Hope when all hope is lost
By GC In early June 2019, I came home from hospital without the twins I was expecting. My beautiful son and daughter were born alive, but too small to survive for long. I can’t find adequate words or phrases – in this language at least – to describe how dark and devastating that sort of […]
Excerpt from ‘The Seeds of Selfless Service’
By Stevie Saranga One day a wandering holy-man, a mysterious mendicant visited our hill-top ashram. He had taken a vow of staying no longer than three days in any one place and like a bumble bee, travelled the earth taking a little nectar from each tiny flower, pollinating as he went. He was somehow aloof […]
How self-isolation has evened the playing field for people with severe mental illnesses
By Erica Crompton Today, as coronavirus sweeps across the globe, everyone is staying at home and it feels like the playing field has evened out for people with severe mental illness (as well as the elderly and disabled). It’s made hermits of all of us. There are various things I do in my self-imposed exile […]