Not Quite Valentine

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…social media platforms are flooded with related messages including those in favour of and those against the celebration. Being empathic, I personally enjoy the spike in the energy of love and romance that permeates the air around this time of the year. The planet is in dire need of the healing energy of love.
One of the posts though, caught my attention. It read something to the effect that Valentine's Day is only for those that are 25 years old and younger. That triggered contemplation on my part, about the current perceptions concerning age.

We have been systematically brainwashed into…


By Adiela Akoo

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Other Side of The Rainbow – for Writers

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…will I know when I have made it to the other side of the rainbow, somedays I just feel like giving up? Ever been there? Have you ever wondered “Where the Hell is That Rainbow!”

Many of us know the feeling of “hitting a wall” and you wonder what the best way is to get past them. I can tell you from experience that there will always be walls and there will always be a way to get past, over or around them.

One way people think of getting past their challenges is to take a break. They think that…

By Joy Harris

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An Admirer's Lament

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…been of the opinion that love can be restricted to that between two people of the opposite sex. Rather, it can embrace love of all kinds and all who consent to involve themselves with the practice. Even if, as can often be the circumstances, the love goes one way alone.

The often misunderstood culture known as “fandom” has always been a kind of love of the first order. People who are willing and able to involve themselves with fictional worlds and people to the degree that they appear, to them, to be tantalizingly real, and much more enjoyable, in a…

By David Perlmutter

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Projecting the most loved menace – the Joker in ‘The Dark Knight’

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…performance in cinema that ruptures and pierces the hearts of the audience. Cinema has been adorned and enriched by a number of powerful and memorable performances which have been etched in our hearts. Heath Ledger’s (born April 4, 1979, died January 22, 2008) powerful performance as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s 2008 classic superhero film, The Dark Knight was outstanding and exceedingly well scripted. Heath Ledger left no stone unturned in making the character look so real and lived in. Though Ledger, an Australian television and film actor, left for heavenly abode at a very premature age, his performance is…

By SHANKU SHARMA

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The politics of the Kenyan school system

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…Kenyan school system: a guide for expats

In an unflinching mimicry of the rest of the world, Kenya offers a startling contrast between the schooling available to local citizens and that which is offered to wealthy expats. The disparity affects the facilities, training of teaching staff and funding and is nowhere more obvious than in the scaling of school fees. Kenya is one of the most expensive places in Africa for schools fees, because of this the expat in Kenya can’t always afford ‘Mzungu’ schools. If you decide to go local, what’s the deal and how to choose?

Primary school…

By Nadine Murphy

Website: http://www.theexpatmummy.com

Twitter: theexpatmummy

Facebook URL: kenyamum

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Perfect Imperfections

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…love yourself before someone can love you? Well in a way that isn't necessarily true. Yes, loving yourself is important but think about it ; if a person can fall in love with you while you're a complete wreck, imagine how much more they will love you when you finally become truly happy again. If anything that person that decided to love you is putting the broken pieces of your heart back together and is slowly but surely making you regain the confidence you once had. Making you think "wow this person sees the good in me and loves me…

By Rikki Clark

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There is Something about You

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…often filled with anxiety when we see that time is passing and we aren't achieving anything or impacting anyone. We question whether we have a purpose at all. Do we have a purpose?

Making something of yourself, feeling a sense of fulfillment, being passionate, feeling joy, feeling peace and comfort all combine to reveal what your purpose is. Having and building a sense of self is purpose. Finding yourself and being yourself makes who you are special. The energy you lets saturate a room with passion and happiness is a major manifestation of purpose. Purpose is happiness in your current…

By Nina Rondon

Website: http://Sparklywartanks.com

Twitter: _sparklywartanks_

Facebook URL: https://facebook.com/sparklywartanks

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Facebook and Self Promotion

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…history of the world confirms how mankind has yearned and lusted to be noticed, to be known, to be a celebrity (of sorts) than what the pages of Facebook reveal. All the simple, ordinary people we once knew who lived inconspicuous lives, some too camera-shy to have their pictures taken, some too reticent to say no more than hello to you, are today on Facebook, telling the world every last detail of themselves, posting pictures of themselves, sometimes daily, sometimes hourly, as if a moment passes and there is no new post about them the world might stop spinning and there would be some kind of cosmic apocalypse…

By Anonymous

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Tolerance

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A cool experiment one can do is to periodically accept the tenets of a thought system that you find repugnant. It's amazing but pretty soon one finds themselves believing in that thought system as strongly as any other system of thought they have ever held. Then after a while buy into the foundational tenants of another belief system and you'll find it equally compelling.

You might ask what the point of performing such an experiment might be? It gives one perspective, and in doing so promotes tolerance and understanding for those who believe in thought systems that one may currently hold as absurd. Once one realizes that every system of thought people hold is equally absurd, life becomes much more pleasant. It becomes much easier to not become emotionally affected in a negative way by the views of others and it promotes tolerance and love between all of the wonderful and perfect beings that exist. I love you all equally and unconditionally!

By Agni James

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The Grandest Lie

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I can’t help but lie. All I say and do is a lie. There’s never not a moment to lie. I’m in love with it. Even if there was a way to stop it wouldn’t be welcome. There is no reason to stop. The more lies told the more detailed things become. The lies generate power and if I don’t continue to lie my heart will stop. The universe depends on the fact that I lie to make things possible. These lies I’ve told myself hold me, I, us, together and collective in this dimension, reality or universe depending what you call it. We’re all part of the grandest lie. The lie of existence. Unless there is an always active lie moving this experience forward we would all collapse into the true nature of existence. Then I’d have to lie again and we’d be right back where we starter.

On the bright side, that was a lie.

By Seth McAlliter

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