Change is never easy
(Picture drawn by Tetyana Kudina, Ukraine) A lot has happened in the world since I left Newfoundland and Labrador in mid-December. This is all part of the shifts and change …
A world in freefall
(Picture: Precious children everywhere – Nyima sitting behind her friend Bobbie in The Gambia) It has been over twenty years that I have been producing this Christmas newsletter and sharing …
The lure of the past
Two decades ago the world stood in awe at the dissolution of the Soviet system and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, a symbol of Soviet repression of people. Once …
World without boundaries
“Globalization and the global community are words used to address a phenomenon causing the breakdown of geographical boundaries among the nation states of the world……….
Beyond faith, belief
One of the misconceptions of many has been that all you need is faith to get by in the world; faith in a god, churches, governments, institutions, etc. They will …