Honour

 

"An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "Love" – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.

It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.

It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.” 
― Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

One of my favourite things to do

Enough

I am.

We are.

Yes / No

"In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you’ll tell yourself in the future."

_Jodi Picoult (Change of Heart)

this is my story

"My story isn’t pleasant, it’s not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves."

_Hermann Hesse, Demian

Beyonce moved the finish line, again

Long Live the Black Pimpernel



Nelson Mandela, center right, sings with supporters and the accused during the first treason trial outside the Drill Hall in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1956.- Picture fromTelegraph

What’s going to happen?

Now that the King of love

Is dead!

On the death of Martin Luther King, Nina Simone pens down this hallow cry, in a disconsolate melody. The messenger of Love and the keeper of peace was, in a violent moment silenced.  They took away from his people the chaperon of Love and hope. Weaved in between the celebrations of the life of Rolihlahla Mandela is the same tone of melancholy, who will shine the light of Love. For a moment please try not to romanticise the idea of Love. Rather think of it as the hallmark of existence, the grandeur of the human spirit and the celestial compassion and altruism for your fellows and the world around you. I have always believed Love to be the axis of life.  It carries with it grand ideals of truth, justice, freedom, equality and altruism. Throughout histories we are able to trace human beings who embody these ideals many who are written in history but many more who are not. The stand firm in the face of the most antagonising, violent and cruel human experiences and they with magnanimous strength still call everyone to the light.

The grand question of our time is; how do weave this magic into every fibre of society? How do we reform souls? Buphi na Ubuntu? 

These are there question the life of Mandela demands answerers to.

He reminds us that: “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

Hamba kahleMkhonto wesizwe, uenzile eyakho indima Dalibunga

Rest in Power.