Daily Insight site. The writing below is actually the speech I prepared for the book launch for the Goan Oral Histories Project. This is something that bid for and got money from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Selma Carvalho askedContinueContinue reading “Speech From Goan Oral Histories Book Launch”
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The Beginning is the End is the Beginning 3 of 3: 2012: Clearing and Clarity
Direction: Coming from and Going To* This part three of three. Parts One and Two deal with what happened last year. Yeah yeah ok…So this post was *meant* to have been completed aaaages ago. For some reason, for the past few years this post is delayed by a few months. I’ve been trying to ‘get it right’ and chooseContinueContinue reading “The Beginning is the End is the Beginning 3 of 3: 2012: Clearing and Clarity”
The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning 1 of 3: 2011
Another Year Ends Reality becomes a reflection of reality becoming real…or some such stuff. This time of year enables me to look back and forward at the same time. Last month was particularly reflective for me anyway but the purpose of writing this is to shed the skin of 2011. I’ve also been doing thisContinueContinue reading “The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning 1 of 3: 2011”
Out Through The In Door: 2010/ 2011
Ah yes. This post is loooooooooong overdue. We’re already part way through the second quarter of 2010! Anyways another year has passed into the ether and I might as well compete my musing and reflecting. This is becoming a running theme. I think it’s part of of the reflective process; taking stock and thinking allowsContinueContinue reading “Out Through The In Door: 2010/ 2011”
From the Shinings of my Reflections: 2010
This post has grown from my Reflections on 2009. After reflecting it makes sense to look forward and create. I’m enjoying doing this. First there was the Sign “☮” the Times in 2008, then there was Flash-Back, Flash-Forward in 2009 so here are some things that 2010 will be for me.* Now I’m not necessarilyContinueContinue reading “From the Shinings of my Reflections: 2010”
Past, Present, Future
Who controls the past now controls the futureWho controls the present now controls the pastWho controls the past now controls the futureWho controls the present now?- Rage Against the Machine, TestifyThis is also a quote from George Orwell’s 1984.I’ve always thought it’s something about the nature of the mass media being used to control theContinueContinue reading “Past, Present, Future”
Searching for Meaning
Over the last week or so, it seems as if a lot of material has come my way that really challenges and examines the way things are. Like asking and answering the big questions in life.There was a family celebration on Saturday and of course when there’s a few of us together the conversation inevitablyContinueContinue reading “Searching for Meaning”
Flash-Back, Flash-Forward: 2009
Some things just take ages. Other times circumstances interfere because I let them. “I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.” – Frank Costello Interesting character that guy. He’s echoing the sentiment of George Bernard Shaw…one Irishman quoting another I guess. I’ve letContinueContinue reading “Flash-Back, Flash-Forward: 2009”
Thoughts From 2008
This is a review of my year. It’s another opportunity to be wonderfully self-centred. Hah!On a more serious level, it’s a chance for me to acknowledge what’s happened before I start to think about what 2009 is going to be about for me. I had three themes I was focusing on throughout 2008 which willContinueContinue reading “Thoughts From 2008”
Sign "☮" the Times: 2007/ 08
New year makes everyone a bit more reflective. Not that I’m any different – I too look to how the last year went, and what the next year could hold. I’m not too enamoured with the idea of New Year’s Resolutions though…I mean every moment is another opportunity to turn something around…a new second/ minute/ContinueContinue reading “Sign "☮" the Times: 2007/ 08”
James D'Souza 