Live Today

Contributed by Hastalag A friend of mine opened his wife’s underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package: ‘This, – he said – isn’t any ordinary package.’ He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the...

Make Your Own Kind of Music

Contributed by Island_Girl   Nobody can tell ya There’s only one song worth singing They may try and sell ya Cause it hangs them up to see someone like you But you’ve gotta make your own kind of music Sing your own special song Make your own kind of...

Don’t Fear Failure

Contributed by Hastalag   Don’t Fear Failure: It’s the Secret to Success Published in The Jamaica Gleaner: Sunday | March 6, 2011 Glenford Smith, Career Writer glenfordsmith@yahoo.com Do you realise that everything you are now skilled at you once...

Hope and Baking Powder

Contributed by MyBeloved   I was just thinking one morning during meditation how much alike hope and baking powder are: quietly getting what is best in me to rise, awakening the hint of eternity within. I always think of that when I eat biscuits now and wish that...

A Gift of Compassion

Contributed by Hastalag What would you do? At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated...