An Update and a request

 I also have learned over time that most places have different needs and require distinct kinds of support, care, and comfort. During my first stint in Gambia as a UN volunteer realized that I had to take a different approach to my work by assisting local people in one of the world’s poorest countries by […]

An Awakening – Ukraine under seige

I began to write an article about the need for the people in the world to discuss what it means to be human as apparently many seem to have forgotten, especially those in “developed” countries. We witness many leading protests advocating freedoms, but ignoring responsibility, while at the same time, their protests impede the freedom […]

A new beginning

The challenge we now face is to realize that we must be open to ourselves and each other about the need for a new destiny

When I die

(Picture – Mustapha 3years old,  whose father died before he was born and mother died 3 days after his birth, and is now raised by his grandmother with some assistance from me, tries to help in return.) When I die, I would like people to think of me as – “He tried”. I thought about this today […]

Life’s Journey – enriching lives and valuing contributions

"You will never be completely at home again because..............of loving and knowing people in more than one place." (girlgi com)

Despair – a way out

Collectively, people can build a caring, sharing and compssionate society.

The Fragility of Humanity

Like most people, as I sit and watch the coverage of how COVID-19 is ravaging most countries of the world and killing hundreds of thousands, especially those my own age, life becomes a focus, or perhaps I should say, death enters the picture as a correlative to life. One aspect of human reaction that causes […]

Love and care are not enough

“The world, perhaps as never before is in need of spiritual rejuvenation and a foundation for living based on the human values of caring and sharing.

Community – in a survival economy

  (A of  view of a typical marketplace in an economy where 97% of businesses are micro. This one a fish market at one landing site for fish in The Gambia people sell fish and variety of other products.) I have argued for many years that what has been touted as ‘Globalization’ was indeed centralization. People […]