by Richard | Oct 7, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, Travel, Uganda
Grahamstown, and journalism, was never about being a reporter. Like anything really, truly worth doing, it was about something bigger. It was in part about sharpening my storytelling. But also that over the years, travel brought me to realise how deep the shadow at...
by Richard | Sep 16, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, Tanzania, Travel
There are the days, The ones we will remember forever Tired eyes bear that same light Inexhaustible Tight corners at the smiles Reflected in the tears that never age The laughter and the pain of these days… The Kapiri Mposhi station stands as the whitest of...
by Richard | Aug 19, 2010 | Africa, Journalism, South Africa, Travel
South Africa’s oldest Presbyterian church lies silently with its brother in the hills an hour and a half from Grahamstown. They have been sitting in quiet contemplation for a very, very long time; and will likely contemplate a long time still. The Glen Lynden churches...
by Richard | Aug 14, 2010 | Africa, Cape to Cairo, Creative Writing, South Africa, Travel
Bodhisatta (n): In the Pali canon, the Bodhissata Siddhartha Gotama is described thus: Before my awakening, when I was an unawakened Bodhisatta, being subject myself to birth, sought what was likewise subject to birth. Being subject myself to aging… illness… death…...
by Richard | Jun 7, 2010 | Thinking, Travel
The night draws close and the world sleeps. Quietly, in my own silent space here, the walls remind me of journeys past. Places, so many places. Framed, worn as a purple Ethiopian scarf, a magic ring from Senegal around my neck and another on my thumb – haggled...
by Richard | Jun 2, 2010 | Journalism, Photography, Sudan
There is much that I have come to remember that I missed about university. Like learning – that feeling as though you are actually becoming smarter with each article read. Or that feeling of checking books out of the library as though you were becoming wiser...
