Author: clfuu

Chicks cannot hatch or thrive without the warmth of their mother – unless someone provides that warmth another way.

How have you found warmth and support when that support wasn’t available from those who might have been expected to give it?

If you’re going to cross a highway, you would certainly do well to look in both directions first. But there are many other potentially hazardous situations in which you would be well advised to try to see both sides before you step into the fray.

What helps you to see more than one side of divisive situations?

What people in the US call Veterans Day is honored in Commonwealth countries as Remembrance Day—a celebration of the end of the First World War and a time to honor all who have served in the military across the years. We grieve that the “war to end all wars” didn’t, we remember those who gave their lives, and we hold in our hearts all who have served and sacrificed.

Who in particular are you holding in your heart this Remembrance Day?

So much of our communication these days is instantaneous: email, text message, video conference, social media in all its guises—bringing the pleasure of instant gratification, but also a mixed barrage of connections we treasure, spam we loathe, information we need or will never use or should never trust, all in an unstoppable torrent. Sometimes you need to draw back and wait for something that, like snail mail, will arrive in its own sweet time.

What have you enjoyed waiting for?

Elephants, it turns out, can learn to paint, creating beautiful, deliberate figures by holding a brush in their trunk. If you think art is only something to be created by the select, “gifted” few, you might want to think again.

How do you create art, in whatever form?