I Come From A Great

I Have A Kind Of Respect - A Worshipful Attitude, Even - For Nature And The Natural Order And The Cosmos And The Seasons.

If The Image One Holds Of One's Self Contains Elements That Don't Square With Reality, One Is Best Advised To Let Go Of Them, However Difficult That May Be.

But Perhaps More Important, As Someone Wishing To Make A Comment Or Two About Contemporary Life And Values, I Don't Have To Dig Through Libraries Or Travel To Exotic Lands To Arrive At A View Of Our Modern Situation Refracted Through The Lens Of The Preindustrial World, Or The Uncommercialized, Unfranchised, Perhaps Unsanitized-and Therefore Supposedly More "authentic"-perspective Ofthe Third World. Very Simply, This Is Because That "other" World, As Alien As If Separated By Centuries In Time, Is The One From Which I Came

As I've Mentioned, A Large Part Of My Father's Legacy Is The Lesson He Taught His Sons. He Brought Us Together And Said, 'the Measure Of A Man Is How Well He Provides For His Children.

I Lived In A Country Where I Couldn't Live Where I Wanted To Live. I Lived In A Country Where I Couldn't Go Where I Wanted To Eat. I Lived In A Country Where I Couldn't Get A Job, Except For Those Put Aside For People Of My Colour Or Caste.