"The ancestors remind us, despite the history of pain We are a going-on people who will rise again." Maya Angelou When a writer dies where do the words go? No more words, yet the words that exist begin to glow as they speak from that echo we leave behind us. Last week Maya Angelou flew away at age 86. In Saved by a Poem, Kim Rosen recollects meeting Mayo Angelou at a … [Read more...]
Eco priest mourned in Cape Town
The country's Interfaith community lost a founding member in the beloved Father John Oliver, who passed away unexpectedly last week. Having seen him the previous weekend and responding to his urgent request that we help him save Princess Vlei outside Cape Town from threatening development, we were together building a story about this, his last passionate interest over the past … [Read more...]