Article 5/365 of Jacques’s Writing Quest One of our biggest drivers is to feel safe and secure. I remember a story by my teacher, Shaykh Ebrahim Schuitema, that completely changed my understanding of security. He spoke about owning a house which is one of...
Article 4/365 of Jacques’s Writing Quest Everybody was Kung Fu fighting. Those cats were fast as lightning. In fact, it was a little bit frightening. But they fought with expert timing. I love this song by Carl Douglas. Listen to it here. It’s certain to...
I bang on about mediocrity a lot. Maybe I should interrogate that and see why that is, and what mediocrity in others mirrors for me … but not today. I found a piece by Carlos Ruiz Zafón in his book The Angel’s Game that gives an articulate description of...
“What’s lacklustre about Passengers isn’t just that the movie is short on surprise, but that it’s like a castaway love story set in the world’s largest, emptiest shopping mall in space.” When I read this critique, I almost...
Sunday, 31 May 2020 How long has this lockdown been. 8 weeks? 9 weeks? I don’t know. It feels interminable. I feel like I have no voice in this new world. It has brought the best and the worst out of me. It has united and polarised us. It has unmasked the biases...
