Apr 03 2011
I grew up in the 1960′s when we didn’t have TV in our home. I would spend hours looking at the little cacti that my mother planted grow in size, length and height or just multiplied in numbers. I would mentally take note of the mother cactus, father cactus and the baby cacti. Often these [...]
Mar 10 2011
My late mother would save all the tin cans from the can foods that we sometimes consumed. First she would remove the labels of the cans if possible. She would then use a nail and hammer to make small holes in them. These would then be filled with soil and broken pieces of bricks or [...]
Feb 13 2011
Gardening is a passion that my late mother had passed on to me as a child. I can still remember the hours I spent with her in the garden, pruning, trimming, potting, re-potting, positioning, repositioning the many varieties of plants all around the garden for them to thrive best. From my observation and her work, [...]
Dec 31 2010
Recently I watched on the telly a very touching interview about a family. This time I did not shed any tears because this story had a beautiful ending. The interview began with the young man sharing how, as a child, he stumbled upon pornography in his friend’s house. His curiosity led him to dwell into [...]
Nov 07 2010
As I thought of all the activities that happened recently, a lesson of love-in-action tucked at my heart. Last Tuesday we had our regular ladies’ group meeting, a time of Bible study, prayer and fellowship. We usually meet in church. But this time we met in the home of one of the members, not too [...]