Category: Challenges of our times and generation
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The Black Mamba’s Anti Poaching Unit (APU)
In South Africa, I had recently (in May 2023) the privilege to teach a courageous anti- poaching unit (APU) on various subjects. Those subjects included the management of heatstroke, dehydration, choking, burns and others. This APU is, at large, a female led anti-poaching group, operating in one of the poorest areas of the Limpopo area…
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Embracing Our Global Community : The Power of Cross-Cultural Connection
In our increasingly interconnected world, fostering cross-cultural understanding is not just beneficial, it’s essential. As a physician who has worked in different countries, I’ve seen the beautiful diversity of human experience and the common threads that bind us together. Engaging with various cultures not only broadens our perspectives but fosters empathy and respect for our…
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Visionaries Among Us: The Call for Bold Dreamers and Bold Action.
Our world is in dire need of visionaries, individuals who dare to dream of things that never were and ask, “Why not?” This bold question is an invitation to challenge the status quo and imagine a better world. Whether it’s pushing for equality, advocating for the environment, or fostering peace, these dreamers’ audacious vision for…
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Healing Our Planet: The Role of Each Individual
Our planet is ailing from the scars of human voracity. Yet, within this crisis lies an opportunity for change, a chance to nurture healing. Each of us has a role to play in this global endeavor, and it’s more than just recycling or reducing energy consumption. It’s about cultivating a deep respect for all life,…
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The foolishness of the Ukraine crisis in Europe, with a possible solution
“There is no honourable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except it’s ending.” – Abraham Lincoln. Ordinary citizens in both Europe, Ukraine and Russia don’t want war. It’s rarely that people want war. Propaganda, however, can accelerate sentiments in different and sometimes sinister ways, as often shown…
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“Peace needs not to be impractical and war needs not to be inevitable”
“Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.”– Nelson Mandela “Peace needs not be impractical and war needs not be inevitable” – John F Kennedy >>>>> Just a few words on the current Ukraine crisis in Europe, following the latest news that President…
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Trump Is More A Risk Factor Than North Korea At The Moment
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln The Battle of Gettysburg was the most significant battle in July 1863, fought in North America. It was a large bloody and fierce battle. It was a battle on the…
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“Don’t die with the music still in you..!”
Through the awful grace of God we may live with the music in us, and embrace the last in full for the benefit of others. But rest we need at times. It’s a matter of the right sense of direction and the right sense of discipline and.. heart over matter. Yes – heart and mind…
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An assessment on Donald Trump and the potential aftermath.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves” – Abraham Lincoln. – Most photos and YouTube disappeared and are replaced by free images from WordPress, in retrospect I remember the scene in the Godfather nr 2 (I think). The conversation between Michael…
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ABUSE and TORTURE insufficiently dealt with in Australia
Failing justice systems to protect the frail, the elderly and the children in Australia! https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/28/dont-just-blame-the-guards-don-dale-is-what-systemic-violence-looks-like/
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WHY AMERICANS SHOULD OPPOSE AN UPCOMING DONALD TRUMP
“The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the constitution.” – and those dangers will become evident with a potential US Presidency of Donald Trump.
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An Act of Love close to Passover
You know, the sacredness of life we experience is the relationship with friends, with other people, – if it is the way intended to be. We don’t need many friends but most of us need someone, at least. People with whom we take the risk of knowing and being known. I guess this is the…
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HAVE YOU EVER LOVED SOMEONE YOU NEVER MET?
Being in love with someone and loving that person are two different things. Understanding the difference and being able to apply the knowledge to your own relationships is key to building a lasting relationship. Being in love is wanting to own a part of the other person. It’s believing this person is so wonderful that…
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“The uncommon thought on the uncommon matter” – Sean Penn
James Lipton (Dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City), asked Sean Penn (an American actor, filmmaker, and political activist) at an Action Studio Interview. 「I’ve read that you used an expression, which I think is yours-maybe-and you said you got it from working with Peggy Fiore (the…
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And Actors, writers, models, bloggers, and others included!
That’s life you know, that’s life. And tell you one more thing, the more you love it the more you come to live, and when you have to go, it’s all fine because you have been fully alive and the last is which counts when we die. Mind you, I made lots of errors in…
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“AUSCHWITZ begins wherever people look at the slaughter house and say: they’re animals only”
Auschwitz should be a lesson to the world. It should never ever happen again. But allowing right wing radicals in the Netherlands, Germany and other countries coming up as a response on what goes wrong in the management with refugees, the worst of evils may come to light if those groups are not eliminated by…
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The exchange rate of sharing meaningful stories, meaningful connections.
Therefore start again to tell each other stories, be funny with this, do this with wit. And in doing so ask each other questions, – and with the same fun and wit one may get to know each other better. And when you get precious to each other keep cultivating the connection, as connections are…
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WHO ARE WE, – AND WHAT COULD WE BECOME??
If life has thrown stuff on your plate which was not of your making, and even when there have been times that you wish you could escape from it, the memory of people whom you love dearly and with whom you feel loved as well, – keeps you balanced the pathway you have to follow,…
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You CAN’T refuse this 2016 offer , – CAN YOU ??
An offer you can refuse? – NOT the offer as shown in the Godfather by Michael Corleone or by his dad. We may remember this master of drama and art. A genius mafia crime film by Francis Ford Coppola in the 70ties and 90 ties. Many of us have seen this, either in the cinema…
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Todá Rabá: For a transpersonal communication!
Whilst “About Paul Alexander Wolf – ‘Continuer à essayer’” gives an insight, more from the outsight on the writer of this blog, – “Todá Rabá: For a transpersonal communication!” provides a different perspective
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Constitutional Change?
As once said by George Washington: “It is up to each generation to see that the integrity of the Constitutional structure for a free society is maintained by carefully preserving the system of checks and balances essential to limited and balanced government. .. To preserve them (is) as necessary as to institute them.” Whatever structure…
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Is Sydney University Able To Embark On Leading-Edge Educational Change?
The article is aimed to stimulate somehow a re-thinking about the way education is being done at primary, secondary and higher educational levels. Education is not just meant to acquire knowledge as a business but is meant for higher purposes such as to contribute to develop a mindset or a spiritual framework which adds to…
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Can we be more as Australia than we are now?
“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example” (Robert Menzies – Prime minister) – Being asked what brought me to Australia and what my perceptions are about Australia I would first say that I am happy to be here, – to live in this particular country,…