Category: On Life
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The value of kindness
Kindness is not the default position of human beings, and I am no exception. But this year I made it my number 1 resolution.
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My father and I and the things I miss…
Every time around this year I remember my dad. He died 9 years ago. I watched him breathe his last over Skype, which feels ironic in these times. Still, I managed to fly backwards and forwards to London several times through the course of his decline, for which I am ever grateful. I still miss…
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The Lion and the Buck
It’s the eyes you notice – yellow intense slits that look right through you and pin you to the spot as surely as a butterfly laid out before a lepidopterist. Even though we are technically safe in our land rover, it’s an open plan version with no glass windows and only air separates us from…
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On death done well.
I reflect on my dad, as always, as we approach the anniversary of his death. How is it seven years have passed already? I had to look it up. It seems impossible, but time is relentless. It moves us away from things and blurs them in our memory. I have the sense of him often…
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On being older. And wiser.
Lately, I’ve been feeling old. Maybe it has something to do with spending lots of time with the young and happening things at my acting course. It is hard not to let their perspective of you take hold. And they don’t mean it in any negative way – but really, I am a contemporary of…
Reflections from Middle Age 