Death evokes a terrible mix of emotions in us. It creates a hauntingly complex maze of experience when we contemplate it. One day a person is here, gone the next day & then disposed of, even if it is with fanfare as is done in many cultures. The individual bristling with goals, ambitions, and desires gets extinguished in an instant, … Read More
Lessons From When We Are Sick: Focus!
Have you been sick before? Even if you have not, at least you have seen a sick person & can relate to the pain and agony. When you were sick, what was your prayer or most fervent wish? For most of us, the desire to get well was the most important thing, the only player we had. We may have … Read More
Protect Your Mind – Can You ‘Put Money Where Your Mouth Is’?
Life in the large family compound was great fun. As kids, me, my cousins & our friends from other compounds played, fought, roamed around and enjoyed ourselves. Debating or arguing about all sorts of things was one of our best past times. If the argument got so heated & we needed to resolve the debate quickly, then one of the … Read More
I Heard My Wife’s Voice. Whose Voice Do You Hear?
It was a morning when the clock ran in geometric progression. I woke up quite early alright but now if I don’t make haste I’d run afoul of the day’s commitment. So very quickly I bath, dressed up & was in a mad hurry to leave the room. Then, it rang in my head ‘you can not leave the room … Read More
The path to Excellence – a Schoolboy Reminiscence
My Leave period was ending & yet I hadn’t completed all the items on my to-do list for the period. So I drove to Gudu to get the comprehensive car wash on my list, no more excuses. Coincidentally, it was at about that time that school closed. It was a great reminiscence as I saw the many children on the … Read More
A Glimpse Of The Future – Lessons From The Israelite Journey
October 10, 2022 #BibleStudyNotes Exodus 13 – 17 on till Joshua. The story of the Israelites from their suffering in Egypt, the fight for their deliverance, the plagues, the salvation at the Red Sea, and the trek in the wilderness strikes a chord in my mind about what we face now in this system of things. They seem to match … Read More
TIME TRAVELLERS – Take it Easy!
The ‘Past’, (I mean events that have already happened, like that encounter that you just had or the one you had 10 years ago) and the ‘future’, (the next minute, day, month, and year), can have a great impact on us now – our present. Decisions in the past affect and to a large extent determine where we are today … Read More
Is What You See Real?
I do not remember where and how we got the pair of medicated glasses but for a while, it was our most cherished toy. We would wear it and try to walk, run and jump. The glasses made things look farther and smaller than they really were. It distorted the view & was quite disorienting when we used it. As … Read More
Improve Your Relationships With Your Colleagues – The Quality Of Your Life Depends On It!
As Social beings we need people to thrive. Everything we do revolves around other people, whether at home or at work; whether we have a service or product to sell or buy. To show the great effect of social interactions on humans a recent study conducted by Harvard University* shows that the quality of our social interaction is the #1 … Read More
Breaking Down the Walls of Prejudice in our Minds
‘Where does the meat, the soup & the Eba go to?’ ‘Na inside belle’ I answered. ‘So does it matter in what order or shape they go as long as they end up in the stomach?’. It was logical reasoning. Akin had noticed how I twitched my face as I watched him eat his Eba with Okro soup in the … Read More